Phillip John Smiths legal battles with Corrections costing taxpayers almost $1 million
MurderCriminal penaltyLife imprisonmentPhilip John Smith is an English spree killer serving a life sentence for the murders of three women in Birmingham. A former fairground worker employed at the Rainbow pub in the Digbeth area of the city, Smith killed his victims over a four-day period in November 2000, befriending two of them at the Rainbow before carrying out the crimes. All three victims were mutilated almost beyond recognition, but Smith was quickly identified as the killer because of the overwhelming evidence linking him to the deaths. He began his Real Estate career as a Real Estate Representative with Shell Oil Company upon graduation. They were widely credited with reviving a moribund Broadway — and Shubert too — in the 1970s with hits like “Pippin,” “Equus” and “A Chorus Line,” the 1975 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that ran for 15 years. He died while hiking the Bailey Range Traverse in the Olympic Mountains, surrounded by the high peaks and wildflowers he lov