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GLYN DIX

Kill Total:

2

Kill place:

Kill date:

June 2004

Victim(s):

Pia Overbury

Wife - Hazel Dix

Date of Birth:

1955

Marital Status:

AKA:

Occupation:


Saturday 19th June 2004, Hazel Dix aged 54, was found at the house in Seymour Drive in the Abbeydale area of Redditch, Worcestershire, at about 4pm.
Hazel's son Adam Langford found Dix with the body. Dix told him: "We've had a little argument". Dix and Hazel made love before rowing over what TV channel to watch. He stabbed her three times. Dix used a knife, hacksaw and scissors to cut second wife Hazel's body into 16 pieces at their home.


A post-mortem examination revealed she had suffered multiple stab wounds.

 

He was found guilty of murdering his wife Hazel in 2005, having stabbed her to death and chopped her body into 16 pieces at their home in Redditch, Worcestershire in the previous year.

Dix was sentenced to life imprisonment and it was then revealed that he had already been out of prison on life licence following a previous conviction for murdering Pia Overbury in the 1970s.

Dix met. Hazel six years previous while he was serving time for murdering mum-of-two Pia Overbury, 32, in the 1970's

She had driven her son Adam to see Dix in jail after the pair became friends while her son was in prison.

 

Dix, who suffers from schizopsychotic affective disorder, will stay in Merseyside's high-security Ashworth Hospital until he dies for killing Hazel last June

23rd February 2008, The Times newspaper, revealed that Dix was one of around 37 prisoners who had been issued with whole life tariffs and were unlikely ever to be released, as his trial judge had said that he was "too dangerous" ever to be paroled.

 

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