Smith, John Phillip

In this groundbreaking podcast, Bone Valley host Gilbert King uncovers startling new evidence that Jeremy is responsible for a string of murders. King is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove, which led to the exonerations of four innocent men. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. Smith was apprehended after he contacted West Midlands Police saying that he wished to make a statement about Corcoran's disappearance. At the time, however, her body had not been positively identified, and inquiries quickly established that some aspects of his account were false.

Rachel Brand QC, defending, told the judge that Smith had indicated to her on Tuesday that he wanted to change his plea and on Wednesday that he wanted the charges read to him again. He knocked over his third victim, Carol Jordan, with his car as she walked to work at a care home. He had befriended both women in The Rainbow pub in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, where he found casual work and operated as an unlicensed taxi driver for customers. "You should clearly have faced up like a man at the overwhelming nature of the Crown's case against you but you chose to put the victims' families through misery which you compounded by this trial."

In 1979 he served as Business & Professional member of the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum and served on the Board of Directors for San Ramon Community Services Group. Grace Company he donated uniforms and monetary support to the Contra Costa County Probation Department Recreational Program for their basketball team. In 1984 he joined Urban Land Institute and travelled all over the US to educational and service forums. 1987 served on San Ramon Library Foundation Board and donated the library site and offered to build the facility at his company’s cost. 1992 He served as the International Council of Shopping Centers All Star Panel Member at the Northern California Idea Exchange.

Smith, jailed for life for murdering the father of a child he had been convicted of molesting, made international headlines in 2014 when he was released from Spring Hill Prison on a 74-hour temporary release and boarded a flight to Chili. Two women were battered to death and a third was strangled and set alight by the same killer over a four-day period, a court has been told. Senior detectives from six police forces have met to discuss possible links between a number of unsolved murders and a jailed serial killer. When Phillip John Smith left a Waikato prison on approved temporary leave in 2014 no one suspected that within days he would be leading authorities on an international man hunt. Anderson Cooper takes us on a deeply personal exploration of loss and grief.

Watson said the purpose of the prison system was to improve public safety and one of the ways Corrections did that was by making sure prisoners were handled safely. Examinations of tyre impressions showed that marks on the inside of one of Rosemary Corcoran’s arms matched with some of the pattern elements Phillip John Smith of one of the tyres. Tyre impressions at the scene where her body was found were also found to match Smith’s car tyres. Blood matching each of the three victims on Smith’s belongings – including blood matching Carol Jordan and Rosemary Corcoran found on a pair of steel toe cap working boots.

As a result of their inquiries into Smith's background, police launched an investigation into the death of a fourth woman who was discovered to have had links to him. Patricia Lynott, a 47-year-old divorced mother of two, had moved to Birmingham from Athlone during the mid-1990s. On 23 October 2000, while she was employed at the Rainbow pub as a cleaner and to look after the licensee's children, she was found dead in the bedroom of her flat on Maxstoke Street, Bordesley Green. A post mortem failed to establish a cause of death, and her body was returned to Ireland for burial. Smith was charged with Corcoran's murder on 17 November 2000 and remanded in custody the following day.