Smith, John Phillip

He starts recording while packing up the apartment of his late mother Gloria Vanderbilt. In this episode of Herald true-crime podcast A Moment In Crime we look into the beginnings of Gloriavale and the ongoing list of men brought to justice for sex crimes against children within the confines of the religious community. Mr. Smith is committed to providing service to his community through his activism in legal organizations, such as the Lafayette Volunteer Lawyers program, where he provides free legal service to victims of domestic abuse. He also serves as a volunteer coach for the LSU Law Admiralty Moot Court External Team. Infamous prison escapee and murderer Phillip John Smith has taken legal action against the Department of Corrections for refusing to allow him to wear a necklace in prison. At this time all three murders were being treated by police as entirely separate as there was nothing about them that suggested they had been carried out by the same person.

Watson said the radio rules were set to be reviewed to see if they were “fit for purpose”. Smith claimed there was no legal reason to withhold the items from him. “It has become very burdensome for prisoners and their families to find a compliant stereo, and expensive,” he said. In addition to prison-provided clothing, any personal items that inmates desire must be approved by the particular prison warden through an application process.

Patricia Lynott, a divorced mother of two from Ireland who had moved to Birmingham, had been found dead in her flat in October 2000. Police had not treated the death as suspicious, but after they discovered her connection to Smith, her body was exhumed for a second post mortem. This proved to be inconclusive, and in January 2003 a coroner's jury in Birmingham recorded an open verdict after hearing that the cause of her death could not be determined. He spent the first 21 years in Stockton where he graduated from Stockton high School and Stockton Junior College as a certified draftsman. His early love was sports with baseball and golf at the top of the list.

Investigators found over a dozen bloodstains on his car, on his clothing and in his flat, all matching the victims. There were bloodstains on the boots with which he had kicked both Corcoran and Jordan, which he was still wearing at the time of his arrest. Smith had tried to clean his clothes in the bath of his flat along with a pair of trousers belonging to Corcoran, and a bag containing items belonging to Hyde was discovered outside.

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Two members of staff - one a senior forensic scene examiner and the other a DNA expert - attended the scene and the post mortem to advise on, amongst other things, the taking of samples. He told the court she was befriended by Mr Smith in the Rainbow pub in Digbeth, Birmingham. The court was told how the smouldering body of Jodie Hyde, 21, was discovered near an adventure play area in Birmingham on 9 November last year.

The murder inquiry, named Operation Green, uncovered a large quantity of strong evidence incriminating Smith, but at first he denied responsibility. He maintained his innocence as his trial began in July 2001, but later in the proceedings changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The motive for his crimes was unclear, but police who arrested him believed that a "lack of permanent sexual relations" was a contributing factor. Smith's first victim was Jodie Hyde, a recovering butane gas addict whom he met at the Rainbow before killing her hours later. He is thought to have strangled her before setting her body on fire near a recreation ground. Three days later, he met mother-of-three Rosemary Corcoran at the same public house and drove her to a rural location, where he bludgeoned her to death and drove over the body.