Obituary for Phillip John Smith, Sr Goad Funeral Home

I remember this case and glad some kind of justice finally caught up to this monster. Convicted murderer and accused paedophile Phillip John Smith has been captured hiding out at an international hostel in Rio, Brazil. A Moment In Crime is written and hosted by senior journalist Anna Leask – who has been covering crime and justice for NZME since 2005. Today, Herald podcast A Moment In Crime goes back to Smith’s escape and explains just how police tracked him down and hauled him back to New Zealand.

Paintwork and fragments of glass found on Jordan's body matched those from Smith's car, including a broken light cluster which he had thrown into the car's boot. When he was with Shell Oil Company he was honored by the Sales and Marketing Executives Association of San Francisco as Shell Oil Company’s Distinguished Salesman Award 1964. In 1987 he was cited in Who’s Who in California because he demonstrated outstanding service in his own field of endeavor. He supported Kids’ Country an extended day care program serving the children of the San Ramon Valley.

In the 1980s, with Mr. Wankel, he helped found Telecharge, Shubert’s national ticketing service, which began with phone sales and later incorporated internet sales. Shubert also contributed a major share of the $12.5 billion that Broadway generated yearly to the city’s economy, including production costs, ticket prices, tourism and ancillary spending, according to the Broadway League, the industry trade group. Privately held, Shubert does not report finances, but its reach and Mr. Smith’s influence were undoubted. As the owner of 40 percent of Broadway’s 41 theaters, the organization had hefty shares of their audiences and revenues of about $1.5 billion before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the industry for most of last year and into this one.

Mr. Schoenfeld and Mr. Jacobs expanded Shubert’s role as few theater owners had before, investing in shows they presented and often producing or co-producing them. The latest legal attempt is over a refusal by Corrections to let him wear a necklace in prison. The boy was indecently assaulted, sexually violated and sodomized under threat of killing his family if he told anyone. Convicted murderer and sex offender Phillip John Smith has lost his appeal against a conviction for escaping from prison in New Zealand in 2014, when he fled to Brazil.

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.

He drove there one day every week right up until 2 weeks before he went home to be with the Lord. This episode of A Moment In Crime deals with child abuse, sexual assault and murder and may not be suitable for some listeners. The Crown accepted earlier this year in a submission to the Court that key evidence leading to the identity of the true attacker was "materially" altered, leading to a miscarriage of justice. Initially, police said her death was unexplained but after a post-mortem examination, it became clear something violent and horrific had happened to Val. In those days, Broadway theaters shared Times Square with prostitutes, derelicts and sex shops. But as crowds flocked to “Cats” , “The Phantom of the Opera” and other hits, the scene became the family-oriented entertainment district that it is today.