Philip Smith criminal Wikipedia
In the following 10 years he and his growing family lived in 7 different places – Sacramento, San Rafael, San Mateo, Corte Madera, Thousand Oaks, Alamo and Danville. As a rising star in Shell Oil Company, he knew he was scheduled to move to the east coast, probably New York. He also was realizing that large corporate life was not a good fit for him. So, in 1967 he joined a real estate company, Rinker Development Company and moved to Alamo as its Northern California Vice President to develop service stations. About a year later he ended up in the hospital with ruptured discs in his lower back and in traction trying to avoid surgery. Fortunately, a very talented surgeon, Dr. Liu, was able to “fix him”. 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 belon...