237 | WaterBled: The Grisly Maddie Clifton Murder
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
8-year-old Maddie Clifton was murdered by her neighbor Joshua Phillips on November 3, 1998. Phillips, who was only fourteen at the time of his grisly crime, stuffed Maddie's body under his waterbed, where he slept over top of it for six days. Joshua's mother eventually noticed the stench of decomposition emanating from her son's room and alerted the police. Joshua Phillips is serving a life sentence for the murder of Maddie Clifton.
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, waterbeds were at the peak of popularity. |
| 0:04.0 | Daddy can I have a waterbed, please, |
| 0:06.0 | Dad I can have a waterbed. |
| 0:08.0 | We all knew someone who had one. |
| 0:10.0 | We all wanted one, and imagined ourselves sleeping like the little mermaid and dreaming sweet dreams of Sebastian and flounder and Prince Eric. |
| 0:18.8 | Tonight we go back to the magical times of liquid hibernation to bring you a killer who kept more than water in their waterbed. |
| 0:26.8 | Okay, Kim, you can have a water bed and daddy loves you. I can. Feels like it should be much further along in the week than Wednesday. |
| 0:40.0 | I spent 30% of my day. It feels like it should be much further along in the week than Wednesday. |
| 0:43.2 | I spent 30% of my day thinking it was Friday. |
| 0:46.7 | Ugh, it felt like it should have at least been Thursday. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, minimum. |
| 0:51.8 | I was hoping to skip through Thursday because I have to go to work tomorrow, my other job. Not my first job. I know. Are they down? Are you down a one a week, one night a week? Mm-mm. I keep trying to tell them. Oh my God. All right before we start a few |
| 1:06.0 | comments on the blog at talkmoor.com. Sweet! From our supremeos stina, which is Stina, not S. Tina. |
| 1:14.3 | I gave it the option. |
| 1:16.3 | She says, Jen, did you mean the Isle of Miss Fit Toys? |
| 1:21.1 | Not the Isle of misbehaving boys. |
| 1:25.0 | What? |
| 1:27.0 | I don't remember that. |
| 1:28.0 | She says, love you guys. |
| 1:30.0 | P.S. John is my favorite and when Jen says that he's lying about that and then adds that |
| 1:39.5 | PS John is my this is maybe making me think this is not an added part. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay. |
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