MURDERED: Clara Phillips, Tiger Woman

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode, we dive into the shocking murder of Alberta Meadows by Clara Phillips, a glamorous showgirl whose jealous rage turned deadly. After killing Alberta with a hammer, Clara staged a sensational escape, fleeing 4,000 miles through Central America before her capture in Honduras. We unravel Clara’s troubled marriage, the dramatic courtroom showdown, and the scandalous prison life that followed.

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0:00.0	A beautiful showgirl, a rumored affair, and a hammer. In 1922, Clara Phillips shocked Los Angeles when she bludgeoned a woman to death in a jealous rage, then staged one of the most daring escapes the city had ever seen. This is the twisted tale of The Tiger Woman.
0:22.2	Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring
0:27.6	myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.
0:29.7	Hi, Melissa.
0:30.7	Hi, Mandy.
0:31.3	How are you?
0:32.2	I'm doing pretty well, gearing up for the long holiday weekend that will be passed by the time this episode
0:39.5	comes out. Everybody gets to hear us talking about things after they've happened, but before
0:45.4	they've happened. So that's kind of a weird overlap that we have there. We do. We're talking
0:51.6	about the future in the past. No, the past and I don't know. I'm not going to do it. Something like that.
0:57.2	Something like that. Mandy, you know what I realized is this month, we are coming up on eight years of having this little podcast.
1:07.5	That's wild. That is. I don't know what I was expecting you to say from there because we should probably mention it when it actually happens.
1:15.2	But I just remember July and then I never remember the actual date.
1:19.4	But yeah, I can't believe it.
1:20.7	I think it's around like the 19th or something maybe.
1:23.5	It's exactly the 19th.
1:24.6	I just looked it up.
1:25.6	Oh, wow.
1:26.5	Okay.
1:26.8	Well, go me because I never remember anything.
1:29.1	And I'm very impressed with myself that I just remembered the anniversary of our little podcast.
1:34.5	Of the little podcast that could.
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