The Maneater Murder: Billie Jean Phillips

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Catherine Townsend

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When a woman with links to multiple lovers - including the prosecutor AND his son - and drug dealers and was beaten to death, everyone in Madison County, Arkansas became a suspect. She was a woman who every man loved, and every woman loved to hate. Who killed Billie Jean Phillips?

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0:00.0	The story that would become known as the biggest murder mystery that Madison County, Arkansas
0:08.1	had ever seen, started out with an unforgettable opener in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
0:14.7	The article read, quote, Billy Jean Phillips rode life like a sexual jet ski.
0:20.8	Death seemed to trail in her wake.
0:23.3	End quote.
0:24.5	It started back on Saturday, September 3, 1994.
0:29.0	A guy named Chick Phillips was taking his seven-year-old son, McKenzie, to visit his mother
0:34.0	and Chick-sex wife, 35-year-old Billy Jean Phillips. Billy Jean lived in Alabama,
0:40.5	a small, unincorporated area that was about six miles north of Huntsville, Arkansas.
0:45.5	Chick and Billy Jean had separated a couple years earlier in 1992. Even though they had their
0:51.2	rocky relationship moments, they still got along and co-parented pretty well.
0:55.9	Chick was dropping McKenzie off for a scheduled visit with his mom.
0:59.8	But when the little boy went inside the yellow house, back to Billy Jean's bedroom,
1:04.6	he found his mother lying against a wall, not moving, and covered in blood.
1:10.5	McKenzie didn't understand what was going on.
1:12.8	He ran outside and told his father.
1:15.4	Mommy fell while she was painting.
1:18.2	Chick put his son in the car and kind of in a panic,
1:21.4	went down the road and called Billy Jean's parents, Earl and Edna Phillips.
1:26.0	Then he called the Madison County Sheriff's Office.
1:29.2	The Sheriff's Office got the call at 1158 a.m. Billy Jean's parents called her sister,
1:35.3	Yuna, who was a nurse. Yuna raced to the house. When she got there, she said she saw what she
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