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The Casual Criminalist

Unsolved: The Boy in the Chimney

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

An eerie true crime mystery unraveling Joshua Maddux’s disappearance, shocking chimney discovery, and chilling theories—accident or murder? Dive into unanswered questions that still haunt Woodland Park decades later today now. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - sign up for your $1 per month trial today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the casual criminalist today. That's going to be a grim one, Danny. Why'd you do it to me? The boy in the chimney, which is unsolved. So not only is it going to be grim, it's also going to be unsatisfying because we're not going to know how it happens. But somehow 20 pages have been filled, so I guess we are going to

1:28.8

learn something. Let's jump in.

1:38.1

18-year-old Joshua Maddox from Colorado went for a wander into the woods in 2008, and he was never seen alive again.

1:45.5

Oh, wow, this guy's exactly the same age as me. No, sorry, he's not. That was a mistake. He is

1:50.5

three years younger than me. I always get it confused, because I'm like, I graduated university,

1:56.0

undergrad in 2008, and I graduated secondary school, high school, in 2005, and I often get them confused.

2:02.4

So he is a little bit younger than me.

2:04.5

Seven years would pass before the family finally learned of his bizarre fate, yet it was a discovery

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