Episode Seven: The Brutal Murder of Maddie Clifton

July 28, 2022

Episode Seven: The Brutal Murder of Maddie Clifton

Description: In 1998, 8-year-old Maddie Clifton disappeared from her Southside Jacksonville Florida home. Days later, her body was found and her 14-year-old neighbor was charged in her death.

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https://www.sutori.com/en/story/the-murder-of-maddie-clifton--8rtVFLKHAxZAhZnVsdWXY3Yh

https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/phillips-joshua-photos-2.htm

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Maddie Clifton

Joshua Phillips

On November 6th, 1998 Steve and Sheila Clifton, parents of Maddie held a news conference in the neighborhood where they live and where she disappeared in Jacksonville Florida

November 4th-9th: More than 1,000 people from across Northeast Florida search for missing Maddie, combing her neighborhood and passing out fliers.

July 6th, 1999 Joshua Phillips trial begins

July 8th: Trial ends with conviction of first-degree murder after Phillip's lawyer Richard D. Nichols presents no witnesses.

August 20th, 1999, the judge sentenced Joshua to life in prison without parole, the only possible sentence after the jury's verdict.

Judge Charles Arnold.

Evidence photos of Joshua Phillips's bedroom show items including a flyer that was seen throughout Jacksonville during the weekend search for Maddie Clifton. The photo was projected onto a screen during the testimony.

Sheila Clifton, mother of Maddie Clifton, testifies in the trial of Joshua Phillips.

Jacksonville officer Don Tuten helps carry Joshua Phillips's waterbed into court.

Duval county assistant medical examiner Bonofacio Floro examines autopsy photos before they were shown to the jury.

Josh Phillips holds hands with his mother, Melissa, after the two, attorney Richard D. Nichols and Phillip's father Steve were questioned by Judge Charles Arnold.

The Clifton family and their friends leave the courtroom while graphic photographs were introduced into evidence on Wednesday.

Jessica Clifton gives her mother Sheila a kiss before the start of a news conference following the first degree murder conviction of Joshua Phillips

Harry Shorstien holds the bat that Joshua Phillips used in the death of Maddie Clifton during closing arguments.

Steve Clifton stands beside his wife, Sheila, and his daughter Jessica during a news conference a short time after the guilty verdict against Joshua was announced.

November 17th, 2017

Now 33, Phillips gets a new sentencing hearing per the Supreme Court's ruling that Juveniles cannot automatically be sent to prison for life. The results are the same as Judge Waddell Wallace again sentences him to life.

***All photos were found on Google Images***

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAlbNibOQY

In this video, you can see how closely the houses of Maddie Clifton and Joshua Phillips houses were. You can also hear her sister Jessica’s older sister speak out about the murder of her sister 19 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwj5R6_omoE

Josh Phillips read the letter of apology for the 1998 murder of Maddie Clifton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMUq0ezpCU

Interview with Josh Phillips by Times-Union in October 2008, a decade after he killed Maddie Clifton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3TPuCzu9o

Maddie Clifton’s family provides emotional testimony in Joshua Philips's re-sentencing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDC3VPjOJFU

Maddie Clifton’s killer gets life in prison, again

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