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      • Steve Phillips, the father of a Jacksonville teenager who killed 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton in 1998, died in the crash of his van near Tallahassee on Tuesday night. Phillips, father of 16-year-old Joshua Phillips, was killed about 11:15 p.m., about 10 miles south of Tallahassee, said Lt. Bill Leeper of the Florida Highway Patrol.
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  2. Jun 29, 2000 · Steve Phillips, the father of a Jacksonville teenager who killed 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton in 1998, died in the crash of his van near Tallahassee on Tuesday night. Phillips, father...

  3. Aug 13, 2017 · “ [Our father] took [Joshua] away from me,” Daniel, 11 years Joshua’s senior said, declaring unequivocally that the separation and ensuing isolation Joshua experienced led to the tragedy....

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  4. As police went to a middle school and arrested Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips that day, parents at Maddie’s San Jose Catholic School raced there to take their children home early. Children were seen sobbing as they clung to their parents and headed for home.

  5. Jun 8, 2022 · CBS News reports that Phillips also maintained his story — he accidentally hit Clifton and was scared that his father would find out that he had disobeyed him. At the trial, Phillips' lawyer, Richard Nichols, stated (per News4JAX) that her death was the result of an "act that began as an accident and deteriorated through panic that bordered ...

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    It was November 3rd, 1998, when eight-year-old Maddie Clifton went missing in Jacksonville, Florida. After she was reported missing, police began searching for her and interviewing her neighbors. Almost immediately, they had a neighbor in mind as a suspect. That neighbor had been arrested and charged more than 15 years earlier in two sexual battery...

    Josh Phillips was at school when the discovery was made, and that's when police arrested him. The community was completely shocked. The 14-year-old boy had no history of violence and no one wanted to believe that he could be capable of murder. But he was. Josh confessed to the police that he had murdered Maddie but, he said, it began with an accide...

    Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips, at the age of 15, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of eight-year-old Madelyn Clifton. Due to the severity of the crime, he was charged and tried as an adult. His trial was moved to a different county due to the flood of media coverage in the Jacksonville area. He was convicted of the first-degree murde...

    Since the trial, Maddie's parents have divorced, and Josh's father has died in a car accident. Josh, on the other hand, has been in the appeal process. In 2002, an appeals court upheld his original conviction. In late 2004, his mother, Melissa Phillips, began seeking a new trial. She believed that his age at the time of the murder should be taken i...

    gigion May 11, 2019: i only came here because in school we are doing many articles on children murdering people and how we feel about it but the article we was reading (the one his mom wrote) did not tell us why he killed her now im filled in and need more storys on murder to satisfy my needs Jimon September 12, 2018:

  6. To end the victim's crying, and to avoid punishment from his father. Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips (born March 17, 1984) is an American who was convicted of murder as a child. In November 1998, when he was 14 years old, Phillips killed Madelyn Rae Clifton (June 17, 1990 - November 3, 1998), his 8-year-old friend and neighbor. The following year ...

  7. CBS News. March 31, 2004. Josh Phillips, 20, has spent a quarter of his life behind bars. And he will remain in prison until the day he dies. Every week, for the last five years, Josh’s mother, Missy, has visited her son at the Marion Correctional Facility in Lowell, Fla. “I love my son.