6. Joshua Phillip (Born – 1984)
One day, after Joshua Phillips left for school, his mother went to clean his room. While cleaning she noticed a wet spot under her son’s bed and imagined it was probably a leak from his waterbed. So she dug deep and found electrical tape holding the frame together. Then she removed enough tape to discover the body of an 8 year-old girl hidden inside the pedestal of Phillips’s waterbed. It was the dead body of Maddie Clifton, a neighbour girl who had been missing for the past 7 days.
People were quiet shocked because Phillips was one of the neighbors who had volunteered to search for the missing girl. He said he accidentally hit her in the eye with a baseball bat, and then dragged her to his room where he stabbed her 11 times and clubbed with a baseball bat out of panic. Because he was under 16, Phillips could not be sent for death penalty. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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