Under the Waterbed: The 6-Day Search for Maddie Clifton

When 8-year-old Maddie Clifton vanished into thin air on a mild Florida afternoon, an entire neighborhood was turned upside down in a desperate week-long search involving the FBI and the National Guard. But the truth waiting across the street would generate one of the most chilling anomalies in American true crime history. Behind the closed door of a quiet, straight-A student's bedroom lay a dark matrix of panic, abuse, and a body hidden directly beneath the mattress where her 14-year-old killer, Joshua Phillips, slept every night. Dive deep into the heartbreaking layers of a tragedy that fractured multiple families, altered juvenile sentencing laws forever, and sparked an unexpected, deeply moving bond of shared human grief in the wreckage of pure horror.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deadly-truths--6551875/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.