# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-phillips
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:23.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-phillips"
name: "Josh Phillips"
slug: "josh-phillips"
description: "Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips is an American man who was convicted of murder as a child. In November 1998, when he was 14 years old, Phillips killed Madelyn Rae Clifton, his 8-year-old friend and neighbor. The following year, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Phillips stated that he killed Clifton to stop her from crying after she was accidentally struck with a baseball while they were playing, and that he feared punishment from his abusive father. Although elements of Phillips's story are disputed, officials who were involved in his prosecution have subsequently expressed contrition over the severity of his sentence. In 2017, Phillips was re-sentenced to life in prison on appeal, but he has been eligible for re-sentencing as of 2023."
tagline: "American murderer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshua_Phillips.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1984-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.61
  momentum:             19.30654538634659
  historical:           6.965134666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Phillips"
    title: "Josh Phillips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B4_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3_(%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84)"
    title: "جوش فيليبس (قاتل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Phillips_(murderer)"
    title: "Josh Phillips (murderer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Phillips_(t%E1%BB%99i_ph%E1%BA%A1m)"
    title: "Josh Phillips (tội phạm)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%8B%9C_%ED%95%84%EB%A6%BD%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "조시 필립스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Philips"
    title: "Josh Philips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6289261"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump