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The Boy In The Chimney The Unsolved Case of Joshua Maddux - Coffeehouse Crime · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: An eighteen year old boy goes missing to be found
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  Speaker 1: dead seven years later, only two blocks from where he lived.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened to Joshua Maddocks, was his death accidental or
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  Speaker 1: was it murder? My name's Adrian Less investigate. Joshua Maddocks
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  Speaker 1: was born on March ninth, nineteen ninety. He grew up
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  Speaker 1: with his father, Michael, his brother Zachary, and his two sisters,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth and Kay in.
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  Speaker 2: Woodland Park, Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: After being homeschooled for the first two years, Joshua Maddos
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  Speaker 1: enrolled into Woodland Park High School. He was a gifted,
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  Speaker 1: intelligent young man who was creative, an artist, a writer,
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  Speaker 1: and a guitarist who was really into his new and he.
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  Speaker 2: Had good grades as a child. He had a great.
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  Speaker 1: Sense of humor and wit, and he had many close friends.
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  Speaker 1: He was also nicknamed Duir by his sisters, having a
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  Speaker 1: very loving personality. In two thousand and six, his brother
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  Speaker 1: took his own life. Joshua was, of course devastated, along
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of his family.
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  Speaker 2: Two years later, on.
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  Speaker 1: May the eighth, Joshua woke up in the morning told
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  Speaker 1: his sister Kate that he was going out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk that'd be the last time that anyone saw Joshua alive.
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  Speaker 2: With josh being.
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  Speaker 1: A lover of the outdoors, it wasn't unusual for him
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  Speaker 1: to go out for a walk.
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  Speaker 2: He would often go by himself with friends.
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  Speaker 1: But as the days passed, it became more and more
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  Speaker 1: strange that he wasn't coming home. So after five days
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  Speaker 1: of Joshua missing, they finally reported his disappearance to the
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  Speaker 1: police on the thirteenth of May. Joshua's father the police
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  Speaker 1: to report him missing.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I've got up one morning and Joshua was there.
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  Speaker 3: Then he just never came home. The next day, he
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  Speaker 3: still doesn't come home. I called his friends. Nobody'd seen him.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knows where he is.
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  Speaker 2: The community searched for Joshua for days.
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  Speaker 1: And then weeks and then months in the surrounding park area,
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  Speaker 1: but no dice. Joshua was never found. Joshua's sister eventually
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  Speaker 1: shared a post on her Facebook. Since josh was eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: it has been reasonable to assume he may have decided
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  Speaker 1: to leave town to start a new life. As one
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  Speaker 1: of his two older sisters, I've always chosen to believe
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  Speaker 1: that this was the case. I've expected Joshua return home
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  Speaker 1: to my father's house at any time with wife and
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  Speaker 1: small children so that they can meet their grandparents and
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  Speaker 1: two aunts. Josh has always been known for his musical
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  Speaker 1: and literary talent, so maybe we would find him playing
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  Speaker 1: music with a band on tour or catch and writing
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  Speaker 1: successful novels under a pen name so that he could
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  Speaker 1: keep his preferred lifestyle of solitude in the woods. Now,
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  Speaker 1: none had any reason to believe Joshua's in danger. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that kind of guy. He graduated from high school
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  Speaker 1: with good grades. He was well liked by his friends,
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  Speaker 1: and he often kept.
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  Speaker 2: Out of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: He had been doing well and he was happy around
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  Speaker 1: the time that he disappeared. The police had no reason
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  Speaker 1: to suspect that he was in danger, so they filed
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  Speaker 1: a missing person's report under his name. The case eventually
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  Speaker 1: went cold. His father, Mike, retained ownership of the house
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  Speaker 1: that he grew up in in case whenever he did
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  Speaker 1: decide to come home, that he would know exactly where
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  Speaker 1: to go. But no news of josh ever came forward.
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  Speaker 1: The case just simply went cold. Fast forward seven years,
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  Speaker 1: and on Friday, the twelfth of August twenty fifteen, at
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  Speaker 1: approximately two thirty in the afternoon, police were called to
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  Speaker 1: a residence on meadow Lark Lane in Woodland Park, Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: A body had.
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  Speaker 1: Been found during the demolition of an old cabin. Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: then seventy nine yar old, president of Murphy Constructors, was
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  Speaker 1: tearing the property down to make way for a new
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  Speaker 1: wilderness to development going on in the area, creating thirty
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  Speaker 1: two single family homes. Murphy's construction crew were in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of demolishing the cabin when they came across the
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  Speaker 1: unsightly discovery. They found the remains of a human body
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  Speaker 1: inside the chimney as they were peeling the chimney's steel casing.
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  Speaker 2: Away from the brickwork.
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  Speaker 1: The body was roughly one meter off the ground inside
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  Speaker 1: the chimney in a fetal position. Murphy said the knees
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  Speaker 1: of the body were above its head, but the legs
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  Speaker 1: had disjointed, so he believed it was a body there
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  Speaker 1: had been there for a long time. He also noted
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  Speaker 1: that one hand was covering the face. The body was
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  Speaker 1: found to be wearing a thermal shirt, only that was
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  Speaker 1: the only item of clothing. The body was naked from
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  Speaker 1: the waist down, so a bit of his street on
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  Speaker 1: the cabin. The cabin used to belong to the Murphy family.
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  Speaker 1: It was bought by Chuck Murphy's parents in Woodland Park,
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  Speaker 1: and it used to be part of the homestead to
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  Speaker 1: the Thunderhead Ranch. The Thunderhead Ranch was somewhere where legal
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  Speaker 1: gambling and parties took place back in the wild days,
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  Speaker 1: But once the wild times had settled, the property was
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  Speaker 1: then officially bought by Murphy's parents, and Murphy's brother lived
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  Speaker 1: in the cabin for over thirty years. After that time,
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  Speaker 1: the property was then turned into a rental and that
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  Speaker 1: lasted for a while until the property eventually became vacant.
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  Speaker 2: For the next ten or so years, the.
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  Speaker 1: Property would only be checked occasionally by Chuck Murphy, either
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  Speaker 1: for storage or to make sure that there were no
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  Speaker 1: squatters or anyone else living in the property unlawfully.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Murphy recalled that the place was dump it smelled
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  Speaker 4: like hell, there was raccoon poop all over the place,
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  Speaker 4: and really had no reason to go in there except
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  Speaker 4: to tear the building down.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually, dental records came back of the body and the
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  Speaker 1: body was confirmed to belong to that of Joshua Maddox's
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  Speaker 1: the cabin only a mile away from Joshuaddox's previous home. Well,
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  Speaker 1: these road images from Google Maps dating back to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twelve Kati to think that while these street images were taken.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua's body was just on the other side of that
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  Speaker 2: chimney wall.
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  Speaker 1: According to autopsy results, Joshua had no drugs in his system,
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  Speaker 1: he had no broken bones, he had no bullet wounds
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  Speaker 1: or knife wounds. Therefore, the coronal born ruled that his
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  Speaker 1: death was accidental, most likely by falling down the chimney.
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  Speaker 1: He also stated that the death had not been an
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  Speaker 1: instant and probably was due to something along the lines
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  Speaker 1: of hypothermia.
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  Speaker 2: So a sad but resolved case. Right, Joshua was out
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  Speaker 2: exploring on the day that he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: He was an adventurous type, so he took to the
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  Speaker 1: roof of the cabin, climbed into the chimney, tried to
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  Speaker 1: get into the property down the chimney, and accidentally slipped
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  Speaker 1: on the way and unfortunately died accidentally. You'd be forgiven
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  Speaker 1: for thinking this is what happened if these were any
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  Speaker 1: details we knew, But there's a lot more to start.
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  Speaker 1: The cabin's owner, Chuck He had raised doubts about the
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  Speaker 1: coroner's theory because years before he had installed rebar at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the chimney to prevent raccoons and other
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  Speaker 1: animals getting in to the cabin. This was only done
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  Speaker 1: about twelve to fifteen years ago, so any of a
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  Speaker 1: few years really before Joshua went missing.
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  Speaker 3: Murphy said, there's no way that guy crawled inside that
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  Speaker 3: chimney with that steel webbing. He didn't come down that chimney.
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  Speaker 1: Murphy is extremely experienced in the construction industry. He's very
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  Speaker 1: likely to know how long steel rebar lasts in a chimney,
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  Speaker 1: and there's also no reason that he would have lied
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  Speaker 1: about this. This means it's much more likely that josh
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  Speaker 1: entered the chimney from inside the cabin rather than from out. Also,
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  Speaker 1: if he did actually climb down the chimney from outside,
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  Speaker 1: the leading theory of his death is through compressive asphyxia.
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  Speaker 1: This is where a chimney your legs are forced above
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  Speaker 1: your chest, and the compression of your legs onto your
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  Speaker 1: chest as she prevents you from breathing. But Murphy reported
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  Speaker 1: that Josh's legs were downwards, as if he was in
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  Speaker 1: a fetal position.
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  Speaker 2: It's still possible to die.
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  Speaker 1: From compressive asphixia with your legs downwards, but it's much
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  Speaker 1: more difficult. He'd have also had to enter the chimney headfirst. Next,
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  Speaker 1: when Joshua's body was found, it was found only wearing
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  Speaker 1: a thermal shirt. He wasn't wearing any other clothes, no socks,
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  Speaker 1: no shoes, and strange enough, his clothes were found neatly
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  Speaker 1: folded inside the room of the fireplace. This syndicates he
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  Speaker 1: was probably in the property at some point that day.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Chuck Murphy noticed that the breakfast bar had
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  Speaker 1: been ripped away from the wall in the kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: placed alongside the fireplace, perhaps as if to conceal a
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  Speaker 1: block Joshua or Joshua from being found.
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  Speaker 2: The plot is thickening.
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  Speaker 1: The case was reopened again, but unfortunately the case was
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  Speaker 1: concluded just the same as it initially had been accidental.
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  Speaker 1: So with these new details, the only way that Joshua's
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  Speaker 1: death could have been independent and accidental is if Joshua
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  Speaker 1: went into the cabin, took off all of his clothes
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  Speaker 1: other than his shirt, folded them up neatly in the room,
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  Speaker 1: then walked outside naked, just wearing a shirt, got onto
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  Speaker 1: the top of the roof and climbed down the chimney
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  Speaker 1: head first, and then became trapped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't sound credible to me. Chief. That leaves
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  Speaker 2: two other options.
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  Speaker 1: Really, Joshua was in the cabin, he stripped down to
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  Speaker 1: just his shirts, and then independently and winningly got into
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  Speaker 1: the fireplace himself and then into the chimney, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he would do.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Or he was murdered and his body was put there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at that final option into more detail. During
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  Speaker 1: the investigation, the coroner had mentioned that several phone calls
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  Speaker 1: were made to both the police and the coroner's office.
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  Speaker 1: These phone calls suggested leads of possible suspects that may
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  Speaker 1: have been involved in the killing of Joshua Maddocks. One
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  Speaker 1: claim sighted hearing the suspect say I put josh in
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  Speaker 1: a hole.
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  Speaker 2: Although this tip was.
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  Speaker 1: Ignored, one of those sources spoke out on Reddit a
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  Speaker 1: few years later. The source said, I went to high
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  Speaker 1: school with the skinny, dorky hippie named Andy who played
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  Speaker 1: guitar in a band. I was never good friends with
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  Speaker 1: him or anything, but a year or so after I graduated,
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  Speaker 1: one of my good friends, josh started hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: him and then went missing. Last I heard, Andy was
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  Speaker 1: telling another friend, Yeah, me and josh had been spending
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time together were planning on.
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  Speaker 3: A trip to New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: The person in question, Andy was known as Andrew Richard
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  Speaker 1: Newman in the Woodland Park area in Colorado. He was
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  Speaker 1: a confirmed student of the same high school as Joshua Maddox.
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  Speaker 1: And Andrew and Joshua were also both enthusiastic about music
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  Speaker 1: and relatively the same age, so there's a likelihood that
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  Speaker 1: the two knew of each other and were potentially even friends.
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  Speaker 1: Although we know that Joshua evidently didn't go with Andy
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  Speaker 1: to New Mexico, we do know that Andy actually did
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  Speaker 1: in fact go to New Mexico in two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: In May two thousand and nine, while in New Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: and he befriended a man at a bar called James Wlito.
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  Speaker 1: James Alita was a caretaker of a disabled man, and
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  Speaker 1: while there, Andy asked James.
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  Speaker 2: If he could crash at his place for a while.
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  Speaker 1: James, being the good Samariton that he is, he let
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  Speaker 1: Andy go with him and his disabled friend back to
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  Speaker 1: his apartment.
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  Speaker 2: While home, Alito took.
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  Speaker 1: A shower and after got out of the shower, he
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  Speaker 1: came back to the living room, where he found his
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  Speaker 1: disabled friend dead, stabbed to death in his wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: Conveniently, Andrew Newman was gone.
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  Speaker 1: In June of the same year, in Texas, Andy was
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  Speaker 1: taken to the police station after being caught in a
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  Speaker 1: property where the homeowner hadn't given him consent to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew was actually found with the homeowner's two children, both
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  Speaker 1: of them under the age of sixteen. He didn't like
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  Speaker 1: the way that Andy was behaving, so he took him
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  Speaker 1: to the police station. While there, Andy Newman agreed to
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  Speaker 1: giving his fingerprints, and his fingerprints actually matched those of
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  Speaker 1: the murdering back in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the disabled
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  Speaker 1: man had been stabbed to death. Andrew also admitted to
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  Speaker 1: another murder, not that of Joshua Addox's, but of a
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  Speaker 1: woman in Taos, New Mexico. He claimed that he killed
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  Speaker 1: her and stuffed her body in a barrel. However, the
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  Speaker 1: police in New Mexico already had a suspect, so the
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  Speaker 1: case was dropped from Andy Newman. Right Andrew Newman's whereabouts
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  Speaker 1: throughout the next several years are unknown. It's probably because
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  Speaker 1: he was in prison for most of it. However, he
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  Speaker 1: picked up a fresh sentence in twenty twelve in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: This sentence included seven charges, one of them being the
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  Speaker 1: assault of a police officer, who was then charged yet
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  Speaker 1: again in twenty fifteen in Jacksonville, Florida for trespassing on
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  Speaker 1: to a property, and once again he was picked up
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  Speaker 1: in February twenty eighteen for burglary and trespassing on to
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  Speaker 1: a property. In December twenty eighteen, Andrew was then picked
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  Speaker 1: up in Brazos County in Texas for the assault of
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  Speaker 1: three police officers, where he was later charged for burglary
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  Speaker 1: of an unoccupied structure back in Florida and fleeing Florida
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  Speaker 1: as a fugitive. At the time of this video, he's
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  Speaker 1: still currently behind bars serving his time in Brazos County
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. He even made news back in March twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen for assaulting a detentions officer while in prison. So
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  Speaker 1: what's my theory on the Joshua Maddocks case. Well, on
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  Speaker 1: maybe eight, two thousand and eight, Joshua Maddox left his house.
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  Speaker 2: He told a sister he.
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  Speaker 1: Was going out for a walk and then he'd be
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  Speaker 1: back later, so it sounds like he did plan to
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  Speaker 1: return home later that day, either through force or voluntarily.
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  Speaker 1: He entered the cabin on Meadow Lark Lane, and while
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  Speaker 1: in the cabin, Joshua's fate turned into murder by another individual.
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  Speaker 1: Tests confirmed that there were no bullet holes, no knife wounds,
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  Speaker 1: no marks on his skin, but what they couldn't rule
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  Speaker 1: out was asphyxiation ample in a chimney, which means that
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  Speaker 1: he could have also died from being strangled. The lack
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  Speaker 1: of clothes suggests that there could have been some sort
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  Speaker 1: of sexual activity, either voluntarily or involuntarily after the murder,
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  Speaker 1: in which.
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  Speaker 2: The motive is unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua's body was then forced into the chimney via the fireplace.
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  Speaker 2: The breakfast bar was.
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  Speaker 1: Then ripped off the wall in the kitchen and put
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  Speaker 1: in front of the fireplace to conceal off the area,
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  Speaker 1: potentially to block off the smell and to prevent people
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  Speaker 1: from looking in the chimney and discovering the body. What
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  Speaker 1: we do know is that Joshua went missing in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, shortly after allegedly beginning to know Andrew Newman.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Newman would soon move away and begin building his
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  Speaker 1: long streak of charges on trespassing, assault, and potentially even murder.
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  Speaker 1: A sort of large stretch of imagination to think maybe
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  Speaker 1: he could have done that back in two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: but with anezemadic lifestyle, police could never really pinpoint where
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  Speaker 1: he was during the time of Joshua Maddox's initial days,
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  Speaker 1: and with the crime scene aging seven years before it
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  Speaker 1: is found, and then the demolition of the crime scene
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  Speaker 1: shortly after, and Joshua Maddox's body being cremated, it's very
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  Speaker 1: unlikely that we'll ever find out what exactly happened to
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Maddox. And while we can theorize about the links
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  Speaker 1: between Angie and josh none of this is concreted in evidence.
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  Speaker 1: So unfortunately, this is something that will probably forever stay
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  Speaker 1: unknown as a mystery. We can only hope that maybe
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  Speaker 1: one day someone comes forward, but until then this case
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  Speaker 1: will lie closed. Hi there and thank you for watching
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  Speaker 1: my video. If you enjoyed it, please do consider subscribing
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and liking the video. What do you think happened to
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Maddox. Do you think it was an accident, do
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  Speaker 1: you think perhaps he was murdered. Do you think the
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: murderer was actually Andrew Numan. All of these questions are
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  Speaker 1: something that you're probably wear a lot of people talk
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  Speaker 1: about online. I just wanted to give my opinion based
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  Speaker 1: on the information I've seen.
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  Speaker 2: Hi