It was the summer of 1995. 13-year-old Thad Phillips had fallen asleep in his living room watching a movie. Suddenly, he awoke to the feeling of someone lifting him up and carrying him away - initially he thought maybe it was his dad, bringing him upstairs to bed. But it wasn’t. The person holding him was an older teen boy named Joe Clark. Joe carried Thad outside of his home and asked him to follow him to help fix his broken-down car. Still half asleep, Thad agreed, following Joe all of the way to a rundown broken home. He followed Joe into the home, not realizing he was about to endure the most terrifying, painful 43 hours of his life. The teenage boy that Thad thought could be a friend turned into his worst nightmare.

Joe loved the sound of bones breaking. He attacked Thad, twisting and turning his ankles until his bones shattered and splintered, making it nearly impossible for the young boy to get away. After two days of being tortured, miraculously, Thad was able to escape with his life. He was lucky, because as it turned out - he wasn’t the only victim of Joe Clark, but he was the only one to live.

This is the story of Thad Phillips, the lone survivor of the bone breaker killer.

Sources:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thad-phillips-real-hero-of-baraboo

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/clark-joe.htm

https://www.wkow.com/news/kidnapped-and-tortured-by-the-bonebreaker-survivor-never-receives-21m-award/article_d773fd16-db12-11ed-87df-af2b02c845d6.html

https://thesquonkandthehag.com/2023/08/03/the-bonebreaker-killer-joe-clark/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0Mhwr8pNY

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