Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! When authorities tested ice cream Bud Phillips had eaten before he died, they discovered it had been poisoned. They also learned his girlfriend, Purdie Clark, was no stranger to Texas law enforcement. Purdie Guerra Clark never went long without a husband or boyfriend. However, some of the men around her ended up dead. Catch up on the Oxygen App. In his youth, he got caught up in the drug trade and stayed in it until he was 43, when a bust sent him to prison for 20 years.
He was released after 14 and decided to go straight, reconnecting with his adult son, Michael Phillips. Bud and Purdie then started dating in Despite an almost year age difference, things moved fast for them. But on the morning of February 16, , San Angelo received a call from a woman who said she was with a man in distress.
She was driving past his home with a friend when the man came screaming out his front door before collapsing on the ground. It was Bud Phillips. One of the women attempted CPR to no avail. Paramedics arrived on the scene and took him to the nearest hospital, but he died in the ER. Authorities believed he had suffered a cardiac event. He found it unlikely, however, that his father died of a heart attack and requested an autopsy.
He said Purdie Clark had showed up and was making trouble. According to Michael, Purdie had moved out four months earlier, though she and Bud still saw each other off and on. Having no legal title to the property, authorities ordered her to leave. Kimberly Alan Clark was an engineer with the technology company Texas Instruments. He was reported missing in September According to Purdie, she last saw Kim the night before he disappeared.
They had an argument and she went out to a bar with friends. When she got home, he was gone. The year-old had been shot twice in the head, reported The Dallas Morning News. Purdie eventually agreed to terminate her parental rights and allowed Tim Clark and his wife to adopt the three boys. The Clarks had been married for 14 years, and investigators learned they had an open marriage.
