Ashley Flowers

Flowers credited the original investigators for working the case hard from the start and relayed Sheriff Myers's view that modern methods would have caught the killer.

“Sheriff Myers told us that if Joyce had been killed today or even in like this decade, there is no doubt in his mind that they would have caught her killer”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 43:13

Flowers said Joyce's letter alleging Mark Wadley had a history of strangling people was apparently never investigated.

“From what we can tell, no past or present investigator has even looked into this”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 12:47

Flowers argues that investigators' early assumption that Rucci ran away did lasting damage to the case.

“I cannot help but believe that the early assumptions that they made did like irreparable damage to Cheryl's case”

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Flowers argued that Bill Carter's personal motivation distinguished him from previous detectives on the case.

“Unlike previous detectives, he's not looking into this case because he has to. He is looking into it because he wants to”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 27:16

Flowers argues that despite the large case file, the 1965 investigation was not genuinely worked and served as a distraction.

“despite the deceptively large case file, I don't think this case was truly worked. I think a lot of work was done, but it all feels like a distraction”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 31:29

Flowers explains that because the medical examiner ruled the deaths undetermined, no homicide investigation is open.

“the ME classified these deaths as undetermined, so there is no homicide that is being investigated”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 48:52

Flowers concludes that someone knows what happened to Brittany and that the answers can still be found.

“I think somebody out there really does know exactly what happened to Britney Wallace Shank that day, November 30th, 2018”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:26

Flowers believes nearly every plausible scenario involves another person, noting the mystery man never came forward.

“Almost every scenario in my mind, though, involves someone else. Mystery Man hasn't come forward, so there has got to be a reason for that, right?”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:46

Flowers interprets the prison call as indicating Brittany had damaging information about someone in her circle.

“it sounds like Britt has something, like maybe some dirt on at least one of them”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:22

Flowers believes Brittany picked up the mystery man on her way to her grandmother's house.

“Because I definitely believe that she picked up Mystery Man on the way to Grandma's”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:01

Flowers considers it unlikely Brittany died of exposure nearby because searches of the flat farmland found nothing.

“yes, they have searched and they haven't found anything. So like that makes me think that that's super unlikely”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 25:34

Flowers notes that Brittany's final selfie suggested she was going out rather than simply doing laundry.

“But to me, it doesn't exactly scream like I'm just going to grandma's to do laundry”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 14:33

Flowers reported that Joyce's brother Bruce LePage has largely given up hope of learning who killed his sister.

“he told us that he's kind of given up hope. He isn't really expecting to ever find out who killed his sister”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 46:38

Flowers found it notable that one of the only tips describing Joyce as distressed came right after she was with Steve Solley.

“one of the only tips in the case file that says Joyce was distressed in the days leading up to her disappearance. is one where she had just been with Steve”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 40:31

Flowers argued the Bruce theory has holes because a crime involving him would more likely have happened at the apartment than Stevens Hall.

“to me, it makes a lot more sense that if something happened involving him, that it would happen at the apartment”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 34:31

Flowers noted that Joyce told Patty on Thursday night she would not return to Stevens Hall, contradicting Bruce's early account.

“So Joyce is telling Patty at 10 p.m. on Thursday that she's not going to Stevens Hall”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 28:44

Flowers reported that Mike Lindbergh appears to have died by suicide in 1988, based on a death certificate.

“I believe that Mike Lindbergh died by suicide in 1988”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 18:01

Flowers speculated that if Wadley was an informant, someone may have been inclined to protect him.

“if Mark was involved in some way, as the polygraph would suggest, maybe someone was more inclined to look the other way and keep Mark out of trouble”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2 (Jul 27, 2026) · Listen from 13:03

Flowers reports Captain Chilson's belief that Carr has never explicitly denied committing the murder.

“Captain Chilson says that he doesn't believe Chad Carr has ever explicitly denied murdering Brittany”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 52:50

Flowers considers Velva's suggested motive—Carr's resentment that Brittany could stay overnight—weak and possibly not the real motive.

“And look, on its own, it's not a strong motive. It might not even be the motive”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 48:05

Flowers argues the gap in Carr's alibi was feasible because the locations involved were very close together.

“Like, from the alco to the crime scene, it's, like, six minutes”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 27:55

Flowers says the show's weather research undermined Chad Carr's claim that he changed clothes because of the heat.

“But we pulled the weather reports and it was fairly mild for Texas that May morning. High 60s, low 70s”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 26:38

Flowers reports the sheriff told the show that the medical examiner found Brittany had not been sexually assaulted.

“The sheriff told us, according to the medical examiner, Brittany actually was not sexually assaulted after all”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 13:25

Flowers dismisses the staged-alibi theory as far-fetched because the trip to fetch the grandmother had been planned in advance.

“So before we get carried away with kind of, I think, far-fetched theories, first things first. Detectives need to verify Jeff and his stepdad's shared story”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 9:37

Flowers relayed Cody Turner's expectation that forensic data from Tripp's phone would come back within the month.

“he has someone working on it and that the data should come back as soon as this month”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:56

Flowers reported that PI Cody Turner, a former EMT, believes the four-wheeler looks like it was struck by a vehicle.

“And he said that it really looks to him like the four-wheeler worked”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 51:58

Flowers criticized the redaction of all information about the anonymous caller who identified Tripp.

“Anything about who this caller was or how they knew it was Tripp is redacted in all of the materials that we received”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 31:40

Flowers relayed the PI's question of why Tripp would not have used the nearby deer stand and its ladder if he took the strap from it.

“why not make use of the actual deer stand and its ladder while you're right there?”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 43:35

Flowers questioned how Tripp could have made an hours-long trek through rough woods without shoes yet have no marks on his feet.

“That means that he would have had to have made this like hours-long trek without shoes over whatever is on the forest floor”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 36:44

Flowers reported that Tripp's mother believed the apparent suicide text was not written in her son's voice.

“Jennifer said that the text did not sound like Tripp at all. Like he would never say those things”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 13:11

Flowers says that if someone on the mountain killed the family, she believes money was the motive.

“Now, if anyone on the mountain did it. I have to believe the motive was money”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 48:52

Flowers reports that the show found a man with Dan Clemens's name and age who was arrested in 2017 for a 1997 killing, and that a family friend identified his mugshot.

“A man with the same name and the right age was arrested in 2017 for killing a man back in 1997”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 47:20

Flowers questions Dan Clemens's timeline, noting an unexplained gap of roughly an hour and a half between his conversation with the family and their GPS arrival at the land.

“why does their GPS say that they make it to the land at 215? Where are they for the like hour and a half in between?”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 41:14

Flowers argues that foul play is the only theory in which most of the known evidence fits together.

“This is the only theory that I think works because it's the only one where most of the pieces we have fit together”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 37:02

Flowers concludes that the missing bag likely did not contain drugs, since no illegal drugs were found in the home or truck.

“So I don't think that it was drugs in Sherilyn's bag”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 26:46

Flowers argues that the family's stops at other properties indicate the land purchase was genuine rather than a ruse.

“which suggests to me that this idea of buying the land and the reason they're going up there isn't some ruse”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 20:32

Flowers argues the surveillance footage has been sensationalized by claims that the couple appeared to be in a trance.

“this video has become hugely sensationalized because this idea has kind of gotten perpetuated that the way they were walking was like they were in a trance”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 19:46

Flowers describes footage of a car entering the property and turning off its lights on the night of July 29.

“The security gate is already open, so this car can drive right through. But as it does, it turns off its lights”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 19:37

Flowers reports that when Alicia viewed the footage in March 2025 she saw Sweetman peek through the blinds as the suspects' truck pulled up.

“He went to the front door and like peeked through the blinds”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 45:57

Flowers says the AM/PM gas station footage is among the clearest images of a suspect's face she has seen and criticizes the delay in releasing it.

“this is close to, if not the clearest image of a suspect's face I have ever seen from surveillance footage in a case”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 35:43

Flowers says investigators wrote that after viewing the footage they no longer suspected Sweetman of the homicide but that his involvement remained unclear.

“investigators write in the file that after seeing the surveillance footage, they no longer suspect Dave in the homicide. However, quote, his involvement remained unclear”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 20:37

Flowers notes that the only room without a surveillance camera was the office where Sweetman said the struggle took place.

“The one place that doesn't have a camera is the office space where, according to Dave, the struggle took place”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 18:55

Flowers describes Alicia's account that the footage shows Cordova being shot once in the back of the head execution style as he ran toward the door.

“the suspect comes up behind him and just execution style shoots him once in the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 49:45

Flowers relays the office manager's account that Sweetman repeatedly asked when Nick would return the day before the shooting and was unusually quiet on the day itself.

“Dave kept asking Lynn over and over, like, where's Nick? When's Nick going to get in? When's he getting back?”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 28:53

Flowers reports that officers found over $1,000 cash on Sweetman despite his claim he gave the robbers everything he had.

“Well, imagine this officer's surprise when he's patting Dave down and finds more than $1,000 cash in”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 14:05

Flowers states that an online theory that a gouged potato found at the scene was used as a silencer is not supported by the police report.

“maybe that potato was like used as a silencer but that is not stated anywhere in the police report”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 9:35

Flowers recounts that the responding officer pushed Cordova's body aside with the front door to enter rather than finding another entrance.

“This officer, though, decided to just push through the door until Nick's body moved enough for him to squeeze through”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 8:24

Flowers argues that the Cordova case will only be solved if public pressure is applied to the Gilbert Police Department.

“Now it feels like the only way this case will ever be solved. is if we turn up the pressure on Gilbert Police Department”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:27

Flowers describes Rucci as an imperfect victim who nonetheless deserves to be found.

“She was an imperfect victim who became an imperfect witness”

Crime Junkie: WARNING: Roger Hueber (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 46:43

Flowers reports that Amy believed the large man she saw emerging from the brush was Hueber.

“she did think that the bald, stocky, muscular, Hulk-like figure that she saw walking out of the brush that night was him”

Crime Junkie: WARNING: Roger Hueber (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 36:14

Flowers reports that witness Amy said a detective told her Rucci was not worth looking for.

“Amy says that the detective outright told her that Cheryl wasn't worth looking for”

Crime Junkie: WARNING: Roger Hueber (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 35:42

Flowers reports that Rucci's daughter told the show the movie night that formed Hueber's alibi had been cancelled.

“She said, yes, they were supposed to go to the movies, but that movie night got canceled”

Crime Junkie: WARNING: Roger Hueber (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 28:07

Flowers believes Rucci confessed out of fear, citing her family's view that Hueber controlled her throughout her adult life.

“But I think she was driven to confess out of fear. Her family felt that for her whole adult life, Roger had his thumb on her”

Crime Junkie: WARNING: Roger Hueber (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 14:16

Flowers doubts Ashley Hooley could have mistaken pre-screening for an actual polygraph.

“I think you would know if you were taking a polygraph”

Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:08

Flowers contends that police fixated on two brothers because the robbery theory seemed to fit too neatly.

“And I think the police got blinded by this because in their mind, all the pieces fit almost too well”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 15:44

Flowers said the profilers warned that true psychopaths can pass polygraphs even under truth serum.

“those kind of people can pass polygraphs all day long, even under the spell of truth serum”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 35:33

Flowers explained that local agents trusted polygraphs over profiling and considered Meirhofer cleared because he passed one.

“they are less convinced because in their mind, the thing that they know is polygraphs. Right. David passed a polygraph”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 28:30

Flowers acknowledges polygraphs are imperfect but says combined with alibi verification they indicated the initial suspects were not involved.

“I mean, I know polygraphs aren't perfect, but these combined with other verification that they've been able to do of people's alibis, it really is looking like none of these people were involved”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 20:07

Flowers questions whether the wig Jones supposedly went to collect ever existed, since a pinned wig should not have been lost.

“It more than likely means that the wig was secured on with pins. So why wasn't the wig on her head when she was found?”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 52:21

Flowers reports that Jones's family, including her sister Flora, has long suspected Gladys Wyckoff was involved in luring her out.

“I can tell you that Alberta's family always suspected that. Her sister Flora still suspects that”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 49:58

Flowers rejects the robbery theory and believes Jones was deliberately lured out and set up.

“I don't think Alberta just randomly encountered her killer. Like, I actually think that she was set up from the beginning”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 49:25

Flowers reports that the Kentucky Commonwealth attorney declined to prosecute Arthur Porter III because the case would not hold up.

“the state would not prosecute Arthur then or ever because the case wouldn't hold up in court”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 46:29

Flowers argues that the rental car's mileage could not be accounted for by Jones's own driving that night.

“In that 12-hour window, 51 miles had to have been driven. And we know she's last seen alive at around 2 a.m”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 16:11

Flowers reasoned that the man heard with Carmen at 11 p.m. was likely the same person who killed her, since no one came forward.

“It seems more likely that we're actually looking at someone who's like one in the same”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 17:01

Flowers criticized the original investigation for apparently ignoring the laundry room, where she believed Carmen may have met her killer.

“it seems like the laundry room kind of just gets ignored, which is wild considering that it is very possible that is where she could have crossed paths with her killer”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 14:45

Flowers said that despite reports of a screwdriver or pocket knife, investigators told her the murder weapon was never found.

“could have been a pocket knife, the actual murder weapon has never been found”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 6:31

Flowers stressed that none of Carmen's neighbors responded to her screams during the 30-minute attack.

“Not a single person gets up. Not a single person goes to her door”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 0:33

Flowers said she is fully convinced Meirhofer had additional unknown victims, citing souvenirs that did not belong to Susie or Sandy.

“I'm fully convinced this man had more victims that we just don't know about. Because remember the blouse and the necklace and, like, the lipstick found at his house?”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 49:04

Flowers leaned toward the child's voice on the final call being a recording because Meirhofer was out of sight for only 18 hours.

“I lean more toward the idea that this was maybe recorded because he was only out of sight for 18 hours”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 48:38

Flowers argued Meirhofer's denial of the Camp Silver Cloud attack, despite it being checked off his list, undermined his other statements.

“Marked off. Which, to me, makes everything else he's saying less credible”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 47:39

Flowers suggested Meirhofer's easy consent to a search indicated he felt untouchable.

“why did he even let them search so easily knowing what they would find? It's almost like he felt untouchable”

Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 38:57

Flowers acknowledges she sees no clear motive for neighbor Tyler and that alternative explanations remain possible.

“So I don't know what motive Tyler would have to do something to Spencer”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 47:37

Flowers concludes that the case was mishandled from the start in ways that hurt its solvability.

“what I am confident of is that his case was mishandled from the jump in a way that would have serious implications for its solvability down the line”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 40:08

Flowers reports an anonymous witness said they saw neck marks and told officers it did not look like an overdose.

“this witness says that they saw marks around Spencer's neck, specifically a purple mark on the back of his neck”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 32:38

Flowers argues, based on an expert's view on decomposition, that Spencer may not have been at the loading dock for all four days.

“an expert that we talked to said that the thing that they would expect was for him to have been more decomposed if he was there for all four days”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 19:14

Flowers argues that genetic genealogy from mixed DNA samples is difficult, and that underrepresented populations in databases can make identification slow or impossible.

“there are so many populations of people who are underrepresented in these databases that take forever to find if you find them at all”

Crime Junkie: EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Guthrie (Jul 22, 2026) · Listen from 37:58

Flowers reports the sheriff acknowledged DNA from the shower that does not belong to anyone who lived in the house.

“He acknowledges that there is DNA they're still looking at, that DNA recovered from the shower that doesn't belong to someone who lived in that house”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 53:28

Flowers reports that the underwear seized from Carr's residence appeared to have been washed, preventing a definitive link to Brittany.

“it seemed like the underwear had been washed by the time that investigators got a hold of them”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 41:12