What Ashley Flowers has said about Cold case investigations

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 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 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 argues that if the Jamisons were killed, someone is getting away with murder because the undetermined deaths are no longer actively investigated.

“then someone is getting away with murder because these undetermined deaths are no longer being actively worked”

Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:59

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 says the new sheriff and captain found no major new evidence but concluded there had been enough for an arrest all along.

“They just ultimately believe that there had been enough to move forward with an arrest all along”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 48:33

Flowers reports that more than 200 pages of the police file are redacted and that the gas station footage is the last validated information from it.

“Everything else in the file is redacted. Like we're talking over 200 pages of just blacked out everything”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 37:57

Flowers says no autopsy or firearms testing results have ever been released, so the type of gun used remains unknown.

“Authorities have also never released any kind of results related to firearms or firearm testing. Like, I don't know what kind of gun was used in the shooting still”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 43:23

Flowers argues that definitively ruling out a connection between Sweetman and the suspects would require a deep financial audit rather than a single follow-up interview.

“To me, in order to rule out a connection definitively, you would have to dig deep into this man”

Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Nick Cordova (Apr 6, 2026) · Listen from 51:03