What Ashley Flowers has said about Exigent circumstances requests for app location data
2 quotes · 1 episode · Apr 27, 2026
Ashley Flowers, Creator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck, has been quoted on Exigent circumstances requests for app location data 2 times in 1 episode of Crime Junkie, most recently on April 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Flowers asserts that investigators can obtain app location data from companies without a warrant.
“even though like there's this common belief that you have to have a warrant to get that data from those companies, that is not true”
Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:29:26
Flowers recommends families of missing people push detectives to pursue app-based phone location data.
“I would encourage anyone whose loved one vanished with their phone in the social media age to press their detective to look into this”
Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:33:17
Episodes
MISSING: Melissa CasiasCrime Junkie · Apr 27, 2026 · 1 h 32 min
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the June 2025 disappearance of Melissa Casias in Taos, New Mexico, and the family feud over whether she left voluntarily.
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