What Ashley Flowers has said about Factory reset and iCloud data erasure

3 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 Factory reset and iCloud data erasure 3 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 says the hours-apart wiping of Melissa's two phones, more than anything else, suggests Melissa had a plan.

    “This is the detail, more than anything else, that makes me think Melissa had some kind of plan”

    Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 46:33

  • Flowers reasons that a third party wiping the phones would likely have wiped both at the same time.

    “my gut tells me that if someone else wiped the phones, I would think that they would have wiped them both at the same time, right?”

    Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 47:00

  • Flowers argues the phone and iCloud wipes make suicide an unlikely explanation.

    “I don't think you need to wipe your phone and your iCloud if your plan is just to take your own life”

    Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:49

Episodes

  • MISSING: Melissa Casias

    Crime 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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