What Ashley Flowers has said about Murder of Brittany McGlone

7 quotes · 1 episode · May 4, 2026

Ashley Flowers, Creator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck, has been quoted on Murder of Brittany McGlone 7 times in 1 episode of Crime Junkie, most recently on May 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Flowers argues the crime scene pointed to a killer who was close to the victim and composed enough to clean up afterward.

    “Everything so far points to this being close and personal. Someone who could keep composed enough to clean themselves up while Brittany lay bludgeoned to death in that bed”

    Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 5:20

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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

Episodes

  • MURDERED: Brittany McGlone

    Crime Junkie · May 4, 2026 · 54 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the unsolved 2007 beating death of 19-year-old Brittany McGlone in Winnsboro, Texas, and the suspect freed after a grand jury no-bill.

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