What Ashley Flowers has said about Murder of Carmen Van Huss

4 quotes · 1 episode · Jul 6, 2026

Ashley Flowers, Creator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck, has been quoted on Murder of Carmen Van Huss 4 times in 1 episode of Crime Junkie, most recently on July 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • 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 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 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 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

Episodes

  • MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss

    Crime Junkie · Jul 6, 2026 · 49 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat recount the 1993 Indianapolis murder of Carmen Van Huss and the decades-long investigation that led to Dana Shepard's guilty plea.

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