What Ashley Flowers has said about Offender profiling

3 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 1, 2026

Ashley Flowers, Creator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck, has been quoted on Offender profiling 3 times in 1 episode of Crime Junkie, most recently on June 1, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Flowers described the case as one of the first in which the FBI applied criminal profiling to catch a killer.

    “this would be one of the very first cases where the FBI put their learning to work to catch serial killer David Meyerhofer”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 1:10

  • Flowers reported that FBI profilers predicted the killer would call the family again on a significant date.

    “They think that he is going to call again. And they think it's going to be on a significant date”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 28:00

  • Flowers said the profilers' accurate prediction, perhaps partly luck, paved the way for later criminal profiling by winning over doubters.

    “it paved the way for all of the criminal profiling that came after this because it made some of the doubters respect their craft a little bit more”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 48:47

Episodes

  • SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer

    Crime Junkie · Jun 1, 2026 · 51 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat recount how Montana serial killer David Meirhofer was caught after abducting seven-year-old Susie Jaeger from a campground in 1973.

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