What Ashley Flowers has said about Polygraph

5 quotes · 4 episodes · May 4, 2026 – Jun 22, 2026

Ashley Flowers, Creator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck, has been quoted on Polygraph 5 times in 4 episodes of Crime Junkie, most recently on June 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Flowers doubts Ashley Hooley could have mistaken pre-screening for an actual polygraph.

    “I think you would know if you were taking a polygraph”

    Crime Junkie: MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank (Jun 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:08

  • Flowers contends that police fixated on two brothers because the robbery theory seemed to fit too neatly.

    “And I think the police got blinded by this because in their mind, all the pieces fit almost too well”

    Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 15:44

  • Flowers explained that local agents trusted polygraphs over profiling and considered Meirhofer cleared because he passed one.

    “they are less convinced because in their mind, the thing that they know is polygraphs. Right. David passed a polygraph”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 28:30

  • Flowers said the profilers warned that true psychopaths can pass polygraphs even under truth serum.

    “those kind of people can pass polygraphs all day long, even under the spell of truth serum”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 35:33

  • Flowers acknowledges polygraphs are imperfect but says combined with alibi verification they indicated the initial suspects were not involved.

    “I mean, I know polygraphs aren't perfect, but these combined with other verification that they've been able to do of people's alibis, it really is looking like none of these people were involved”

    Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Brittany McGlone (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 20:07

Episodes

  • MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank

    Crime Junkie · Jun 22, 2026 · 1 h 15 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the 2018 disappearance of Brittany Wallace Shank near Sturgis, Michigan, and the conflicting stories surrounding it.

  • MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones

    Crime Junkie · Jun 15, 2026 · 56 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the unsolved 1965 murder of Alberta O. Jones, Louisville's first Black woman prosecutor and a civil rights leader.

  • 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.

  • 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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