What Ashley Flowers has said about Voluntary disappearance
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 Voluntary disappearance 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 suggests society holds mothers to a different standard, making it hard to accept a mother leaving.
“I feel like mothers have this different societal expectation than father or like men do”
Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:36
Flowers believes that if Melissa walked away, she needed someone's help to do it.
“no matter what, if she walked away, I think she needed someone's help to do that”
Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:18:39
Applying Occam's razor, Flowers concludes the simplest explanation is that Melissa left on her own.
“The simplest explanation is that she chose to walk away and did it on her own”
Crime Junkie: MISSING: Melissa Casias (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:56
Episodes
MISSING: Melissa CasiasCrime 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.
Ashley Flowers on other topics
- Cold case investigations · 11 quotes
- Disappearance of Brittany Wallace Shank · 8 quotes
- Murder of Joyce LePage · 7 quotes
- Murder of Brittany McGlone · 7 quotes
- Death of Tripp Brazeale · 6 quotes
- Disappearance and deaths of the Jamison family · 6 quotes
- Surveillance video evidence · 6 quotes
- Murder of Nick Cordova · 6 quotes