Death of Spencer Irwin

Ashley FlowersCreator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck

• Flowers acknowledges she sees no clear motive for neighbor Tyler and that alternative explanations remain possible.

  “So I don't know what motive Tyler would have to do something to Spencer”

  Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 47:37

• Flowers concludes that the case was mishandled from the start in ways that hurt its solvability.

  “what I am confident of is that his case was mishandled from the jump in a way that would have serious implications for its solvability down the line”

  Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 40:08

• Flowers reports an anonymous witness said they saw neck marks and told officers it did not look like an overdose.

  “this witness says that they saw marks around Spencer's neck, specifically a purple mark on the back of his neck”

  Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 32:38

• Flowers argues, based on an expert's view on decomposition, that Spencer may not have been at the loading dock for all four days.

  “an expert that we talked to said that the thing that they would expect was for him to have been more decomposed if he was there for all four days”

  Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 19:14