Ashley Flowers

Ashley Flowers (born December 19, 1989) is an American podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur. She is the creator and host of Crime Junkie, a weekly true crime podcast that garners 10 million weekly listeners. Flowers is recognized as the top female podcaster in the United States, with Crime Junkie maintaining the largest female audience of any podcast in the country. In August 2022, Flowers' debut novel, All Good People Here, became a New York Times bestseller.

Early life and education As a child, Flowers was inspired to become a cold case detective by mystery and crime novels, such as the Nancy Drew series, and television shows like Matlock.

Flowers attended Arizona State University and earned a Bachelor of Science in biological services.

Career In her early career, Flowers worked in biomedical research and later transitioned into sales.

Flowers volunteered and eventually became a board member for Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana. She subsequently developed Murder Monday, a 20-minute local radio segment aimed at a younger audience, with each episode focusing on a different case. Flowers hosted Murder Monday for a year before creating the podcast Crime Junkie with Prawat.

Flowers signed a multiyear partnership between Audiochuck and SiriusXM, reportedly valued at over $100 million in 2021.

By July 2022, Audiochuck expanded to include 16 podcasts in its network, generating over 1.26 billion downloads, and employing nearly 30 people. and Anatomy of Murder, which won the Webby Award for People's Voice Winner in 2022. In May 2024, Flowers launched the podcast series titled Crime Junkie AF, featuring guest discussions on various cases, as well as Crime Junkie Radio, the only true crime streaming channel on the SiriusXM app. Flowers announced the relaunch of her mystery podcast So Supernatural on September 6, 2024.

In November 2025, Audiochuck was sued by the hosts and creators of Anatomy of Murder, Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger, for breach of contract. Nicolazzi and Weinberger alleged the full revenue share negotiated in the SiriusXM partnership was not received.

Crime Junkie

Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat have co-hosted Crime Junkie, the flagship Audiochuck podcast, since 2017. By 2022, Crime Junkie was the second most-listened-to podcast in the U.S., according to Edison Research.

In 2019, Flowers and Prawat face allegations of plagiarizing content, in some cases verbatim, from various sources, including newspaper articles, other podcasts, and the TV show On the Case with Paula Zahn for Crime Junkie. with Flowers stating to Variety that the episodes' "source material could no longer be found or properly cited."

Flowers later acknowledged her ignorance of proper attribution and now ensures that Crime Junkie episodes provide proper credit to source material. The podcast quickly gained popularity, becoming the No. 1 new show in the U.S. on Apple Podcasts in 2022.

The Deck Investigates In December 2022, The Deck Investigates, Flowers' first original investigative podcast, began an 11-city tour, exploring the 1984 murder of Darlene Hulse in Argos, Indiana. In 2023, The Deck Investigates ranked No. 3 on the list of the year's new shows on Apple Podcasts.

The second season of The Deck features Ada Haradine, a missing mother of two and homemaker, out of Elkhart, Indiana.

Nonprofit In June 2020, Flowers founded the nonprofit Season of Justice, which provides grants to laboratories for DNA testing to solve cold cases. In 2021, Season of Justice received 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. The organization has supported over 141 cases, including in 2024 helping to solve the 1975 Indianapolis "Slasher" cold case through DNA testing.

Writing In January 2022, Flowers signed a publishing contract with Bantam Books for her debut novel, All Good People Here, co-written with Alex Kiester and based on a true crime cold case. All Good People Here was released on August 16, 2022, and became a New York Times bestseller. The crime novel, The Missing Half, was published on May 6, 2025.

Personal life Flowers lives in Indiana with her husband Erik, daughter Josie. Chuck, the family dog and namesake of Flowers' company, Audiochuck, died in April 2025.