Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Alyssa Romine-Olson Part 2
#31 trending · All Podcasts
When 30-year-old Alyssa Romine-Olson is found floating naked and face down in the pond of a Gilbert, Arizona nature preserve in 2016, online coverage makes the case sound
Aug 31 54 min
CJ SPIRAL: Mica Miller
#15 trending · True Crime
Come spiral with us as we recap the biggest true-crime documentary right now, "Death of the Pastor's Wife." The takes are hot, the eyes will roll, and Ashley and Brit wil
Aug 29 1 h 49 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Alyssa Romine-Olson
#24 trending · True Crime
When 30-year-old Alyssa Romine-Olson is found floating naked and face down in the pond of a Gilbert, Arizona nature preserve in 2016, online coverage makes the case sound
Aug 24 55 min
NEW SHOW: The Truth About Natalie
Twenty-seven-year-old Natalie Jones vanished after a July 4th lake party in Alabama in 2020. Ninety-three days later, her car and her remains were found in a rural Georgi
Aug 17 39 min
MURDERED: Bill & Peggy Stephenson
In 2011, 74-year-old high school sweethearts Bill and Peggy Stephenson were found murdered inside their Kentucky condo on Memorial Day weekend. Nothing valuable appeared
Aug 10 41 min
MISSING: Kerry O’Brien-Krueger
When Kerry O’Brien-Krueger vanished in 1989, her husband claimed she left for a work trip that never existed. Decades later, investigators are still untangling shifting s
Aug 3 1 h 04 min
MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2
In part two of Joyce’s story, we dig deep into the case file and letters left behind by Joyce herself, which reveal even more suspects, including the roommate she’d been
Jul 27 46 min
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Guthrie
In this special episode of Crime Junkie on the Nancy Guthrie abduction case, breaking news reporter Briana Whitney and host Ashley Flowers reveal all details from the ran
Jul 22 53 min
MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 1
In the summer of 1971, 21-year-old Joyce LePage disappears after a skydiving lesson followed by a beer with friends. In the beginning, the only clue is a piece of missing
Jul 20 44 min
WARNING: Roger Hueber
In August 2005, a woman disappeared just days before she was supposed to testify against her boyfriend, a corrections officer accused of sexually abusing minors. For year
Jul 13 45 min
MURDERED: Carmen Van Huss
On March 23, 1993, screams tore through the thin walls of a gated Indianapolis apartment complex as 19-year-old Carmen Van Huss fought for her life. Neighbors heard the a
Jul 6 49 min
MURDERED: Christine Banfield & Joseph Ryan
When 37-year-old Christine Banfield and 39-year-old Joseph Ryan were found fatally injured inside a Virginia home in 2023, investigators were initially told that Ryan was
Jun 29 1 h 07 min
MISSING: Brittany Wallace Shank
On November 30, 2018, 23-year-old Brittany Wallace Shank showed up barefoot and bleeding at a stranger's door asking for help. She said the man she was with had crashed t
Jun 22 1 h 15 min
MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones
Alberta O. Jones was breaking barriers in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the first Black woman prosecutor in the city’s history, she helped register some 6,000 Black citiz
Jun 15 56 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale
In November 2024, 15-year-old Tripp Brazeale was found hanging from a tree in the middle of the woods of Forrest City, Arkansas. His death was quickly ruled a suicide, bu
Jun 8 1 h 17 min
WARNING: AI Voice Cloning and Virtual Kidnappings
A call from someone you love in crisis is terrifying enough - but what if the voice begging for help isn’t really them? We break down how AI voice cloning is fueling virt
Jun 3 24 min
SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer
In the summer of 1973, the Jaeger family wakes at a Montana campground to every parent's nightmare: their young daughter, Susie, is gone. Searches turn up nothing, until
Jun 1 50 min
INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8
In February 2008, six women were held hostage in a women’s clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois.. Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk, Sarah Szafrans
May 28 4 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Jamison Family
Bobby, Sherilynn, and 6-year-old Madyson Jamison went to the Sans Bois Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma in search of a fresh start. The family planned to live off the l
May 25 52 min
MISSING: Christopher “Cole” Thomas
On Black Friday 2016, 22-year-old Christopher “Cole” Thomas was driving through rural North Carolina with two coworkers. Hours later, the coworkers approached police and
May 18 42 min
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Where Crime Junkie ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 5, 2026).
A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
I’m a long term Crime Junkie listener but lately I’ve been really put off by the amount of joking and giggling they are doing while telling the stories of peoples tragic deaths. The most recent one about Mica Miller was hard to listen to. I get that this is a community you are familiar with and have your background with but why are we giggling like two school girls who just learned some crazy gossip. You are telling a story about the death of a woman after being groomed and abused for years. Show some respect. And Ashley get off your high horse and check your passive aggressiveness towards Britt.
Also, stop sensationalizing these stories to find another angle that we know just isn’t there. Not with this one in particular, but with others that you all want to connect to other deaths so bad or find the new angle on. Just tell the story.
Lana66828 · Aug 2026
You are in my top 5 of go-to crime podcasts. I love you both and your thorough case coverage. BUT you both sounded manic during your Aug ‘26 episode about Mica Miller. I almost stopped listening because you were talking over each other and laughing so much—you sounded like high-pitched squealing teen-age girls. I am a long-time listener. I hope you can see this feedback as constructive.
winonalisa · Aug 2026
Been listening since around 2020, and have listened to every episode. This is the only true crime show I trust because of how respectful they are of victims/victims families. Their advocacy work is also amazing and I’ve learned a lot to keep myself safe since listening.
dpifzluf · Aug 2026
Love! Love! Love! My fave podcast ever I’m 16 and I’ve been listening to this podcast for about 3 years and it has made me so aware of my surroundings at all times! Keep up the good work I’m so grateful for you guys bc you have helped me immensely
Hot Cheetos for life · Dec 2024
I have never decided to quit a podcast so quickly, especially one I liked for awhile. Your coverage of Mica Miller was one of the most offensive episodes of any podcast I have listened to, ever. You both sounded like two immature middle school girls at a sleepover who couldn’t stop saying the word “like.” You came across as self-obsessed and Mica was an afterthought, because, evidently, the whole episode needed to be about you guys. Why, why, why, did you insist on laughing and giggling throughout? What was that? You were talking about a real person, and while you claim to be all about the victims, this couldn’t have been less about Mica. I hope her family didn’t and doesn’t listen to this, because it was absolute trash regarding the loss of someone’s loved one. The next time you feel like “spiraling?” Don’t. Wait a hot minute and do a regular, scripted episode, because you both have proven that’s all you can do.
Rijms · Sep 2026
I used to like the show before I began listening to other podcasts that actually research well. Now it feels like the podcast equivalent of a gossip rag. The idea of being excited to discuss a crime that devastated a person and family is awful. The scripting is painfully obvious, reactions are inauthentic, and at this point they’re releasing reruns of their old, even worse episodes. Which is…disappointing. This is the podcast I listen to when I’ve listened to literally everything else. Also there are so many ad breaks there’s basically no podcast. Any episode stating it’s an hour long is false advertising because 30 minutes of that will be ads.
Other people they work with do a good job of actual research and respectful reporting, but this is the bottom of the barrel.
Rynmaru · Dec 2024
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