However, with today's episode & the new initiatives they talked about, it feels as if they have fallen into the trap of "True Crime as entertainment" that so many before them have done. Like... Live-watching, dissecting & commenting on a criminal trial as it's happening is not why I'm listening nor following Crime Junkie. Don't get me wrong, I love when they do case updates about things they've covered in the past. But there is a difference between updating on what has happened & livestreaming a trial while snacking popcorn as if it's a TV show.

I love Ashley Flowers & most of the audiochuck podcasts.. the first few on each list are from her and her team.

Short format - 1 case per episode

Crime Junkie

The Deck

Park Predators

Killed

Dateline NBC

20/20

Murder with my Husband

Last Seen Alive

Long format - each season dedicated to 1 case

The Deck Investigates

CounterClock

Strangeland

Red Ball

The Sneak

Unraveled

Crimetown

Down the Hill: the Delphi Murders

Murder on the Island: The Lindsay Buziak Story

Liar Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions

This is important and I hope that people see it.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is a human-rights crisis that needs to be addressed. But this unjust problem won’t change if people aren’t aware of it.

I did a project focused on MMIWG and how it can associate with the communication theory Muted Group Theory, which allowed me to learn how truly disproportionate violence and proper police investigations are when it comes to Canadian and American Indigenous women and girls.

You may have heard about the Savanna’s Act and/or the Not Invisible Act, and if you haven’t, it’s important to know about.

I don’t want to give a huge lecture on this problem; I just want people to know that I support these women and girls and I am helping to push for a change.

I might not be able to relate to the same difficulties and human-rights crises that others face, but I will always support these fights because human beings are human beings, no matter their skin color or where/how they were raised.

I listen to the audiochuck podcast, Crime Junkie and their recent episode focused on this problem with the mysterious death of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places.

Link to the episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/27inIW4Jqz2PfyifFnxlR5?si=CzGGWMnyQS-pV-ljz9NxaA&dl_branch=1

I also wanted to share the change.org petition that is pushing to earn her case a proper investigation and hopefully some answers. The two Crime Junkie hosts, Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat, also take the time to mention and petition and stress to sign it. I signed it as well, and it seriously only takes two minutes top.

http://chng.it/xPkTY7xWXV

So in this podcast, she's talking to someone who worked for the CIA for a long time.

Towards the end of it, he's talking about how the CIA's rules need to change when it comes to terrorist organizations. He introduces this argument by saying, "You go out there and you find out people want to kill you just for being you. It's a shock-" (Note, wording may not be 100% because I have bad hearing, but that was the gist of the comment.)

And I had to pause it because I was dumbfounded. You find out you're LBGTQA+ at like 12 years old, and you know that people want to kill you. You're anything 'not-white' (or even white but tan 'too darkly' for some people,) and you know people want to kill you for being you long before you're 12 years old.

I'm white like he is (presumably, I was guessing based on his voice). But I'm a woman. I'm queer. I grew up in the Bible Belt and was very much not a Christian. I knew that people wanted to kill me for being me since I was very young.

If you listen to podcasts and you’re into true crime then you already recognize this author’s name (and if you don’t, add Crime Junkie to your list right this second). There are actually several podcasts put out by her company Audiochuck, Crime Junkie is just my absolute favorite and Ashley Flowers hosts it herself with the help of her longtime friend Brit Prawat. So when I heard Flowers was…