Cracking the Case: Hit Podcast 'Crime Junkie' comes in Resorts World Las Vegas

If Date limit And Unresolved secrets The podcasts have restarted the mainstream obsession with true crimes. Nowadays, Spotify and Apple's top shows with podcasts from murder, mysterious and missing cases that kept us awake at night are. But only a few scratch this true crime itch how Criminal judge.

Every week with the best friends and the award -winning hosts Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat, which bring new research and perspective into notorious cases. The podcast has expanded its range since its debut in 2017. He added investigative journalists to his team and set up a strong YouTube presence.

The Weekly spoke on May 17th with flowers and Prawat before their live show in Resorts World.

Why are people obsessed with true crimes? It feels like interest is increasing every day.

Ashley flowers: Perhaps it is only because I've always been a crime junkie, but I don't have the feeling that it increases because my circle went into it for so long.

Brit Prawat: It is access.

AF: Yes, it feels like there is more access. It is more mainstream. I also think with the podcast … If you talk about these cases like them who are not these experts, the cases feel more accessible themselves.

BP: And more relatable.

AF: I can't talk about why everyone else listens, but when I was only a consumer, I was obsessed with my own security and so much listening or observing what the crime went wrong.

BP: It is almost instructive.

What were your early introductions to the real crime?

AF: At the beginning it was not a real crime. It was a lot of fiction. When I was really small, like 8, my mother Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie read me.

BP: About the same time … then Jonbenét [Ramsey] passed and we were in the tabloid when it was murdered. This is really understanding to see a small child who looks like her, who is your sister and something terrible, who is your age. This remains in your brain in a way that changes it. And our two mothers watched Date limit And everything that grew up.

AF: I would watch religiously America's most searched. I always said John Walsh was my first friend because we spent together every Saturday evening.

Is there a certain case that still annoys her or keeps it awake at night?

AF: I always say that there is none. My superpower is that I only have the details in my brain every case. I can tell a story that I told a year ago. It is almost as if they are in the rotation and they will simply appear when I am reminded of it or completely out of nowhere. There are usually two or three cases that carry out a deep examination with our reporters. This is currently being consuming.

BP: Each of the missing human cases. If you drop the name, I am like, oh my god, but where are you? I spiral myself.

AF: Yes, missing people was what I always pulled the most.

In these cases, they research in detail and many of them are not happy stories. How do you decide from intensive cases?

AF: I think some people are built for it. I think it's the reason why people are in law enforcement authorities, forensics and journalism. I feel built in a certain way. We have just done a case file right, and I can hardly wait to go back to you. But when we get to the point where we have to turn off our brain, I am new to reality TV.

BF: We particularly took on trashy reality dating shows [laughs].

AF: We just did it Tempting island.

BP: One thing that helps with the content we do is that we don't just sit in it. Much of what we do is the legal work. As dark and as difficult as it is, this kind of glimmer of hope or action is behind it, which it feels less hopeless for me.

AF: When we started the show, it was about creating true crimes differently and consuming it differently, because as a consumer I can't just sit in it. Before I ever had that, I was voluntarily with crime stopers and things because I had to find a way to return something. So much of what I think makes it easy for us to try to do good in the end.

And there are times when people are found and families get justice. Her podcast played a role in the case of Father Patrick Ryan, who was solved.

AF: Then the victories are really big and they change a person's lives.

Some people feel true crime murder and use them out of profit. What would you say to these people?

AF: I would have our team viewed. It's a podcast, but it's a new form of news and journalism. We have an entire team of researchers, reporters and facts. I would let her indicate any other news organization and say: “Well, it's the same as you.” We talk about things you have to talk about that nobody speaks about, and we have always inserted time and resources to ensure that we do it right.

What will the show look like in Resorts?

AF: It will have the feeling what people present. We sit on stage in a living room. I tell a story. This is a story that we started a year and a half ago during the examination. Our reporting team went out and we also sent a documentary film team. We filmed some of the detectives involved, the victim's brother and other people. It is part of the podcast in which you tell a story and interact with the audience …

BP: And partial documentary.

AF: It is an experience that you can only make live.

BP: To be able to be with an audience and react with each other is really something special and something we like to experience, I think, just like our audience.

It almost feels like they are the next generation of Date limit. What's next?

AF: The simplest version for Crime judge is more stories, more places. We are now doing all of our episodes on YouTube, so do we turn everyone and look at what it would look like in a TV format? Because I think it is completely different from the YouTube version of it. The chops we have in our reporting team are incredible. The stories we tell, how can we give you an even larger platform and tell stories that may not work for podcasts and need a visual format? I think we give us the opportunity to do more.

Criminal Junkie Podcast: Live May 17, 8 p.m., $ 45 to $ 60, Resorts World Theater, axs.com.