“If you're going to use very specific, detailed information from a primary source, you should credit it," Frye said.Ĭrime Junkie usually cites their sources for each podcast episode on a webpage. “I was appalled they would take somebody's work in such detail," she said.įrye, who described herself as a fan of podcasts, said she has no problem being used as a source, but believes podcasters need to give credit where it's due. When Frye realized her work was being disseminated by the podcast without credit, she was "horrified."
She said the project "sucked a big part of my soul," and she is still interviewed as an expert on the case for true crime media outlets. “They could not have done the podcast they did and the story they did without my story right in front of them," she said.įrye spent months reporting on the case, winning the trust of Woody's father, closest friends, and police. Instead, Flowers referred to unspecified "research." The hosts of Crime Junkie never cited a source for the information in the episode, Frye said. But Frye said she became angry when she heard several details in the episode that she had exclusively reported on in her series. They listened to a few episodes, and her daughter noticed the episode on Woody's case.
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In 2003, Frye wrote a four-part series on the case for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette called " Caught in the Web."įrye told BuzzFeed News she first learned of the podcast while traveling with her 16-year-old daughter. The episode in question discussed the 2002 murder of a 13-year-old girl from Arkansas named Kacie Woody. Soon after, the episode was deleted without explanation. On Monday, Frye commented on a post on Flowers' personal, but public, Facebook page, saying that she believed Crime Junkie used information from a series of articles she wrote as a source for an episode, but never credited her. The most prominent allegation came from Cathy Frye, a former journalist who worked for 15 years at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper. "Our research process is thorough, rigid, and exhaustive, and those familiar with 'Crime Junkie' are aware that we make clear references to the use of other sources and that comprehensive notes and links to all sources are made available on our show's website." "There is no greater priority for our team, or for me personally, than to ensure the highest levels of accuracy and integrity in our program," the statement read. However, they posted a statement on Facebook on Thursday saying they had pulled the episodes because "their source material could no longer be found or properly cited." The hosts did not return a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.
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Many episodes, including some of the ones in question, have since vanished from the show's podcast archive without explanation. This week, however, the hosts have come under scrutiny after a journalist and other podcasters accused the duo of not properly crediting sources. (Full disclosure: I interviewed Flowers on the BuzzFeed News Twitter show AM to DM earlier this year and subscribed to her Patreon for a time.) They also have a fan club on Patreon, where fans can pay for extra content. The show has a five-star rating on iTunes and more than 100,000 reviews.įlowers and Prawat have quickly leveraged their success, selling merchandise and hosting a series of live shows around the country this summer and fall. Over the past year, Crime Junkie has rapidly become one of the most popular podcasts of the genre and is currently the most listened to series on the iTunes podcast charts.
Flowers told Deadline she hosted a crime segment on a local radio station before starting the podcast. Flowers, a self-proclaimed "crime junkie" herself, launched the podcast in December 2017 after working with her local Crime Stoppers. The hosts of the popular true crime podcast Crime Junkie have been accused by a former journalist and multiple fellow podcasters of using their work in episodes without credit - and then quietly deleting the episodes after being called out.Ĭrime Junkie is a weekly podcast hosted by Ashley Flowers of Indianapolis and her childhood friend, Brit Prawat.
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