Ashley Flowers

And it's the acknowledgement that they're like, oh, the world just still, everything still goes on.

I'm like, it does.

It sucks.

Yeah.

It's the strangest feeling.

It's the strangest feeling.

Speaking of that you are gravitating more towards cold cases, you've actually yourself solved over 20 cold cases already.

Not because I'm like out there boots on the ground, but our nonprofit has.

So that's incredible.

Thanks.

We so much of like when I got into this, I wanted to find a way to give back.

So even as a consumer of true crime, I always felt weird.

taking this as entertainment when I'm like these are the this is the worst time in a family's life so even before I ever created this content I was volunteering like with my local crime stoppers like how do I just give back in a small way and then as I created content it was you know bigger ways and bigger ways and we do we have the team of amazing investigative journalists and we're doing amazing work and some of the work that we're doing on these cases is actually moving them forward and

But I also kept finding over and over that I'd get to these agencies and they're like, yeah, we have suspect DNA in this murder.

We just like can't we don't have the funds to test it.

Isn't that crazy?

And I'm like, we're talking like five thousand dollars between like getting a murderer off the streets or not.

And so we started a nonprofit called Season of Justice, and that nonprofit has gone on, I think they've now awarded like $2 million in grants that have gone to like 250, 300 different cases.

Wow.

And, you know, it takes a long time.