Ashley Flowers

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.

Sometimes, you know, you hit a dead end.

But they've solved a ton of cold cases through that organization.

And it's been really amazing to see.

And I think that a lot of people are looking at that and changing the way that they think about, like, true crime content.

Because it can feel everyone.

I feel like it gets a bad rap that it's just like this exploitative voyeuristic thing.

And I don't think it has to be.

No.

And I also what a wonderful legacy that you get to leave behind.

I know you said you're not the one like boots hitting the ground, but you're the one making it all happen and making that a possibility.

And that for 20 families or more than 20 for them to have that closure.

So, so beautiful.