[2] After joining the board of directors for Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana, Flowers hosted Murder Monday, a 20-minute show on RadioNOW 100.9 in Indianapolis.

The show lasted a year, and was intended as promotion for Crime Stoppers to "improve the organization’s standing with a younger audience.

In a post made on the podcast's Facebook group, Frye alleged that the March 2019 episode about Kacie Woody relied heavily on her 2003 series of articles in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette without attribution.

Following this reposting, Frye and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sent a cease and desist letter to the podcast, claiming further legal action would be taken if the episode was not updated to include verbal attribution or once again removed entirely.

Steven Pacheco of Trace Evidence posted a side-by-side comparison of the content of his episode on the disappearance of Asha Degree with that of Crime Junkie's, claiming his writing was used without credit.

[10] Robin Warder of The Trail Went Cold Podcast alleged the May 2018 episode on Henry McCabe "practically read... verbatim without credit" from his Reddit post.

[6] Flowers issued a statement that episodes had been taken down because "source material could no longer be found or properly cited" and did not directly address the accusations of violating ethics of journalism, saying, "Our work would not be possible absent the incredible efforts of countless individuals who investigate and report these stories originally, and they deserve to be credited as such.

[4] In its release of the list of the 10-most streamed female artists on International Women’s Day in 2020, Spotify noted that Flowers’ and Prawat’s Crime Junkie was the second-most popular female-hosted podcast on its platform.