The Decomposing Flower Podcast

In 1997 Mary Kay Letourneau would be arrested and having a relationship with her 12 year old student, she would get pregnant with him twice, go to jail and then she would marry him.. because why? Because she believed her only crime was love. 🥀 Content Warning:  CSA, grooming, rape Mental Health Resources For Male Victims Resources 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Di...

How can three people vanish without a trace all within 6 hours? In 1992 three women, Sherrill Levitt, Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall vanished after a graduation party leaving behind everything and no trace. The case remains cold over 30 years later 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer : If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or e...

What happened to Crystals parents? On December 12 1985, Crystal Robertson was found wandering around KMart's parking lot alone, she was 30 miles away from where she was supposed to be, and no one knows what happened to her parents. 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, abuse 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please c...

In May 2008, Rox Knox, known for his role as Marcus Belby in Harry Potter was violently murdered outside a bar. This case shows how cruel reality can be. His career, ended before it even took off. 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stat...

In Tanzania, in the lower region of the Kakombe Valley, there is the Gombe Stream National Park, where Dr. Jane Goodall founded a research centre that focuses heavily on primates, giving them proper welfare, research and care, and in 1974, Jane and her team of researchers noticed something..interesting, something that really showed how humans and primates are so similar.  War.  Over 4 years there...

In the late 1880s, Joseph Merrick a man who suffered likely from Proteus Syndrome was recruited into The Freakshow, exhibited as The Elephant Man, treated like a monster and not a man, and today were going to discuss what it was like for Joseph and how he is still to this very day still treated like an exhibit. 🥀 Content Warning:  Ableism 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us...

In 1864 two ships, The Grafton and The Invercauld  would both crash onto a remote uninhabited Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand on opposite sides of each other. Over a year these two crews had two extreme different results. One crew Survived, while the other only had 3 remaining Crew members, all because of..power or was it luck? ⁠🥀Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀...

On April 10th 1834, a fire would start in the mansion at 1140 Royal Street. The elderly cook who was enslaved, chained to the stove started this fire, and when asked why, she explained she did not want to go to the attic. This piqued their attention, and they went to the attic. What they found was deplorable. Enslaved people chained in an attic, abused, and tortured, and barely surviving. 🥀 Conte...

In today's episode we dive into the Banana Industry, and how the banana's we buy is rooted in an industry of exploitation and murder. 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, Exploitation 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case: 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us   🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who...

In 2009, Kayla Berg was just 15 when she vanished into thin air, but someone has to know what happened to her, right? People don't just vanish, or do they? 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is involved in the ca...

Today's episode we are going to be talking about The Dancing Boys in Afghanistan, and how young boys are exploited, yet no one is talking about it. 🥀 Content Warning :  SA, Child Abuse 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us   🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no...

On May 11th 2011, Hana Alemu would be taken to the hospital only to be pronounced dead. Her cause of death was hypothermia, malnutrition and abuse, all at the hands of her adopted parents, Carri and Larry Williams, who promised to give her a better life.. but instead, they tortured her. Today we will be discussing what happened to Hana. 🥀🥀🥀 Content Warning:  Abuse, neglect, racism, murder 🥀 ⁠R...

In 1518 over 400 people would dance to death all because they were sick with a disease..or maybe they were just super convinced they were sinners..and today were going to discuss what happened. 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no...

In today's episode we talk about the case of Aileen Wuornos, a woman whose life was tragic from day 1, and how this tragedy seeped into others lives. 🥀  Content Warning: Rape, Murder, Abuse 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for n...

On Memorial Day in 2011, Anna Stubblefield would tell the Johnsons she was in love with Derrick, their disabled son and brother. Not only that, but she had been intimate with him. Today we're going to talk about what happened and the damage Anna caused. 🥀 Content Warning: abuse, racism, sa 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect...

In 1977 Colleen Stan was just your average girl who hitchhiked like everyone else at the time, but this decision would haunt her forever. After she caught a ride from a young family, they would take her to their basement and keep her as their own sex slave in a box under their bed for 7 years 🥀 Content Warning : SA, Abuse, Kidnapping 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us   🥀...

In 2015 a photo was shared on Tumblr showing a photo of a dress that was black and blue, or white and gold.. or which was it? This turned into a sensation known as #TheDress. For the past ten years people have talked about this dress, why it changes colour, but no one talks about the dark side to the story, and the abuse that was happening behind closed doors. 🥀 Content Warning:  Abuse, attempted...

On Feburary 11th 2010, Jennifer's family had not heard from Jennifer for the past 3 days, and they were begining to worry. It wasn't like Jennifer to not call. Unfortunately they would find out that Jennifer's friends voted to kill her. Six votes. Today we're going to discuss what happened. 🥀 Content Warning:  Rape, murder, hate crimes. 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtub...

Did you know theres a tickle ring? Yeah we didn't either, and today were going to discuss the case surrounding the documentary, "Tickled" and what happened. 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case: 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer : If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is invol...

In 1957 Larry Bader would go fishing on Lake Erie only to never return after a storm but 7 years later, his grieving family would find him as a completely different and new identity, John Fritz Johnson. Was this a case of dissociative fugue or was he wanting to escape reality? 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant plea...

In 1957 a small town in Wisconsin would be changed forever when officers would find countless objects of human skin made into chairs, lampshades, and more. 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, body gore 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for n...

In 2016 Christopher and Jennifer Yost and their friend, Billy were murdered in their home by their own daughters friend. The police were alerted when their own 6 year old daughter had called the police asking for help only to find that the 17 year old daugher went missing. 🥀 Content Warning : Murder 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer : If anything we say is i...

In 2010, Kimberley Proctor was lured by two boys, Kruse and Cameron through a MSN chat log, where they would soon torture and murder her. This is the horrifying case of Kimberley Proctor 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, Mention of torture 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer : If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opini...

A mysterious man in Australia seemed to have just died suddenly with no explanation. He was in perfect health, so what caused this death? 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀   Watch On Youtube: 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is involved in the case. If you are person...

In 2013 over 4000 passengers would have to survive the nastiest vacation of their life. 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀   Watch On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or email us.  All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was/is involved in the case. If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future ca...