The Decomposing Flower Podcast

In 2024 Joslin Smith would go missing, and has never been found since. No one knew where she was until her mother began to brag about selling her. Content Warning: Human trafficking, child neglect, abuse, light mention of drug use A21 - Learn more about human trafficking ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀Follow Us  ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is...

Shelly Knotek was a sadist. That's how her own children would describe her. She would abuse her children, and anyone who entered into their home, and now she's free. Content Warning: Abuse, Murder, Torture ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀Follow Us  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or ignorant please comment below, or ema...

Paul Joseph Fronczak was just 2 days old when he was kidnapped from the hospital, by a woman posing as a nurse. No one knew where he went, or who took him. Two years later a young boy was found abandoned. It was Paul. Or was it? Decades later Paul would take a DNA test..to find out he was not their son...so who was he? and where was the real Paul Joseph? Content Warning: Child neglect, kidnapping...

Today we wanted to have a more open, unscripted episode about rape and assault and how it has affected us. 🥀 Content Warning : Rape, Abuse 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ 🥀Follow Us  ⁠⁠⁠ Thank you for listening

This is a previous uploaded video, where we we mashed both parts into one episode. The Dutroux Case, initially perceived as the horrific crimes of a lone pedophile, Marc Dutroux– testimonies from multiple victims alleging a vast, protected child abuse and snuff network involving high-ranking officials – powerful individuals across finance, politics, law enforcement, and even intelligence services,...

Throughout history, in a time when women had no choice but to stay in abusive relationships, sometimes they were left with no choice..but to end their husbands lives.. or was that all a lie? ⁠⁠ 🥀 ⁠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 alon...

In 2023 Beatriz Flamini had one mission. Spend 500 days in a cave. Alone. With no help, no communication to the outside world, and manage to survive. She needed to break the world record. She did. This went onto affect her emotional & physical health, so let's talk about it. ⁠ 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case ⁠ ⁠ 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube ⁠ ⁠ 🥀Follow Us  ⁠ 🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incor...

Fallon Fridley was just two years old when her mother Kris got a call that changed her life forever. Fallon was at a sleep over, with her babysitter when she "fell" off a slide..except theres no way she fell of a slide..because a 2 year old doesn't just end up with: a fractured skull, a stomach full of blood, ruptured; spleen, colon, and liver..and bruises. Fallon was murdered by her...

John Bunting was a serial killer from South Australia, where he had a mission. Kill all abuser, but he was really the abuser. He would go onto groom his victims, his accomplices and commit heinous crimes. 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, torture, animal cruelty, abuse, homophobia, ableism 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us  🥀 Disclaimer: If anything we say is incorrect, or i...

In 2011, Maddy Scott would go missing from Hogsback Lake, British Columbia.. It was as if she vanished into thin air. No leads, nothing. In 2023, her remains were found.. 23 km from where she was camping.. but the most answers we find, the most questions we have. What happened to Maddy? For more information on Maddy, please visit her site if you have any information at all please call the Vanderho...

In today's episode, we decide to take a different route and talk about the manuscript, The 120 Days of Sodom, and the film, "Salo", and how it's one of the most shocking and disgusting work of media that discusses the depravity of mankind. 🥀 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow Us 🥀 Disclaimer: All opinions stated are ours alone, we speak for no one who was...

On October 15th 2018, both Denise and James Closs were found murdered in their home. Their 13 year old daughter, Jayme was missing, and no one knew where she was. 88 days later, Jayme would free herself from being held captive by 21 year old Jake Patterson. How did this 13 year old girl free herself? 🥀 Content Warning:  Murder, kidnapping 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case 🥀  Watch Us On Youtube 🥀Follow...

In today's episode, we're chatting about internet mysteries from grave robbery, all the way to AI losing it's sanity. So sit back and relax while we tell you 4 mysteries surrounding the internet. 🥀 ⁠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...

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...