The Decomposing Flower Podcast

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. 🥀 Content Warning: Slavery, enslaved people, torture, murderResources for Black peopleLearn More About The Transatlantic Slave Trade 🥀 ⁠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.Thank you for listening 

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 was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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🥀 ⁠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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening.

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 one who was/is involved in the case.

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 no one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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, 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 🥀 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 murder🥀 ⁠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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening!

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 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 no one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening.

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 personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

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 cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

In 2004 two German Officers would find an USB attached to a computer in an abandoned storage unit that contained photos of CSEM, with a man who would swirl his face to hide his identity🥀 Content Warning:  CSEM, Child 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 no one who was/is involved in the case.If you are personally affected by this case or any of our future cases/episodes, and would like us to delete or take down the video, please also contact us.Thank you for listening 

In the 1950s, a man had landed in Japan, but was he was going through customs, the Japanese staff noticed that his passport was odd. His country did not exist. When they asked him to show his country, he did.. but it didn't exist. Shortly later this man would disappear. Was it real? or was this all a hoax? This is the case of The Man From Taured 🥀 ⁠Request a topic/case🥀Follow UsWatch on Youtube🥀 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.