MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Spencer Irwin was just 30 years old when he vanished one Sunday morning in July 2024. Days later, his body was found in a way that raised questions – naked, alone and quickly dismissed by authorities. But their assumptions about Spencer were wrong. As his mother began asking questions, the answers she received only raised more red flags: no autopsy, missing belongings and a timeline full of gaps no one seemed interested in filling. When toxicology results came back, they didn’t just complicate the story, they began to unravel it.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. Today's story about Spencer Irwin is one that I know you've never heard before because it's never been reported on before. And that's probably because if you were to ask Fresno police, there's no story to tell. Or at least they would have said that for a while. Spencer was a 30-year-old man that they found naked, covered in dirt at the bottom of a loading
0:25.0	dock back in 2024.
0:27.5	They initially assumed that he was homeless, assumed he died of a drug overdose, assumed that
0:32.7	there was nothing they deemed worthy of investigating, so they didn't.
0:39.9	But boy, were they wrong.
0:45.8	Because Spencer Irwin was none of the things they assumed. And he has a mother in his corner who has been doing all the investigating they wouldn't. And now she's got us in her corner.
0:52.8	And you won't believe what together we found.
0:56.8	This is Spencer Irwin's story.
0:59.2	Music Thank you. From the moment Kelly Irwin first got a call from the
1:34.5	Fresno County deputy coroner telling her that her son was dead, things felt disorienting.
1:40.5	It was just before 11 a.m. on Friday, August 2nd, 2024, she was told that her 30-year-old son, Spencer, had been found the day before, naked near some dumpsters.
1:51.7	And they couldn't say for certain yet, but based on the fact that there were no external signs of trauma, they were pretty sure that he died from an overdose.
2:00.4	Kelly never knew her son to use drugs, and she had no idea why he would be naked or why he was found where he was.
2:07.4	Honestly, part of her was sure that this was some kind of huge misunderstanding.
2:10.9	Like, it had to be someone else and everyone was just confused.
2:14.4	It had to be.
2:15.4	Kelly wanted to go down to the Fresno County Sheriff
2:17.6	Coroner's office to see him for herself. But they tell her that she can't. They are sure it is
2:23.3	Spencer and she's going to have to wait five agonizing days while they get him cleaned up and
2:29.0	transferred to the funeral home before she can see him. But five agonizing days later, that doesn't even happen.
2:37.3	Now, Kelly knows the guy who works at the funeral home and he stops her.
2:41.2	And he's like, listen, Kelly, I'm not going to let you see him.
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