Khloé Kardashian and a True Crime Expert Just Made the Safety Cheat Sheet Every Woman Needs

Being a woman in 2026 sometimes feels like a full-time security clearance, and the threats keep finding new ways to escalate. Deepfake-enabled scam calls have jumped 1,600 percent in the last year, AI voice clones can now fool listeners 80 percent of the time, and “kidnapping calls” using your kid’s actual voice are now a thing that happens.

On Khloé in Wonder Land, host Khloé Kardashian sits down with Ashley Flowers—the host of Crime Junkie and the woman behind Season of Justice—to talk about the safety habits she genuinely thinks more people should know. 

Here are the ones worth stealing immediately.

Khloé Kardashian Just Learned the Safety Tips Every Family Probably Needs in 2026

Get a lawyer, skip the polygraph

The number one rule Flowers swears by, no exceptions. “If you’re ever in a situation, never take a polygraph. Always get a lawyer. I don’t care if you think it makes you look guilty; it will be the thing that keeps you out of prison.” Polygraphs aren’t admissible in most courts anyway, so all you’re doing is giving investigators ammunition without legal protection.

Make an ‘If I Go Missing’ folder

Putting together an “If I Go Missing” folder before anything ever happens is something Flowers wishes every family did. “We realized how little sometimes police will push, or sometimes they even know,” she says. “People are having to be their own investigator, their own advocate.” She’s even gotten messages from people saying the folder literally saved their loved one. A solid version usually includes:

• Recent photos
• A list of trusted contacts
• Your regular routines and routes
• Account passwords and access info
• Anything investigators will need in the first 48 hours

Stop fearing strangers, start watching the people you know

“Most crime happens by someone who you know,” Flowers says. “It’s not that random serial killer that we’re all the most afraid of. It’s like people who are in your life.” Which honestly goes against everything people grow up hearing. Most people picture danger looking obvious, dramatic, and easy to spot from a mile away. In reality, it’s usually way more ordinary than that. The overly controlling partner. The coworker who keeps pushing boundaries. The friend of a friend everybody brushes off as “just kinda weird.” 

A lot of the time, people ignore their own discomfort because the person seems nice, funny, attractive, charismatic, or “would never actually do something like that.” Meanwhile, their nervous system has already been side-eyeing the situation for a while. Flowers’ point isn’t to become paranoid about everyone around you. It’s to stop automatically dismissing weird behavior just because someone feels familiar. 

Teach kids ‘no secrets, only surprises’

“An adult will never ask you to keep a secret,” Flowers says. “There can be surprises.” 

It’s a tiny vocabulary swap that completely changes how kids understand the world around them. Surprises are temporary. A birthday gift, a trip someone’s planning, the puppy hiding in the garage until Christmas morning. Eventually, the surprise gets revealed, and everyone talks about it openly. Secrets are different because they’re designed to stay hidden.

Teaching kids that difference early gives them a much clearer gut check when something feels off. It also makes safety conversations feel way less intimidating because parents can casually ask things like, “Did anybody ask you to keep a secret today?” without turning it into some giant scary lecture.

Set a family safe word for AI scams

Voice cloning scams have officially gotten terrifyingly believable. Scammers can now pull audio from TikToks, Instagram Stories, YouTube videos, basically anywhere your voice exists online, then use AI to fake panic phone calls that sound almost identical to a real person. Flowers shared one story about a mom getting a call from her “daughter” crying and begging for help, only for her real daughter to be completely fine the entire time.

The easiest way to protect yourself is to set up a family safe word ahead of time, something random nobody could guess or pull from social media. If somebody calls in a panic asking for money, travel help, or bail money, ask for the word before doing literally anything else. 

Stay prep-aranoid, not paranoid

“We’re not paranoid, we’re prep-aranoid,” Flowers says. The goal isn’t to live in fear, but to be the person who already knows what to do when something happens. “The dark happens in the shadows,” and the more you talk about this stuff out loud, the less power it has.

Listen to the full episode on Khloé in Wonder Land, available wherever you listen to podcasts.

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