Triggered - The True Crime Podcast
Two Canadian best friends, Chantal and Ashley, share tales of twisted crimes, paranormal happenings, and everything in between, all while enjoying whisky and wine. Each episode features one friend telling the other a true crime story, blending horror with humor and friendship. The podcast covers a range of topics from infamous murder cases to unexplained mysteries.
Episodes
Swipe Right | Aurora Phelps
She met them on dating apps. She was charming, attentive, exactly what lonely older men were hoping to find. Then she drugged them, drained their accounts, and in some cases, they never woke up.This week on Triggered, we’re breaking down the case of Aurora Phelps, a dual US and Mexican citizen with homes in Las Vegas and Guadalajara who allegedly used Tinder, Hinge and Bumble to find men with mone
The Ouija Defense | Anthony Brines
In the summer of 2020, three people living together in a house in northeast Spokane pulled out a Ouija board at 3:30 in the morning. Before sunrise, 25-year-old Anthony Brines was dead, stabbed about twenty times in his own bedroom.This episode we’re doing both sides, like always. We start with the Ouija board, from a Baltimore toy-store novelty to the thing your youth pastor warned you about. The
Just tell us where you were | Jennifer Jackson
On June 5, 2005, Jennifer Jackson was found dead in her East Memphis home, stabbed more than 50 times. Her 18-year-old daughter Noura told police she came home and found her. Investigators didn't buy it.Noura was charged with her mother's murder and, in 2009, convicted of second-degree murder after a trial that leaned hard on her partying, her texts and her lifestyle. Years later, the Tenn
You watch too much TV | Sherri Rasmussen
In 1986, nurse Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot in her Van Nuys condo, three months after her wedding. The LAPD called it a burglary gone wrong. Her father, Nels, knew better. He gave detectives a name: Stephanie Lazarus, her husband's ex, who had threatened Sherri and turned up in her living room. Detectives told him he watched too much TV.The thing is, Stephanie was a cop.For 23 ye
Lethal Lovers: Gwen + Cathy
In 1987, five elderly women died at Alpine Manor, a nursing home in Walker, Michigan. Their deaths were ruled natural. No autopsies. No questions. Then, more than a year later, a man walked into a police station and repeated something his ex-wife had told him.Cathy Wood and Gwendolyn Graham were nurse's aides at Alpine Manor who became lovers in 1986. According to Wood, the killings were a pac
The Golden Child | Jennifer Pan
In November 2010, three armed men walked through the unlocked front door of a quiet home in Markham, Ontario. Within minutes, Bich Ha Pan was dead and her husband Hann was left for dead in the basement. Their 24-year-old daughter Jennifer was found tied to the upstairs banister, the only witness to what looked like a random home invasion.But Jennifer had been wearing a mask for years. Behind it we
Twice Convicted: Jennifer Stewart
In August 2010, Jennifer Leigh Stewart was found dead in a Vanier parking lot in Ottawa. She was 36, a Cree woman, a mother, and a sex worker, and she was killed with an axe in a detail police kept out of the public eye for years.For two and a half years, nothing. Then a young man in segregation at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre told a guard he wanted to confess to a murder. Adrian Daou told
14 Times: Mica Miller
When Netflix released Death of the Pastor’s Wife, millions of people were introduced to the story of Mica Miller, the 30-year-old worship leader whose death in April 2024 sparked questions far beyond the official ruling of suicide.But Mica’s story started long before that day.In this episode, we go back to the beginning: Mica’s teenage years at Solid Rock Church, her first marriage, her affair wit
Dangerous Delusions | The Matthew Hertgen Case
On February 22, 2025, a 911 call came in from a luxury apartment complex in Princeton, New Jersey. The caller told dispatch there was a fire, and a body. The body was his younger brother.Matthew Hertgen was 31, a Wesleyan grad and former college soccer player. Joseph was 27, a finance analyst, the little brother everyone liked. Hours before the killing, a third Hertgen brother had driven Matthew h
Garbage Cults
Two cults. Two self-proclaimed religious leaders. And one unsolved murder mystery that would take more than forty years to unravel.First, we dive into the Brethren, better known as the “Garbage Eaters,” a secretive religious group whose members abandoned their families, possessions and careers to travel across America, live off discarded food and follow the teachings of Jim Roberts.Then we meet th
Honourless: The Shafia's
In the early morning hours of June 30, 2009, a black Nissan Sentra was discovered submerged in the water at the Kingston Mills locks in Kingston, Ontario. Inside were four members of the same family: 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia, and 52-year-old Rona Mohammad Omar.At first, their deaths appeared to be a horrific accident. But details surrounding the
Did you hear that? | Cryptids
Four cryptids and what the evidence actually shows. A sacred lake spirit, an iguana in the trunk of a police cruiser, a Wampanoag story that isn't about a monster, and a movie...or is there more?🎧 Listen to Triggered wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast💬 Join the Chaos Crew (free Discord): https://discord.gg/YuEWjMzkJN ⭐ Become an Inner Circle member on Supercast: tri
Systemic Failure | Harmony Montgomery
In February 2019, a Massachusetts family court judge handed five year old Harmony Montgomery over to a father with a long and violent criminal record. Ten months later she was dead. Nobody noticed for two years.Harmony was blind in one eye and had spent most of her short life moving in and out of foster care. Her mother, Crystal Sorey, had lost custody while struggling with addiction, and when Sor
Three Screws: Shannon Graves
In July 2017, a woman in Campbell, Ohio went down to her basement for a pound of ground beef. There was a chest freezer down there that belonged to a friend of her husband's, and it had a padlock on it, and whoever installed that padlock had mounted it backwards.Three screws. That's what it took to break open a case that had been running unnoticed for five months.Shannon Graves was 28 years old. S
He Joined the Search: Nicola, Karen and Rachel
On October 9, 1986, nine year old best friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway told a neighbour they were heading to Wild Park in Moulsecoomb, Brighton. It was the last time anyone saw them alive. The next afternoon, two civilian searchers found the girls hidden in a makeshift den in the park, and a case that would consume Sussex Police for the next three decades was born.A 20 year old local roof
The Only Witness: Laura Letts-Beckett
In 1995, a Canadian schoolteacher took the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand. Her tour guide was a six foot seven, four hundred pound former city councillor who had spent his entire life on the water.Fifteen years later, one of them drowned in a mountain lake in British Columbia. The other one was the only person on earth who saw it happen.What followed was one of the strangest homicide cases in C
Released into the Dark: Mitrice Richardson
On the night of September 16, 2009, a 24 year old woman sat down alone at Geoffrey's, an upscale restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. She ordered dinner. She could not pay the $89 bill. Staff described her behaviour as strange, and deputies were called.Mitrice Richardson was a Cal State Fullerton graduate. She was warm, brilliant, and by her family's account she had been quietly stru
Lilith Framed: The Michelle Hadley Case
Michelle Hadley was in her twenties, in grad school, and by her own description sickeningly wholesome. Then she was arrested, held on a million dollars bail, and told she was facing life in prison.The emails threatening her ex fiancé's pregnant wife were real. Sent several times a day, from an account called Lilithistruth, describing what the woman wore to work and where she went. The Craigslist a
The Story Pembroke Never Forgot | The Witt Family Murders
We grew up outside Pembroke, Ontario, hearing a story adults would only tell in whispers. A daughter. Her boyfriend. A little boy. A farmhouse. And a line that followed the case for fifty-five years: "She should have gone to prison too."We never knew the names. This week, Ash went looking for them.In March 1971, in what was then Alice Township, six-year-old David Witt and his uncle Leslie Molson w
July 2026 | After Hours with Triggered
Welcome to our FIRST "After Hours with Triggered"! This is a monthly instalment where Ashley and Chantal tell YOUR stories. If you would like to submit your tales for future episodes, please hurry over to triggeredthepodcast.com🎧 Listen to Triggered wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast💬 Join the Chaos Crew (free Discord): https://discord.gg/YuEWjMzkJN ⭐ Become an Inne
Scott Peterson: Reasonable Doubt?
Laci Peterson was almost eight months pregnant when she vanished from her Modesto home on Christmas Eve, 2002. Four months later, she and her unborn son Conner washed ashore in San Francisco Bay, just miles from where her husband Scott said he'd been fishing alone. Scott Peterson was convicted of their murders in 2004. But in 2026, the Los Angeles Innocence Project is fighting to tear that convict
Cleveland's Coldest Case: The Torso Murders
💬 Join the Chaos Crew (free Discord): https://discord.gg/YuEWjMzkJN ⭐ Become an Inner Circle member on Supercast: triggeredthepod.supercast.com🌐 triggeredthepodcast.comCleveland, the 1930s. Bodies start appearing in Kingsbury Run, decapitated and dismembered, most of them never identified. The papers dub him the Mad Butcher. The man hunting him is Eliot Ness, the same legend who brought down
And then there were two: Mickey Shunick
Twenty-two years old, alone on a bike at two in the morning, a man twice her size waiting in a white truck with a knife and a gun. Mickey Shunick did not do what he expected. She fought. And the wounds she left on her attacker's body are part of what brought him down.In this episode, the gals walk through the 2012 disappearance and murder of Michaela "Mickey" Shunick in Lafayette, Louisiana: the s
She Just Wanted to Help: Colleen Ritzer
FROM THE VAULT!***Hi friends, Ash and Chantal pulled one of their first episodes from the vault this week. Brand new episode coming Friday!***Colleen Ritzer was a 24-year-old math teacher who believed no student was beyond reaching. On October 22, 2013, that belief left her alone with a 14-year-old freshman named Philip Chism at Danvers High School. This week we cover the murder, the trial, the fa
35 Acre Nightmare: The Cordell's
Eight children. A 35 acre property. "Underground caves" made of mud, and a home prosecutors compared to a city landfill. This week we head to Deming, New Mexico for the case of Valerie and Melvin Cordell, arrested in February 2025 and now facing dozens of combined charges of child abuse and sexual assault. Both have pleaded not guilty. The whole thing came to light because one 16 year old daughter
The confusing last night of Karlie Guse
Sixteen year old Karlie Guse smoked a joint at a party, spent the night terrified that her own family was going to kill her, and by morning she had walked out the front door and vanished. She left her phone, her glasses, and her money behind. This week: the case, the recording nobody has heard, and the science that suggests it was never really about the weed at all.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredth
Dissolved: Andras and Agnes Pandy
Andras Pandy was a Hungarian born Protestant pastor who fled to Belgium after the 1956 revolution, built a life as a respected clergyman and religious teacher, and spent decades quietly destroying the people closest to him. Two wives. Four children, biological and step. All of them vanished across the 1980s, and every single time, Pandy had a tidy explanation and often a forged document to go with
BTK: Dennis Rader
For thirty years, the people of Wichita, Kansas thought BTK was a phantom. Bind. Torture. Kill. Three words signed at the bottom of taunting letters mailed to police and newsrooms by a man who wanted to be feared more than he wanted to stop. The truly sickening part is who he turned out to be. A married father of two. The president of his church council. A Cub Scout leader. The local compliance of
20 Years Gone: Brian Shaffer
A man walks into a bar. It's caught on camera. You can watch him ride the escalator up, stand outside the doors at 1:55 in the morning, and wave goodbye to two strangers. Then he steps off the edge of the frame, and he is never seen again.This week, Chantal takes Ashley (broadcasting through roughly one working sinus, bless her) into one of the most baffling missing persons cases in modern America
26 Years: Namiko Takaba
The cold case of Namiko Takaba, the Nagoya housewife murdered in 1999, and the husband who paid rent on her bloodstained apartment for 26 years to preserve the DNA that finally caught her killer.On November 13, 1999, 32-year-old Namiko opened her door to a woman posing as a beverage saleswoman. Minutes later she was dead, stabbed in her own home while her two-year-old son sat unharmed beside her.
The Dark Web: Peter Scully
In 2011, a con man vanished from Australia one step ahead of fraud investigators. He resurfaced in the Philippines and what he built there would become one of the most disturbing cases in the history of the internet.Peter Gerard Scully didn't just commit crimes. He monetized them.Operating deep inside the Dark Web : the hidden, encrypted layer of the internet that can't be reached by Google, that
Blurred Lines: A Morality Journey
*****If you are struggling, please text *988* from anywhere in Canada or the US*****This week we are not solving a crime. In all three of these stories, we already know exactly what happened. The person did it, admitted it, and it is all on the record. The fight is over what to call it.Chantal walks you into three rooms. A man who mailed the means to die to people all over the world and got the le
Taylor Parker: The Final Con
TRIGGER WARNING: Pregnancy loss, murder, infant murder.In 2019, Taylor Parker photographed Reagan Simmons-Hancock's wedding. A year later, she murdered her for the baby in her belly.For nearly a year, Parker had been telling her boyfriend she was pregnant. She faked a bump, threw a gender reveal, and even set a due date. The only problem was that there was no baby. So on October 9, 2020, she drove
Something in the bed: The Tallman Haunting
In February 1987, Allen and Debbie Tallman bought a bunk bed at a second-hand shop in Horicon, Wisconsin. Within days, their children started describing the same red-eyed woman they had never compared notes about. Within months, Allen was sleeping on the floor of his daughters' room, a pastor was refusing to come back, and a family member who didn't believe in any of it ran screaming out of a bedr
Athena Strand: Little Girl Gone
Seven-year-old Athena Strand disappeared on November 30, 2022, from her home in Wise County, Texas. The last person to see her alive was the FedEx driver who had just dropped off a package at her front door. He was also the person who killed her.Tanner Horner claimed he accidentally clipped Athena with his truck as he backed out of the driveway. But rather than call for help, he pulled her into hi
Operation Purple Rebel: Lisa Berlanga
What happens when a bad night between friends spirals into a 250-page murder manifesto? This week on Triggered, we dive into the most meticulously planned crimes we've ever covered: the case of Adrian Loya, a U.S. Coast Guard petty officer who spent over a year plotting the murder of his former colleague Lisa Berlanga.From a friendship forged in the frozen tundra of Kodiak, Alaska to a premeditate
Kayla Bug: The Plot to Silence
Kayla Rose Huff was 16 years old. She loved track, basketball, her church youth group, and playing Roblox with her little brother. Her family called her Kayla Bug. On the morning of May 6, 2026, she went missing from Moberly, Missouri, and the community turned itself inside out searching for her. One week later, her body was found in a wooded stretch of the Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area. She ha
What 'The Crash' Left Out: Mackenzie Shirilla
Netflix's The Crash has everyone talking about Mackenzie Shirilla. But what did it leave out?We watched the body cam footage. We dug into the evidence that never made it to your screen. GPS data placing Shirilla at the crash site days before. No skid marks. A black box showing full acceleration. And a coded request to her mother that prosecutors say tells you everything.Dominic Russo and Davion Fl
Annihilator: America's First Serial Killer
Before Jack the Ripper ever stepped foot in London's East End, a killer was already prowling the unpaved streets of Austin, Texas — and no one knew what to call him, because the concept of a serial killer hadn't been invented yet.Between December 1884 and Christmas Eve 1885, eight people were murdered in their beds, dragged outside, and mutilated in what would become America's most chilling unsolv
Blame Game: Kathleen Folbigg
Four babies. One mother. Twenty years in prison. And not a single piece of physical evidence linking her to any of it.Kathleen Folbigg was called Australia's worst female serial killer. Her diary was handed to police by her own husband. A jury convicted her in 2003 based on the theory that lightning simply couldn't strike four times in the same family.Except... it can. And it did.In 2020, genetici
Snow Banks: Trent Mallory
When police arrived at a home in Levering, Michigan on March 6, 2014, they found a scene that told two very different stories. A man was dead. The house was in chaos. And the woman who called 911 had an alibi that seemed almost too neat.On the outside, Trent Mallory and his fiancée appeared to be a family just trying to stay afloat. They'd weathered a child's serious illness, leaned on their commu
Every Rose Has It's Thorn: Gypsy Rose
VAULT EPISODE! (recorded early 2025)She spent her entire childhood in a wheelchair, fed a cocktail of medications for diseases she never had. Her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, convinced the world that Gypsy was dying. Doctors believed it. Charities donated. Strangers sent money. And Gypsy played along, because it was the only life she had ever known.But behind the sick little girl with the shaved hea
Violent Night: Natalie McNally
On December 18, 2022, Natalie McNally spent the evening watching the World Cup final with her family. She was 32, fifteen weeks pregnant, and had no idea it would be the last night of her life. By the time police were called to her home in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, she was gone, and the man responsible thought he'd gotten away with it. He hadn't. This week, we're talking about Natalie.Follow us: l
Nobody Can Hear You: Arielle Konig
She survived a birthday hike that her husband spent weeks planning to make sure she wouldn't.On March 24, 2025, Arielle Konig's husband Gerhardt took her to the Pali Puka trail in Hawaii for her birthday. What she didn't know was that his Google searches leading up to that day included "dangerous hikes Hawaii" and "steep hikes Hawaii." He came prepared with a syringe, a plan, and a cliffside. She
The Girl He Kept: D4vd
She was 14 years old. He was a rising pop star. And when she threatened to go public about their relationship, prosecutors say he made sure she never got the chance.In September 2025, a tow yard worker called police about a smell coming from an abandoned Tesla in Hollywood. Inside the trunk: the remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She'd been missing for over a year. The man whose car it was, singe
Aisle 36: James Bulger
On February 12, 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was taken from his mother's hand in a Liverpool shopping centre. What followed was one of the most disturbing and heartbreaking cases in British criminal history. In Aisle 36 of the Bootle Strand, James was led away by two ten-year-old boys. What they did next shocked the world.In Episode 155, Chantal and Ashley walk through the abduction, the murder
Everyone Knows: The Circleville Letters
In 1976, the residents of Circleville, Ohio started receiving anonymous letters and whoever was writing them knew everyone's secrets. Affairs, corruption, personal threats. The campaign escalated for nearly two decades, culminating in a booby-trapped gun on a bus driver's route, a conviction that left more questions than answers, and letters that kept arriving even after the supposed writer was lo
The Last Text: Dylan Redwine
Dylan Redwine was 13 years old. He didn't want to go. But it was court-ordered, so on November 18, 2012, he flew to Durango, Colorado to spend Thanksgiving with his father.He never came home.This week, Chantal and Ashley cover the full story: the troubled family dynamic, the years-long search, and the trial that finally brought justice. In 2021, after nearly a decade of fighting, Mark Redwine was
From The Grave: Haunted
In this episode, we're diving into three cases where the lines between this world and whatever comes next got very, very blurry. A grieving stepmother whose nightmares led investigators straight to a body hidden in a barn. A murdered woman who came back, through someone else's voice, to name her own killer. And a father standing next to a chilling and ironic tv commercial, caught on camera in a mo
The Gitchie Girl: Gitchie Manitou Massacre
It was a Saturday night in November 1973. Five teenagers from Sioux Falls sat around a campfire in the Gitchie Manitou State Preserve — laughing, singing, passing the evening the way teenagers do. Then came the sound of leaves crunching in the dark.What unfolded in that Iowa nature preserve would leave four young people dead, one thirteen-year-old girl fighting for her life, and an entire communit
Liar Liar: The Murder of Jamie Hahn
Jamie Kirk Hahn was twenty-nine years old, a political strategist who knew everybody and fought for everything. Her husband Nation had been her partner in every sense of the word. And they were both surrounded by people who loved them, including Nation's oldest friend, Jon, who'd been there since they were kids growing up in Lenoir.This is a story about grief. About a woman whose life was taken fa
WWJD: Jared Fogel
For over a decade, Jared Fogle was one of the most recognizable faces in America: the everyman who shed 245 pounds on a diet of sandwiches and turned his story into a cultural phenomenon. But behind the goodwill tours, the foundation for at-risk youth, and the carefully managed public image, something deeply disturbing was hiding in plain sight.In this episode, we examine how a man with access to
Unlikely: Kendrick Johnson
On January 11, 2013, students walking into the gymnasium at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, made a discovery no one should ever have to make. Seventeen-year-old Kendrick Johnson, a three-sport athlete with dreams of going pro, was found upside down inside a standing, rolled-up gym mat. His shoes were behind his knees.Authorities were quick with their answer: a tragic accident. Kendrick h
Paradise Lost: Kiara Agnew
A dream vacation to Mexico… turned into a nightmare that still doesn’t make sense.In March 2023, 23-year-old Kiara Agnew was found brutally beaten to death inside a luxury resort in Playa del Carmen. Just hours earlier, she had been celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend, Ryan Friesen. But what investigators found next would shock even seasoned authorities: Friesen discovered asleep beside he
From Nowhere: Isdal Woman
***EARLY RELEASE - HAPPY EASTER***In November 1970, a hiker in the Isdalen valley outside Bergen, Norway, made a grim discovery: the burnt body of an unidentified woman, surrounded by an almost deliberately erased trail. Her labels had been cut from her clothes. Her passport photos showed her in disguise. She had checked into hotels under at least eight different aliases. Norwegian authorities rul
Four Lives, Two Graves: McStay Family
The McStay family seemed to vanish into thin air. In February 2010, Joseph, Summer, and their two young sons disappeared from their California home without a trace, no signs of struggle, no goodbye, just an eerie silence. For years, investigators chased a theory that the family had voluntarily fled to Mexico, fueled by grainy border footage that appeared to show them crossing on foot. But behind t
He Said, She Said: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka became known as two of the most disturbing and controversial offenders in Canadian history, an outwardly normal couple whose crimes shattered communities across Ontario. Behind closed doors, their relationship was rooted in manipulation, violence, and escalating depravity that led to the assault and murder of multiple young girls, including Karla’s own sister. Their
The Forgotten Serial Killer: Luis Garavito
Throughout the 1990s, children across Colombia began disappearing, cases often dismissed or ignored. But when bodies started to surface, investigators uncovered a horrifying pattern that led to Luis Garavito, later known as “La Bestia.”In this episode, we break down how one of the most prolific serial killers in history was able to evade capture for years, the vulnerable victims he targeted,
Behind Dark Eyes: Susan Cox Powell
In December 2009, 28-year-old Susan Cox Powell vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah, leaving behind her two young sons, her belongings, and a marriage that those closest to her knew was unraveling. What initially appeared to be a missing persons case quickly spiraled into something far more disturbing as investigators uncovered a web of control, obsession, and deeply unsettling family
Purple Mountain Monster: Nyleen Marshall
In June 1983, four-year-old Nyleen Marshall vanished during a family picnic in the Elkhorn Mountains of Montana.Children were playing along Maupin Creek while the adults talked nearby. It was the kind of place where parents felt safe letting kids wander for a few minutes. But when the other children turned around, Nyleen, who had been walking just behind them...was gone.There were no screams. No s
Where did everyone go?: Mass Disappearances
It's always terrifying when someone goes missing, but what if EVERYONE vanishes without a trace? Join Chantal and Ashley as they explore a collection of some of the most haunting and mysterious mass disappearances in history.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredt
I Don't Like Mondays: Brenda Ann Spencer
PRERECORDEDOn the morning of January 29, 1979, children gathered outside Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, waiting for the gates to open. Across the street, a 16-year-old girl sat in her bedroom window with a rifle and began firing into the crowd.Her name was Brenda Ann Spencer. When a reporter reached her by phone during the standoff and asked why she had done it, she gave a chilli
The Pages She Left Behind: Tricia Todd
When Tricia Todd disappeared in April 2016, the story that followed sounded almost too bizarre to believe. But Tricia had been quietly documenting her fears in a journal.Page after page revealed a woman living in a marriage that was unraveling, one where fear, control, and suspicion were growing by the day. After she vanished, those journal entries would become some of the most chilling evidence i
You're safe with me: Montie Rissell
In the late 1970s, Montie Rissell was just a teenager, but behind the mask of normalcy was a predator escalating from assault at 14 to multiple murders by 18. In this episode of Triggered, we break down the timeline, the psychology, and the warning signs that were missed, while honouring the young women whose lives were stolen. This one is dark and deeply unsettling.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredt
The Graveyard Farm: Robert William Pickton
In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, women were disappearing: mothers, daughters, many of them Indigenous, many struggling, many dismissed. For years, families begged for answers while whispers spread through the streets that someone was hunting society’s most vulnerable.On a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, Robert William Pickton was doing exactly that. This is the story of one of Canada’s most prolific
MISSING: Noel Rodriguez
Some cases fill the room with heaviness. The heartbreaking story of Noel Rodriguez is one of those cases. In October 2022, six-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez disappeared from his home in Everman, Texas, but it would be months before anyone realized he was gone.When authorities finally began asking questions, his mother claimed Noel was living in Mexico. Investigators say that wasn’t true. Soon af
Killed for Kindness: Leticia Martinez
A night at a Seattle Mariners game. A selfie sent to family to say, “I’m here.”Then...silence.When Leticia Martinez didn’t return home, the people who loved her knew something wasn’t right. What began as a routine night out quickly turned into a mystery filled with unanswered questions, unsettling clues, and a growing sense that the truth might be far darker than anyone imagined.In this episode, w
BFF's: Juliet Hulme & Pauline Parker
What happens when friendship stops being grounding… and starts becoming a closed world?In 1954 Christchurch, two teenage girls found in each other something they believed no one else could understand; a bond built on imagination, loyalty, and a growing sense that they were set apart from everyone around them. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme weren’t just friends. They were co-authors of a private u
Ransom in Blood: Marion Frances Parker
In 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker left her Los Angeles school early after being told her father had been injured in an accident.It was a lie.The man who signed her out was William Edward Hickman, a 19-year-old drifter with a history of petty crime and an obsession with money. What followed was one of the most shocking ransom cases in American history. A desperate father. Dozens of ransom note
Nightmare on Repeat: The Palmer Brothers
Two brothers disappeared in Alaska under hauntingly different — yet equally baffling — circumstances. In 1999, Michael Palmer, just 15 years old, vanished after leaving a graduation party in the early morning hours. His bicycle was later found in the Little Susitna River, his shoes placed nearby, but Michael himself was never located despite extensive searches.More than a decade later, tragedy str
Don't open that door: Jennifer Morey
In 1995, a 25-year-old lawyer went to sleep in her Houston apartment believing she was protected by every security measure money could buy.She woke up to someone in her room.What followed was a night of terror, instinct, and split-second decisions that would determine whether she lived or died. As Jennifer Morey fought to survive, one phone call — and one voice on the other end — changed everythin
Forgotten: Joshlyn and Larry
In July 2021, what began as a routine traffic stop in Essex, Maryland became one of the most tragic and disturbing child death cases in recent memory.During a late-night stop, a Baltimore County police officer noticed an overwhelming odor of decomposition coming from the trunk of a vehicle driven by Nicole Johnson. What was inside was far more horrifying than anyone expected: the decomposing remai
Cut Short: Satomi Mitarai
When Satomi Mitarai left for school on a bright June morning, no one could have imagined what the school day would bring. Join the gals as they explore the story of this beautiful young pre-teen who ended up with a life cut short.Listener discretion is advised. Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr
Seven Secrets: Megan Huntsman
In 2014, Darren West made a horrifying discovery while cleaning out his garage in Pleasant Grove, Utah—something that had been hidden for years. As police investigated, the truth unraveled: his ex-wife, Megan Huntsman, had been hiding a dark and unimaginable secret. How did she manage to keep it concealed for nearly a decade? And why didn’t she seek help? This case is as heartbreaking as it is sho
No. You didn't : Appalachia
The Appalachian Mountains are older than bones. Older than trees. And according to the people who live there… they’re very much alive.In this episode of Triggered, we’re diving deep into the unsettling lore of Appalachia — the kind of stories that aren’t meant for tourists, outsiders, or people who don’t listen when they’re warned.From not-deer sightings and things that mimic human voices, to rule
Last Steps: Jessica Ridgeway
In this episode, we delve into one of the most heartbreaking and shocking child murder cases in recent U.S. history, the story of Jessica Ridgeway, a 10-year-old girl from Westminster, Colorado whose morning walk to school ended in tragedy. In October 2012, Jessica disappeared and sparked an intense search that drew in police, the FBI, and an entire community. Days later, her remains were found, a
Uninvited: Jessica Sacco
In March 2012, Jessica Rae Sacco was a 21-year-old in Urbana, Ohio, trying to rebuild her life and rebuild her relationship with her mom. But online was where Jessica felt most comfortable. It was where she could meet people, find community… and where she met Matthew Puccio. At first, it looks like a messy, intense relationship. Then it becomes something much darker.When Jessica stops responding a
Resilience: Judy Malinowski
Judy Manilowski was making big changes in her life. She had fought with demons for years and was finally turning a corner to defeat them once and for all. But on the very day she was headed to rehab, the unthinkable happened. What followed is the definition of resilience. Follow us everywhere: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can list
The Last Selfie: Brittney Gargol
On March 25, 2015, 18-year-old Brittney Gargol was found dead in a Saskatoon landfill. Her death was ruled a homicide, but there were no witnesses and no clear suspect. Then police discovered a single selfie on Brittney’s phone that changed everything. This is a story about betrayal, manipulation, and the chilling reality that sometimes the person you trust most is the one you should fear.Follow u
Sins of the Father: Irene Garza
In April 1960, Irene Garza left her home in McAllen, Texas to attend confession.She never came back.For decades, the truth was buried behind closed church doors.In this episode of Triggered, we uncover the life of Irene Garza, a devoted daughter, a young woman trying to find her way, and the powerful institution that protected her killer. We walk through the secret reports, the whispered warnings,
