Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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  Released into the Dark: Mitrice Richardson 14.08.2026 59min

  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 struggling with her mental health in the weeks before that night. Her father would later say she had bipolar disorder. She was arrested for defrauding an innkeeper, a small amount of marijuana was found in her car, and her car was impounded.At roughly 12:28 in the morning on September 17, she was released from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station in Calabasas. No car. No purse. No phone. No money. She was from West Covina and had no reason to know a single road in that canyon. She walked out into the dark and was never seen alive again.🎧 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: triggeredthepod.supercast.com🌐 triggeredthepodcast.comMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Lilith Framed: The Michelle Hadley Case 11.08.2026 1h 23min

  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 ads inviting strangers to her door were real. The men who showed up were real. The 911 call was real.And every piece of it pointed at Michelle. Including two emails she really had written, months earlier, in her own name, using the same name the stalker was using.She sat in that cell for 88 days saying she'd been set up. Not one person believed her.This week Chantal walks Ashley through the case behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story, and she starts a long way before the documentary does. With Michelle before any of it. With cameras in a kitchen and a life narrowed to three points on a map. With a woman in a Huntington Beach bar telling a police officer what she does for a living. And with a family in the Arizona desert who found a stranger walking alone, miles from her own car.Content warning: sexual assault allegations, coercive control, staged assaults, and a psychiatric crisis. No graphic detail.Sources include the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the US Department of Justice, filings from the Central District of California, and Netflix's A Toxic Love Story.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Story Pembroke Never Forgot | The Witt Family Murders 07.08.2026 54min

  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 were murdered. David's mother, Eleanor, survived and testified that she had been held and abused for more than two weeks before the killings. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Catherine Delarge, and Catherine's twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, Lorne Edward Lafrance, were both charged. Lafrance got life. What happened to Catherine is where the public record goes quiet and where a small town's memory took over.This is an episode about what actually happened, and about what happens to the truth when a story gets passed down for half a century.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  July 2026 | After Hours with Triggered 04.08.2026 55min

  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 Inner Circle member on Supercast: triggeredthepod.supercast.com🌐 triggeredthepodcast.comMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Scott Peterson: Reasonable Doubt? 31.07.2026 56min

  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 conviction down with what they call new evidence. So did the jury get it right?In this episode we walk through the entire case in the exact order investigators lived it: the dog found alone with its leash, the ninety-mile fishing alibi, the two dead-end theories that nearly sent the investigation sideways, the secret girlfriend whose recorded phone calls changed everything, the bodies that surfaced at Scott's own alibi spot, and the dramatic arrest near the Mexican border. Then we get into what almost nobody covers honestly: the brand new "innocence" evidence, and the April 2026 court ruling that rejected all fourteen of its claims.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Cleveland's Coldest Case: The Torso Murders 28.07.2026 45min

  💬 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 Al Capone. And this time, the legend loses.We break down the known victims, the suspects who got away and why the Cleveland Torso Murders still haunt investigators today. Pour something strong and join us for one of the darkest cold cases in American history.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  And then there were two: Mickey Shunick 24.07.2026 56min

  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 surveillance footage of the white truck, the bike found submerged under a bridge 25 miles away, the killer who torched his own truck in Texas and then bought a nearly identical one, and the grand jury indictment that revealed a shocking twist from thirteen years earlier. This is the story of a girl who refused to be a victim, a mother named Lisa Pate who waited over a decade for justice, and the Louisiana community that refused to stop searching.Say their names. Mickey Shunick. Lisa Pate.🎧 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: triggeredthepod.supercast.com🌐 triggeredthepodcast.comSources include reporting from ABC News, CBS News, KATC, KLFY, KPEL, WAFB, The Advocate, and NBC Dateline, plus filings from Louisiana's 15th Judicial District Court. CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses kidnapping, murder, and sexual violence. Please listen with care.If you or someone you love is affected by the topics in this episode, support is available. In the US, you can reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  She Just Wanted to Help: Colleen Ritzer 21.07.2026 46min

  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 failed insanity defense, and the teacher who deserved so much better.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  35 Acre Nightmare: The Cordell's 17.07.2026 44min

  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, finally somewhere safe, decided to speak. This is her case as much as theirs.Content warning: child abuse and sexual assault.Join The Inner Circle: VIP chat with Ash and Chantal, Ad-free episodes and a BONUS monthly episode: triggeredthepod.supercast.comMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The confusing last night of Karlie Guse 14.07.2026 1h 1min

  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/triggeredthepodcastKARLIE IS STILL MISSING.Karlie Lain Guse was 16 years old. 5'7", 110 pounds, dark blonde hair, blue eyes, left nostril pierced. Last seen walking south along Highway 6 in Chalfant Valley, Mono County, California on the morning of October 13th, 2018, wearing a white t-shirt, grey sweatpants or jeans, and Vans.She would be 24 today.The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to her location.Mono County Sheriff's Office: 760-932-5678 Email: karliegusetips@monosheriff.org FBI Sacramento: 916-746-7000All tips can remain anonymous.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Dissolved: Andras and Agnes Pandy 10.07.2026 54min

  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 it. They moved to Germany. They went to South America. They send postcards. Do not worry about it.There were no bodies. He made sure of that. And when investigators finally dug into the houses he owned in Molenbeek, they found something even bigger and darker than the family annihilation they were expecting.Fair warning: this episode discusses murder, dismemberment, incest, and the long term sexual abuse of children. Please take care of yourself.WANT MORE? Join the Inner Circle for bonus episodes and access to our VIP Discord community: triggeredthepod.supercast.com Follow us so you never miss a Tuesday or Friday drop. Rate and review, it genuinely helps other people find the show: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  BTK: Dennis Rader 07.07.2026 52min

  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 officer who might show up to measure your grass for the city.This week we walk through the crimes of Dennis Rader, the ten lives he stole between 1974 and 1991, the decade of silence, and the ordinary vanity that finally undid him. We are keeping this one exactly where it belongs, with Joseph, Julia, Josie, Joey, Kathryn, Shirley, Nancy, Marine, Vicki, and Dolores.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastJoin the Inner Circle and become a member! Monthly bonus episode, VIP Discord chat and ad-free listening: triggeredthepod.supercast.comMake sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  20 Years Gone: Brian Shaffer 03.07.2026 46min

  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 American history: the 2006 disappearance of Brian Shaffer.Brian was a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, a devoted Pearl Jam fan, three weeks out from losing his mother, with a girlfriend and a booked vacation and every reason to keep going. Then, on the Friday before spring break, he vanished from inside the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus, Ohio. No body. No sighting. No financial activity. No answer in 20 years.Somebody knows something. This one stays with you.If you have any information on the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, contact the Columbus Division of Police at 614-645-4545 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-8477. You can remain anonymous.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  26 Years: Namiko Takaba 30.06.2026 45min

  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. Police interviewed 5,000 people and had almost nothing: a blood type, a shoe size, and one drink on the table that didn't belong.But her husband Satoru refused to let the case die. He never cleaned the blood. He kept paying rent on the empty "haunted house" for 26 years, all to preserve the killer's DNA until science could catch up. In 2025, it finally did.One of the most haunting cold cases we've ever covered. Tap in for the full story and the twist nobody saw coming.⚠️ Discusses violent crime. Listener discretion advised.🔮 Inner Circle (ad-free + bonus episodes): triggeredthepod.supercast.com🎧 New episodes Tuesdays & Fridays.In memory of Namiko Takaba.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Dark Web: Peter Scully 26.06.2026 51min

  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 runs on anonymous payments and untraceable routing, Scully built a pay-per-view network that catered to the worst impulses human beings are capable of. His clients were anonymous. His victims were children. And for years, he believed the dark web made him invisible.He was wrong.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Blurred Lines: A Morality Journey 23.06.2026 1h 5min

  *****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 lesser charge. A Saskatchewan father who ended his severely disabled twelve-year-old daughter's life and called it love, and got the most serious charge there is. And the grieving, addicted survivors of overdoses who shared a supply with someone they loved, nearly died themselves, and got charged with murder.Same act, supplying the means, three completely different verdicts.Content warning: this episode discusses suicide, the death of a disabled child, and drug overdose. Please take care of yourself. If you are struggling, you can call or text 988 anytime in Canada and the US.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Taylor Parker: The Final Con 19.06.2026 1h 14min

  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 to Reagan's home in New Boston, Texas, where the 21 year old was 36 weeks pregnant with her daughter Braxlynn. What happened inside that house is one of the most horrifying things we have ever covered, and Reagan's three year old was home for all of it.Parker was pulled over by a state trooper later that morning, claiming she had just given birth. She had not. This week we walk through the wedding photographer who became a killer, the trial that put her on Texas death row, and where the case stands now that her appeals have run out. Plus, with the new Netflix documentary putting this case back in the spotlight, we get into what the cameras left out.Rest in power, Reagan and Braxlynn.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Something in the bed: The Tallman Haunting 16.06.2026 49min

  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 bedroom in the middle of the night.On January 11th, 1988, Debbie Tallman loaded her kids into a car and left. She didn't pack. She didn't wait for her husband to get home from his shift. She vowed never to go back, and she never did.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Athena Strand: Little Girl Gone 12.06.2026 43min

  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 his van and strangled her with his bare hands. Then he dumped her body in a creek. Athena had even told him her name.We're covering the digital evidence that led straight to Horner's door, the devastating footage from inside that delivery truck, and the trial that ended on May 5, 2026, with a death sentence.Athena liked to climb her favorite pear tree and hang from the branches with her sister. She deserved so much more.Content warning: Child abduction, murder, and references to sexual violence.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 triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Operation Purple Rebel: Lisa Berlanga 09.06.2026 1h 4min

  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 premeditated attack on Cape Cod complete with fake bombs, a boombox blasting the Star Wars theme, and a GoPro strapped to his chest — this case is as bizarre as it is devastating. We're talking surveillance runs, a 250-page manifesto called "Loya Wars," a near-death ambush of a police officer, and a trial where three forensic experts couldn't agree on a single diagnosis.But at the center of all of it is Lisa Berlanga — a woman who deserved so much more than what she got.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContent warning: this episode contains detailed discussion of premeditated murder, stalking, obsessive behavior, and gun violence.Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.