Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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• 20 Years Gone: Brian Shaffer 03.07.2026 46хв

  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.
• 26 Years: Namiko Takaba 30.06.2026 45хв

  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.
• The Dark Web: Peter Scully 26.06.2026 51хв

  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.
• Blurred Lines: A Morality Journey 23.06.2026 1год 5хв

  *****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.
• Taylor Parker: The Final Con 19.06.2026 1год 14хв

  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.
• Something in the bed: The Tallman Haunting 16.06.2026 49хв

  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.
• Athena Strand: Little Girl Gone 12.06.2026 43хв

  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.
• Operation Purple Rebel: Lisa Berlanga 09.06.2026 1год 4хв

  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.
• Kayla Bug: The Plot to Silence 05.06.2026 48хв

  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 had been beaten, placed in the trunk of a car, driven to a remote location, and shot.What makes this case so disturbing isn't just the violence, it's the deliberate planning. Court documents allege that suspects disabled Kayla's car the night before by pouring motor oil into the gas tank. That it may have involved the person she trusted most. And that multiple people, some of whom called police after the fact, allegedly knew what had happened and said nothing.Five adults and a 17-year-old now face charges in connection with her kidnapping and murder. The motive remains 'officially unknown', but there are rumours swirling online.Follow us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcastContent warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence against a minor. 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.
• What 'The Crash' Left Out: Mackenzie Shirilla 02.06.2026 1год 8хв

  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 Flanagan deserved better than a Netflix narrative. We're giving it to them.Chantal and Ashley cover the full story: the relationship, the secret language, the warm milk?This one's not for the faint of heart.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.
• Annihilator: America's First Serial Killer 29.05.2026 45хв

  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 unsolved cold case. The victims — Mollie Smith, Eliza Shelley, Irene Cross, Mary Ramey, Orange Washington, Gracie Vance, Susan Hancock, and Eula Phillips — were mostly young Black women employed as domestic servants, their lives violently cut short while a panicked city demanded answers that never came.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.
• Blame Game: Kathleen Folbigg 26.05.2026 1год 1хв

  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, geneticists discovered rare mutations in her children's DNA that explained every single death. Over 100 scientists signed a petition demanding her release. In 2023, after 20 years behind bars, she walked free. Her convictions were fully quashed months later.The justice system called her a monster. Science called her innocent.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.
• Snow Banks: Trent Mallory 22.05.2026 54хв

  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 community, and kept going. But as investigators started pulling at the threads of their relationship, what unraveled was something nobody saw coming.Debt. Deception. A secret life hiding in plain sight. And a murder weapon that only revealed itself when the snow began to thaw.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.
• Every Rose Has It's Thorn: Gypsy Rose 19.05.2026 59хв

  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 head was a young woman who had been lied to, isolated, and abused for over two decades. When Gypsy finally found a way out, it ended with her mother dead on the floor and Gypsy on the run with a man she had met online.In this episode, we break down one of the most disturbing cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy ever documented, how Dee Dee Blanchard fooled an entire medical system, what drove Gypsy to the edge, and why so many people still see her as a survivor rather than a criminal.Was she a victim pushed past her breaking point, or something more complicated? You decide.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.
• Violent Night: Natalie McNally 15.05.2026 57хв

  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: 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.
• Nobody Can Hear You: Arielle Konig 12.05.2026 50хв

  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 came with hiking gear and no idea.What followed was one of the most harrowing survival stories we've ever covered. Arielle fought back with everything she had, and two strangers on the same trail that morning made sure she didn't die alone on that mountain.Before we get into the case, we are getting into something spicy: what actually counts as cheating? Emotional affairs vs. physical ones, what would make you leave, and why this conversation matters a lot for understanding everything that comes next.Trigger warning: attempted murder, domestic violence, graphic 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.
• The Girl He Kept: D4vd 08.05.2026 1год 10хв

  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, singer D4vd, was on stage at a concert the next day.We're breaking down the case, the charges, and the deeply disturbing timeline prosecutors are about to lay out in court. First degree murder. Special circumstances. And a level of premeditation that is hard to sit with.Her name was Celeste. And she deserved 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.
• Aisle 36: James Bulger 05.05.2026 1год 16хв

  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, and the trial that forced an entire country to ask questions it still hasn't fully answered. How do children become capable of this? And what do we owe the victims when the killers are children themselves?This one is heavy. You've been warned.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.
• Everyone Knows: The Circleville Letters 01.05.2026 58хв

  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 locked up in isolation. The identity of the Circleville Letter Writer has never been confirmed.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.
• The Last Text: Dylan Redwine 28.04.2026 59хв

  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 convicted of murder and sentenced to 48 years in prison.Dylan deserved to go home. This one's for him.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.