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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, and the internal church knowledge that never reached police… until it was too late.
This is not just a murder story. It’s a story about silence. About faith being weaponized. And about a woman who deserved so much better.
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In 2010, 28-year-old Sony Millbrook was reported missing after she failed to pick up her children from school. Family members knew she had been living at the Budget Lodge in Memphis, yet no one realized that the worst had already happened. Weeks later, motel staff responded to reports of a foul odour coming from a room that had been cleaned and rented out five times since Sony disappeared.
In this episode of Triggered, the gals unravel how a missing person case turned into one of the most chilling discoveries in Memphis, the questions it raised about routine investigations, and the man prosecutors eventually convicted.
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Happy Holidays! Enjoy this rerelease from 2024!
New episodes coming 2026
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BONUS RELEASE!
In December 2004, 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was eight months pregnant, excitedly preparing for the arrival of her baby boy. She was kind, trusting, and deeply loved by her family and community. What she didn’t know was that someone she believed she knew was about to exploit that trust in the most unthinkable way.
This episode explores the shocking and brutal murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a crime that stunned the world and crossed a line even seasoned investigators struggled to comprehend. We unpack how a fabricated pregnancy, online deception, and desperation collided, and how one woman’s desire to become a mother turned into a calculated act of violence.
Through a detailed, chronological narrative, we examine the psychological warning signs, the investigation that unfolded, and the aftermath that forever changed Bobbie Jo’s family, while honoring her life, her dreams, and the baby she never got to raise.
This is a story about trust, obsession, and a crime so disturbing it still haunts true crime history.
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Just before Christmas, a family trip to a remote cabin in Utah ended in tragedy for the Tiede family. When authorities were called to the snow-covered property, two members of the family, the mother and grandmother, were found dead, leaving investigators to untangle what really happened during those final days in isolation.
In this episode, we examine the events leading up to the cabin trip, the unanswered questions surrounding the case, and how a seemingly ordinary holiday getaway turned into one of Utah’s most haunting family crimes.
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On Christmas Eve 2008, a man dressed as Santa Claus walked up to a family home in Covina, California. Moments later, the front door exploded in gunfire, and what followed became one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history.
This is the story of Bruce Pardo: a bitter, unraveling man who turned a holiday meant for joy into a night of terror. Armed with a homemade flamethrower, multiple firearms, and a Santa suit, Pardo carried out a meticulously planned attack fueled by rage, rejection, and a desire for revenge.
In this episode of Triggered, we walk through the events of that night step by step: how Pardo prepared, what happened inside the house, the devastating aftermath, and the unanswered questions that still haunt survivors and investigators. This is a case about entitlement, obsession, and what happens when anger is allowed to fester in silence, until it explodes.
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On November 3, 1998, eight-year-old Maddie Clifton vanished from her quiet Jacksonville neighbourhood after going out to play. For a full week, her family, friends, and an entire community searched every backyard, every ditch, every corner, desperate for any sign of the giggly little girl with the big brown eyes.
What no one knew was that Maddie had never left the street.
In this episode of Triggered, we walk through the chilling timeline of Maddie’s disappearance and the shocking discovery of her body. We’ll talk about the frantic search, the strange behavior that didn’t make sense until it was too late, the trial that forced people to confront the reality of a child who kills, and the questions that still haunt this case decades later: accident or something far darker?
Listener discretion is advised. This episode involves the murder of a child and may be upsetting to some listeners.
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In this episode of Triggered, we tell one of the most horrifying, and ultimately inspiring, survival stories in true crime history. In 1994, South African woman Alison Botha was abducted, brutally assaulted, and left for dead after a night out with friends. Her attackers slit her throat, disemboweled her, and abandoned her in a desolate area, convinced she wouldn’t live.
But Alison refused to die.
Through unimaginable pain and sheer force of will, she held her own body together and walked toward help—saving her own life and later helping authorities bring her attackers to justice. This is not just a story of violence. It’s a story of raw human survival, resilience, and what it means to choose to live when death is certain.
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THROWBACK EPISODE!
Welcome to the Cecil Hotel...you can check in but you may never leave.
For nearly a century, the Cecil Hotel has stood in the heart of Los Angeles as more than just a building. Its walls have absorbed tragedy, violence, disappearance, and death, each floor whispered with secrets, each room touched by something unsettling.
In this episode, we descend into the dark history of the Cecil. From its early days as a glamorous destination to its slow decay into a magnet for the vulnerable, the desperate, and, in some cases, the predatory. We’ll unravel the infamous residents, unexplained deaths, and the eerie patterns that seem to cling to the hotel like a stain that won’t fade.
Is the Cecil simply a reflection of its surroundings? Or is there something more ominous at work — a force that pulls certain people through its doors and refuses to let them leave alive?
Lights off. Doors locked. Let’s check in.
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In August 2013, 19-year-old college student Bryce Laspisa vanished without a trace on a dark stretch of California highway. His abandoned car, overturned near a remote lake, became the center of a chilling mystery filled with unanswered questions, erratic behavior, bizarre phone calls, and sightings that never quite made sense.
In this episode, we dive deep into the hours leading up to Bryce’s disappearance: the strange detours, the midnight conversations, the emotional unraveling, and the final moments where he was seen alive. And while we follow the facts, patterns, and theories that have haunted this case for over a decade, we also explore an unsettling possibility: that what happened to Bryce might not fit within the world we know.
Inspired by the eerie cultural pull of Stranger Things and the concept of “the upside down,” this episode examines whether Bryce’s disappearance was simply a tragic accident… or if the truth lives somewhere darker, stranger, and impossible to explain.
No body. No answers. No closure.
Just a young man who seemed to be slipping further and further from reality until he was gone.
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Eight-year-old Gizzell Ford had dreams, hopes, and a little diary where she wrote about wanting to be a “good girl” and make her family proud. Instead, her final months became a haunting record of unimaginable cruelty, captured in her own handwriting.
In this episode of Triggered, we walk through the heartbreaking story of Gizzell’s short life, the warning signs that were missed, and the horrifying events that unfolded inside a Chicago apartment where she should have been safe. You’ll hear the chilling entries from her diary, the disturbing family dynamics at play, and the investigation that uncovered the truth behind her injuries, her isolation, and the abuse that ultimately took her life.
This is an episode about resilience, systems that failed a child, and the justice that followed, but it’s also a reminder of why stories like Gizzell’s matter. Because children who can’t speak for themselves need us to speak for them.
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When 8-year-old Leila Fowler was found stabbed to death inside her family’s home in Valley Springs, California, her small community went into a full-blown panic. Neighbours armed themselves, parents kept their kids indoors, and deputies launched one of the largest manhunts the county had ever seen. Because according to Leila’s 12-year-old brother, an unknown intruder had slipped inside the house… and vanished.
But as investigators dug deeper, the story began to unravel. Witness statements shifted. Timelines blurred. Evidence didn’t quite add up. And the truth hiding behind the Fowler family’s walls was darker, and closer, than anyone wanted to believe.
In this episode of Triggered, we walk through the chaotic investigation, the fear that gripped an entire community, and the heartbreaking truth at the center of the Fowler home. This is the story of a little girl whose life was cut short… and the mystery that consumed a town.
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Jane Toppan: the so-called “Jolly” nurse who used charm, confidence, and a warm bedside manner to mask something far darker. Behind the smile was a woman who experimented on her patients, poisoned with precision, and confessed she wanted to kill more people than any man who ever lived.
In this episode, we unravel the trauma that shaped her, the victims who trusted her, and the psychology of a woman who believed she had the right to decide who lived and who died. This is the story of a caregiver turned predator… and the deadly power she believed she held over every life she touched.
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In the late 1920s, a quiet patch of land in Wineville, California hid one of the most disturbing crimes in American history. Children vanished. Families searched. And behind the walls of a chicken farm, a predator lurked.
In this episode, we dive deep into the life and crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott; a man whose brutality shattered families, reshaped a town, and haunted an entire generation. Through survivor accounts, historical records, and psychological insight, we unravel what happened on that isolated farm… and how the truth finally clawed its way into the light.
This is a dark and difficult case involving child victims. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
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Imagine being told that your unarmed son who was shot point blank in the face "asked for it". It almost sounds too ludicrous to be true. But for Samantha, Aaron Dakota Biddle's mother, this was reality. In May 2018, while picking up his things from an ex-girlfriends house, Dakota was shot in the face and died instantly. The circus that followed his untimely death is truly astonishing.
Join Ashley and Chantal and special guest, Samantha as we talk about Dakota's life, murder and how his family has been treated by authorities since his death.
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What happens when the supernatural takes the stand?
In this episode of Triggered, we dive into real-life trials that blurred the line between crime and the unexplainable.
From Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the man who claimed demonic possession made him kill…to the Greenbrier Ghost, where a dead woman “testified” from beyond the grave…and the sleepwalking killers — Scott Falater and Kenneth Parks — who forced courts to ask what “intent” even means when the mind is asleep.
Join the gals as they chat about how the justice system wrestles with demons, ghosts, and the gray areas of human consciousness.
Were these defendants guilty — or haunted?
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Welcome to Season 2!!!
Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was one of the most sadistic serial killers in American history, but he didn’t start that way. Born into poverty in South Carolina, “Pee Wee” spent his early years bouncing between abuse, reform schools, and prison, where his hunger for control and violence began to grow. Over the decades, Gaskins would leave behind a trail of bodies, lies, and twisted confessions that blurred the line between truth and delusion.
In this episode, we trace the evolution of a man who called himself “the meanest man in America”, from small-town troublemaker to the so-called “Coastal Kills” that turned his name into a legend of terror.
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Join Chantal and Ashley on their one-year anniversary of Triggered! The gals took a trip back to where it all began...the Ottawa Valley. This episode is chaos, but it's Triggered chaos so it's fair game.
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A family home in a quiet London suburb becomes the center of one of the most chilling hauntings ever documented. In 1977, the Hodgson family began experiencing the unexplainable, furniture levitating, violent knocks echoing through the walls, and a young girl speaking in a growling voice that wasn’t her own.
Investigators, skeptics, and journalists all witnessed activity that defied logic. Was it a troubled child seeking attention… or something darker, demanding to be heard?
In this episode of Triggered, we dive into the infamous Enfield Poltergeist case with a detailed, narrative retelling of every terrifying moment: the voices, the investigators, the controversy and the entity that refused to leave.
Lock your doors. Keep the lights on. And whatever you do… don’t answer if the house comes knocking.
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Two truly unsettling tales — one from the carnival ring and one from a quiet Arkansas street — both haunted by violence, deformity, and the darker side of spectacle.
First up: Grady Stiles Jr. He was born into the sideshow world, billed as “Lobster Boy” thanks to his ectrodactyly (claw-like extremities), and performed as part of a traveling carnival family. But stage lights can cast shadows: behind the act was alcoholism, abuse, murder of his daughter’s fiancé the night before the wedding, and ultimately his own gunning down—allegedly in a conspiracy involving his wife and stepson.
Then: Jarrell Floyd Bettis—aka “Dog Boy”—a childhood and adulthood marred by animal cruelty, alleged parental abuse, and the legends surrounding his house in Quitman, Arkansas. From tortured strays to locked-away parents, his story spirals into a home so feared that even today the house is rumored to be haunted.
We’ll explore both how spectacle and deformity became props for a harsh existence, how abuse and power dynamics played out in each story, and what these men’s ends tell us about the world they inhabited. Plus, we’ll ask: is it enough to say “weird”? Because this week, weird doesn’t even cover it.
Grab your headphones, adjust the lighting, and join us as we step into carnival shadows and suburban dread…
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