Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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...

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/triggeredthepodcast Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can lis...

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...

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 warni...

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...

Happy Holidays! Enjoy this rerelease from 2024! New episodes coming 2026 linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast Contact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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 u...

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, multip...

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 Trigge...

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...

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...

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 dis...

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 horrifyi...

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…...

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 woma...

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. T...

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...

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 f...

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 twist...

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. www.triggeredthepodcast.com Make sure to follow us on social media and check out everywhere you can listen at linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast Contact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted o...

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...

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: behin...

In July 2007, the quiet town of Cheshire, Connecticut, was shattered by a home invasion so brutal it shook the entire nation. The Petit family’s ordinary summer evening turned into a night of unimaginable horror, an act of cruelty that left deep scars on everyone who heard their story. In this episode, we walk you through every harrowing moment, the investigation that followed, and the disturbing...

Join Ashley and Chantal as they dive into four haunting missing persons cases that have long since gone cold. Each disappearance carries its own chilling clues, eerie coincidences, and unsettling twists that defy logic. From sudden vanishings to bizarre last sightings, we explore what might have really happened, and the strange, almost supernatural occurrences that continue to surround these cases...