Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

Chantal + Ashley

True crime, whisky and wine. Join Chantal and Ashley, two Canadian best friends as they tell each other tales of the most twisted crimes, paranormal happenings and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 1d ago

    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 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.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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Released into the Dark: Mitrice Richardson

  2. 4d ago

    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 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/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.

    Lilith Framed: The Michelle Hadley Case

  3. Aug 7

    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 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/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.

    The Story Pembroke Never Forgot | The Witt Family Murders

  4. Aug 4

    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 Inner Circle member on Supercast: triggeredthepod.supercast.com 🌐 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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    July 2026 | After Hours with Triggered

  5. Jul 31

    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 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/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.

    Scott Peterson: Reasonable Doubt?

  6. Jul 28

    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.com Cleveland, 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/triggeredthepodcast Contact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Cleveland's Coldest Case: The Torso Murders

  7. Jul 24

    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 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.com Sources 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/triggeredthepodcast Contact us at triggeredthepodcast.444@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    And then there were two: Mickey Shunick

  8. Jul 21

    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 failed insanity defense, and the teacher who deserved so much better. Follow us: 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.

    She Just Wanted to Help: Colleen Ritzer
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True crime, whisky and wine. Join Chantal and Ashley, two Canadian best friends as they tell each other tales of the most twisted crimes, paranormal happenings and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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