Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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.

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

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.com

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.

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/triggeredthepodcast

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.com

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/triggeredthepodcast

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.

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/triggeredthepodcast