Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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