Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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