Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

Two cults. Two self-proclaimed religious leaders. And one unsolved murder mystery that would take more than forty years to unravel.

First, we dive into the Brethren, better known as the “Garbage Eaters,” a secretive religious group whose members abandoned their families, possessions and careers to travel across America, live off discarded food and follow the teachings of Jim Roberts.

Then we meet the Christ Family, led by a former house painter who renamed himself Jesus Christ Lightning Amen. What begins as another bizarre story of white robes, barefoot followers and dumpster diving takes a much darker turn when investigators connect the group to the unsolved murders of young parents Dean and Tina Clouse.

Their bodies remained unidentified for decades. Their baby daughter, Holly, was nowhere to be found. Until forty-two years later, detectives walked into a restaurant in Oklahoma and told a waitress something that would completely change her life.

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In the early morning hours of June 30, 2009, a black Nissan Sentra was discovered submerged in the water at the Kingston Mills locks in Kingston, Ontario. Inside were four members of the same family: 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia, and 52-year-old Rona Mohammad Omar.
At first, their deaths appeared to be a horrific accident. But details surrounding the family's trip, damage to a second vehicle, and the increasingly troubling story being told to investigators soon suggested something much darker.

This week on Triggered, we’re covering the Shafia family murders, a case that shocked Canada and eventually led to the conviction of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed for four counts of first-degree murder. We look at the lives of the four women, what was happening inside the Shafia home before their deaths, how investigators unravelled the case, and the trial that exposed the horrifying motive behind it.

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Four cryptids and what the evidence actually shows. A sacred lake spirit, an iguana in the trunk of a police cruiser, a Wampanoag story that isn't about a monster, and a movie...or is there more?

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In February 2019, a Massachusetts family court judge handed five year old Harmony Montgomery over to a father with a long and violent criminal record. Ten months later she was dead. Nobody noticed for two years.

Harmony was blind in one eye and had spent most of her short life moving in and out of foster care. Her mother, Crystal Sorey, had lost custody while struggling with addiction, and when Sorey started pushing for answers in late 2021, she discovered her daughter had never been enrolled in school in New Hampshire. The missing person report was finally filed in December 2021. By then, investigators say, Harmony had been dead since December 7, 2019, killed in the back of a car in Manchester where the family had been living after an eviction.

This week we get into how one little girl fell through every crack in two state child welfare systems, what her stepmother Kayla Montgomery told a jury and why Adam Montgomery is back in a New Hampshire courtroom in 2026 after the state Supreme Court overturned his second degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial.

Harmony has still never been found.

Content warning: this episode discusses the abuse and death of a child.
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In July 2017, a woman in Campbell, Ohio went down to her basement for a pound of ground beef. There was a chest freezer down there that belonged to a friend of her husband's, and it had a padlock on it, and whoever installed that padlock had mounted it backwards.

Three screws. That's what it took to break open a case that had been running unnoticed for five months.

Shannon Graves was 28 years old. She lost her mother young, dropped out of high school, and went back years later to get her GED and put herself through cosmetology school. She was two years into a career she'd built herself, one client at a time. She had a dog she adored and a family she never missed a birthday for.

She also had a boyfriend she was preparing to leave, and an apartment, a car, a phone and a benefits card that he was living on.

What was discovered in a basement in Ohio will haunt Ash and Chantal forever.

Content warning: intimate partner violence, homicide, dismemberment, and the destruction of a body using chemicals. Please take care of yourself.

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