Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

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.

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This week we are not solving a crime. In all three of these stories, we already know exactly what happened. The person did it, admitted it, and it is all on the record. The fight is over what to call it.

Chantal walks you into three rooms. A man who mailed the means to die to people all over the world and got the lesser charge. A Saskatchewan father who ended his severely disabled twelve-year-old daughter's life and called it love, and got the most serious charge there is. And the grieving, addicted survivors of overdoses who shared a supply with someone they loved, nearly died themselves, and got charged with murder.

Same act, supplying the means, three completely different verdicts.

Content warning: this episode discusses suicide, the death of a disabled child, and drug overdose. Please take care of yourself. If you are struggling, you can call or text 988 anytime in Canada and the US.
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TRIGGER WARNING: Pregnancy loss, murder, infant murder.

In 2019, Taylor Parker photographed Reagan Simmons-Hancock's wedding.

A year later, she murdered her for the baby in her belly.

For nearly a year, Parker had been telling her boyfriend she was pregnant. She faked a bump, threw a gender reveal, and even set a due date. The only problem was that there was no baby. So on October 9, 2020, she drove to Reagan's home in New Boston, Texas, where the 21 year old was 36 weeks pregnant with her daughter Braxlynn. What happened inside that house is one of the most horrifying things we have ever covered, and Reagan's three year old was home for all of it.

Parker was pulled over by a state trooper later that morning, claiming she had just given birth. She had not. This week we walk through the wedding photographer who became a killer, the trial that put her on Texas death row, and where the case stands now that her appeals have run out. Plus, with the new Netflix documentary putting this case back in the spotlight, we get into what the cameras left out.

Rest in power, Reagan and Braxlynn.

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In February 1987, Allen and Debbie Tallman bought a bunk bed at a second-hand shop in Horicon, Wisconsin. Within days, their children started describing the same red-eyed woman they had never compared notes about. Within months, Allen was sleeping on the floor of his daughters' room, a pastor was refusing to come back, and a family member who didn't believe in any of it ran screaming out of a bedroom in the middle of the night.

On January 11th, 1988, Debbie Tallman loaded her kids into a car and left. She didn't pack. She didn't wait for her husband to get home from his shift. She vowed never to go back, and she never did.

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Seven-year-old Athena Strand disappeared on November 30, 2022, from her home in Wise County, Texas. The last person to see her alive was the FedEx driver who had just dropped off a package at her front door. He was also the person who killed her.

Tanner Horner claimed he accidentally clipped Athena with his truck as he backed out of the driveway. But rather than call for help, he pulled her into his van and strangled her with his bare hands. Then he dumped her body in a creek. Athena had even told him her name.
We're covering the digital evidence that led straight to Horner's door, the devastating footage from inside that delivery truck, and the trial that ended on May 5, 2026, with a death sentence.

Athena liked to climb her favorite pear tree and hang from the branches with her sister. She deserved so much more.

Content warning: Child abduction, murder, and references to sexual violence.

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