Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

In July 2014, 14-year-old April Millsap set out on her usual evening walk with her dog Penny along the Macomb Orchard Trail in Armada, Michigan. It was a small town, a familiar path, a routine she’d done nearly every night. She never made it home. Hours later, Penny led two joggers to April’s body in a ditch just off the trail. Before she died, April sent a text that would haunt everyone who read it:

“I almost got kidnapped OMFG.”

This week we walk through April’s last evening, the man on the motorcycle witnesses saw her talking to, and the trail of evidence (cell phone pings, a shoe print, a helmet, and an ex-girlfriend’s testimony) that led investigators to James VanCallis Jr.

No DNA, no confession, and a killer who still insists he was framed. We get into how prosecutors built their case, what a jury decided, and the mother who looked her daughter’s killer in the eye and told him exactly what he took.

Justice for April. 💜

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Spring break, 1989. University of Texas pre-med student Mark Kilroy crosses the border into Matamoros, Mexico, for a night of bar hopping with his friends. By morning, he’s gone.

What his family uncovers is something no one could have imagined: a charismatic, Miami-born fortune teller named Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, who convinced Mexican drug traffickers that human sacrifice would make them bulletproof and invisible to police. At his side was Sara Aldrete, an honour roll college student living a double life as his high priestess, La Madrina.

This week, Chantal walks Ashley through the story of the Narcosatanists: a remote desert ranch, an iron cauldron, a man who drove straight through a police checkpoint because he believed no one could see him, and a final standoff in Mexico City that ended exactly the way the Godfather wanted.

Content warning: this episode discusses ritual murder, mutilation, and drug violence.

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She met them on dating apps. She was charming, attentive, exactly what lonely older men were hoping to find. Then she drugged them, drained their accounts, and in some cases, they never woke up.

This week on Triggered, we’re breaking down the case of Aurora Phelps, a dual US and Mexican citizen with homes in Las Vegas and Guadalajara who allegedly used Tinder, Hinge and Bumble to find men with money and no one watching out for them. We get into the aliases, the stolen identities, the man allegedly pushed across the border in a wheelchair, the survivor who woke up from a coma, and the Mexican court that just handed her 37 years. And the US isn’t done with her yet.

Grab a drink, maybe skip the second date this week, and settle in.

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In the summer of 2020, three people living together in a house in northeast Spokane pulled out a Ouija board at 3:30 in the morning. Before sunrise, 25-year-old Anthony Brines was dead, stabbed about twenty times in his own bedroom.

This episode we’re doing both sides, like always. We start with the Ouija board, from a Baltimore toy-store novelty to the thing your youth pastor warned you about. Then we get into Zozo, the so-called demon of the board that preys on your insecurities. And then the case itself: a marriage ending, a 19-year-old boyfriend who moved in, a secret plane ticket, a confession that says “building, building,” and a defence lawyer telling a jury his client felt like “something overtook him.”

Was it Zozo? Or was it Ed all along? We give you our verdict, and we want yours.

Most of all, this episode is for Anthony: smart, kind, big laugh, and a man who opened his home to someone he had every reason to resent.

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On June 5, 2005, Jennifer Jackson was found dead in her East Memphis home, stabbed more than 50 times. Her 18-year-old daughter Noura told police she came home and found her. Investigators didn't buy it.

Noura was charged with her mother's murder and, in 2009, convicted of second-degree murder after a trial that leaned hard on her partying, her texts and her lifestyle. Years later, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the conviction, citing a witness statement prosecutors withheld until after the trial and a closing argument that pointed at Noura's decision not to testify.

Rather than face a second trial, Noura took an Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter, pleading guilty while maintaining her innocence. She walked free in 2016. The prosecutor went on to face a disciplinary case of her own.

Where do you stand on this case? Was it Noura? Or was it someone else that will never be held responsible?

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