Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

Welcome to Season 3 of Triggered!

In May 2008, 18-year-old Joshua Maddux told his sister he was going for a walk and left their home in Woodland Park, Colorado. He never came back.

For seven years his family held onto hope. Josh was brilliant, creative and a gifted musician, and they told themselves he might be out there somewhere, living his life.
Then, in August 2015, a demolition crew started tearing down an abandoned cabin less than a mile from the Maddux home. When they reached the stone chimney, they found him.

Josh was folded inside the narrow flue with his knees above his head, wearing only a thermal shirt. The rest of his clothes and his shoes were found beside the fireplace. The coroner ruled his death an accident: a teenager who tried to get into an empty cabin through the chimney and got stuck. But the cabin’s owner doesn’t believe it, and neither do many of the people who have looked closely at this case.

Why would anyone take off their clothes and then climb down a chimney? How did nobody notice for seven years? And was this really a tragic mistake, or something much darker?

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3:15AM

On November 13, 1974, a young man ran into a bar on Long Island begging for help, saying his parents had been shot. When police arrived, they found six members of the DeFeo family dead in their beds, all lying face down, with no signs of a struggle. A day later, the story fell apart.

This week, Chantal walks Ashley through the DeFeo murders: the troubled oldest son, the fake mob hit, the confession, and the “voices” defence. Then we head back to the house for the 28 days the next family claimed to have lived through: flies in December, a priest told to get out, a little girl’s invisible friend with red eyes, and a man who woke up at 3:15 every single night.

Was it demons, drugs, or a story cooked up over a lot of bottles of wine? We pick sides.

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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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