Triggered - The True Crime Podcast

In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, women were disappearing: mothers, daughters, many of them Indigenous, many struggling, many dismissed. For years, families begged for answers while whispers spread through the streets that someone was hunting society’s most vulnerable.

On a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, Robert William Pickton was doing exactly that. This is the story of one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers and the devastating systemic failures that allowed a farm to become a graveyard.

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Some cases fill the room with heaviness. The heartbreaking story of Noel Rodriguez is one of those cases.

In October 2022, six-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez disappeared from his home in Everman, Texas, but it would be months before anyone realized he was gone.
When authorities finally began asking questions, his mother claimed Noel was living in Mexico. Investigators say that wasn’t true. Soon after, she left the country with her family, without Noel, and was later charged with capital murder.

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A night at a Seattle Mariners game. A selfie sent to family to say, “I’m here.”
Then...silence.

When Leticia Martinez didn’t return home, the people who loved her knew something wasn’t right. What began as a routine night out quickly turned into a mystery filled with unanswered questions, unsettling clues, and a growing sense that the truth might be far darker than anyone imagined.
In this episode, we trace the final known moments of Leticia’s night and the search for answers that followed.

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What happens when friendship stops being grounding… and starts becoming a closed world?

In 1954 Christchurch, two teenage girls found in each other something they believed no one else could understand; a bond built on imagination, loyalty, and a growing sense that they were set apart from everyone around them. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme weren’t just friends. They were co-authors of a private universe where fantasies blurred with reality and where outsiders became obstacles.

As their connection deepened, warning signs were dismissed, relationships strained, and a shared narrative took hold, one that would end in a brutal act that shocked New Zealand and captivated the world. This episode traces the girls’ early lives, the intensity of their friendship, the psychological phenomenon of folie à deux, and the chilling path that led to one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century.

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In 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker left her Los Angeles school early after being told her father had been injured in an accident.

It was a lie.

The man who signed her out was William Edward Hickman, a 19-year-old drifter with a history of petty crime and an obsession with money. What followed was one of the most shocking ransom cases in American history. A desperate father. Dozens of ransom notes. A city on edge. And a crime so grotesque it stunned even hardened detectives of the era.

Marion’s murder didn’t just devastate a family, it exposed vulnerabilities in school security, fueled a national media frenzy, and ignited debates about juvenile evil, psychopathy, and the limits of remorse.

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