Triggered - The True Crime Podcast · Chantal + Ashley

BONUS: Baby Crazy: BobbieJo Stinnett

December 23, 2025·49 min·35 clips

Triggered starts in the middle of somebody's real life, with car trouble, insurance stress, and a stolen vehicle that still has one host rattled. That sets the tone fast: messy, personal, and hard to keep neat. From there the show pivots into a story about a woman who claimed to be pregnant, then claimed twins, and kept the lie going long enough for other people to buy it. The hosts linger on the details that make the whole thing feel unreal, including the way she kept rubbing her belly, the baby shower people apparently threw for her, and the way people can get pulled into a story they want to trust. They talk through the emotional weirdness of pretending to be pregnant as if it were just another harmless lie. The reactions are blunt and incredulous, which fits the subject. One host remembers seeing a tiny woman at Walmart who seemed far too small to be carrying twins, but the story still sounded convincing in the moment. The mother chimed in with the classic twin announcement, which makes the whole thing even more absurd in hindsight. The conversation moves between disbelief, humor, and genuine disgust. It keeps circling back to how easy it is to accept a story when the people around you are telling it with confidence. The episode also includes a separate uneasy memory about a man with a missing tooth, which the hosts treat as another reason to stay alert. That kind of side trail is part of the show's rhythm. It bounces from one anecdote to the next without losing the point. The hosts are not trying to sound detached or polished. They sound like people processing the story as they speak, with interruptions, corrections, and a lot of side-eye. What sticks is not just the lie itself, but the way everyone around it got pulled along. The ending returns to the show's usual goodbye, with the promise of more coming later. It leaves the listener with a mix of irritation, caution, and disbelief.

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A blunt, conversational episode that moves from a stolen-car update into a story about fake pregnancy and the awkward fallout.

It opens with a car-theft update, then slides into a story about someone pretending to be pregnant and, later, maybe having a baby. The hosts keep it moving in a blunt, back-and-forth rhythm, and the strongest stretch comes from the disbelief around that story and the social…

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You want a wild ride from a stolen-car update to a pregnancy-faker story.

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