Triggered - The True Crime Podcast · Chantal + Ashley

The Last Selfie: Brittney Gargol

January 9, 2026·43 min·10 clips

Triggered starts the way it often does: the hosts are sick, the house is a mess, and family chaos keeps barging in. They joke around, grumble, and drift for a bit before the case takes over. They spend some time on how normal it once felt to post private messages on Facebook. That matters, because the episode is about to follow exactly that kind of public, messy trail. Brittany Gargle's case enters through the clutter instead of a neat setup. The hosts move into the missing car, the missing phone, and the awful fact that Brittany has been found murdered. Cheyenne's wall post asking where someone is and saying she still needs her phone becomes one of the episode's anchor points. The car turns up. Her phone is inside it. That gives investigators something solid, which is more than they have from memory alone. The phone data points to a McDonald's as the last ping, and the hosts treat that as a real break in the timeline. They keep coming back to the gap between a blurry night and no evidence at all. Cheyenne says they were at the Colonial, but that story starts to crack once police check footage and compare details. The episode keeps pressing on the distance between what someone thinks happened and what the records show. Blackout drinking gets a lot of attention too, mostly for how fast a story can change when memory drops out. The hosts do not treat that lightly. They use it to show how detectives rebuild a night from fragments and contradictions. The tone flips between rough humor and real upset, which is very much the show's thing. The back half tightens up as the outline of the case comes into focus. Brittany stays at the center even when the discussion gets messy. By the end, it feels like both a timeline puzzle and a personal reckoning. The close is plain and emotional, with sympathy for Brittany's family and the show's usual everyday chaos spilling into the sign off.

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A messy timeline case anchored by phone data, a McDonald's ping, and a long setup.

The episode turns Brittany Gargol's case into a damaged-night timeline built from a missing car, a missing phone, and an account that keeps shifting as investigators try to reconstruct the hours after the bar.

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For when you want a true-crime case told like two friends arguing through a messy night.

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