Chantal + Ashley
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True crime, whisky and wine. Join Chantal and Ashley, two Canadian best friends as they tell each other tales of the most twisted crimes, paranormal happenings and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chantal and Ashley pair conversational case reconstruction with close attention to victims, evidence, and the decisions that shape an investigation.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast lets Chantal and Ashley build cases through conversation, moving between detailed narration and immediate reactions as evidence changes the picture.
Closet-chair jokes sit beside Chantal and Ashley's insistence that you remember the victims' names.
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A furious true-crime listen that keeps the victims at the center.
The episode opens in a loose, conversational register before moving into a sexual-assault warning and then the case itself. The hosts make plain that this is one of those stories that stays with them, and that disgust gives the discussion a firm moral center.
An intact ship, a missing lifeboat, and ten vanished people keep the Mary Celeste mystery stubbornly afloat.
The Mary Celeste turns into a locked-room mystery set loose at sea. Captain Benjamin Briggs, Sarah, Sophia, and seven crew members are gone, while personal belongings, recently used bunks, and the ship itself remain.
A Christmas rifle, a school across the street, and a host who refuses to soften the warning signs.
Triggered centers its review of Brenda's story on a Christmas rifle: a scoped .22-caliber and 500 rounds of ammunition given to a 16-year-old after psychiatric evaluation and doctors saying she likely needed a long hospital stay.
A heated, conversational missing-person case built around abuse, fear, and the cost of being heard too late.
This episode opens in a hot, angry register, jumping from a rant about a Hamilton, Ontario judge's ruling on Canada's sex offender registry into Tricia Todd's disappearance.
A sharp, angry look at how repeated leniency framed Rissell's escalation into murder.
Montie Rissell's story is handled as a grim pattern of escalation, with rape, a knife-point robbery, and repeated leniency setting the frame for the violence that followed.
A loose start gives way to a victim-focused look at the Pickton case.
Triggered starts in a loose, banter-heavy register, then settles into the Pickton case, and that shift gives the episode its shape. The strongest stretch follows the investigation through the December 2001 DNA results, the match between the 1988 alley victims, and the…
A raw missing-child discussion keeps Noel's alleged neglect and uncertain whereabouts in view.
Missing: Noel keeps its focus on a child described by the hosts as being treated less like a vulnerable boy than a threat. The discussion is hard to sit with because it stays close to the reported details: food and water allegedly withheld, and the claim that he was beaten with…
A kidnapping case where ransom letters turn hope, fear, and public attention into pressure.
A child's kidnapping is framed as a study in coercion, with Percy Parker receiving cold ransom letters that keep hope alive while steadily increasing the pressure.
Crime stories with impact and consequence.
Epstein-case coverage with teeth.
Betrayal, evidence, and the breaking point.
Triggered opens in domestic chaos.
Triggering a traffic stop on Eastern Boulevard in Essex, Maryland, leads officers to Nicole Johnson’s trunk, where they smell decomp, find maggots, and discover two children in a suitcase and another container.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast covers the Ortega family Christmas Eve killings in Covina, California, where Bruce Pardo arrived dressed as Santa Claus and attacked a house full of relatives.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast covers the disappearance and killing of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway in Westminster, Colorado, starting with her normal three-block walk to school on October 5, 2012.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast follows the disappearance of four-year-old Nyleen Kate Marshall from an Elkhorn Mountains picnic on June 25, 1983, near Clancy, Montana.
Triggered opens in full household chaos, with family noise, dinner stories, and the hosts trying to record through real life.
Triggered opens in birthday chaos.
The hosts discuss upcoming membership tiers and express gratitude to their listeners, emphasizing the community aspect of their true crime podcast.
Two Canadian best friends discuss true crime cases while enjoying whisky and wine, with a lighthearted personal introduction.
Triggered starts loud.
This episode tells the tragic story of Susan Cox Powell, a Utah mother who disappeared in 2009, and the subsequent events that led to the deaths of her husband Josh and their two young sons.
The cabins were there, but cooking pots with food sat near cold hearths, and sled dogs had starved to death.
The hosts discuss the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting by Brenda Ann Spencer, a 16-year-old who killed two and wounded others.
Co-hosts Chantal and Ashley open with an enraged commentary on two Canadian criminal justice failures — a court ruling deeming sex offender registration unconstitutional and the unsupervised parole release of a convicted child murderer — before diving into the true crime case of Trisha Todd, an Air Force veteran and hospice nurse from Hobe Sound, Florida.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast follows Monty Rissell, a 17-year-old in Alexandria, Virginia, whose crimes escalated from a rape at 14 and a knife-point robbery at 16 to five murders.
This episode covers the horrific case of Robert Pickton, a Canadian pig farmer who murdered numerous women, mostly indigenous sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Key insight from segment 5
His sneakers were found near a private airstrip, 200 yards from where they found his bike.
Triggered - The True Crime Podcast covers Jennifer Morey’s April 15, 1995 attack in Houston, Texas, after a 25-year-old attorney returned to her gated apartment and woke to a man on top of her with a knife at her throat.
The hosts discuss the 2004 murder of 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai in Japan, killed by a classmate with a box cutter in a premeditated attack.
The detective says Megan did you kill that baby and she says yes I was scared so I choked it.
Chantal and Ashley explore the supernatural lore of the Appalachian mountains, discussing eerie phenomena like mimics, 'not deer,' and grandmother's warnings, while sharing personal paranormal experiences and planning a trip to investigate.
The hosts discuss the murder of Jessica Sacco, a 21-year-old with bipolar disorder who was killed and dismembered by her boyfriend Matthew Puccio and four accomplices in Urbana, Ohio.
The hosts open in chaos, bouncing through internet nonsense, fake AI pigs, and a Texas serial-killer detour before landing on Judy.
Triggered opens with illness updates, renovation headaches, and family chaos before it swerves into Brittany Gargle's murder.
Triggered opens in its usual chaotic way, with the hosts riffing through coughs, vitamins, and garlic before the case lands.
Triggered opens in a cramped closet with the hosts tired, cramped, and already on edge.
Triggered opens with a chaotic personal update about a stolen car and the fallout around it before sliding into a story about a woman who kept inventing pregnancies.
The hosts share the harrowing story of Alison Botha, a South African woman who survived a brutal rape and near-decapitation in 1994, walking for help while holding her intestines.
Two Canadian best friends discuss quitting vaping in a casual, humorous opening before transitioning to true crime storytelling.
Two Canadian friends discuss a sad true crime case involving a child victim, while also sharing personal updates about quitting vaping.
Two Canadian best friends discuss true crime cases and paranormal events while sharing personal anecdotes.
Two Canadian friends share personal anecdotes and banter before diving into true crime stories.
Two Canadian best friends share personal stories and banter before diving into true crime and paranormal tales.
A host shares a personal experience with sleep paralysis, describing terrifying hallucinations and physical sensations.
This episode begins with advertisements for Grow Therapy and McDonald's, then transitions into a recommendation for the Savvy Psychologist podcast, which covers true crime from a forensic psychology perspective.
Two Canadian best friends share personal anecdotes and introduce their true crime podcast covering twisted crimes and paranormal events.