Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!
August 30, 2026
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5 min readA Reddit user finds a single newspaper article in a digital archive, just a few lines in a language she barely speaks. It says her father, the man who hand-built her a Hot Wheels dollhouse and whom she considered the best dad ever, kidnapped a university student when he was a minor. He kept her for "a bit." The user’s mother, when confronted, slips up and says, "He didn't hurt me." The user realizes her mother was the victim. Her parents’ love story began with a stranger abduction.
This is the kind of story at the heart of Crimes of Reddit, a new podcast from Crime House hosted by Sabrina Diana Roga and Alexis Linkletter. Each week, one host brings true crime threads from Reddit while the other reacts blind, and then they swap. The format is designed to replicate the experience of sending a disturbing thread to a friend at 2 a.m. and parsing it together in real time. The pilot episode, presented here as an introduction to the show, covers three family-themed stories that all turn on the same unsettling mechanism: the discovery that someone you thought you knew is capable of something much darker.
The Father Who Kidnapped His Own Wife
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:01) **Show Introduction & Host Banter** - Vanessa introduces the new podcast Crimes of Reddit, hosted by Sabrina Diana Roga and Alexis Linkletter, as a preview episode for her audience.
- 2 (01:42) **Story 1: "My Strange Family"** - The first Reddit post is introduced: a 24-year-old female discovers her father kidnapped a university student when he was young.
- 3 (03:50) **Story 1 Deep Dive: Confrontation & Revelation** - The hosts read the OP's update where she confronts her mother about the kidnapping.
- 4 (05:10) **Story 1 Analysis: Stockholm Syndrome & Cultural Context** - The hosts discuss the psychological and cultural dynamics of the situation.
- 5 (06:26) **Story 2: "Found Hundreds of Pictures of My Brother"** - The second Reddit post is introduced: a woman finds hundreds of photos of her brother on her boyfriend's rarely-used laptop.
- 6 (07:50) **Story 2 Deep Dive: Escalation & Confrontation** - The hosts read the OP's update revealing the situation is far more dangerous than initially thought.
- 7 (09:30) **Story 2 Analysis: Dangerous Patterns & Victim Dynamics** - The hosts analyze the boyfriend's behavior as classic escalation patterns seen in serial killers.
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Show Notes
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga.
Every Tuesday, one host brings a set of true-crime stories while the other reacts in real time with no prep, no spoilers asking the questions on everyone’s mind. They pull at every thread until the whole twisted picture comes into view. It’s dark, it’s messy, and the scariest part is simple: THESE ARE STORIES POSTED BY REAL PEOPLE.
Follow CRIMES OF REDDIT for a new episode every Tuesday. https://pod.link/1838511303
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