Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!

“I twenty-four female found hundreds of pictures of my brother twenty male on my boyfriend’s twenty-four male laptop. Can anyone please explain to me what’s going on?” That opening line from a Reddit post captures the exact feeling Crimes of Reddit is built around: the 2 a.m. group-chat dread of stumbling onto something you cannot unsee. The new Crime House podcast, hosted by Sabrina Diana Roga (Two Girls One Ghost) and Alexis Linkletter (The First Degree, Unraveled), takes true crime stories straight from Reddit threads. One host brings a story; the other hears it for the first time, completely blind. Then they swap. The pilot episode dives into three family-themed posts, each revealing how the people closest to us can harbor the most disturbing secrets.

The Dad Who Kidnapped His Wife

The first story begins with a Redditor who always thought her parents had a perfect marriage. Her dad built her a Hot Wheels dollhouse by hand; her mom hand-sewed a Supergirl costume. But after connecting with cousins from her parents’ home country, she learned that her father had kidnapped a university student when he was a teenager. The article was short—just a few lines—and because he was a minor, his name was never published. The Redditor confronted her mother, who slipped and said, “He didn’t hurt me.” That’s when the daughter realized: the victim was her own mother.