Scams, Money, & Murder

What happens when jealousy, manipulation and betrayal cross the line into criminal behavior?

Sabrina Deana-Roga brings Alexis Linkletter three shocking true crime relationship stories from Reddit. A husband discovers the disturbing truth behind his wife’s secret harassment campaign, a woman learns that her boyfriend has been conducting horrifying experiments on her, and a man receives a friend request from the ex-girlfriend he believed had been dead for eight years. Alexis hears each story for the first time and reacts in real time as they investigate the lies, warning signs and devastating consequences hidden inside these relationships.

On February 10, 1984, 10-year-old Kevin Collins left basketball practice at St. Agnes School in San Francisco and began the short, familiar walk home through the Sunset District. Multiple witnesses recalled seeing him speaking with an unknown man near a schoolyard. He never made it home. Despite one of the largest searches in San Francisco history — roadblocks, helicopters, hundreds of volunteers — no physical trace of Kevin was ever found. A known sex offender was investigated for years and stood trial in the 1990s, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. The Collins family, and an entire city, never got their answer.

According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was a gold-covered chest built to hold the Ten Commandments, an object of such immense divine power that it could level cities and strike down anyone who touched it. Then, sometime after the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem, it vanished from history. For thousands of years, the question of what happened to it has fueled legends and obsessive searches, with some claiming it lies hidden in a church in Ethiopia, others pointing to secret chambers beneath Jerusalem, and still others insisting it sits locked away in the vaults...

When Dathan was five, his kindergarten class released helium balloons with letters inside as a sweet lesson about connecting with strangers. But someone found his balloon... and never stopped watching him. For nearly a decade, this person photographed Dathan from the shadows, infiltrated his neighborhood, and ultimately targeted his best friend.

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At 7pm on a February night in 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car on a dark New Hampshire road and told a passing driver she was fine. Eleven minutes later, police arrived. The car was still there. Maura was gone. No footprints in the snow. No sign of where she went. In the first part of our 3-part series, host Katie Ring is joined by Crimes of Reddit hosts Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter to break down the case.

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For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. In 1968, a young couple was shot dead in the Italian countryside while their six-year-old son slept in the back seat: a crime that quietly launched one of Italy's most haunting serial killing sprees. For over a decade, a gunman stalked couples parked in remote areas outside Florence, leaving behind little evidence and a signature pattern of brutal mutilation. When investigators finally linked the crimes through a single .22-caliber Beretta pistol, the trail led back to that very first...

Young couples disappeared or were found murdered along a scenic stretch of highway. The crimes unfolded across multiple locations. Fear grew as authorities struggled to connect the dots.

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Sabrina Deana-Roga brings Alexis Linkletter three of Reddit's most disturbing stalker stories, and with zero knowledge of what's coming, Alexis reacts in real time.

One man is stalked by his ex at his own wedding. Another discovers someone has been secretly breaking into their apartment and moving things around. And a third shares their story of being stalked and catfished...with an ending nobody sees coming.

Sabrina and Alexis break down the warning signs, the choices each person made, and the shocking aftermath of dealing with a stalker.

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On September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden left his Doncaster home as if heading to school, doubled back once his family left, changed clothes, withdrew £200 in cash, and bought a one-way train ticket to London. CCTV cameras caught him arriving alone at King's Cross Station. After he walked out of that station, he was never seen again. Andrew was described as academically brilliant, deeply private, and deeply reserved. He left behind his charger and packed almost nothing — as if he hadn't planned to be gone long. In one of the most surveilled cities in the world, a boy simply vanished.

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For nearly a decade, the Sicilian Mafia ran the largest heroin pipeline in the world, hiding it inside something as ordinary as the neighborhood pizza parlor. Morphine was bought in Turkey, refined into heroin in Sicily, smuggled into the United States, and sold through family-owned pizzerias across the American Northeast, while the profits were laundered through banks in New York, the Bahamas, and Switzerland. The operation moved an estimated $1.65 billion in drugs before the FBI, aided by an undercover agent who had spent years embedded inside the Bonanno crime family, coordinated arrests across four countries in a single day...

Before creepypasta had a name, Ted the Caver existed. A real website from 2001 with real photographs: a man and his friends exploring an increasingly tight cave system, finding carved symbols, a smell, and rhythmic sounds from deeper inside. Framed as a “where did all of this come from” history of internet horror episode — tracing the line from Ted’s cave to Slenderman to every story Twisted Tales has covered.

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On the morning of November 22nd, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald got up before his family was awake, left his wedding ring on the dresser, and carried a long brown package to work. He told his coworker it was curtain rods. A few miles away, President John F. Kennedy was getting ready for a motorcade through downtown Dallas. In the first part of our 3-part series on the JFK assassination, Katie Ring traces everything that had to happen, and everything that went wrong, before the two men ended up on the same street.

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Vanessa and Dr. Engels get into the case of Japanese serial rapist Joji Obara, who for thirty years, drugged and assaulted hundreds of women across Japan, documenting his crimes in chilling detail. Hiding behind false names and a surgically altered face, he evaded justice while his attacks escalated.

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Jennifer Pan seemed like the perfect daughter—straight A’s, trophies, and a future in medicine. But behind closed doors, the pressure was suffocating. In 2010, she decided there was only one way out: murder. This is the twisted story of how a model student turned into a killer.

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Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Scams, Money, & Murder, 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.

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In this episode, we're joined by Andrea Dunlop, host of Nobody Should Believe Me, to examine the haunting case of Madeleine McCann. On the evening of May 3, 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant. What followed became the most publicized missing child investigation in modern history. The global media spectacle turned her parents into suspects, generated more heat than light, and produced decades of leads that went nowhere. A German national was formally named a suspect in 2020, but no charges have been filed. Behind...

In 1483, two boys, the 12-year-old King of England and his 9-year-old brother, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle, who had sworn to protect them. In 1483, two boys, the 12-year-old King of England and his 9-year-old brother, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle, who had sworn to protect them. Instead, he declared them illegitimate and crowned himself King Richard III. The princes were seen playing in the Tower gardens that summer, and then they vanished. Their uncle had the clearest motive, but so did his closest ally and the man who later...

Adults on a forum reminisce about a childhood puppet show called Candle Cove — a skeletal pirate called the Skin-Taker, a cape made of children’s skin, an episode that was just screaming. The final post reframes every message above it. One of the most elegant twist endings in internet horror.

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Ed Gein became the real-life blueprint for Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. But before any of that, he was a boy on an isolated Wisconsin farm, raised by a mother who taught him the entire world was sin. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning, to the family that made Ed Gein, the brother he may have killed, and the night he started slipping out to dig up graves.

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Israel Keyes spent years methodically preparing for murder: burying weapon caches across the country, committing crimes far from home, and maintaining a quiet family life to avoid suspicion. Born into a white nationalist sect and mentored by domestic terrorists, Keyes developed a chilling capacity for violence alongside an equally chilling ability to conceal it. This episode traces his upbringing, his earliest attacks, and the elaborate systems he built to keep killing undetected.

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A remote paradise became the setting for rivalry and tension. Settlers seeking freedom found conflict instead. Then two people vanished without explanation.

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Sabrina and Corinne uncover the double life of John Wayne Gacy: neighbor, community volunteer, party clown, and sadistic killer. Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys, leaving a legacy so terrifying it bled into pop culture through Stephen King’s Pennywise.

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In July 1987, 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier was camping in Yosemite National Park — but not with family. She had been traveling with an older man she recently met, a relationship that alarmed those who knew her. Shortly after arriving at the campground, Theresa disappeared. The man claimed she had wandered off, but investigators found holes in his account early on. With nobody recovered despite exhaustive searches of Yosemite's vast wilderness, a conviction proved impossible. Authorities have long suspected homicide. Some of America's most beautiful places can become the setting for its darkest crimes.

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On April 2, 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with the entire Confederate treasury, a fortune in gold ingots, silver bricks, and coins guarded by teenage Navy midshipmen on a train heading south into a collapsing nation. Five weeks later, when Union soldiers finally captured Davis, almost all of it was gone. The War Department told the public the missing treasure was worth $13 million, a number historians say was invented to turn every former Confederate into a hunted man. The truth was far more complicated, with records showing most of the money was paid to soldiers and spent along the...

Andrew Erics is a twenty-five-year-old factory worker in New York City who passes his daily commute by people-watching... until he notices riders who are too still, too blank, and going absolutely nowhere. What begins as quiet curiosity slowly consumes his job, his sanity, and finally his freedom, pulling him into an impossible underground world he may never escape. And the deeper he follows, the more he transforms into the very thing that unsettled him.

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In 1983, a group of young men from wealthy LA families built a social club, a Ponzi scheme, and a homemade philosophy that told them the rules didn't apply, and called it the Billionaire Boys Club. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the origins of Joe Hunt: the brilliant outsider who faked his entire resume, conned his way into Beverly Hills society, and invented a worldview that would eventually justify murder.

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In June 1912, eight people were bludgeoned with an axe in a Villisca, Iowa home while they slept. The killer left behind a staged scene filled with bizarre clues but no clear identity, plunging a tight-knit community into fear and suspicion.

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A doctor claimed an intruder killed his wife. Headlines cast judgment long before a verdict. The case became a battle between publicity and justice.

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Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin — a Russian-born, German-raised young woman with a sharp eye for luxury and a sharper tongue for anyone who doubted her — convinced New York's elite that she was Anna Delvey, heiress to a vast European fortune. She stayed in five-star hotels, flew on private jets, defrauded banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and nearly secured a $22 million loan to fund her own private arts club. She was caught, convicted, detained, and still, somehow, kept talking. We trace the con, the character, and the city that was almost too flattered by her attention to notice it w...

Three tropical destinations, three true crimes: in Aruba, 35-year-old Robyn Gardner vanishes from a beach with a travel companion who later tries to collect her life insurance... and is never charged. On Thailand's Koh Tao, British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller are found murdered at dawn, and the convictions that follow are disputed worldwide. In Bali, nine young Australians are arrested for heroin smuggling after their own government tips off Indonesian police, leading to two of them being executed by firing squad. This is episode 1 of Deadly Destinations, a special four-part series on Conspiracy Theories, Cults and Crime...

In 1802, a journalist reported that President Thomas Jefferson was keeping an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings as a concubine and had fathered her children. Jefferson said nothing. His family denied it. America's most prominent historians dismissed the story for nearly two hundred years.

But Hemings' own descendants told a different story, one passed down through generations of oral history that the white historical establishment refused to take seriously. Did the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence have a secret family with a woman he enslaved? And if he did, why did it take the country...

Andrew Erics is a twenty-five-year-old factory worker in New York City who passes his daily commute by people-watching... until he notices riders who are too still, too blank, and going absolutely nowhere. What begins as quiet curiosity slowly consumes his job, his sanity, and finally his freedom, pulling him into an impossible underground world he may never escape. And the deeper he follows, the more he transforms into the very thing that unsettled him.

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In 1981, a spiritual leader named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, known as the "sex guru", moved thousands of followers to an abandoned ranch in rural Oregon and built an entire city from scratch. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the origins of the Rajneesh movement, the woman who really ran it, and how a town of 75 people was legally taken over and renamed.

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Ed Kemper was intelligent, articulate, and seemingly self-aware—but beneath that surface was a violent fantasy life that began taking shape early. In Part 1, Vanessa and Dr. Engels trace Kemper’s troubled youth, his first killings, and the psychological warning signs that foreshadowed something far darker.

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Boys began disappearing near a remote ranch. Suspicion centered on a charismatic but volatile man. The discoveries that followed horrified the public.

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Jim Jones told his people he loved them. He built a church that preached racial equality and social justice at a time when those words carried weight. Then he moved nearly a thousand followers to a jungle compound in Guyana and called it paradise. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died at Jonestown — including 304 children — in a mass poisoning Jones called a revolutionary act. We trace the full arc of the Peoples Temple: the idealism that drew people in, the terror that kept them from leaving, and the single worst loss of American civilian life until September 11, 2001.

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On August 12, 2013, 25-year-old theater technician Tiffany Daniels left her job at Pensacola State College and never arrived at a friend's home that evening. The next morning, her car was found locked at Fort Pickens — a remote Gulf Coast location known for sweeping beaches and a historic fortification — with her purse, phone, and personal belongings still inside. Authorities initially explored whether she had an accident in the surrounding wilderness before reclassifying the case as suspicious. More than a decade later, no charges have been filed, and the beach that may hold her secrets has stayed silent.

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The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too. Hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, Government That Doesn't Suck brings together the sharpest thinkers to reveal the real-world impact of American government, one episode at a time. Follow ⁠Government That Doesn’t Suck⁠ for a new episode every other Monday. Government That Doesn’t Suck is a Rewind Studios original powered by PAVE Studios.

In 1976, Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov endured a catastrophic solo stint aboard the Salyut 5 space station: contaminated air, a crumbling support system, and a rescue that nearly ended in disaster. The creepypasta "The Devil's Cosmonaut" takes that real mission and asks one quiet question: what if it wasn't just the air? Built on documented failures, classified silence, and the psychological terror of absolute isolation, this story blurs the line between breakdown and haunting in ways that are hard to shake.

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Richard Ramirez grew up sleeping in graveyards to avoid his violent father. At twelve, he found the role model he'd been looking for: a Green Beret cousin who came home from Vietnam with Polaroids of his victims and a philosophy that holding power over life and death made you a god.

In part one of our three-part series, Katie Ring traces the childhood of Richard Ramirez that built the “Night Stalker,” and the night his killing began. This episode contains descriptions of child abuse, sexual assault, and murder. Please listen with care.

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