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The story everyone knows is where we start. The question nobody asked is where we go.
Welcome to Wait, Explain That? — the podcast for people who hear a story and immediately have 47 follow-up questions.
Best friends Heather and Natalie dive into true crime, unsolved mysteries, bizarre history, cults, scams, psychology, espionage, and real-life stories so unbelievable they sound made up.
We go beyond the headlines, digging through court records, police reports, original documents, and overlooked details to uncover what happened, what doesn’t add up, and what everyone else seems to have moved past.
Expect deep research, skeptical questions, unexpected twists, dark humor, and the occasional rabbit hole we probably should have left alone.
Because the story is never just the story.
🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday.
Welcome to Wait, Explain That? — the podcast for people who hear a story and immediately have 47 follow-up questions.
Best friends Heather and Natalie dive into true crime, unsolved mysteries, bizarre history, cults, scams, psychology, espionage, and real-life stories so unbelievable they sound made up.
We go beyond the headlines, digging through court records, police reports, original documents, and overlooked details to uncover what happened, what doesn’t add up, and what everyone else seems to have moved past.
Expect deep research, skeptical questions, unexpected twists, dark humor, and the occasional rabbit hole we probably should have left alone.
Because the story is never just the story.
🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
32 minutes
English
United States
6 episodes
since Sept. 29, 2026
episodic
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She was 19 years old. Her killer became infamous. But somewhere along the way, the world stopped talking about Colleen Slemmer.
In January 1995, Colleen Slemmer was lured into the woods near the Knoxville Job Corps campus in Tennessee, where she was brutally tortured and murdered. Christa Pike was …
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Sixteen-year-old Miranda Corsette was murdered in St. Petersburg, Florida, in February 2025. Steven Gress and Michelle Brandes are accused of her brutal captivity, torture, and murder. But the questions surrounding this case go far beyond the two people charged.
Investigators uncovered disturbing p…
A murdered 4-year-old. A young woman killed after leaving a party. Another woman whose murder would later be linked to a suspected serial killer.
And a community gripped by Satanic Panic.
What happened in the Florida Keys, and how many questions remain unanswered decades later?
In Episode 4 of Wait…
What if you wanted to disappear completely...
and collect your own life insurance money while you were still alive?
In the late 1980s, Gene Hanson and John Hawkins had built a wildly successful-looking sweatpants business called Just Sweats.
Then everything started falling apart.
Millions of dollar…
The fake identities are blown. The parents are in custody. And somehow, their own children still don’t know who they really are.
In Part 2, Heather and Natalie follow the Dultsevs after the arrest, as an already unbelievable spy story turns into something much stranger: a family caught between two …
They were already married. Then they met again as strangers.
Different names. Different histories. A second wedding. Two children growing up inside a life that looked completely normal from the outside.
In Part 1, Heather takes Natalie into the story of Maria and Ludwig—and the increasingly strange…
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