The Half Of It

Chelsea & Kate

The Half of It is what happens when two sisters who found each other later in life realize they have a lot more in common than DNA — including a love of crime, weird stories, family mysteries, dark humor, and asking way too many questions. Chelsea and Kate share the same biological father, but grew up completely separate. Now they talk every day, usually about something bizarre, suspicious, hilarious, or all three. Some episodes dig into cold cases and strange crimes. Some unravel stories from their own family. Some are just the two of them trying to understand how two people who barely knew the other existed can somehow sound alike, think alike, and have an alarming number of the same quirks. They may not know the whole story. But they’ve got The Half of It.

Episodes

  1. Aug 29

    The Watcher: There was no Dumbwaiter

    You've probably seen the Netflix series. We're throwing it out. No cult, no tunnels, and no dumbwaiter — despite Chelsea being completely certain there was one, which she admits on mic. What's left is the real case: four letters, a detail about a child at an easel that tells you exactly how close the writer was standing, female DNA on an envelope that never matched anyone, a neighbor who was never ruled out, a door-to-door DNA canvass in 2018, and roughly half a million dollars lost on a house the family never lived in. Nobody was ever identified. The case has never been closed. Whoever wrote those letters is very likely still living on that street. Chelsea does the research. Kate goes in cold. In this episode: all four letters read in full · why security cameras were never going to solve this · the female DNA and what it does and doesn't prove · Derek's Christmas Eve letters · the Robert Kaplow theory, and why it's a theory and not an accusation · everything Netflix invented Content note: stalking, threats against children. Sources: Reeves Wiedeman, "The Haunting of a Dream House," New York Magazine / The Cut, 2018 · NBC News · Patch · Union County court filings · Westfield Planning Board records. Full links in the show notes. Written and produced by Chelsea & Kate for The Half of It. Executive Produced by Lisa Sydney  Photos, documents, and references connected to all episodes can be found at PumpkinSparklesCreations.com. The Half of It is hosted by half-sisters Chelsea and Kate, who found each other through DNA and are now making up for lost time — one unbelievable story at a time.

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The Half of It is what happens when two sisters who found each other later in life realize they have a lot more in common than DNA — including a love of crime, weird stories, family mysteries, dark humor, and asking way too many questions. Chelsea and Kate share the same biological father, but grew up completely separate. Now they talk every day, usually about something bizarre, suspicious, hilarious, or all three. Some episodes dig into cold cases and strange crimes. Some unravel stories from their own family. Some are just the two of them trying to understand how two people who barely knew the other existed can somehow sound alike, think alike, and have an alarming number of the same quirks. They may not know the whole story. But they’ve got The Half of It.