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Talking Dateline: Malice

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Social, Culture, True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

With Blayne on assignment, Lester Holt talks with Senior Producer Allison Orr and Producer Ann Preisman about Blayne’s latest episode, "Malice." Just over a year into his new marriage, Jake Embert was found dead from what would quickly be ruled a self-inflicted gunshot. Jake’s family did not accept the ruling, believing he had been killed by his new wife. They hired a private investigator who presented his findings to authorities, resulting in Jake’s manner of death being changed to homicide. Susan Embert was charged with her husband’s murder and eventually found guilty and sentenced to life. Allison and Ann discuss the credentials needed to become a coroner and play an extra clip of Blayne confronting Susan about a Facebook post she made in the days following her husband’s death. Plus, Lester and Ann answer your questions from social media. This episode discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988lifeline.org for more resources. Listen to the full episode “Malice” on Apple: https://apple.co/3PcKoLI Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vQ1hNSjEf6GUKiNTvEfV0

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. I'm Lester Holt, and we're talking Dateline today and here with senior producer

0:07.6

Alison Orr, and producer Anne Priceman, to talk about this week's episode Malice. If you haven't seen it,

0:14.2

you can watch the episode on Peacock or listen to it at the Dateline podcast feed and then come right back here to listen to our discussion.

0:23.2

In this episode, we'll have a podcast exclusive clip from Blaine's interview with Susan

0:28.5

Embert about a public Facebook post she made in the days after Jake Embert's death.

0:34.6

And then later, we'll answer some of your questions from social media.

0:38.1

So now let's talk Dateline. First of all, ladies, thank you for being with us.

0:41.4

Thank you for having us. Thanks, Lester. The reason why Blaine is not here, I'm sure she would

0:45.3

love to be here talking to you about the episode. Instead, you get me and Anne, is because

0:49.8

Blaine is on her way as we speak and record this episode to do what is going to be her first

0:55.5

jailhouse dateline interview inside a facility. And you're going to see that. I'm sure it's

1:01.9

going to be great, really interesting case on a future dayline.

1:05.3

Alison, I don't know if you want to start off and just kind of give us the big picture of

1:09.2

this story. I watching it, I felt like I was watching a bouncing ball half the time.

1:13.2

There were so many, so many twists and turns.

1:15.6

There were so many twists and turns.

1:18.3

Things got started.

1:19.4

They slowed down, you know, one step forward, one step back.

1:22.8

But the story essentially begins in 2014 in Georgia.

1:27.1

A man named Jake Ember was found shot to death in his home.

1:31.2

His wife on the scene told investigators and the coroner who arrived that she believed he'd shot

1:37.3

himself in the head, and it was very quickly ruled a suicide. But his children, his children

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