Talking Dateline: Malice
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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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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