‘Dateline NBC’ To Launch New Josh Mankiewicz-Hosted Podcast ‘Mortal Sin’

EXCLUSIVE: Dateline NBC is set to launch its 15th original podcast Mortal Sin, to be reported by Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz.

The first two episodes will be available for download and streaming for free across podcast platforms on December 5; the remaining three will drop over the following two weeks. Subscribers to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts can listen to the first two episodes now and will receive subsequent episodes early.

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Mortal Sin investigates how the death of a pastor’s wife after a house fire uncovers a web of sex, murder, and deception.

“It’s a story about trust, about betrayal, about truly crazy things that happen in the name of religion, and ultimately about murder. While you’re listening, you will say several times to yourself, ‘That can’t actually have happened.’ Except…it did,” teased Mankiewicz, who previously reported on Motive for Murder, Internal Affairs and Dateline: Missing in America podcasts.

Listen to the trailer for the series below.

NBC touts the success of Dateline’s showcast— featuring broadcasts as podcast episodes— as it’s expected to deliver its 4th straight record year with more than 350 million total downloads, according to Simplecast. Podtrac’s monthly rankings report the showcast has surpassed 1 billion lifetime downloads, ranking as the No. 1 true-crime podcast.

Mortal Sin is a production of NBC News and Dateline. Jessica Noll serves as the producer, Adam Gorfain as co-executive Producer, Liz Cole as Executive Producer and David Corvo as senior executive producer. Carson Cummins and Kyani Reid are associate producers. The audio editors include Brian Drew, Kelly Laudien and Marshall Hausfeld. Sound mixing was completed by Bob Mallory and Catherine Anderson, with Bryson Barnes as head of audio production.

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