Mortal Sin
Hosted by Josh Mankiewicz and Lester Holt · NBC News
4.2from 1,071 ratings
- 31
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 1,071
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 9B
- YouTube views
About Mortal Sin
Dawn and Nick Hacheney are the perfect couple: spiritual, loving, and devoted to the church where Nick is a pastor. When Dawn is killed in a house fire the day after Christmas, the pastor and his flock are devastated. What few knew at the time was the dark prophecy that foretold it. The latest podcast from Dateline and Josh Mankiewicz is about sex, lies, religion… and murder. Listen to all episodes of Mortal Sin now completely free, or subscriber to Dateline Premium to listen ad-free: DatelinePremium.com
- Publisher
- NBC News
- Category
- true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Nov 2023
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 31 episodes have a transcript.
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Preview: Colin Kaepernick on Before & After with Lester Holt
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What were you hoping to achieve with the protests? To collectively move us forward as a society. very specifically fighting against police killing black folks, but also looking at systemic oppression holistically to get society thinking and moving in the direction of addressing these issues to create a better society. We have to do something different, and there has to be motion and momentum and movement around that. When you finally took that knee, what was the feeling? Where was your head? I had a few different thoughts, was thinking about all the people before me and the sacrifices that they had made, how far they were willing to go, whether that's the Montgomery bus boycotts, whether that's Rosa Parks, whether that's Malcolm X, whether that's MLK. […]
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- YouTube views
- 8,878,956,433
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.1 / 5
- 836 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 235 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- Quality
- 59
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Who hosts Mortal Sin?
Josh Mankiewicz and Lester Holt host the show. Published by NBC News.
How often do new episodes come out?
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