The Thing About Pam
Hosted by Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison and Lester Holt · NBC News
4.6from 16,515 ratings
- 36
- Episodes
- 26
- Transcribed
- 16,515
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 9B
- YouTube views
About The Thing About Pam
Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russ Faria came home from game night to find his wife, Betsy, dead. He was soon charged and convicted of her murder. But Russ Faria insisted he did not kill his wife. Betsy’s brutal murder set off a chain of events that would leave one man dead, another man implicated, and expose a diabolical scheme. It would also see Dateline NBC—the true-crime original—become a part of the never-ending saga that proves the old adage: Truth is stranger than fiction. This original series from Keith Morrison and Dateline defies all expectations. Listen to all episodes of The Thing About Pam now completely free, or subscriber to Dateline Premium to listen ad-free: DatelinePremium.com
- Publisher
- NBC News
- Category
- news · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Sept 2019
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
26 of 36 episodes have a transcript.
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Published 18 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
- 8,880,003,665
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 15,495 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,020 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100
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- Quality
- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison and Lester Holt host the show. Published by NBC News.
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