This week’s episode focuses on Fred West and what his life before Rosemary was like. This 12-episode series features both Sounes’s original interviews and new ones, as he goes back to revisit the case and his own investigation. The physical and sexual abuse they inflicted on others - including their own children - is incomprehensible. After covering the criminal investigations and trials of the couple, Sounes went on to write one of the definitive books about the case, Fred and Rose, although how he managed to escape relatively mentally unscathed from the process is anyone’s guess. Journalist Howard Sounes has been writing about Fred and Rosemary West since 1994, when he began breaking major news stories about the gruesome twosome who had been raping, torturing, and murdering young women and burying their bodies in their home in Gloucester for years. Have a listen to discover what nefarious and uncanny turns this seemingly simple case will take - as well as Pam, and the thing about her. It’s not just the dulcet tones of Keith Morrison’s voice that make this intriguing, it’s the setup. It’s already weird in the first episode, where we meet Pam, learn about Russ and Betsy’s relationship, and hear footage from Russ’s police interrogation, during which his story about what he found that night never changes. Depending on what you make of that call, you might think this is an open-and-shut case, but trust Keith Morrison when he says this is one of the strangest cases he’s ever seen. In short, one night in December 2011, Russ Faria called 911 when he returned home and found his wife, Betsy, dead from 52 stab wounds (remember this detail). (As it turns out, so does everyone else who has access to the internet.) The call at the beginning of the first episode of Dateline and Keith Morrison’s - yes, that Keith Morrison - new podcast, The Thing About Pam, will test all of your amateur “did he do it or what” sleuth skills. It now airs on Fridays with new episodes on NBC, plus in reruns on NBC Universal owned cable networks, like USA, MSNBC and Oxygen, plus traditional TV syndication.At this point in my true-crime listening/watching career, I enjoy thinking I can accurately analyze a 911 call. "Dateline" originally began in 1992 as a traditional network TV news magazine, hosted by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, but morphed in 2005 into a true crime series that is now hosted by Lester Holt, the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News." "It's great to be able to to put in stuff that might get lost," otherwise. "Sometimes an explanation could take a minute and a half, and that doesn't work in television, that's too long," he says. Mankiewicz says doing a podcast was freeing because it allowed him time to reveal more details of the story. "Pam" was an extended version of a storiy first seen on the "Dateline" TV show. The first two originals were "13 Alibis," from May, 2019, and "The Thing about Pam," from September. "Motive," is the third "Dateline" original podcast, about two Houston murders, based on the TV episode from November that was reported by Josh Mankiewicz - who hosts the audio edition as well. "Dateline," has reaped over 100 million podcast downloads since launching in May, 2019. Today, the iTunes top 25 list includes shows such as the "Dateline," podcast, an audio version of the weekly Friday night (9 p.m.) TV show, currently No. Back in 2014, the in-depth investigation of a murder case in "Serial," helped kick off the genre. True crime podcasts are the hottest right now. Shuffles: NBC News chief Andy Lack out in corporate restructuring Cesar Conde takes top job Anchor speaks: Lester Holt Q&A: In prison, I learned about hope and resilience
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