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What happened on June 28th, 2014, regarding Jake Embert?
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Tonight on Dateline. He says, I'm so sorry, but your dad has passed. The coroner is telling me. This is a suicide. This is a suicide.
There's no freaking way. My husband just shot himself. I ran down the hallway. I thought I was going to lose my mind.
She was like, don't go back in the bedroom.
This was your dad's wife?
Yeah.
You didn't think his body needed another look? Any more testing, any more anything?
No, based on the information that I had at that time.
Was that a mistake? Zero investigation, zero autopsy, open and shut. We have pictures of what exactly happened in that bedroom. It was painfully obvious the body had been moved.
You didn't have to be an expert to see that this crime scene was staged.
You have to admit that it does look suspicious.
I don't know what it looks like to other people. I know he loved me, and I loved him. Fire shot through my entire body.
My dad did not take his own life. How does your family handle this? We get to work. It was ruled a suicide, but who really pulled the trigger?
A family fights to uncover the truth. I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline.
Here's Blaine Alexander with Malice. Time. Once it's gone, it's the one thing you can never get back. Time with loved ones. Time spent waiting for answers. The clock on this story for this family began on a Saturday morning. I want to talk about June 28th, 2014. Mm-hmm. Okay.
All Benny, Georgia.
A woman on the line with 911. She was frantic.
Her name was Susan Embert. She was calling about her husband, Jake.
I thought maybe he was cleaning his guns or something because he's always messing with them, you know?
So I didn't know what happened. When you heard the noise, did you immediately know it was a gunshot? I knew it was a gunshot, but I didn't know if it came from back there or where. I just heard it was loud.
No! She was still on the phone when a truck pulled up to the house.
It was Will Embert, Jake's 17-year-old son from a previous marriage. He had been there earlier that morning and was coming back to spend the day with his dad.
Turn my truck off. and I can hear yelling. Susan comes out, like just comes barreling out the house real fast. She's on the phone, she's yelling. Could you hear what she was saying? It was discombobulated. And I'm like, what's going on? And she was like, don't go back in the bedroom.
You were trying to keep him away from the house.
How did the initial investigation conclude Jake's death?
To protect him.
You know, from not seeing that sight. Don't go back there, they said. Don't go back there. Don't touch nothing. The ambulance is on the way.
I was like, why? She wouldn't tell me why. And eventually, she told me that my dad shot himself.
Oh, God. Mm-hmm.
What did you do? I fell on the ground. I think I blacked out. I was very upset. I was crying.
I remember I looked up.
Well, I remember Susan saying that the police are here.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened on June 28th, 2014, regarding Jake Embert?
0:00–4:46
2
How did the initial investigation conclude Jake's death?
4:46–7:34
3
What evidence led the family to suspect foul play?
7:34–17:16
4
How did the family go about seeking a private investigator?
17:16–26:45
5
What were the significant findings from the private investigation?
26:45–37:03
6
What inconsistencies arose in Susan Embert's story?
37:03–46:16
7
How did the trial proceedings unfold for Susan Embert?
46:16–1:04:53
8
What was the outcome of Susan Embert's trials and her current status?
1:04:53–1:25:00
Speakers
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