Lester Holt is keeping his promise of expanding on his work with Dateline . The NBC mainstay promised he'd be doing as much when he announced his departure from Nightly News earlier this year after ten years, a role that has since been occupied by Tom Llamas. At the time, he maintained he would remain with NBC and do more work with Dateline , which he is now doing through a new podcast.

On Monday, October 6, Lester, who started his career working in radio, is launching The Last Appeal , an original Dateline podcast series that will run for four episodes, and examine the case of Robert Roberson , a Texas father set to be executed on October 16th for the 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter, after he was accused of shaking his daughter so hard that she died from a brain inju

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