ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Motive & Method is an expert-led Australian true crime podcast. Join Dr Xanthe Mallett and criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro as they unpack what really makes the offenders behind some of history’s most notorious cases tick, and also react and unpack crimes as they hit the headlines. You will also hear from victim survivors, investigators and advocates for change analysing motive, and method.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
Australia
177 episodes
since March 13, 2023
episodic
explicit content
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
They were on opposite sides of the law - one robbing banks, the other hunting him.
In this extraordinary interview, bank robber Steven Meyers and former FBI agent Shawn Johnson sit down with Tim & Xanthe to share their side of the case and the chase.
In 1990s Seattle, Meyers was p…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Was an innocent man sent to the gallows in Australia’s most infamous - and final - execution?On February 3, 1967, Ronald Ryan was hanged for the murder of a prison guard during a chaotic escape from Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison - an execution that shocked the nation and would ultimately…
Her death was ruled a suicide. But was crucial evidence missed that could point to foul play?When Nadine Haag was found dead in her Sydney apartment in 2009, police immediately treated her death as suicide. But her family refused to accept it and began their own investigation, uncovering evidence t…
Australia is seeing a disturbing trend of teenagers engaging in extremely dangerous, and potentially fatal, sexual acts.After a 16-year-old girl reportedly died during a suspected sexual strangulation act, experts are warning how mainstream these practices have become.Research shows more than 50% o…
After 25 years, could forensic experts uncover new leads from the final clue in this case?In December 2001, Janine Vaughan was seen on CCTV getting into a red car outside a Bathurst nightclub - then she vanished. In this episode, her brother Adam and sister Kylie reveal how missed witnesses, u…
Did Ivan Milat really act alone? And could lost documents link him to unsolved murders?The Crown prosecutor who put Ivan Milat behind bars believes the notorious serial killer may have had help with some of the murders. This episode, Tim and Xanthe take you inside the latest NSW parliamentary heari…
She killed her three children. But was she in control of what she was doing?The Lindsay Clancy case has gripped the world - a mother accused of killing her three young children, and a trial that ended in a dramatic hung jury after weeks of conflicting evidence about postpartum psychosis, medication…
Two unidentified bodies were found years apart and thousands of kilometres away from eachother- Then came the chilling discovery that they were a mother and her young daughter.When the remains of a young woman were discovered in the notorious Belanglo State Forest, no one knew who she was. Her iden…
Leslie Ball didn't just disappear, someone went to extraordinary lengths to erase him.But a trail of forged signatures, fraud and burnt evidence couldn't keep this 33-year-old cold case buried forever.In this episode Xanthe and Tim are joined by News.com.au investigative reporter Jo Townsend t…
For years, Christopher Flannery AKA 'Mr Rent-a-Kill' was the man Australian mobsters hired to make people disappear - until he became a target and vanished into thin air himself.In 1985, after becoming a volatile liability who simply knew too much about corrupt police and syndicate bosses, the fear…
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