Motive & Method

By Xanthe Mallett and Tim Watson-Munro

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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.


Episode Date
Bonus: Mark Jones [Extended Interview]
May 08, 2026
Outback Murder Highway: The Disappearance Of Tony Jones
May 06, 2026
Bonus: John Twaddle [Extended Interview]
May 02, 2026
Outback Murder Highway: Triple Murder At Spear Creek
Apr 29, 2026
Bonus: David Cunningham [Extended Interview]
Apr 24, 2026
Outback Murder Highway: The Sensible Creek Killings
Apr 22, 2026
Introducing: Outback Murder Highway
Apr 16, 2026
Ted Bundy Bonus Episode: DNA Breakthrough In Serial Killer Case
Apr 08, 2026
Catching Peter Foster & Finding A Missing Baby: Ken Gamble (Part 2)
Apr 07, 2026
Hunting Scammers with Private Investigator Ken Gamble (Part 1)
Mar 31, 2026
A Not So Perfect Murder: The Kouri Richins Case
Mar 24, 2026
He Got Away With Murder - Where Is 'Mr Cruel' Now?
Mar 17, 2026
Cult On Trial: Who Are The Zizians?
Mar 10, 2026
The Killer Babysitter: Living Free & Babysitting Again
Mar 03, 2026
Lucy Letby: Is History Repeating?
Feb 24, 2026
What Happened To Gus Lamont?
Feb 17, 2026
Julian Ingram: Wanted For Murder
Feb 10, 2026
Sydney’s Baby Farming Murders
Feb 03, 2026
The Most Isolated Prisoner In The World
Jan 27, 2026
Taken In The Night: The Eloise Worledge Mystery
Jan 20, 2026
Files Unsealed: The Last Woman Executed in Australia
Jan 13, 2026
Cold Cases Cracked Open In 2025
Jan 06, 2026
Year in Crime: Cases That Defined 2025
Dec 31, 2025
REPLAY: 2025 Fan Favourite - Inside Snowtown with Gordon Drage
Dec 28, 2025
HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Bizarre, Brazen & Baffling Cases of 2025
Dec 23, 2025
REPLAY: Xanthe's 2025 Top Episode - The Horrors of Human Trafficking Networks
Dec 21, 2025
BONDI TERROR ATTACK: A Forensic Perspective with Dr Nathan Brooks
Dec 17, 2025
Toyah Cordingley & The International Manhunt To Catch Her Killer
Dec 16, 2025
A Poisonous Legacy: One Family, Two Killers
Dec 09, 2025
Murderous Medics: When Caretakers Become Killers
Dec 02, 2025
Diagnosis On Trial: Are Innocent Parents Being Jailed?
Nov 25, 2025
The Toolbox Murders
Nov 18, 2025
A Perth Serial Killer & The Innocent Men Jailed For His Crimes
Nov 11, 2025
Ed Gein: The Making Of A Monster
Nov 04, 2025
'The Giggling Granny' Serial Killer
Oct 28, 2025
Career Criminal & Master Conman: The Extraordinary Life Of Carl Synnerdahl
Oct 21, 2025
Manipulated Into Murder: The Woodchipper Killers
Oct 14, 2025
The Hoddle Street Massacre: Inside The Mind Of Julian Knight
Oct 07, 2025
The Highschool Catfish
Sep 30, 2025
Mushroom Murders: A Life Sentence for Erin Patterson
Sep 16, 2025
The Rise of Lone Actors with Dr Nathan Brooks
Sep 09, 2025
Dezi Freeman: The Porepunkah Police Shootings
Sep 02, 2025
AI Clones: The Future of ‘Artificial’ Evidence
Aug 26, 2025
The University of Idaho Murders
Aug 19, 2025
Mushroom Trial Update: Erin Patterson’s Police Interview
Aug 14, 2025
Ashlea Hansen: Cracking Open A Cold Case Murder
Aug 12, 2025
Kerry Tucker: Finding Purpose in Prison
Aug 05, 2025
Inside Snowtown: The Cop Who Found The Bodies in the Barrels
Jul 29, 2025
Love Behind Bars: Pen Pals to Prison Romance
Jul 22, 2025
Life Undercover with Keith Banks
Jul 15, 2025
BONUS EPISODE: Mushroom Murder Motive with Gary Jubelin
Jul 15, 2025
GUILTY: Unpacking The Erin Patterson Verdict
Jul 08, 2025
Kids Who Kill
Jul 01, 2025
Cassie Sainsbury: Groomed or Guilty?
Jun 24, 2025
Dr. Nathan Brooks: Inside the Mind of a Stalker
Jun 17, 2025
Female Serial Killers: From Poisoners to Predators
Jun 10, 2025
Shooting Victim Confronts His Killer: An Artificial Intelligence World First
Jun 03, 2025
His Brother Vanished 50 Years Ago - Can The Case Be Solved Now?
May 27, 2025
Who is ‘The Playboy Swindler’? Inside the Psyche of a Serial Scammer
May 20, 2025
SPECIAL GUEST: Why Innocent People Confess
May 12, 2025
Is Lucy Letby Innocent?
May 06, 2025
The Dark Side of Public Registers: Protection or Peril?
Apr 29, 2025
Bondi Junction stabbings one year on with Greg Barton
Apr 22, 2025
Do Citizen Sleuths Help or Hinder Investigations?
Apr 15, 2025
Adolescence and the Manosphere
Apr 08, 2025
SPECIAL: Tony Mokbel FREED after a 'Seismic Moment in Legal History'
Apr 04, 2025
A cult convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl
Apr 01, 2025
Should juries have to explain their verdicts?
Mar 25, 2025
Will Victoria's 'toughest ever' bail laws reduce reoffending?
Mar 18, 2025
Simon Feldman: The Man Who Embezzled $16.7 Million
Mar 11, 2025
Can people really commit crime whilst asleep?
Mar 03, 2025
How Belle Gibson conned the world
Feb 25, 2025
Remembering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies... One Year On
Feb 18, 2025
The Unbelievable Horrors of Human Trafficking Networks
Feb 11, 2025
Where Is Samantha Murphy's Body?
Feb 04, 2025
How Forensic Genetic Genealogy Is Solving Serial Crime...
Jan 28, 2025
Hate Crimes & The Rise of Anti-Semitic Incidents
Jan 21, 2025
Unpacking the Menendez case with Laura Richards
Jan 14, 2025
Ask The Expert | 2024
Dec 17, 2024
Watch out for crime at Christmas time...
Dec 10, 2024
"He could attack at any time"... The woman who was stalked
Dec 03, 2024
Tracy Hall... The woman who dated an international con artist
Nov 26, 2024
Investigative journalist Neil Mercer on Crime and Corruption
Nov 19, 2024
Former Deputy Police Commissioner Mick Willing
Nov 12, 2024
Is There a Serial Killer Loose on the NSW North Coast?
Nov 05, 2024
The Menendez Brothers | Halloween
Oct 29, 2024
A Tale Of Whistleblowers and Rotten Apples
Oct 22, 2024
Poisoning Cases
Oct 15, 2024
Women as Offenders
Oct 08, 2024
Easey Street | Advances in DNA Analysis
Oct 01, 2024
Ashley Griffiths | Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
Sep 24, 2024
The Harrowing Story of Gisèle Pélicot
Sep 17, 2024
The Trauma of Unsolved Child Abduction and Murder Cases
Sep 10, 2024
The Brutal and Inexplicable Murder of Charlise Mutten
Sep 03, 2024
Women as Sexual Predators
Aug 27, 2024
Henry Keogh | The Murder That Never Was
Aug 20, 2024
From Bali to Brazil | The Life of a Crime Reporter with Ashlea Hansen
Aug 13, 2024
Melissa Downes and Jess Lodge | The Ultimate Sacrifice
Aug 06, 2024
Ben Avery | Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery
Aug 01, 2024
Retail Crime Is On The Rise | Why You Should Care
Jul 24, 2024