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Motive & Method

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.

Hunting Scammers with Ken Gamble (Part 1)

37 mins; March 31, 2026

REPLAY - DEZI FREEMAN: The Porepunkah Police Shootings

33 mins; March 29, 2026

A Not So Perfect Murder: The Kouri Richins Case

27 mins; March 24, 2026

He Got Away With Murder - Where Is 'Mr Cruel' Now?

34 mins; March 17, 2026

Cult On Trial: Who Are The Zizians?

26 mins; March 10, 2026

The Killer Babysitter: Living Free & Babysitting Again

43 mins; March 03, 2026

Lucy Letby: Is History Repeating?

32 mins; February 24, 2026

What Happened To Gus Lamont?

23 mins; February 17, 2026

Julian Ingram: Wanted For Murder

23 mins; February 10, 2026

Sydney’s Baby Farming Murders

42 mins; February 03, 2026

The Most Isolated Prisoner In The World

39 mins; January 27, 2026

Taken In The Night: The Eloise Worledge Mystery

35 mins; January 20, 2026

Files Unsealed: The Last Woman Executed in Australia

31 mins; January 13, 2026

Cold Cases Cracked Open In 2025

25 mins; January 06, 2026

Year in Crime: Cases That Defined 2025

47 mins; December 31, 2025

REPLAY: 2025 Fan Favourite - Inside Snowtown with Gordon Drage

45 mins; December 28, 2025

HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Bizarre, Brazen & Baffling Cases of 2025

31 mins; December 23, 2025

REPLAY: Xanthe's 2025 Top Episode - The Horrors of Human Trafficking Networks

34 mins; December 21, 2025

Terror At Bondi: Stories from 2GB & 9News

4 mins; December 17, 2025

BONDI TERROR ATTACK: A Forensic Perspective with Dr Nathan Brooks

27 mins; December 17, 2025

Toyah Cordingley & The International Manhunt To Catch Her Killer

52 mins; December 16, 2025

A Poisonous Legacy: One Family, Two Killers

33 mins; December 09, 2025

Murderous Medics: When Caretakers Become Killers

27 mins; December 02, 2025

Diagnosis On Trial: Are Innocent Parents Being Jailed?

37 mins; November 25, 2025

The Toolbox Murders

22 mins; November 18, 2025

A Perth Serial Killer & The Innocent Men Jailed For His Crimes

31 mins; November 11, 2025

Ed Gein: The Making Of A Monster

28 mins; November 04, 2025

'The Giggling Granny' Serial Killer

31 mins; October 28, 2025

Career Criminal & Master Conman: The Extraordinary Life Of Carl Synnerdahl

32 mins; October 21, 2025

Manipulated Into Murder: The Woodchipper Killers

41 mins; October 14, 2025

The Hoddle Street Massacre: Inside The Mind Of Julian Knight

34 mins; October 07, 2025

The Highschool Catfish

20 mins; September 30, 2025

NZ Fugitive Father: The Hunt For Tom Phillips & His Kids

25 mins; September 23, 2025

Mushroom Murders: A Life Sentence for Erin Patterson

51 mins; September 16, 2025

The Rise of Lone Actors with Dr Nathan Brooks

34 mins; September 09, 2025

Dezi Freeman: The Porepunkah Police Shootings

33 mins; September 02, 2025

AI Clones: The Future of ‘Artificial’ Evidence

25 mins; August 26, 2025

The University of Idaho Murders

41 mins; August 19, 2025

Mushroom Trial Update: Erin Patterson’s Police Interview

45 mins; August 14, 2025

Ashlea Hansen: Cracking Open A Cold Case Murder

26 mins; August 12, 2025

Kerry Tucker: Finding Purpose in Prison

44 mins; August 05, 2025

Inside Snowtown: The Cop Who Found The Bodies in the Barrels

45 mins; July 29, 2025

Love Behind Bars: Pen Pals to Prison Romance

33 mins; July 22, 2025

Life Undercover with Keith Banks

38 mins; July 15, 2025

BONUS EPISODE: Mushroom Murder Motive with Gary Jubelin

61 hours 5 mins; July 14, 2025

GUILTY: Unpacking The Erin Patterson Verdict

36 mins; July 08, 2025

Kids Who Kill

26 mins; July 01, 2025

Cassie Sainsbury: Groomed or Guilty?

35 mins; June 24, 2025

Dr. Nathan Brooks: Inside the Mind of a Stalker

30 mins; June 17, 2025

Female Serial Killers: From Poisoners to Predators

28 mins; June 10, 2025

Shooting Victim Confronts His Killer: An Artificial Intelligence World First

41 mins; June 03, 2025

His Brother Vanished 50 Years Ago - Can The Case Be Solved Now?

41 mins; May 27, 2025

Who is ‘The Playboy Swindler’? Inside the Psyche of a Serial Scammer

40 mins; May 20, 2025

SPECIAL GUEST: Why Innocent People Confess

39 mins; May 12, 2025

Is Lucy Letby Innocent?

38 mins; May 06, 2025

The Dark Side of Public Registers: Protection or Peril?

31 mins; April 29, 2025

Bondi Junction stabbings one year on with Greg Barton

39 mins; April 22, 2025

Do Citizen Sleuths Help or Hinder Investigations?

35 mins; April 15, 2025

Adolescence and the Manosphere

30 mins; April 08, 2025

SPECIAL: Tony Mokbel FREED after a 'Seismic Moment in Legal History'

52 mins; April 03, 2025

A cult convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl

38 mins; April 01, 2025

Should juries have to explain their verdicts?

29 mins; March 25, 2025

Will Victoria's 'toughest ever' bail laws reduce reoffending?

31 mins; March 18, 2025

Simon Feldman: The Man Who Embezzled $16.7 Million

37 mins; March 11, 2025

Can people really commit crime whilst asleep?

35 mins; March 03, 2025

How Belle Gibson conned the world

26 mins; February 25, 2025

Remembering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies... One Year On

28 mins; February 18, 2025

The Unbelievable Horrors of Human Trafficking Networks

34 mins; February 11, 2025

Where Is Samantha Murphy's Body?

31 mins; February 04, 2025

How Forensic Genetic Genealogy Is Solving Serial Crime...

44 mins; January 28, 2025

Hate Crimes & The Rise of Anti-Semitic Incidents

30 mins; January 21, 2025

Unpacking the Menendez case with Laura Richards

43 mins; January 14, 2025

Ask The Expert | 2024

29 mins; December 17, 2024

Watch out for crime at Christmas time...

31 mins; December 10, 2024

"He could attack at any time"... The woman who was stalked

42 mins; December 03, 2024

Tracy Hall... The woman who dated an international con artist

45 mins; November 26, 2024

Investigative journalist Neil Mercer on Crime and Corruption

50 mins; November 19, 2024

Former Deputy Police Commissioner Mick Willing

58 mins; November 12, 2024

Is There a Serial Killer Loose on the NSW North Coast?

53 mins; November 05, 2024

The Menendez Brothers | Halloween

32 mins; October 29, 2024

A Tale Of Whistleblowers and Rotten Apples

60 hours 20 mins; October 22, 2024

Poisoning Cases

32 mins; October 15, 2024

Women as Offenders

36 mins; October 08, 2024

Easey Street | Advances in DNA Analysis

44 mins; October 01, 2024

Ashley Griffiths | Monster Hiding in Plain Sight

36 mins; September 24, 2024

The Harrowing Story of Gisèle Pélicot

33 mins; September 17, 2024

Who kills?

38 mins; September 12, 2024

The Trauma of Unsolved Child Abduction and Murder Cases

34 mins; September 10, 2024

An Analysis of Gregory Lynn

61 hours 14 mins; September 05, 2024

The Brutal and Inexplicable Murder of Charlise Mutten

34 mins; September 03, 2024

Women as Sexual Predators

27 mins; August 27, 2024

Henry Keogh | The Murder That Never Was

46 mins; August 20, 2024

From Bali to Brazil | The Life of a Crime Reporter with Ashlea Hansen

49 mins; August 13, 2024

Melissa Downes and Jess Lodge | The Ultimate Sacrifice

41 mins; August 06, 2024

Ben Avery | Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery

53 mins; July 31, 2024

Retail Crime Is On The Rise | Why You Should Care

25 mins; July 24, 2024

Murder by Fire

31 mins; July 16, 2024

Derek Bromley | A Case That Blows Our Minds

65 hours 22 mins; July 09, 2024

Assange | McBride | The Bigger Picture...

32 mins; July 02, 2024

Greg Lynn

42 mins; June 27, 2024

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