Motive & Method

Tapt Podcasts 206 - ‘Falsely Convicted’ with Neil Mercer: True Stories of Injustice in Australia

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.

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Motive & Method

Episodes

‘Falsely Convicted’ with Neil Mercer: True Stories of Injustice in Australia

Port Arthur: The Massacre That Changed Australia

Terror In The Outback: Can Peter Falconio’s Body Be Found?

10. Painful Patterns: Inside The Grafton Hearing with Tim & Xanthe

9. Andrew Inglis: The First Love Who Never Came Home

The Thailand Suitcase Murder: An Australian Charged

8. Narelle Cox: If Not Milat, Then Who?

7. Marion Barter Pt. 2 - The Citizen Sleuth Who Found What Police Missed

6. The Mysterious Disappearance of Marion Barter

Chopper Read: Australia’s ‘Celebrity’ Criminal

A Family Vanished: The 'Nannup Cult' Mystery

Bonus: Behind The Scenes With MP Jeremy Buckingham

5. Cheryl Grimmer: A Confession Ignored- A Child Killer Never Caught

4. Keren Rowland: Was She Ivan Milat's First Victim?

3. Kevin Docherty: 47 Years Searching For Answers

2. Ivan Milat's 11 Other Victims?

1. Australia's Killer Secrets: Milat, Murders & Missing

Introducing: Australia's Killer Secrets

Is There A Byron Bay Serial Killer?

A Horrific Crime In Campbelltown: Australia's DV Crisis

Youth Crime & 'Crimefluencing': Clicks, Clout & Coercion

Breakthrough: Body Found In Search for Jayden Penno-Tompsett

The Wrong Man? Who Killed Leanne Holland

Bonus: Mark Jones [Extended Interview]

Outback Murder Highway: The Disappearance Of Tony Jones

Bonus: John Twaddle [Extended Interview]

Outback Murder Highway: Triple Murder At Spear Creek

Bonus: David Cunningham [Extended Interview]

Outback Murder Highway: The Sensible Creek Killings

Introducing: Outback Murder Highway

Ted Bundy Bonus Episode: DNA Breakthrough In Serial Killer Case

Catching Peter Foster & Finding A Missing Baby: Ken Gamble (Part 2)

Hunting Scammers with Private Investigator Ken Gamble (Part 1)

A Not So Perfect Murder: The Kouri Richins Case

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

Cult On Trial: Who Are The Zizians?

The Killer Babysitter: Living Free & Babysitting Again

Lucy Letby: Is History Repeating?

What Happened To Gus Lamont?

Julian Ingram: Wanted For Murder

Sydney’s Baby Farming Murders

The Most Isolated Prisoner In The World

Taken In The Night: The Eloise Worledge Mystery

Files Unsealed: The Last Woman Executed in Australia

Cold Cases Cracked Open In 2025

Year in Crime: Cases That Defined 2025

REPLAY: 2025 Fan Favourite - Inside Snowtown with Gordon Drage

HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Bizarre, Brazen & Baffling Cases of 2025

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

BONDI TERROR ATTACK: A Forensic Perspective with Dr Nathan Brooks