Motive & Method

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185 - Breakthrough: Body Found In Search for Jayden Penno-Tompsett

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.

185 - Breakthrough: Body Found In Search for Jayden Penno-Tompsett

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Motive & Method

Episodes

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

Toyah Cordingley & The International Manhunt To Catch Her Killer

A Poisonous Legacy: One Family, Two Killers

Murderous Medics: When Caretakers Become Killers

Diagnosis On Trial: Are Innocent Parents Being Jailed?

The Toolbox Murders

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

Ed Gein: The Making Of A Monster

'The Giggling Granny' Serial Killer

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

Manipulated Into Murder: The Woodchipper Killers

The Hoddle Street Massacre: Inside The Mind Of Julian Knight

The Highschool Catfish

Mushroom Murders: A Life Sentence for Erin Patterson

The Rise of Lone Actors with Dr Nathan Brooks

Dezi Freeman: The Porepunkah Police Shootings

AI Clones: The Future of ‘Artificial’ Evidence

The University of Idaho Murders

Mushroom Trial Update: Erin Patterson’s Police Interview

Ashlea Hansen: Cracking Open A Cold Case Murder

Kerry Tucker: Finding Purpose in Prison

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

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