1. Australia's Killer Secrets: Milat, Murders & Missing
6/10/202629 min
What if the full story behind Australia's most notorious serial killer Ivan Milat has never been told?
In episode one of this special series of Motive&Method, forensic scientist Dr Xanthe Weston and criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro break down the unsolved missing & murdered cases being re-examined in a landmark parliamentary inquiry.
Tim & Xanthe have been working for years, alongside family members, on many of these cases. Now they're being called to give their expert submissions, highlighting the evidence and potential links in some of the investigations.
In Australia's Killer Secrets, Tim & Xanthe are taking you inside the hearings to explore the evidence - talking to family, police and politicians - in this new search for answers in some of Australia's most enduring mysteries.
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First 90 secondsXanthe Weston· Host0:00
[suspenseful music] Welcome to this special series of Motive and Method. I'm forensic scientist and criminologist Dr. Xanthe Weston.
Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:10
And I'm criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro. This is Australia's Killer Secrets: Milat Murders and Missing. [suspenseful music] Across Australia, dozens of murders and disappearances remain unsolved, but could some of them be connected?
Xanthe Weston· Host0:25
And could some lead back to Australia's most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat? A landmark parliamentary inquiry is now reexamining dozens of cases right across the state of New South Wales and putting the original investigations under a microscope.
Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:42
We've both worked on many of these cases alongside the victims' families, and now we've been called to give our expert evidence.
Xanthe Weston· Host0:49
So, in this special series, we're taking you with us inside the hearings, speaking with the families and the authorities in their search for answers behind some of Australia's most enduring mysteries. [suspenseful music] So, Tim, great to be in Sydney. We're here obviously for the inquiry, the parliamentary inquiry into the missing and murdered. Um, this is a bit of new territory for us.
Tim Watson-Munro· Host1:18
Well, it's a very big deal. I mean, it's an inquiry looking at the period between 1965 and 2010, dozens of unsolved murders and disappearances.