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Introducing: Australia's Killer Secrets

6/7/20262 min

What if the full story behind Australia's most notorious serial killer Ivan Milat has never been told? And what if more recent cases point to a copycat killer - or worse?
In this special series of Motive&Method, forensic scientist Dr Xanthe Weston and criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro take you inside a landmark parliamentary inquiry examining dozens of unsolved murders and disappearances.
From new evidence to long-overlooked links, Australia’s Killer Secrets explores the mysteries that continue to haunt a nation.

Series launches Wednesday June 10. 

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [suspenseful music] A new inquiry has just been ordered into dozens of unsolved murders.

  2. Speaker 10:08

    Buckingham says scores of unsolved murders in the 1970s and '80s- Potentially linked to the serial killer, Ivan Milat.

  3. Speaker 20:17

    Milat killed seven young people in the Belanglo State Forest south of Sydney.

  4. Speaker 30:21

    His victims, backpackers and hitchhikers.

  5. Speaker 40:24

    The question mark is, how many more?

  6. Speaker 50:26

    The new inquiry bringing the cases in from the cold.

  7. Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:29

    Dozens of people have vanished right across New South Wales, some murdered, some still missing, and many of their cases remain unsolved.

  8. Xanthe Weston· Host0:42

    A landmark parliamentary inquiry is now reexamining some of New South Wales' most haunting cold cases. There is a very real possibility some of these cases are linked, and some lead back to Australia's most notorious serial killer.

  9. Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:58

    But do more recent cases point to a copycat killer or something even bigger?

  10. Speaker 01:03

    There is someone on the North Coast that has murdered as many or more, and they are still amongst us.

  11. Xanthe Weston· Host1:09

    I'm forensic scientist and criminologist, Dr. Xanthe Weston.

  12. Tim Watson-Munro· Host1:13

    And I'm criminal psychologist, Tim Watson-Munro, and together we've spent a large part of our careers examining some of these cases and working alongside families still fighting for answers. Now we've been called to give our expert testimony at these

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