Motive & Method

Was an innocent man sent to the gallows in Australia’s most infamous - and final - execution? On February 3, 1967, Ronald Ryan was hanged for the murder of a prison guard during a chaotic escape from...

Her death was ruled a suicide. But was crucial evidence missed that could point to foul play? When Nadine Haag was found dead in her Sydney apartment in 2009, police immediately treated her death as suicide. But her...

Australia is seeing a disturbing trend of teenagers engaging in extremely dangerous, and potentially fatal, sexual acts. After a 16-year-old girl reportedly died during a suspected sexual strangulation act, experts are...

After 25 years, could forensic experts uncover new leads from the final clue in this case? In December 2001, Janine Vaughan was seen on CCTV getting into a red car outside a Bathurst nightclub - then she...

Did Ivan Milat really act alone? And could lost documents link him to unsolved murders? The Crown prosecutor who put Ivan Milat behind bars believes the notorious serial killer may have had help with some of the...

Two unidentified bodies were found years apart and thousands of kilometres away from eachother- Then came the chilling discovery that they were a mother and her young daughter. When the remains of a young woman were...

Leslie Ball didn't just disappear, someone went to extraordinary lengths to erase him. But a trail of forged signatures, fraud and burnt evidence couldn't keep this 33-year-old cold case buried forever. In this...

For years, Christopher Flannery AKA 'Mr Rent-a-Kill' was the man Australian mobsters hired to make people disappear - until he became a target and vanished into thin air himself. In 1985, after becoming a volatile...

From unvetted science to coerced confessions, catastrophic failures in Australia's justice system have stolen decades from innocent people for crimes they didn't commit. In this episode Xanthe and Tim sit down with...

The Port Arthur massacre remains the deadliest mass shooting in Australian history - a tragedy that shattered lives and transformed the country’s gun laws. On a quiet Sunday afternoon in April 1996, 35 people were...

On a remote highway Peter Falconio vanished forever - His murder became every outback travellers worst nightmare. 25 years after one of Australia’s most infamous murders, the case is back in the spotlight with the...

A teenager climbed into his red Datsun and drove off into the rain on Boxing Day 1985.   He was never seen again . Nearly 40 years later, what happened to 18-year-old Andrew Inglis remains a mystery. In this...

Could an anonymous truck driver hold the key to solving this 50-year-old cold case? In this episode Tim & Xanthe sit down with Karen Cox, the sister of Narelle Cox, who vanished in 1977 while hitchhiking from Grafton to...

No badge, no warrant and no official powers - yet she uncovered vital evidence in the search for missing schoolteacher Marion Barter. In this episode, we speak with citizen sleuth and social worker Joni Condos, whose...

She secretly changed her name. Hundreds of thousands of dollars disappeared from her bank account. A convicted conman was questioned for days at a coronial inquest, yet nearly three decades later, no one knows what...