Xanthe Weston

And again, this HR leader from Bupa Health Insurance, Rebecca Donaldson, she casually admitted at a forum that she was prone to not pay for things at the supermarket checkout.

She's now lost her job and is guest as a criminologist based at Central Queensland University, Associate Professor Dr Xanthe Weston.

Good morning.

Good morning.

No, exactly.

Basic human morality.

Thank you for your time, Associate Professor Dr Xanthe Weston, Criminologist at Central Queensland University.

And, you know, this is maybe the problem that our morality has taken a bit of a hit.

I'm criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.

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

Welcome back to another episode of Motive and Method.

Jo, can you take us through some of the numbers? Do you have any statistics about how many people are reported missing each year-

Thank you for joining us on another episode of Motive and Method.

I'm Tim Watson-Munro.

And I'm Dr. Xanthe Weston, and we will be back next week.

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So is organized crime.

Today on Mitchell Unlimited, Dr. Xanthe Weston, one of Australia's leading criminologists.

She's got answers, if only somebody would just listen.

Associate Professor Dr. Xanthe Weston.

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And the Drain Man.

Particularly in Victoria, it seems to be the hot topic.

Too many people live in fear.

The most successful podcast within the media group is Motive and Method, which is an expert-led Australian true crime podcast.

And you can join forensic scientist and criminologist Dr. Xanthe Weston 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.

This is fascinating stuff.

Some of these people who were murdered and disappeared, he

was in jail at the time.

My guests, Tim Watson-Munro and Xanthe Weston, hosts of the Motive and Method podcast.

We'll take a break and we'll be right back.

So we know they work.

Associate Professor Dr Xanthe Weston is a criminologist at Central Queensland University.

She says there's a strategy about when to offer a reward as part of an investigation.

It was such a high profile case that the police were receiving a lot of information from the public that they certainly followed up.