The most bizarre true crime cases for 2025 | Motive & Method
In this special holiday episode of Motive & Method, criminologist Dr Xanthe Weston and criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro step away from the dark and disturbing and turn to some of the more unusual crime stories of the year - the bizarre, brazen and baffling! They’re putting each other to the test, in a series of games, to examine the stranger side of human behaviour. Got a topic or crime you'd like us to look at? Leave us a comment! ___________________________________________________________________ 0:00 The lighter side of true crime 0:50 Game 1: Felon or Fiction? 1:38 Who is the Italian "Mrs. Doubtfire" Pension Fraud 4:43 The Most Bizarre Criminal Mistakes of 2025 5:18 Game 2: Jewelry Heists & Diamond Swallowing 8:17 The Faberge Egg "Octopus" Theft in NZ 9:42 Game 3: How DNA Solves Cold Cases 10:23 The Smoothie Straw: Solving a 40-Year Cold Case 12:55 Game 4: Guess That Crime 13:54 The viral Australian twin sisters 16:56 The Brazen 2025 Louvre Museum Heist 18:55 Inside the $150 Million Apollo Gallery Robbery 24:48 Cargo Theft & The Global Nutella Crime Wave 27:05 Florida Woman’s "Not a Bag of Drugs" Arrest
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