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Martre Coles | Inconvenient Motive

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Crimelines True Crime

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As we know, a motive is not necessary to prove a crime in court. But when the state struggles to come up with one, does it impact the jury’s ability to come to an agreement? 

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0:00.0

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0:08.4

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0:14.7

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0:18.3

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0:19.7

I inspired the hit television show Medium. I'm a New York

0:22.8

Times bestselling author who's written six books on life after death and I spent 20 years collaborating

0:29.2

with the police on cold cases. I've talked to the dead my whole life. I'm an expert on what

0:35.0

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0:39.3

Tune in every Tuesday for a fresh episode of The Dead Life.

0:42.4

It will change how you live your life.

0:59.8

As we know, a motive is not necessary to prove a crime in court, but when the state struggles to come up with one, does it impact the jury's ability to come to an agreement?

1:04.5

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

1:16.1

Hello, and I to crime lines.

1:21.9

Before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to someone I met at the True Crime Podcast Festival, Joy Marie Mann.

1:29.1

She gifted me a copy of her new true crime book, Our Friend Timogen, The Wrongful Conviction of Timogen Kensu,

1:34.9

which is on my to-be-read shelf right now. I think the title tells you what it is about,

1:39.5

and it is a case I've heard about from other true crime creator friends who have all told me that they agree that this is a wrongful conviction. The book is available in paperback and as an e-book,

1:46.2

so I'll leave a link in the show notes to where you can find out more. But let's go ahead and get

1:50.6

into this week's episode, which was inspired by me catching myself when editing my podcast,

1:57.8

talking way too much about who has motive and who doesn't as though motive is key to a case.

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