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Teacher's Pet: can 28m podcast downloads change the course of a murder case?
Podcast smart and easy with the app that refuses to compromise. Mark all un- played. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers. Lyn and Chris Dawson appear to have the perfect marriage. He's a star footballer and popular high school teacher. She's a devoted wife and mother.
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They share a beautiful home above Sydney's northern beaches. But when Lyn goes missing, dark secrets are buried.
This is no fairytale, but a sordid story of strangely close twin brothers, teenage student lovers, and probable murder. The Australian's Hedley Thomas digs deep into a cold case which has been unsolved for 36 years, uncovering startling new evidence. Nearly 37 years after Lyn Dawson disappeared, police have arrested Chris Dawson over the alleged murder of his wife, taking him into custody and preparing his extradition to Sydney where he will face court. When the knock on the door came, the year-old was calm.
Following an incredible groundswell of community interest ignited by this podcast, September saw a stunning development in the case with police returning to the Bayview house to conduct a new and more thorough search for the remains of Lyn Dawson. This dig was a necessity - not just to try to uncover new evidence, but also to restore public con After 36 long years, failed police investigations, two coronial inquests, and countless appeals from Lyn's family, the case is stronger now - and once again it's in the hands of the office of the DPP.
Regardless of their decision, the NSW police commissioner pledges to keep investigations going, and he plans to order a much more significant dig Before the first coronial inquest, police tap phones in the lead-up to digging in a relatively small area around the swimming pool at Bayview, where they find a woman's cardigan. The crime scene officer on that dig describes what he believed were stab marks in the garment. He suspects Lyn's remains are still on the block - and may have been nar Some of them hadn't seen each other since Cromer High days more than 30 years ago but they came together in a show of force, determined to hold to account teachers who had preyed on students for sex.
Meanwhile, the detective Damian Loone escalates his murder investigations, interviewing many witnesses in a quest for the truth. And the area of " Chris Dawson was interviewed by police in , and then never again. But Sue Strath, Lyn's loyal friend, kept agitating for a further investigation, and in Detective Damian Loone was assigned to the case.
Curiously, the earlier investigation notes had vanished. After six difficult years, the volatile marriage was over. She fled back to Sydney, telling friends she was convinced Chris had murdered his first wife.
Other teachers followed his lead, seducing vulnerable school girls as those in charge looked away. Whooshkaa. The Teacher's Pet. Cromer High. Here are the people you'll hear from, or about, during The Teacher's Pet podcast. Character map: How all the people in the case are connected.
In this episode, you'll hear what Chris Dawson told detectives when he was interviewed in Isolated behind high fences, Joanne lived the life of a 'Stepford wife', and was expected to meet all of her husband's demands Lyn Dawson had been missing for three years when her worried friend Sue wrote to the Office of the Ombudsman - an independent government watchdog - about the lack of police action in the case.
We go looking and recover a long-forgotten file after decades in storage, and the contents highlight the hopeless responses of police to a probable murde On January 15, , Chris and Joanne wed at Bayview. With no veil, and in a non-traditional dress, the young bride looked like a flower girl.
On her hand, she wore Lyn's rings. Chris's brother Paul and his wife Marilyn were witnesses, but there was something Marilyn didn't know. A secret existed between the brothers and Joanne.
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In the days and months following Lyn's disappearance, Chris Dawson put forth a range of suggestions as to her possible whereabouts. Chris Dawson is expected to be charged with murder. He appeared in the dock of Southport Magistrates Court for his extradition hearing, wearing a crumpled T-shirt and shorts.
According to the Courier Mail , he showed no emotion, had his head in his hands and covered his ears as the magistrate read out police evidence, including allegations of domestic violence against his wife. Mr Dawson will not be extradited until tomorrow and instead spend the night at Southport Watchhouse on the Gold Coast after a number of airlines admitted they were reluctant to carry the year-old due to his high profile and the potential of it becoming a security risk.
A Current Affair Source: Gregg Simms said the family was staying hopeful.
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These new statements came about as a result of media coverage. The Unsolved Homicide Squad began to re-examine the case in with The Australian debuting its podcast earlier this year, pushing the family onto the global stage.
But Dawson's family believe he will be cleared, releasing a statement saying that he is innocent and that there is clear and uncontested evidence that Lyn Dawson was alive long after she left her husband and daughters. And the area of " Nearly 37 years after Lyn Dawson disappeared, police have arrested Chris Dawson over the alleged murder of his wife, taking him into custody and preparing his extradition to Sydney where he will face court. We have solved homicide before without identifying the body. Lyn was due to meet her mother at Northbridge Baths, where Chris worked, on January 9, Error - There was an error with your download request.
It is a matter for the court in due course. We have solved homicide before without identifying the body. The fact that someone has been charged based on this is sort of what we were after. However, two coroners found Lyn was probably murdered by Mr Dawson in A fresh dig for evidence at the former family home in the northern beaches suburb of Bayview took place in September. Lynette and Chris Dawson in Mr Dawson, has long been a suspect in the disappearance of his ex-wife, who was last seen alive more than 35 years ago.