Teacher’s Pet: How a cold-case podcast blew the lid off the disappearance of Lynette Dawson

July 14, 2020 / By mobanmarket

For decades since Lynette Dawson went missing in Sydney’s northern beaches, her family has believed that the case was mishandled and that the evidence pointed to her husband, Chris Dawson, who moved his teenage lover into the family home two days after his wife disappeared.

Despite pleas to politicians and authorities, and two coroner’s inquiries in 2001 and 2003 concluding that Dawson should be charged, the 70-year-old former sports teacher and professional rugby league player lived a quiet life in the state of Queensland. 

Earlier this year, the case was taken up by a podcast, The Teacher’s Pet, which painstakingly reviewed the evidence, re-interviewed witnesses, and raised allegations that…

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