The Teacher’s Wife: The 40-Year Murder of Lynette Dawson
In January 1982, 33-year-old mother of two Lynette Dawson vanished from her home on Sydney’s northern beaches after telling her mother her husband had just made her “a lovely drink.” For four decades, former rugby league player and high school teacher Chris Dawson insisted she had simply walked out on him and their young daughters. Within days of her disappearance, the teenage student he’d been having an affair with moved into the family home and began wearing Lynette’s clothes.
This episode of A True Crime Podcast examines the affair, the lies, the two coronial inquests, the impact of the…
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