A chapter closed on Lynette Dawson’s story on Tuesday when her husband was found guilty of murder,but her family hope to one day be able to write the epilogue.
Host of The Teacher’s Pet podcast Hedley Thomas says there is no guarantee cold cases will go to trial “in the absence of journalistic scrutiny”.
Dawson’s solicitor Greg Walsh,who is considering applying for bail after his client was convicted of murder and handcuffed,said the 74-year-old has dementia.
Chris Dawson made several attempts to move in with his teenage lover. When they failed,he killed his wife Lynette.
Lynette Dawson’s family has issued a plea for Chris Dawson to reveal the location of her body,after a judge found him guilty of her murder in January 1982.
The Australian's investigative journalist Hedley Thomas says Lynette Dawson's story struck him as unjust,and he became"obsessive about it".
Lynette Dawson's brother Greg Simms and his wife Merilyn speak outside the NSW Supreme Court after Justice Ian Harrison found Chris Dawson guilty of her murder in January 1982.
The judge delivered his verdict in Dawson’s high-profile case on Tuesday,convicting the 74-year-old former Sydney teacher and Newtown Jets player of murder.
Justice Ian Harrison will decide whether Chris Dawson is guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Dawson,who vanished in 1982.
In a fourth day of closing submissions,Chris Dawson’s barrister said a man could love two women at once,and her client didn’t suddenly stop caring about his wife.
Chris Dawson’s barrister says the defence doesn’t know what happened to Lynette Dawson after she allegedly abandoned her home in 1982 and was reportedly seen up to 1984.