Lynette Dawson case
‘Lies and half-truths’: Top court rejects Chris Dawson’s murder appeal
Lynette Joy Simms’ disappearance in 1982 became one of Sydney’s most enduring mysteries. Decades later, her husband was convicted of her murder.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
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Phone taps, diaries and a personals ad with ‘love’ to Lyn: Chris Dawson’s tangled web
On March 27, 1982, a 15-word ad appeared in a Sydney newspaper, urging “Lyn” to call “Chris”. The author had already murdered her, a judge found.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
Chris Dawson’s alleged ‘odd behaviour’ over children’s portraits
A top prosecutor has told Chris Dawson’s murder appeal the convicted wife killer appeared to show a “complete lack of sentiment towards his own children”.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Judge takes aim at Dawson’s ‘convenient’ claim about diamond ring
Convicted killer Chris Dawson, whose appeal is before the courts, claimed his wife never returned after he dropped her at a bus stop. A top judge has asked a pointed question.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Dawson ‘not wise’ to move babysitter into marital bed, court told
The convicted killer claimed his wife called him at Northbridge Baths and told him that she needed “time away”. Within days, his daughters’ babysitter moved in.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Inside Chris Dawson’s murder appeal
The convicted killer has asked the state’s top criminal appeal court to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette Simms, who vanished in 1982.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
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What Chris Dawson’s teenage bride confessed over coffee
The Teacher’s Pet gripped the nation and now the only first-hand account of the story, told through the eyes of the schoolgirl Dawson pursued, is being published.
- by Helen Pitt
Lynette Joy Simms case ‘kept open’ as Chris Dawson jailed for murder
The family of the 33-year-old, who was killed in Sydney in January 1982, want to do away with references to her marital name linking her to a man who “discarded her”.
- by Sarah McPhee
Chris Dawson sentencing LIVE updates: Lynette Dawson’s ex-husband jailed for minimum 18 years over murder
The 74-year-old has been sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court today for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982. Her body has never been found.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and Sarah McPhee
‘Self-indulgent brutality’: Chris Dawson jailed for 24 years for Lynette’s murder
The 74-year-old was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday more than 40 years after his first wife vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches.
- by Sarah McPhee
Judgment day: Three key factors in the sentencing of Chris Dawson
Justice Ian Harrison will on Friday sentence the 74-year-old for the murder of his first wife Lynette Dawson, who vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches in 1982.
- by Sarah McPhee
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