Episode 3: The Lawyer’s Advice
When Bronwyn decides to get a locksmith in and take her lawyer’s advice to move back into the house, friends are worried for her.
True crime investigations by Hedley Thomas
Episode 2: War of the Winfields
Bronwyn’s friends and family recall her sadness and frustrations over what appears to be coercive control and emotional violence.
Episode 1: Jon’s Castle
Bronwyn Winfield was determined to start again with her two daughters. Then, she disappeared from the idyllic surf town of Lennox Head.
More from Hedley Thomas
Episode 1 – Bayview
Lyn was a devoted wife and mother. She adored her husband, but he betrayed and humiliated her in the most callous way. Now she’s gone – missing, a likely victim of murder.
Episode 2 – Cromer High
Cromer High School’s pin-up sports teacher Chris Dawson pursued high school student JC with the sort of relentless determination he showed as a star of rugby league. Chris had model good looks, an easy charm, and students looked up to him.
Episode 3 – Bruised
As Chris brazenly moved his teenage lover into the family home, Lyn saw the cracks in her marriage widen.
Episode 4 – Soft Soil
Humiliated and broken by her husband’s affair, Lyn finally asked JC to leave the Bayview home.
Verdict Episode 1 – Before And After
Forty years after Lyn Dawson disappeared from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Christopher Michael Dawson has been convicted of her murder. In this episode, we’ll take you to the moments leading up to and following that pivotal moment.
Verdict Episode 2 – He Said, She Said
Hedley, Claire, David, and Matthew also take a closer look at the evidence of JC, turning up damning details of how Dawson would buy the teenage student chocolate before they had sex in his car.
Verdict Episode 3 – Lyn’s Legacy
In our third and final episode diving into Justice Ian Harrison’s meticulously detailed judgment, we look at the evidence of Lyn being bruised and her accounts of being subjected to acts of violence at the hands of her husband Chris.
Episode 4 – Sex, Lies and Videotape
The court hears Chris Dawson’s story in his own words as video of his first and only police interview on the topic of his wife’s disappearance is played in full.
Episode 1 – Sugar Town
Shandee’s murder stuns the community and triggers ongoing trauma and investigations into her relationships including with a former boyfriend.
Episode 2 – Sweating Bullets
Police detectives talk to Shandee’s former boyfriend John Peros who discloses his trust issues, their arguments, problems in the bedroom and break-up.
Episode 3 – Toxic Love
Detectives forensically examining Shandee’s iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Shandee in the year before she died.
Episode 5 – Willy D
A violent self-styled gangster who carries knives, deals and uses illegal drugs, and attacks men and women in the sugar and mining town looms into serious view for homicide cops.
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