How a portrait of love ended in unspeakable tragedy
They would marry four years after this photo was taken. They would follow the template of their parents, and of theirs before them. But their domestic tale had a fatal flaw.
Chris Dawson
Timeline: From 1965 to now
From Chris and Lyn’s first meeting at high school through to the present day | Here is a full timeline of key events in the case that has gripped the world.
Inside the case that gripped Australia
Lynette Dawson’s disappearance sparked a decades-long investigation and a murder trial that gripped Australia. Here’s everything you need to know.
Family’s plea to Dawson after murder conviction
The family of Lyn Dawson asks Chris Dawson to do ‘the decent’ thing and reveal where her remains are, after he was found guilty of murdering her in 1982; Dawson is set to appeal the verdict.
Dawson ‘not doing well’ after murder verdict
Chris Dawson is “not doing well” after he was found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette 40 years ago.
‘We need to bring her home’
Now the verdict is in, her family hope to reach their most important goal – bringing Lyn home.
The complete timeline of the Chris Dawson trial
Dawson’s lawyer has told the Supreme Court he will not be applying for bail, despite calling for today’s bail hearing.
Shocking tale of schoolgirl sex kept out of evidence
The Supreme Court judge who decided Dawson’s fate wasn’t told the shocking story of a schoolgirl allegedly passed around for sex by teachers on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Justice arrives at long last for Lyn Dawson’s family
It has taken 40 years to get to this day. Or, in the words of Lyn’s brother Greg Simms: ‘It’s been a hell of a long time.’ Today, a NSW judge will deliver his verdict on her absence.
Long wait is over: D-Day to hand in Dawson murder trial
The wait is almost over for Chris Dawson, who will learn this week whether a judge believes beyond reasonable doubt that he murdered his missing first wife, Lynette, 40 years ago.
You did murder Lyn: Chris Dawson taken to cells
NSW Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison SC finds the former teacher killed his wife Lyn, disposed of her body and then lied for decades to conceal the crime.
Date set for Dawson trial verdict
Chris Dawson is to learn his fate, with a judge naming a date to deliver his verdict after deliberating for just over five weeks.
Chris Dawson trial: Murder verdict hinges on motive
Did Chris Dawson have a powerful motive to murder his first wife, Lynette? That is one of the most important questions Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison will weigh.
And so it ends, not with a bang but a flu-ridden cough
And so it ended. Not with a bang, but a gentle collapse, in the way burning campfire logs eventually fall in on themselves before being reduced to ash.
Dawson: it’s a matter of character
In the final contention of his defence barrister on the final day of his trial in Sydney, Chris Dawson stands on a defence of ‘good character’.
Trial lays bare a suburban tragedy … but is it murder?
Chris Dawson is a murder suspect like no other, so can the facts pin it on him now?
Merely a storm in a tea-cup
As the proverb goes, a watched kettle never boils.
Seven-minute shave to help defence save face
Something inexplicable happened late on Tuesday in the epic murder trial of Christopher Michael Dawson.
‘Loathing and infatuation’ behind Lyn’s murder
Chris Dawson’s ‘utter infatuation’ with a teenage girl drove him to murder the devoted mother of his two young girls, court hears.
Final spectre amid trial’s cast of ghosts
It seemed almost inevitable that one final spectre should appear during the murder trial of Chris Dawson in a case that has already had a sporadic cast of ghosts.
Dawson witness dilemma hinges on strategy and sagacity
Chris Dawson could be called to give evidence as the murder trial of the teacher and former rugby league player enters its ninth week in the NSW Supreme Court.
Chilling moments in close-up as Lyn takes centre stage
On Thursday morning, the NSW Supreme Court room 9D literally drew in its collective breath, and momentarily held it.
Court waiting on the word of Dawson
Chris Dawson’s defence team will say as soon as Monday whether he will give evidence at his trial for the alleged murder of his first wife, Lynette.
Bitchiness, sledging and self-pity
After a day of stupefying legal debate, the final hour of hearings erupted into a carnival of wharfie-quality expletives, fury and self-pity.
Police taped Dawson twins’ fury at podcast
Twins Chris and Paul Dawson repeatedly raised their belief they were being recorded by police during covertly intercepted phone calls.
Podcast was not a Hollywood pet project
Journalist Hedley Thomas fiercely rejects suggestions he sought to ‘poison’ the evidence of witnesses at former teacher Chris Dawson’s trial.
Email that sparked a journalism-led pursuit of justice
At 6.23pm on the last Friday of October 2017, a man in Newcastle got an unexpected email. That’s how The Australian’s The Teacher’s Pet podcast series started.
Questions of influence: journalist grilled on podcast
Hedley Thomas tells NSW Supreme Court he became increasingly convinced Chris Dawson murdered his wife and got away with it.
Blood, sweat and beers the backdrop to a legal drama
Once more the trial narrative returned to the home of the Newtown Jets rugby league team, a first-grade squad that included both Chris Dawson and his brother Paul in 1975.
Get rid of Lyn: ‘we spoke about it for years’
Chris Dawson’s alleged approach to a teammate for help to ‘get rid’ of his wife had been discussed in private for more than four decades, court hears.
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