The ghost of Neddy Smith haunts Dawson’s trial
The spectre of notorious killer Arthur ‘Neddy’ Smith hangs over Chris Dawson’s trial, after former Newtown Jets rugby league player Robert Silkman finally began testifying.
Chris Dawson
Seeking truth in the shadows
It was another day of mysteries – in shadow, and in daylight – in the murder trial of former schoolteacher and rugby league star Chris Dawson in Sydney’s Supreme Court on Tuesday.
I saw Lyn nursing black eye, Dawson murder trial told
Missing mother Lynette Dawson was seen with a black eye in a car at her husband Chris’s school, his murder trial has been told.
Ghosts emerge … and witnesses swear it was Lyn
It was a day that began and ended with ghosts, with evidence emerging of sightings of Lyn Dawson after she had supposedly vanished in January 1982.
Dawson said ‘the bitch has to go’, court told
Chris Dawson called his wife Lynette a ‘bitch’ and said ‘if only she was gone’ during drives with his twin brother and two teenage girls, his murder trial was told.
Double take from double vision as Dawson twin testifies
At 2.48pm on Wednesday in Court D of Sydney’s Supreme Court, a dark suited man suddenly appeared on the room’s four wall-mounted television screens.
Covid delays Dawson murder trial
Chris Dawson’s murder trial has been adjourned until next Tuesday, with Covid halting proceedings.
Dawson ‘lay awake crying his heart out’
Former teacher Chris Dawson told police he lay awake crying his heart out hoping for some contact with his missing wife, Lyn.
Web of chance entangles ordinary lives in intrigue
Some of Monday’s witnesses were ordinary people whose life story, for a delicate moment, intersected with another’s, and by fate became a small if potent tile in a murder trial.
Dawson upbeat … then she vanished
Lyn Dawson was upbeat and looking to the future in her handwritten application for a childcare position in the months before her alleged murder | LISTEN
Dawson ‘swung Lyn like rag doll into doorframe’
Chris Dawson angrily swung his wife Lynette by the arm like a ‘rag doll’ into a doorframe in front of a teenage babysitter, a court has been told.
‘I could have died’ in fight with Dawson
Lyn Dawson said her husband Chris pushed her face into the mud and that the incident could have killed her, a court has been told.
Dawson ‘had wife by the throat’
Lynette Dawson confided to a co-worker just before she vanished that her husband had grabbed her by the throat on the way to a counselling session, a court has heard.
‘Why would I leave if he was loving?’
Marriage break-up laid bare by murder accused’s ex-wife.
Harrowing tale of marriage in decay
At midday on Thursday, as the witness JC in the Chris Dawson murder trial was set to be cross-examined, a robust chess match was unfolding in nearby Hyde Park.
‘He groomed me and then made me his sex slave’
JC, as she is called in court, said by the end of her stifling and at times violent relationship with schoolteacher Christopher Dawson, she feared for her life.
Dawson called wife ‘fatso’ while having sex with teen
Chris Dawson had sex with a babysitter in the family home while his wife Lynette slept, a court is told.
A family’s agony: ‘She just dropped out of our life’
It was a day of last things. Of final communications, fragments of conversation and the fragile skeins of memory left when a loved one disappears into thin air.
Curtains part to reveal suburban drama
The court, like so many court rooms, is a model of non-distracting decor – grey carpet, beige faux-leather chairs, pale wood panelling offset by cream walls. But things were about to get extremely colourful.
Dawson ‘had no reason to kill wife’
Chris Dawson’s defence declares he is innocent of his missing wife Lynette’s murder, saying she had reason to want to disappear.
Chris Dawson and the long road to justice
A 40-year-old mystery, subject of The Teacher’s Pet podcast, has made it to court. But this will be no trial by media.
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