Lyn dawson6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() She allegedly asked Cooper to book a motel for her because she had no identification.Ĭross-examined by crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC, Cooper admitted that he had spent time in prison for possessing cannabis and heroin, armed robbery, theft, and break and enter. "When I looked back at her, she had a different demeanour at that time and it shocked me because I thought that might have been the intent," he told Justice Ian Harrison.Ĭooper claimed the woman was waiting for a passport and was planning to fly first to Bali and then onto another overseas country. The Teacher’s Pet can be heard at /the-teachers-pet or on iTunes.Telling the woman that the police might think she had been killed by her husband because she had left all her belongings, Cooper said he was shocked by the response. “He has been such a great second ear on many aspects of this case and the podcast.” Slade Gibson has worked on the audio and music in the podcast. There is a small army of people who have worked on producing The Teacher’s Pet. I’ve been interviewing people, trying to work out inconsistencies in recounts and track down people related to the case,” he said. “I’ve read thousands of pages of documents and case files. While understanding the ropes of podcasting, Thomas was also re-investigating the case from scratch. I am an old dinosaur of print newspaper journalism.” “This was partly because this is all new to me. This is the first podcast series he has ever worked on. She wanted to honour her mother,” Thomas said. ![]() “She wanted to talk when I approached her and told her what it was all about. Thomas recorded more than 100 hours of interviews for this podcast with witnesses including the elder daughter of Chris and Lyn Dawson, Shanelle. This revelation had Thomas back at the desk and re-drafting the second episode of The Teacher’s Pet. Wheeler was the vice-captain at Cromer High School in 1983. ![]() Linwood confirmed the comments made by Robyn Wheeler in episode one about the culture of teachers engaging in sexual relationships with school students. It led to all these disclosures about a group of male teachers at this school in Northern Beaches prying on schoolgirls,” Thomas said.ĭuring his time as a school teacher at Sydney’s Cromer High School in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chris Dawson allegedly had an affair with a school girl, Joanne Curtis.įront pages of The Australian featuring The Teacher’s Petįollowing the first episode of The Teacher’s Pet, a former school captain of Cromer High, Jane Linwood, contacted Thomas. “There was an extraordinary reaction to the first episode. The first episode of The Teacher’s Pet was released on May 17, 2018, with others to be published on a weekly basis. “There should have been a prosecution and he should’ve had his day in court to be convicted or acquitted.” He hasn’t had an opportunity to square off and defend himself in a trial,” Thomas said. It’s a travesty of justice for Chris Dawson as well. “The case has a travesty of justice all through it. Therefore, there has never been a murder trial. The Director Of Public Prosecutions believed there wasn’t enough evidence against Chris Dawson, who has always pleaded not guilty. However, Lyn Dawson’s body was never found and no charges were ever laid. Her killer was allegedly her husband, footballer and school teacher Chris Dawson. Since the disappearance of Dawson over three decades ago, there have been two coroner’s inquests conducted, in 20, which concluded that she was murdered. “This case is a stain on the NSW justice system,” Thomas told Mediaweek. He has chosen to tell the story behind Dawson’s disappearance through a minimum of an eight-episode podcast series called The Teacher’s Pet. The case remains a mystery, which Thomas is determined to make clearer. He first reported on the case 17 years ago, when the first coronial proceedings into the disappearance had been finalised. This is the News Corp journalist’s longest investigative work in 30 years. Five-times Walkley Award-winning journalist and The Australian’s national chief correspondent, Hedley Thomas, has spent the last six months investigating the 1982 disappearance of Lyn Dawson.
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