He was very physically fit and he always looked good. They were both prefects in their final year.
PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: Lyn and Chris both went to Sydney Girls and Sydney Boys High and that's where they met. And she's just basically been taken off the planet, never to be seen again.
She's not registered in any state or territory in Australia. She's never applied for a Medicare card, a credit card. We all were searching for Lyn.įORMER DET SGT DAMIAN LOONE, NSW POLICE: She's never gone overseas. My mother never stopped searching for Lyn. Mum didn't drive, so she'd take the train up to the Central Coast because that's where Chris had said that Lyn had rung from. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: It's very difficult to put into words the depth of grief you feel when a … a loved member of the family just drops out of your life. My daughter once said to me, Mum, why can't we be like a normal family? Our whole family has lived with this trauma for 40 years. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: I can remember after a year had passed, I decided I couldn't dwell on it all the time because it wasn't fair on my children. And you walk up to the person, and it might look like her from the back, but it's not her at the front. It's just like walking down the street and seeing the back of a person and you're thinking, 'That's Lyn'. GREG SIMMS, LYN'S BROTHER: If you have someone missing, of course it's always there. The most important thing to us is to find her where she is, to lay her to rest. The decision of the judge is the finish for us. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: I was very nervous, of course, but at last we were we were there. Reporter: Are you happy that it's finally underway now?
The Teacher's Pet podcast really catapulted it into the public consciousness. RUBY CORNISH, ABC REPORTER: It was one of the most anticipated murder trials in recent years. News report: One of the country's most high-profile trials is underway. And that's why it captured the public imagination. I think that's what I would call the eternal triangle. JAMELLE WELL, ABC COURT REPORTER: People are connected to it because they were just such a normal suburban family, and then suddenly it all went wrong.ĪNTHONY WHEALY, QC, FORMER JUDGE NSW SUPREME COURT: An older man, a very attractive man, a young schoolgirl, an infatuation, a wife, and the possibility that she was murdered to make way for that relationship to flourish. JAMELLE WELLS, ABC COURT REPORTER: Everyone has a theory about what happened to Lynette Dawson, she was a nurse, a loving mother and a loving family person. Lyn: But there was one time I still get into trouble about from Chris. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: We've always over 40 years, remembered Lyn with such love. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: She was like the centre of things happening in the family. If she could give one gift, she'd give three gifts. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: The first one to ring for birthdays. PAT JENKINS, LYN'S SISTER: When this is all over, we'll always remember Lyn as the beautiful person she was. MERILYN SIMMS, LYN'S SISTER-IN-LAW: When we went to buy the flowers this morning, the florist was in tears, and she was telling us about her network of friends who followed this story all these years. GREG AND MERILYN SIMMS AT MEMORIAL BENCH: We did it, Lyn. GREG SIMMS, LYN'S BROTHER: The day after the verdict, we've come down here to Clovelly to put these flowers on the memorial seat to Mum and Dad and Lyn, just in recognition of their lives. Tonight, we go behind the scenes with Lyn's family and friends as they wait for a verdict that gripped the nation.
LYN DAWSON TRIAL
In May this year, her then-husband Chris Dawson stood trial for his wife's murder and last week, amidst a frenzy of media and public interest, Justice Ian Harrison handed down his decision. The much-loved mother-of-two was living on Sydney's northern beaches when she vanished in suspicious circumstances four decades ago. It's almost 20 years since Australian Story first spoke to the family of former nurse and childcare worker Lyn Dawson. INTRODUCTION: Hello, I'm Jamelle Wells, the ABC's court reporter.
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