Lynette Joy Simms’ disappearance in 1982 became one of Sydney’s most enduring mysteries. Decades later,her husband was convicted of her murder.
On March 27,1982,a 15-word ad appeared in a Sydney newspaper,urging “Lyn” to call “Chris”. The author had already murdered her,a judge found.
A top prosecutor has told Chris Dawson’s murder appeal the convicted wife killer appeared to show a “complete lack of sentiment towards his own children”.
Convicted killer Chris Dawson,whose appeal is before the courts,claimed his wife never returned after he dropped her at a bus stop. A top judge has asked a pointed question.
The convicted killer claimed his wife called him at Northbridge Baths and told him that she needed “time away”. Within days,his daughters’ babysitter moved in.
The convicted killer has asked the state’s top criminal appeal court to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette Simms,who vanished in 1982.
The Teacher’s Pet gripped the nation and now the only first-hand account of the story,told through the eyes of the schoolgirl Dawson pursued,is being published.
The family of the 33-year-old,who was killed in Sydney in January 1982,want to do away with references to her marital name linking her to a man who “discarded her”.
The 74-year-old has been sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court today for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982. Her body has never been found.
The 74-year-old was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday more than 40 years after his first wife vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches.
Lynette Dawson’s elder daughter,sister and brother have delivered victim impact statements at Chris Dawson’s sentence hearing for her murder in January 1982.