Episode 10: The Crown Closes
Obsessed with teenage babysitter JC, Christopher Dawson murdered his wife Lyn in terror of losing what he so deeply desired. That was the powerful thrust of a meticulous and forensic closing address, ...
8 Jul 20221h 8min
Episode 9: 'She Took Off'
Police taps on Chris Dawson’s phone in 2018 as episodes of The Teacher’s Pet were unfolding reveal him and his twin brother Paul raging over the former babysitter-cum-wife JC, as well as journalists, ...
3 Jul 20221h 5min
Episode 8: The Reporter And The Cop
Hedley Thomas, the award-winning journalist behind The Teacher's Pet podcast, enters the witness box in the trial's eighth week. Thomas mounts a fiery defence of investigative journalism amid a fierce...
1 Jul 20221h 48min
From The Front: Hedley Thomas appears at Chris Dawson's trial
This week, Hedley Thomas will be in the witness box in the trial of Chris Dawson. The Australian's daily news podcast The Front will be publishing daily updates. Search for The Front in your podcast a...
26 Jun 202213min
Episode 7: Fruit Barn
A retired cop makes an explosive revelation that an unverified and fleeting purported sighting of Lyn Dawson at a fruit barn closed down the first homicide investigation in the early 1990s. The court ...
24 Jun 20221h 20min
Episode 6: Gangland
The names and reputations of Sydney’s most notorious crime figures are connected to Chris Dawson’s murder trial, as the focus turns to the gangland milieu surrounding the Newtown Jets rugby league clu...
17 Jun 20221h 36min
Episode 5: Intercepted
The voices of Chris and Paul Dawson echo through the court once more as intercepted phone calls from the late '90s are played publicly for the first time. Members of the Dawson family, including twin ...
10 Jun 20221h 23min
Episode 4: Sex, Lies and Videotape
The court hears Chris Dawson's story in his own words as video of his first and only police interview on the topic of his wife's disappearance is played in full. His brother, Peter Dawson, remembers t...
2 Jun 20221h 17min
