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The Teacher’s Pet: ‘false leads’ at heart of Dawson case
New allegations that Chris Dawson created a string of false leads to convince friends and family his wife had walked out on him will be at the heart of the prosecution case against the former Sydney schoolteacher, senior sources close to the investigation claim.
In order for the prosecution to establish its case, it needs to “close off all the holes and systematically dismantle this story that Lyn just walked out of his life,” one senior source said.
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Mr Walsh also revealed that, by “bizarre coincidence”, the first wife of Peter Dawson, Chris’s elder brother, had a mother who had disappeared for 60 years.
“It wasn’t until 2002 when the mother died, having remarried in New Zealand, that the family discovered she had been alive all along,” Mr Walsh said yesterday.
“It’s amazing, but it just demonstrates that it does happen.”
Homicide detectives have two new witnesses who came forward for the first time following the launch of
The Teacher’s Pet.