Still Missing Australia - Lynette Dawson, 34, Sydney, Jan 1982 *Arrest* #3

[Trooper]

This case.. It all seems circumstantial, but statistically, most murders are adjudicated on mainly circumstantial evidence... and there is precedence for the fact that no body has ever been found, Bruce Burrell got done for 2 murders, no bodies ever being found of the women he murdered. Bruce never confessed, either, but it made no difference in the end. Off to the clink for life. No parole.

The overbearing control Dawson was manifesting over JC was what he was doing to Lynn, that stuff doesn't come on suddenly, he was doing it to all the women, and probably the men in his life. Most men would bat him off, though. I will probably never know if he tried it on with Mrs Dawson #3. . although, as I understand , she has separated from him now. So ... probably. I wonder if twin brother Paul had the same psyche..

Poor dear Lynn. Truly tragic.

 

[Trooper]

One thing I notice here is the lawyer seems to be supplying evidence not just questioning the witness. The first wording is a suggestion but not expecting an answer. Both are like additional information without a witness under oath.

"Dawson's barrister Pauline David suggested that because her client was a physical education teacher, it would not have been unusual for him to check out the indoor cricket ground because of his love of sports."

"Ms David said Dawson had purchased JC a cricket bat and encouraged her to play."

That hitman. He's out there, somewhere. If he didn't do it, he knows that Chris wanted it done. ..

I work on the supposition that Chris himself murdered her. I do not believe he was willing to lay out money on it all, and if he was willing, he was not willing to lay out much money, and the price may have been too high , too high for a Dawson, that is, notoriously mean men. Chris would have gone for the cheap alternative, in the end. Hence that 'lovely drink' on the Friday night.

 

[Kemug]

Even if CD didn't kill Lynn, he surely killed her soul.

 

[musicaljoke]

That hitman. He's out there, somewhere. If he didn't do it, he knows that Chris wanted it done. ..

I work on the supposition that Chris himself murdered her. I do not believe he was willing to lay out money on it all, and if he was willing, he was not willing to lay out much money, and the price may have been too high , too high for a Dawson, that is, notoriously mean men. Chris would have gone for the cheap alternative, in the end. Hence that 'lovely drink' on the Friday night.

We understand that CD was seen going into a pub with an envelope of money. Does anyone know if it was stated whether or not he was seen coming out of the pub with the same package of money?

I too think he might be too cheap to hire a hit man. After all, he didn't pick up the paintings of his children. How nuts is that? Wouldn't they have been paid for in advance, at least in part? Was Lynn in the painting too? Is that why he didn't want them? I wonder.

 

[Kemug]

Imagine not wanting paintings of your beautiful children! What a loving father - not. Of course, he may well have been skint, if he had just made a huge payment to someone to "rearrange" his family.

 

[Trooper]

There has not ever been an inquest into Lynn's death, has there?? Have I missed it?? Dawson didn't have to present a death certificate in the Divorce proceedings. Although, it was well before the legally required seven years since her disappearance that he divorced Lynn, but it seemed to go thru the court AS IF she were dead.

Even if Dawson is found not guilty, there will ,, (as a consequence of him being charged with her murder, which pre supposes that her death is real and that it was murder, otherwise he would not be charged with this crime,)... have to be a properly conducted inquest into her death, at which people are compelled by law to attend and respond and answer to the Coroner.

As it appears , NSW authorities are working on the assumption that Lynn is dead, and that her death was a case of homicide, not natural or self induced. So someone is responsible for her death, at this time, if not Dawson, then whom?

 

[Cliff Hardy]

There has not ever been an inquest into Lynn's death, has there??

February 2001: The first coronial inquest was held. Deputy State Coroner Jan Stevenson concluded that Lyn Dawson had been murdered and that her killer was someone she knew. The coroner recommended charges be laid.

However, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, QC, refused to do so because he said there was not enough evidence.

February 2003: A second coronial inquest was held. Coroner Carl Milovanovich recommended laying charges against Chris Dawson.

August 2003: Nicholas Cowdery refused to prosecute Chris Dawson, again citing
there was not enough evidence.

 

[Trooper]

February 2001: The first coronial inquest was held. Deputy State Coroner Jan Stevenson concluded that Lyn Dawson had been murdered and that her killer was someone she knew. The coroner recommended charges be laid.

However, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, QC, refused to do so because he said there was not enough evidence.

February 2003: A second coronial inquest was held. Coroner Carl Milovanovich recommended laying charges against Chris Dawson.

August 2003: Nicholas Cowdery refused to prosecute Chris Dawson, again citing
there was not enough evidence.

I'd forgotten how Cowdery was involved. Thanks for that reminder , Cliff. So, it can be brought into court again, on the grounds that she was murdered, by someone she knew, but that also means it can be done all over again say, if , IF Dawson gets off. She still remains a murdered person, by someone no one knows at this point.

Odd how Cowdery declined twice, yet after all those years passing, when evidence becomes less defined, peoples memories fade, there is now enough evidence to proceed with a murder trial.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

I'd forgotten how Cowdery was involved. Thanks for that reminder , Cliff. So, it can be brought into court again, on the grounds that she was murdered, by someone she knew, but that also means it can be done all over again say, if , IF Dawson gets off. She still remains a murdered person, by someone no one knows at this point.

Odd how Cowdery declined twice, yet after all those years passing, when evidence becomes less defined, peoples memories fade, there is now enough evidence to proceed with a murder trial.

I get the distinct impression Hedley Thomas did a better and more thorough investigation than the police did. I also doubt Chris Dawson would ever have gone to trial if it wasn't for Hedley's efforts in assembling more evidence, even if most/all of it is circumstantial.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Chris Dawson had organized to matchmake JC with a male student, only to turn around and tell the boy 'plan aborted' and hit on her himself :

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/i-think-he-murdered-his-first-wife-court-told-of-babysitters-message-to-friend-about-chris-dawson/news-story/344dd114ffc7ab8c6a4d0ff9f2a6f359

A then-teenage male school student – who can only be known as RH – on Tuesday told the court he had gone to school alongside JC and developed a romantic interest in her.

RH said that together with Mr Dawson, they had concocted a plan for RH to ask out JC.

They had organised for Mr Dawson to be at JC’s Dee Why home, at which point RH would arrive and ask her out.

However, he said Chris greeted him at the screen door and said the plan had been “aborted.”

“I got there, I hopped off the bike, went to the front door and the plan had changed. I was encouraged to leave,” RH told the court on Tuesday.

 

[drsleuth]

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law tells court he was 'never violent in my presence'

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law tells a court the accused murderer was a supportive partner and "hands-on father" who was never violent in her presence.

www.abc.net.au

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law has told a court the accused murderer was a supportive partner and "hands-on father" who was never violent in her presence.

Marilyn Dawson has been married to Chris' identical twin brother, Paul, since 1969.

Today, Marilyn told the court she had never seen Lynette with a black eye or bruised throat, but that she bruised easily in other places.

"Lyn wasn't very muscly, and so she had softer skin, often on her leg or arms there'd be a bruise, and that's just how her body was."

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

Sister-in-law upset by Chris Dawson affair


Giving evidence during Dawson's murder trial in Sydney on Wednesday, Marilyn Dawson said she was unhappy about allowing her brother-in-law and JC to stay at their place on Christmas Day but reluctantly gave them permission.

At the time, she said she knew Chris and Lynette Dawson's marriage was on shaky ground, but felt an obligation to help her brother-in-law who had just returned from an aborted trip north with his former high school student JC.

"I felt torn between helping Chris and trying to help Lyn and Chris' family. His parents probably didn't know where he was, and I just felt upset that I was in that situation," she told the NSW Supreme Court.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law tells court he was 'never violent in my presence'

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law tells a court the accused murderer was a supportive partner and "hands-on father" who was never violent in her presence.

www.abc.net.au

Chris Dawson's sister-in-law has told a court the accused murderer was a supportive partner and "hands-on father" who was never violent in her presence.

Marilyn Dawson has been married to Chris' identical twin brother, Paul, since 1969.

Today, Marilyn told the court she had never seen Lynette with a black eye or bruised throat, but that she bruised easily in other places.

"Lyn wasn't very muscly, and so she had softer skin, often on her leg or arms there'd be a bruise, and that's just how her body was."

So Marilyn Dawson took the stand. Wow!

Her testimony is disappointing but hardly surprising. I don't think anyone doubted who's side she was on.

What a pity, as a witness, Marilyn won't get to hear first hand details of the alleged teenage sexual conquests of her husband and her brother-in-law.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Imagine not wanting paintings of your beautiful children! What a loving father - not. Of course, he may well have been skint, if he had just made a huge payment to someone to "rearrange" his family.

Maybe he was jealous of the love and attention she gave to their children.

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/inside-lynette-dawsons-last-christmas-before-she-disappeared/news-story/c74b20fcdf1062ea0395ba350dcba581

Marilyn Dawson, giving evidence via videolink from Tweed Heads police station, told the court on Wednesday that she saw Lynette at her in-laws’ home on Christmas Day 1981.

But the court was told that Marilyn did not tell Lynette that Chris had returned to Sydney earlier that morning and was at her house with Chris’ teenage former student.

“I wanted her to stand up and be counted about her home and her children and her marriage,” Marilyn said.

“She was a strong girl, a strong personality, she was a nurse. She saw a lot of suffering and saving of lives.

“She was very worldly. She had a strong opinion about things.

“I don’t know why she didn’t have a strong personality to stand up to her marriage.



All the while, you Marilyn, were enabling CD to be with JC

Poor Lyn........

 

[Kemug]

Chris Dawson had organized to matchmake JC with a male student, only to turn around and tell the boy 'plan aborted' and hit on her himself :

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/i-think-he-murdered-his-first-wife-court-told-of-babysitters-message-to-friend-about-chris-dawson/news-story/344dd114ffc7ab8c6a4d0ff9f2a6f359

A then-teenage male school student – who can only be known as RH – on Tuesday told the court he had gone to school alongside JC and developed a romantic interest in her.

RH said that together with Mr Dawson, they had concocted a plan for RH to ask out JC.

They had organised for Mr Dawson to be at JC’s Dee Why home, at which point RH would arrive and ask her out.

However, he said Chris greeted him at the screen door and said the plan had been “aborted.”

“I got there, I hopped off the bike, went to the front door and the plan had changed. I was encouraged to leave,” RH told the court on Tuesday.

My high school years must have been so boring - I certainly remember nothing like this!

 

[Kemug]

"Lyn wasn't very muscly, and so she had softer skin, often on her leg or arms there'd be a bruise, and that's just how her body was."

Is that really a thing?

 

[Trooper]

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/inside-lynette-dawsons-last-christmas-before-she-disappeared/news-story/c74b20fcdf1062ea0395ba350dcba581

Marilyn Dawson, giving evidence via videolink from Tweed Heads police station, told the court on Wednesday that she saw Lynette at her in-laws’ home on Christmas Day 1981.

But the court was told that Marilyn did not tell Lynette that Chris had returned to Sydney earlier that morning and was at her house with Chris’ teenage former student.

“I wanted her to stand up and be counted about her home and her children and her marriage,” Marilyn said.

“She was a strong girl, a strong personality, she was a nurse. She saw a lot of suffering and saving of lives.

“She was very worldly. She had a strong opinion about things.

“I don’t know why she didn’t have a strong personality to stand up to her marriage.



All the while, you Marilyn, were enabling CD to be with JC

Poor Lyn........

I reckon she did stand up against Chris in the end, she didn't go quietly, she surprised him by possibly going for him thru that Friday night, and that's the reason she is dead. Because she would not roll over and accept what Dawson, and his brother and her sister in law were dishing out to her. He killed her in a ratbag temper because she would not sit down and shutup.

 

[Trooper]

Is that really a thing?

hell no, not then and not now. Marilyn is making stuff up to suit her story. All this palaver about Lynn should be staying home more. Ye gods. She only had a job, not fulltime at a nursery, but oh no. that's not staying home in your proper place, at home, doing homely things, and looking homely.

 

[KidonGadol]

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/inside-lynette-dawsons-last-christmas-before-she-disappeared/news-story/c74b20fcdf1062ea0395ba350dcba581

Marilyn Dawson, giving evidence via videolink from Tweed Heads police station, told the court on Wednesday that she saw Lynette at her in-laws’ home on Christmas Day 1981.

But the court was told that Marilyn did not tell Lynette that Chris had returned to Sydney earlier that morning and was at her house with Chris’ teenage former student.

“I wanted her to stand up and be counted about her home and her children and her marriage,” Marilyn said.

“She was a strong girl, a strong personality, she was a nurse. She saw a lot of suffering and saving of lives.

“She was very worldly. She had a strong opinion about things.

“I don’t know why she didn’t have a strong personality to stand up to her marriage.



All the while, you Marilyn, were enabling CD to be with JC

Poor Lyn........

Did Joanne bring up the matter of the forgery on the life insurance policy by MD in her testimony ? Because I have a feeling that this is not going to come up in MD's testimony. It's critical as it suggests that MD knows that Lynn D is never going to return to cause trouble when she discovers the fraud , as she eventually would . How would she know that - is it Paul or Chris to told her and was it just an assertion or something darker and more specific. ?