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

[Trooper]

It will be interesting to hear the judge's reasons. There's no shortage of evidence showing motive and opportunity. I believe there is evidence that "getting rid of Lyn" was a theme in the troubled home.

I think JC's evidence will carry a lot of weight. it was odd to me that Dawson is relying on the testimony of a convicted criminal who claimed that 'Lynn was trying to set her husband up, leaving her stuff and disappearing, out of spite,'.. and yet then , in rebuttal of Joanne's testimony, claiming her testimony is setting him up, out of spite.

It's almost as if Dawson had a magnet that attracted spiteful women. The judge will weigh both those peculiar sentiments up, I would think. His presentation is overloaded with the evidence of a very very spiteful man, who 's capacity to undermine and misrepresent those to whom he owed much more than a passing objectivity.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Dawson has a lot of whining to do about the third Mrs Dawson.....

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Re enquiring about a hitman years earlier, before JC.
Who would have been the woman or girl then that he wanted to be with. There must have been someone, IMO.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Chris Dawson's lawyer Pauline David has claimed Lyn may have abandoned her family and subsequently met with misadventure, evoking the disappearance of former prime minister Harold Holt.

Talk about clutching at straws! Do they have any shame at all?

 

[Via Marple]

Tootsie, you're looking great

Back to Lyn... My guess is, her drink was spiked (as usual but maybe stronger) She was then suffocated while she was unconscious. CD could then leave her body somewhere in the home that the two little girls wouldn't find. (Locked up somewhere?) I think the girls were at home throughout but no noise made to wake them up.

In the morning when the girls were asking for mum, "gone shopping" could have been the first lie that he told. When he later refined the story, he forgot to take care of the little detail of where the girls were when they "drove off".

After setting up the meeting at Northbridge to further cover up Lyn's disappearance, he left home with the girls. No one would be looking for Lyn at home that day, he could be sure about that.

The Crown does not have to speculate on these details.

 

[Bats]

So CD's defence are saying she may have died from misadventure at sea.
Hmmm ...was this after all of their alleged sitings...?
Gosh they're really drawing a long bow!

 

[Kemug]

Maybe CD spiked Lyn's drink as he regularly did, but overdid it? Just playing Devil's Advocate here - maybe Lyn died because CD accidentally gave her too much? Not that I believe it, but I suppose it is possible.

 

[Kemug]

Or even - maybe he deliberately drugged the girls a bit, so they wouldn't hear anything in the night? And would sleep until he woke them up in the morning?

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Pauline David's fanciful claims seem to be wearing thin with Judge Ian Harrison :

Claims Chris Dawson Murdered Wife Lynette Dawson 'nonsensical', Barrister Tells NSW Supreme Court

By Miklos Bolza for Australian Associated Press

whatsnew2day.com

I'm getting more confident of a guilty verdict.

 

[Podcast Tragic]

As per The Australian update....Justice Harrison to Ms David "Tell me why he couldn't have done it"? Response from Ms David...CD would have no knowledge on how to dispose of a body.
Sorry about link behind a paywall ...I thought it was transferable.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

As per The Australian update....Justice Harrison to Ms David "Tell me why he couldn't have done it"? Response from Ms David...CD would have no knowledge on how to dispose of a body.
Sorry about link behind a paywall ...I thought it was transferable.

Justice Harrison seems to be picking Pauline David apart and rightfully so because she is clearly struggling.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Tootsie, you're looking great

Thanks Marple, but that's not me

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Maybe CD spiked Lyn's drink as he regularly did, but overdid it? Just playing Devil's Advocate here - maybe Lyn died because CD accidentally gave her too much? Not that I believe it, but I suppose it is possible.

I think that might very well be the excuse he gives if he's found guilty and has a go like Gerard Baden Clay did.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Justice Harrison seems to be picking Pauline David apart and rightfully so because she is clearly struggling.

Oh goodie!

 

[Podcast Tragic]

Justice Harrison seems to be picking Pauline David apart and rightfully so because she is clearly struggling.

Yes I feel his questions to Pauline David are very interesting and quite damning for CD. I never realised a judge could ask these questions.

 

[Tweet57]

I wonder why CD invited his friend Phillip Day to Northbridge Baths that day? Considering CD was working as a life guard and had to be vigilant, it was not the time for a mates catch-up. But was Phillip unknowingly part of CD’s master plan - Phillip drove Helene back to her home with the girls. And Chris could continue on uninterrupted back at Bayview with other pressing duties!

 

[musicaljoke]

I wonder why CD invited his friend Phillip Day to Northbridge Baths that day? Considering CD was working as a life guard and had to be vigilant, it was not the time for a mates catch-up. But was Phillip unknowingly part of CD’s master plan - Phillip drove Helene back to her home with the girls. And Chris could continue on uninterrupted back at Bayview with other pressing duties!

If Lyn was already dead at her home, which she very well could have been, then CD would be taking a risk that Helene might need Philip to run her over to the house to pick up some things for the kids.

 

[musicaljoke]

Let's not forget the evidence from Helene's diary, of a hateful man:

"A third entry read to the court - a year after Ms Dawson, 33, vanished from Sydney's northern beaches in January of 1982 - said Mr Dawson came to her house to drop off Lynette's belongings in 10 black garbage bags.

"The former Newtown Jets rugby league player and high school teacher was reportedly 'sick' of having the bags in his study and had packed items such as Ms Dawson's gardening gloves, nursing uniform and badge and a garter that she wore on their wedding day, the court heard that an entry read."

more at the link. Haunting diary entries from Lynn Dawson's mother before she vanished

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Chris Dawson's wife may have disappeared 'like Harold Holt', murder trial told

Chris Dawson's lawyer tells a judge her client's first wife may have abandoned her family and subsequently met with misadventure, evoking the disappearance of former prime minister Harold Holt.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Cliff Hardy]

If Lyn was already dead at her home, which she very well could have been, then CD would be taking a risk that Helene might need Philip to run her over to the house to pick up some things for the kids.

Chris would have told Helene that Lyn had gone shopping for the full day. So unless Helene had a key to the house she wouldn't have been able to get in. Chris sure as hell wasn't going to lend her one when he had so carefully maneuvered things the way he wanted them.

 

[Kemug]

Justice Harrison seems to be picking Pauline David apart and rightfully so because she is clearly struggling.

Pauline David said that CD couldn't have murdered Lyn because "he would have no knowledge of how to dispose of a body"! So noone has ever committed a first-time murder? Yeah, right.