Australia Australia - Lynette Dawson, 34, Sydney, Jan 1982 *Arrest*

[Trooper]

This country is small in population. . It surely couldn't be too hard to have had a national base of reported crime all the last century, especially when the telegraph service began .

Because who hears this particular story more than once? Neighbors and family, they only hear it once, they think it's unique and particular to them, but a copper , coppers across the land would see, on a national base, that there is a whole category of women, young, middle aged, normal suburban wives and mothers, who's husbands claim they suddenly left with a man, or a woman unknown. .

Surely that would ring some one's bell?. Maybe it was, is, too costly, too much trouble,, just a niche sort of thing.... but it really isn't, it has become a regular horrific pattern of behavior that runs the risk of being normalized.

Perhaps I need more coffee.

 

[Morrisa]

This country is small in population. . It surely couldn't be too hard to have had a national base of reported crime all the last century, especially when the telegraph service began .

Because who hears this particular story more than once? Neighbors and family, they only hear it once, they think it's unique and particular to them, but a copper , coppers across the land would see, on a national base, that there is a whole category of women, young, middle aged, normal suburban wives and mothers, who's husbands claim they suddenly left with a man, or a woman unknown. .

Surely that would ring some one's bell?. Maybe it was, is, too costly, too much trouble,, just a niche sort of thing.... but it really isn't, it has become a regular horrific pattern of behavior that runs the risk of being normalized.

Perhaps I need more coffee.

I'll have another cup
I was looking through the missing persons website last night. It is amazing how many women are missing that have small children and the husband was the last person to see them
There is another lady by the name of Dawson, disappears leaving two young children, husband the last person to see her, and wouldn't you know it after looking up on google, moved his younger housekeeper in two weeks later?!

 

[Trooper]

I'll have another cup
I was looking through the missing persons website last night. It is amazing how many women are missing that have small children and the husband was the last person to see them
There is another lady by the name of Dawson, disappears leaving two young children, husband the last person to see her, and wouldn't you know it after looking up on google, moved his younger housekeeper in two weeks later?!

Even 30 years ago, that story of Chris's had so many holes in it, and it cannot have been the first time those detectives in NSW had heard a similar story, it is this aspect of it that drives me nuts.. !

 

[Morrisa]

Even 30 years ago, that story of Chris's had so many holes in it, and it cannot have been the first time those detectives in NSW had heard a similar story, it is this aspect of it that drives me nuts.. !

Absolutely. This other case was from 1972, husband was arrested in 2005, but guess what- DPP dropped it due to insufficient evidence!

 

[Trooper]

Absolutely. This other case was from 1972, husband was arrested in 2005, but guess what- DPP dropped it due to insufficient evidence!

I'd be interested to know how many men disappeared off the face of the earth and stayed that way, in the last 50 years, since the medicare card, the ATO, Social Sec, Centrelink, came in. .not half as many, I bet. Sure, they merge into the mines up north, and sink into obscurity in Darwin and Nhulunby and all that stuff, but the Tax office knows where they are.. that's a different category....

 

[Cliff Hardy]

A slight diversion, if I may ….. this murder of Colleen Adams.. 24, young mother, Husband murdered her, told everyone she left him and the babies and went off with a woman he didn't know.... 46 years. But he murdered her, and buried her in the driveway of the home.

Yet, he couldn't leave her. There he lived for the next 46 years, nearly half a century, with his young wife's body decomposing right in front of his face, summer, winter, spring autumn... the kids growing up, riding bikes over her, skates, pogo sticks, skippy ropes... keeping up the lie, accepting the sympathy, no doubt lots of practical help, companion ship of other disaffected men who's wives ' leave' them .

Yet , he couldn't, wouldn't leave the premises. I cant make up my mind which is the most significant, that he couldn't leave the location or he couldn't leave the body, having no practical way to take it with him..... …

His story is so familiar, isn't it?.. it's like a standard script these sorts of chaps produce every f***ing time!... they don't even have enough imagination to ping out something original!...

ALWAYS, the bottom line is, I am the victim here, not my bolting wife. I demand the compassion. All of it. For the rest of my life.

The similarities are eerie.

When someone posted about this case a day or two ago, and the shortcut mentioned an arrest had been made, I thought for a fleeting second Chris Dawson had been arrested and was just about to do my happy dance through the office.....alas.

 

[Trooper]

The similarities are eerie.

When someone posted about this case a day or two ago, and the shortcut mentioned an arrest had been made, I thought for a fleeting second Chris Dawson had been arrested and was just about to do my happy dance through the office.....alas.

And their kids believe them!.. Jennifer Tanners children believe their mother killed herself. Right in front of the baby son, too... That bloke who put his wife's body in a 40 gallon drum and hid it in the garage, took the drum from house to house in Morwell, I think.. down Gippsland way, I could be wrong, even after the court found him guilty, after 27 years, his kids still believed Mum had run away with a truckie!..

The endless lies Paul and Chris had to tell their own children, not to mention Peter and his children , perhaps, years of it,. over and over again.. it defies imagination.

 

[Morrisa]

The similarities are eerie.

When someone posted about this case a day or two ago, and the shortcut mentioned an arrest had been made, I thought for a fleeting second Chris Dawson had been arrested and was just about to do my happy dance through the office.....alas.

Sorry that was me...but I'm sure we'll be doing lots of happy dances soon enough...hopefully!

 

[DRT]

This country is small in population. . It surely couldn't be too hard to have had a national base of reported crime all the last century, especially when the telegraph service began .

Because who hears this particular story more than once? Neighbors and family, they only hear it once, they think it's unique and particular to them, but a copper , coppers across the land would see, on a national base, that there is a whole category of women, young, middle aged, normal suburban wives and mothers, who's husbands claim they suddenly left with a man, or a woman unknown. .

Surely that would ring some one's bell?. Maybe it was, is, too costly, too much trouble,, just a niche sort of thing.... but it really isn't, it has become a regular horrific pattern of behavior that runs the risk of being normalized.

Perhaps I need more coffee.

This is the one that I think is similar. Sally Greenham.
The official story as told by crimestoppers. Most accurate IMO. No mention about Adelaide Terrace.
MISSING (SUSPICIOUS) - SALLY BEATRIX GREENHAM – BOOTENHAL WA – 21/AUG/1987 - Crime Stoppers Western Australia

The story most people have heard about is she was last seen in Adelaide Terrace, Perth where her husband dropped her off.
Sally Beatrix GREENHAM

 

[tmar]

Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach

Sibel Abdiu
11 hrs ago
What a great find. Hope Lynn had eaten loads of seeds, and a gorgeous tree is growing in an unusual site, for this tree/area.

"A missing man who was murdered more than 40 years ago has been found - after a seed from a fig in his stomach grew into a tree.
Ahmet Hergune was killed during the conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974, but his body remained undiscovered for decades.

It was eventually discovered because the tree which grew from him was unusual for the area.
Incredibly, the dead man had been taken into a cave with two others and both of them had been killed by dynamite that was then thrown in after them.

Yet the dynamite also blew a hole in the side of the cave, allowing light to flood into the darkened interior which in turn allowed the fig tree to grow from the man's body.

Up to 200,000 people were displaced in the conflict".

 

[they'll get you]

Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach

Sibel Abdiu
11 hrs ago
What a great find. Hope Lynn had eaten loads of seeds, and a gorgeous tree is growing in an unusual site, for this tree/area.

"A missing man who was murdered more than 40 years ago has been found - after a seed from a fig in his stomach grew into a tree.
Ahmet Hergune was killed during the conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974, but his body remained undiscovered for decades.

It was eventually discovered because the tree which grew from him was unusual for the area.
Incredibly, the dead man had been taken into a cave with two others and both of them had been killed by dynamite that was then thrown in after them.

Yet the dynamite also blew a hole in the side of the cave, allowing light to flood into the darkened interior which in turn allowed the fig tree to grow from the man's body.

Up to 200,000 people were displaced in the conflict".

I’ll eat my hat.

Crikey!

 

[tmar]

I’ll eat my hat.

Crikey!

Isn't that great.
Today, while shopping, I found the bread with the most number of seeds.
If missing, one day, (hope never) trees will sprout if I am buried.
But buried in an area, that these trees are considered to be strange, and body uncovered.
Hope Chris Dawson read the article, and goes and retrieves the missing body, if buried in an unusual place, and Police nab him.
Of course, all the above, just my thoughts, and I have 'no evidence'.

 

[they'll get you]

Isn't that great.
Today, while shopping, I found the bread with the most number of seeds.
If missing, one day, (hope never) trees will sprout if I am buried.
But buried in an area, that these trees are considered to be strange, and body uncovered.
Hope Chris Dawson read the article, and goes and retrieves the missing body, if buried in an unusual place, and Police nab him.
Of course, all the above, just my thoughts, and I have 'no evidence'.

Damn if Lynette's cardigan sprouted little cashmeres or polyesters from the buried site the cardie would have been found much earlier.

 

[k-mac]

This country is small in population. . It surely couldn't be too hard to have had a national base of reported crime all the last century, especially when the telegraph service began .

Because who hears this particular story more than once? Neighbors and family, they only hear it once, they think it's unique and particular to them, but a copper , coppers across the land would see, on a national base, that there is a whole category of women, young, middle aged, normal suburban wives and mothers, who's husbands claim they suddenly left with a man, or a woman unknown. .

Surely that would ring some one's bell?. Maybe it was, is, too costly, too much trouble,, just a niche sort of thing.... but it really isn't, it has become a regular horrific pattern of behavior that runs the risk of being normalized.

Perhaps I need more coffee.

the problem back then and it was an enormous problem.....women had no protection from violent husbands.
police had no authority or protocol in place to deal with domestic problems. unless he beat her up and put her in hospital she was on her own.
and sadly I witnessed this personally.
this violent husband didn't like his professional wife being a nurse and working shift work.
he came home from the pub after work as she was getting ready to go to work and decided nope she wasn't going to work she was gunna stay home and cook him a feed.
after jobbing her in the mouth giving her a fat lip he ripped off her uniform and she calmly walked away put another one on and he did again....somebody else called the cops and when they arrived they were not interested in the fat lip, the ripped uniforms, the control of stopping her going to work, simply were told,"look you two clearly this isnt working for you, you need to go your way and you need to go yours. alright? see you later"
they walked him off the property and 5 minutes later he was back free and her and the kids (2 and 4) had to escape and go into hiding for the night while he sobered up.
she had to abandon her job.
AGAIN.
this was the life of a battered wife of the early and late 70's even early 80s.

was very very hard to escape if you had the misfortune of falling in love with a monster.

 

[they'll get you]

the problem back then and it was an enormous problem.....women had no protection from violent husbands.
police had no authority or protocol in place to deal with domestic problems. unless he beat her up and put her in hospital she was on her own.
and sadly I witnessed this personally.
this violent husband didn't like his professional wife being a nurse and working shift work.
he came home from the pub after work as she was getting ready to go to work and decided nope she wasn't going to work she was gunna stay home and cook him a feed.
after jobbing her in the mouth giving her a fat lip he ripped off her uniform and she calmly walked away put another one on and he did again....somebody else called the cops and when they arrived they were not interested in the fat lip, the ripped uniforms, the control of stopping her going to work, simply were told,"look you two clearly this isnt working for you, you need to go your way and you need to go yours. alright? see you later"
they walked him off the property and 5 minutes later he was back free and her and the kids (2 and 4) had to escape and go into hiding for the night while he sobered up.
she had to abandon her job.
AGAIN.
this was the life of a battered wife of the early and late 70's even early 80s.

was very very hard to escape if you had the misfortune of falling in love with a monster.

Thank goodness so many things have changed for the better.

 

[k-mac]

Thank goodness so many things have changed for the better.

yes for sure tgu
its not perfect but we are moving in a good direction

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

An article in The Newcastle Herald over the weekend. Thoughts from Greg Simms

‘Hollow feeling’: Lynette Dawson’s brother wants answers

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

Lynnette would have turned 70 today. So many missed celebrations, children’s milestones, cuddles with grandchildren.
My thoughts are with her children today.

 

[k-mac]

happy birthday lyn xx
hopefully a present is coming soon

 

[k-mac]

Nocookies

any of our websleuthers in sydney??
I wish I could be there.
not sure there is a whole lot of advertising the event