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

[DRT]

One thing that did strike me as new with the ACA episode is that everything I have heard of recent times is that Chris lived in Noosa and Paul lives on the Gold Coast. Here they both live on the Gold Coast and within 500 metres of each other. This looks more suburban than the compound near Dream World but I suspect Chris might have had to sell that up after his breakup with Joanne.

Husband of woman who vanished 36 years ago has 'nothing to hide'

"As they've done previously the pair now live just a couple of hundreds of metres away from each other, on the Gold Coast."

Chilling words Chris Dawson told his schoolgirl lover when she moved in after his wife Lyn vanished | Daily Mail Online mentions the Sunshine coast but it might be because that has previously been quoted and both Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast and it's not an Australian.

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"On fine days, Chris Dawson walks hesitantly from his home to a wide stretch of Queensland beach near Noosa."

I am just wondering if there is trouble in paradise after the significant anniversary with his third wife and the twins 70th birthday in July. Perhaps he found a rental near Paul.

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The Gold Coast Bulletin mentioned the significant anniversary which is likely to be 25 years.

It was also rather ironic that the following segment on ACA was about some cult. I didn't actually watch it but noticed it was on.

 

[DRT]

After going back and listening to a couple of the earlier episodes what strikes me is maybe the power that Helena Simms had in the investigation but perhaps didn't know. I am in no way blaming Helena for the police investigation but Helena's belief in Chris did not give Lyn an advocate in the police investigation IMO.

As Chris wasn't interested in reporting Lyn missing because it suited his story (she has gone and joined a cult, she wants some time apart, she doesn't want to be there for her child's first day at school, she wants to buy jeans at a place near where she works without actually going to work). Okay, the last 2 were my sarcastic words, but go along with the stories.

Yes Helena made Chris report Lyn's disappearance to the police but she believed Chris's story to a certain degree on the public perception. Perhaps the old fashioned idea that couples should stay together, support their husband through everything. Support services in the early 1980s were not so readily available for women leaving their husbands.

I don't believe Helena stressed enough to police that Lyn wouldn't leave. Up until her husband Len's funeral in 2001 when she kept looking at the door to see if Lyn would walk in, there was still a possibility in her mind that Lyn could be alive.

We all know the police investigation lack of investigation didn't interview anyone, totally believed his story, but as a parent, Helena needed to be Lyn's advocate.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

One thing that did strike me as new with the ACA episode is that everything I have heard of recent times is that Chris lived in Noosa and Paul lives on the Gold Coast. Here they both live on the Gold Coast and within 500 metres of each other. This looks more suburban than the compound near Dream World but I suspect Chris might have had to sell that up after his breakup with Joanne.

Husband of woman who vanished 36 years ago has 'nothing to hide'

"As they've done previously the pair now live just a couple of hundreds of metres away from each other, on the Gold Coast."

Chilling words Chris Dawson told his schoolgirl lover when she moved in after his wife Lyn vanished | Daily Mail Online mentions the Sunshine coast but it might be because that has previously been quoted and both Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast and it's not an Australian.

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"On fine days, Chris Dawson walks hesitantly from his home to a wide stretch of Queensland beach near Noosa."

I am just wondering if there is trouble in paradise after the significant anniversary with his third wife and the twins 70th birthday in July. Perhaps he found a rental near Paul.

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The Gold Coast Bulletin mentioned the significant anniversary which is likely to be 25 years.

It was also rather ironic that the following segment on ACA was about some cult. I didn't actually watch it but noticed it was on.

Have thought for a while Chris' desperation to "keep up with the Jones' ", in his case his very own twin bother, was a factor in Lyn's convenient 'disappearance'.

Once Chris realized a separation would cost him his big home up the road from his brother he decided being 'abandoned' would work out far better for him.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

After going back and listening to a couple of the earlier episodes what strikes me is maybe the power that Helena Simms had in the investigation but perhaps didn't know. I am in no way blaming Helena for the police investigation but Helena's belief in Chris did not give Lyn an advocate in the police investigation IMO.

As Chris wasn't interested in reporting Lyn missing because it suited his story (she has gone and joined a cult, she wants some time apart, she doesn't want to be there for her child's first day at school, she wants to buy jeans at a place near where she works without actually going to work). Okay, the last 2 were my sarcastic words, but go along with the stories.

Yes Helena made Chris report Lyn's disappearance to the police but she believed Chris's story to a certain degree on the public perception. Perhaps the old fashioned idea that couples should stay together, support their husband through everything. Support services in the early 1980s were not so readily available for women leaving their husbands.

I don't believe Helena stressed enough to police that Lyn wouldn't leave. Up until her husband Len's funeral in 2001 when she kept looking at the door to see if Lyn would walk in, there was still a possibility in her mind that Lyn could be alive.

We all know the police investigation lack of investigation didn't interview anyone, totally believed his story, but as a parent, Helena needed to be Lyn's advocate.

Plainly Chris had 'charmed' his mother in-law with his 'charisma' from the day they met and she had never been witness to 'the dark side to him that nobody knows.'

Sadly, and without being too critical of Helena Simms, her misplaced loyalty did play right into Chris' hands when Lyn 'went missing.'

 

[k-mac]

Plainly Chris had 'charmed' his mother in-law with his 'charisma' from the day they met and she had never been witness to 'the dark side to him that nobody knows.'

Sadly, and without being too critical of Helena Simms, her misplaced loyalty did play right into Chris' hands when Lyn 'went missing.'

yep
too right CH
pretty much every key player in every avenue supported his conspiracy for one reason or another.

I have never seen anything like it.

especially when the general consensus from most that knew him is not favourable.(teenage girls don't count!)

 

[tmar]

Man arrested over 1983 Gold Coast killing of Linda Reed
Lucy Stone
1 hour ago

© Queensland Police Linda Reed, 21, was last seen alive at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre on December 13, 1983. Her body was found three days later. A 51-year-old man has been charged with the 1983 cold case murder of Gold Coast woman Linda Reed.

Queensland Police took the man into custody on Wednesday morning and expected him to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court in the afternoon.

The cold case murder investigation was reopened in 2009 after a tip-off.
Ms Reed was 21 when she was found dead on Millaroo Drive, Gaven. She was last seen at her workplace on December 13, and never returned after taking her meal break.

Her body was found three days later, close to her Mazda sedan.

Homicide Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Knight said the arrest concluded a "methodical and extensive" investigation.

Hope we'll have similar news here.

 

[k-mac]

https://www.[link removed].au/joanne-curtis-dawson/

this is a fair assessment of joanne. imo

I don't believe her to be innocent of knowledge and feel her acceptance of (although not ideal) lyns demise was simply part of the package to be with chris.
she does have a cold temperment and the subsequent abuse at her hands of lyns children is appalling and nobody will justify away her behaviour to me BUT she is much respected by me to face the past,cop the criticism and right the wrongs she was a part of.

we know she wasn't there, she didn't murder lyn no matter how she felt about it or what knowledge she had before or after.
the cops need to cut her a deal for full disclosure (no charges accessory after the fact etc.)

she is very curious to me.
wonder if she went on to remarry ,have more family?

 

[Cliff Hardy]

https://www.***********.au/joanne-curtis-dawson/

this is a fair assessment of joanne. imo

I don't believe her to be innocent of knowledge and feel her acceptance of (although not ideal) lyns demise was simply part of the package to be with chris.
she does have a cold temperment and the subsequent abuse at her hands of lyns children is appalling and nobody will justify away her behaviour to me BUT she is much respected by me to face the past,cop the criticism and right the wrongs she was a part of.

we know she wasn't there, she didn't murder lyn no matter how she felt about it or what knowledge she had before or after.
the cops need to cut her a deal for full disclosure (no charges accessory after the fact etc.)

she is very curious to me.
wonder if she went on to remarry ,have more family?

The police could do stupider things (well let's face it they already have) than offer Joanne a deal. But I'm not convinced she knows any specifics.

Seem to remember a lady from a woman's shelter, who knows Joanne very well, state in an earlier podcast that Joanne was totally disillusioned with men.

 

[DRT]

The police could do stupider things (well let's face it they already have) than offer Joanne a deal. But I'm not convinced she knows any specifics.

Seem to remember a lady from a woman's shelter, who knows Joanne very well, state in an earlier podcast that Joanne was totally disillusioned with men.

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"Pam Eckford and Joanne Curtis’s mother were friends, and Pam has known Joanne Curtis since she was a small girl. When Joanne fled Queensland in 1990, escaping her husband Chris Dawson and their volatile marriage, she returned to Sydney and approached Pam who was then a welfare worker officer at a Women’s Resource Centre in Dee Why. Pam became Joanne’s case worker, and helped her make contact with Lyn’s family - Helena, Greg and Merilyn Simms - giving Joanne the opportunity to reveal new information about the events surrounding Lyn’s disappearance in 1982. Pam is interviewed in episode 10."

 

[Ag33]

Let’s discuss the disappearance of Lynette Dawson’s case. Tragic!!

 

[Legally Bland]

Hi,

This may help.

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

 

[k-mac]

Hedley podcast withdrawals

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

Hedley podcast withdrawals

I’m with you K-Mac. I was actually just searching for something to listen to on my one hour work commute tomorrow. Might go back to episode 1 for the third time.

 

[k-mac]

I’m with you K-Mac. I was actually just searching for something to listen to on my one hour work commute tomorrow. Might go back to episode 1 for the third time.

I have heard there is a new podcast about natalie wood I was going to look up.
dark voyage or something like that.
gunna kill some time with that!

 

[DRT]

I have heard there is a new podcast about natalie wood I was going to look up.
dark voyage or something like that.
gunna kill some time with that!

Have you heard the ABC one Unravel True Crime. It started in May before this one and finished July. They also recommended a Kiwi one called Gone Fishing which I haven't listened to yet.

 

[k-mac]

Have you heard the ABC one Unravel True Crime. It started in May before this one and finished July. They also recommended a Kiwi one called Gone Fishing which I haven't listened to yet.

no
but thanks drt
i'll get onboard

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

‘Someone Knows Something’ is pretty good. Especially Season 3

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

Some great photos here

LYN DAWSON - A LIFE IN PICTURES

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[Cagney&Lacey]

This is a really confronting story of another former Cromer High teacher who groomed male students for sex. I believe he started in 84 so after Chris’ time but the similarities in what took place is astounding. At least this guy was eventually charged and still in jail.

Article is from 23/4/14

When I first listened to the interview on the podcast with the former principal I believed him. Not anymore. There is no way so much dipravity was going on within those school grounds without that principal knowing

Drugs were a smokescreen to haze of abuse by Cromer High School teacher

 

[Cliff Hardy]

‘Someone Knows Something’ is pretty good. Especially Season 3

All of the ‘Someone Knows Something’ podcasts are good listening. I have done them out of order. Currently 3/4 way through 'Finding Cleo.'