Symbol copyright SUPPLIED Image caption Lynette Dawson’s disappearance has been given wider attention by a popular podcast
Australian police have arrested the husband of a Sydney lady whose disappearance in 1982 has been the topic of a popular crime podcast.
Chris Dawson, 70, is to be charged with murdering Lynette Dawson, New South Wales (NSW) government said.
Mr Dawson has denied killing Mrs Dawson. He has said that she abandoned the family for a non secular group.
A in style podcast, The Teacher’s Puppy, introduced world consideration to the case this 12 months.
Police arrested Mr Dawson in Queensland and said he can be extradited to NSW.
Symbol copyright PROVIDED Symbol caption Lynette Dawson, a mom of two, used to be closing seen in 1982
A search of the family’s former house in Sydney earlier this year didn’t ensue any new evidence.
An inquest in 2003 found that Mr Dawson, a former high school instructor and rugby league megastar, had engaged in sexual relationships with teenage scholars right through his marriage.
One affair with a SIXTEEN-12 months-old girl noticed her move in to the family house within days of Mrs Dawson’s disappearance. The pair later married, however have because separated.
Since Might, greater than 27 million folks have listened The Teacher’s Pet podcast, that’s produced via The Australian newspaper.
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It has highlighted the bungled handling of the case by means of police in the early years after Mrs Dawson’s disappearance, prompting a recent apology from the state’s police commissioner.
