David Murray
The Australian
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Teacher’s Pet: Police dig for Lyn Dawson over but the pursuit of justice carries on
The brother of missing Sydney mother Lyn Dawson says the inability to find her body does not diminish the chances of achieving justice. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet: video emerges of Chris Dawson, twin Paul in TV segment
A video has surfaced online of murder suspect Chris Dawson and his twin brother Paul discussing their extraordinarily close bond when they were Queensland teachers. → Read More
Lyn Dawson Bayview search ends without breakthrough
Lyn Dawsons family has told of their gratitude for the new police dig at her former home, as the search finished without a breakthrough in the cold case. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet: police to push through weekend in bold search for Lyn Dawson’s remains
The bold new police search for Lyn Dawsons remains will continue across the weekend as her family holds out for a breakthrough. → Read More
The Teacher’s Pet: Lyn Dawson’s remains may be only bone fragments
Lyn Dawsons family says there may be only bone fragments if she is buried at her former home. → Read More
Sniffer dog joins dig for Lyn Dawson evidence at Bayview
Detectives have finished a second day of digging at a property on Sydneys northern beaches as part of a revived search for the body of Lyn Dawson. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet: Police dig deeper for Lyn Dawson
NSW police will spend this week excavating the former home of missing Sydney mother Lyn Dawson, in a dramatic new bid to determine if she has been buried there for the past 36 years. → Read More
Lyn Dawson disappearance: police identify four key areas to search at former Sydney home
NSW Police are examining anomalies in the grounds of the former Sydney home of missing woman Lynette Dawson, as they hunt for her remains. → Read More
The Teacher’s Pet: Former DPP defends lack of action on Dawson
The former top NSW prosecutor who repeatedly refused to take Chris Dawson to trial says there has been very little consideration for the murder suspect. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet podcast: NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman fends off conflict of interest probe
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman has fended off questions about the DPPs failure to tell missing Sydney mother Lyn Dawsons family of a conflict of interest in the cold case, saying it is the polices role to deal with relatives. → Read More
Dawson-case detectives speak to new witness from podcast series
Detectives investigating the 1982 probable murder of Sydney mother Lyn Dawson have taken a statement from another new witness. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet podcast: Lyn Dawson and other ‘missing’ victims
How many Lyn Dawsons are there Thats what Carl Milovanovich was asking himself as the cases of missing women piled up. As NSW deputy state coroner, Milovanovich was seeing a pattern. Suspicious disappearances of women — wives, mothers, sisters, daughters — were falling through the cracks. → Read More
The Teacher’s Pet: Podcast on hold pending further developments
The Teachers Pet, the investigative podcast series by The Australian, will tomorrow release its final episode — for now. → Read More
DPP took four years to declare conflict over Chris Dawson
The probable murder of Lyn Dawson was raised with NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb SC four years before he says he declared a conflict of interest because of his past association with her husband and suspected killer. → Read More
Former Cromer students name suspect teachers
Former students of Sydney’s Cromer high school stepped forward in unison at a meeting on the northern beaches yesterday and wrote down names of teachers involved in alleged sex assaults or relationships with pupils. → Read More
The Teacher’s Pet: Detective ‘disgusted’ with Dawson investigation
A retired detective has expressed anger at initial police failings after the disappearance of Sydney mother Lyn Dawson, blaming the high profile of her husband and suspected killer, Chris Dawson. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet: ‘I felt sick and ashamed’, says ex-pupil of predatory culture at Chris Dawson’s school
A former Cromer high school student says she jumped from a car to escape a teacher after a night at a pub, and that a distraught friend told her of being raped by a teacher. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet podcast: NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller apologises for police failings in Lyn Dawson case
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has apologised to Lyn Dawsons family for police failings in the 36-year-old cold case. → Read More
Cromer High students recall teachers, sex and drugs
A podcast about a missing woman was determined to unearth new evidence on a probable murder. What no one expected was that it also would open a Pandora’s box of secrets and lies and cover-ups of sexual misconduct and abuse at high schools in Sydney and beyond. → Read More
Teacher’s Pet podcast: NSW Police ‘dropped the ball’ on Lyn Dawson’s case
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has revealed detectives recently dug and used ground-penetrating radar looking for Lyn Dawsons remains at her former home, as he admitted police dropped the ball after the mother vanished in the 1980s. → Read More