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Lynette Dawson was reported missing by her husband former Newtown Jets

rugby league star Chris Dawson.

He said I was going to get a hitman to kill Lynne and he wrote me and said Lynne scorned

shoes that come back. I just want justice and I'd love her little girls to know she didn't leave them.

There is a hill top of rugged beauty above Sydney's sunny northern beaches.

A place of dense bush and rocky outcrops and long driveways

snaking across acreage properties to comfortable family homes.

It is noisy here at Bayview in summer.

Male cicadas crawl out of the soil then violently deform their bodies to pull off a complex

vibration and an ear splitting buzzing. Nature's summer soundtrack can be deafening,

maddening. The secretive cicadas are desperate to find a female for a frenzy of mating.

It will ultimately be fatal.

The best way to dispose of a body when you live in the bush is to put it in the bush

and that's what I think he did on the Friday night.

My name is Headley Thomas and for the past six months I've been investigating the sudden

disappearance and probable murder of Lynne Dawson. This is the teacher's pet,

a podcast series about a star flip baller, his schoolgirl lover and a wife who vanishes.

For many people who knew Lynne, a devoted wife and mother of two, this is a cold case that

evokes great anger, sadness, guilt and blame. A case of the most callous betrayal.

Of strangely close ties between twin brothers and of sexual relationships between northern

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