From I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin: Remembering Lynette with Hedley Thomas (Part 2)
The Teacher's Pet
The Australian
4.6 • 10.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lynette Dawson, now remembered as Lynette Simms, went missing from her Bayview home in 1982. But it would take another 40 years for her husband Chris Dawson to be convicted of her murder.
In this special episode of the I Catch Killers podcast, Hedley Thomas shares his personal connection to Lyn’s story with host Gary Jubelin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Gary Jubalin here. I'm excited to announce I'll be hosting a live podcast recording at the Factory Theatre in Sydney on the 27th of November. |
| 0:09.4 | Spend the evening with myself and two special guests as we take a deep dive into the world of crime and punishment. |
| 0:15.6 | You'll even be able to take part in a live Q&A. |
| 0:18.6 | I'll be there before and after the show to have a chat. |
| 0:21.0 | Tickets are available through the link in the show notes or |
| 0:23.7 | visit the I catch killers Instagram or Facebook group. I hope to see you there. It's |
| 0:28.5 | going to be raw and I reckon a lot of fun. The public has had a long held fascination with detectives. |
| 0:35.4 | Detective see a side of life the average person is never exposed to. I spent 34 |
| 0:40.8 | years as a cop. For 25 of those years I was catching killers. That's what I did for a living. I was a homicide detective. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm no longer just interviewing bad guys. Instead I'm taking the public into the world in which I operated. The guests I talk |
| 0:55.2 | to each week have amazing stories from all sides of the law. The interviews are raw and honest, |
| 1:00.0 | just like the people I talk to. Some of the content and language might be confronting. |
| 1:04.4 | That's because no one who comes into contact with crime is left unchanged. |
| 1:08.7 | Join me now as I take you into this world. Headley Thomas, welcome back to Part 2 of I catch killers. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:20.0 | In part one we were discussing the extraordinary case that you covered in in |
| 1:24.8 | teachers pet which was I think it got people's interest worldwide and what I want to |
| 1:29.9 | talk about that what was it about that besides the quality of the investigation you led, but why people could |
| 1:35.1 | relate to this particular investigation. |
| 1:38.0 | What I want to talk about in part two is how the podcast evolved, how it led, because basically the investigation that I think we left part 1 with saying well it looks like a fairly clear walkup start if it was investigated, how it took something like 36 was it 36 years |
| 1:55.9 | before someone was convicted of Lynn's murder that's right so actually four decades |
| 2:02.1 | 40 years to conviction and he was charged 36 years after her murder. |
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