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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This is an episode of The Australian's daily news podcast, The Front.
Chris Dawson has suffered another humiliation, losing an appeal against his conviction for the 1982 murder of his wife Lynette in 1982.
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This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Original music is composed by Jasper Leak.
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0:00.0 | You can listen to the front on your smart speaker every morning. To hear the latest episode, just say, Play the News from the Australian. |
0:17.0 | From the Australian, here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey. |
0:27.0 | Christopher Michael Dawson will stay in jail. He has lost an appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette. |
0:41.0 | That case was made famous by our podcast The Teacher's Pet and has ended in another |
0:46.4 | humiliation for Dawson. Today, the moment Lynn's family found out Dawson would stay in jail and what his next move might be. Hello? Oh, I'm Marilyn, It's Claire. Hi Claire. |
1:13.0 | How are you? |
1:15.0 | That is the longest in my entire seven months |
1:18.0 | seven months of living. |
1:20.0 | Just moments after a moment |
1:23.0 | a momentous decision, the latest twist in the story of Christopher Michael Dawson, |
1:28.0 | I rang Greg and Marilyn Sims, the brother and sister-in-law of the wife Chris murdered in 1982, Lynette. |
1:37.0 | Well, waiting for the judges to come out, their verdict, if you want to call it that very tense and it's the longest minute I've had in my life |
1:47.4 | waiting and listening |
1:49.3 | To call Greg and Marilyn relieved would be an understatement. |
1:54.6 | Greg and Marilyn are the guardians of Lynn's memory, along with the rest of her family. |
1:59.4 | They're the ones who have kept the flame alive for 42 years, as their suspicions grew that their bright, |
2:06.2 | warm, devoted Lynn did not voluntarily leave her family as her husband claimed, but had been murdered in cold blood. |
2:15.9 | Greg and Marilyn had liked and trusted Chris Lynn's handsome football playing teacher |
2:21.6 | husband. They were deeply confused and upset when he told |
2:26.3 | Lynn's family in 1982 that Lynn had gone away for a break and that Lynn had told him |
2:31.4 | not to worry about her. |
2:32.8 | By the time the Australian's investigative podcast The Teacher's Pet |
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