From the Australian I'm Claire Harvey. This is an episode of our daily news

podcast The Front. Six years after the teacher's pet made waves around the world, the

Australians National Chief Correspondent Hedley Thomas is back with a brand new

podcast investigation. This time Hedley's delving into the cold case of

Bronwyn Winfield, a young mom who disappeared from an idyllic surf town on the

New South Wales North Coast more than three decades ago.

In today's episode, Hedley explains how this story found him,

and if he thinks it can be solved. In 2018 Australian journalism blew up with a huge story told in a grouping new way.

An investigative podcast by the Australian's National Chief Correspondent Hedley Thomas.

The teacher's pet has had more than 80 million downloads around the world

and it resulted in the arrest, charge and murder conviction of its subject,

Christopher Michael Dawson. He is now appealing.

What almost no one knows is that at that time another big story was brewing in the background.

Family members and friends of another missing woman, Bronwyn Winfield, was struck by the similarities between her case and that of Lynette Sims, whose disappearance headly investigated in the teacher's pet.

In those early days, years before Lynn's husband Chris Dawson would be brought to justice,

Bromwin's loved ones reached out to Hedley, urging him to look into her 1991 disappearance. Brum

to look into her 1991 disappearance

from Lennox Head in the New South Wales

Northern Rivers region.

But Bromman's name was already on Hedley's radar.

It was late 2017, Claire.

I was interviewing the former deputy state coroner for New South Wales,

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