The Teacher's Pet

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In the Teacher's Pet podcast, Headley Thomas makes the interesting point of why bother lying about this? Why bother lying that he dropped her off at the bus stop?

And he suggests was it because Chris had indeed gone out that morning at around 7am, perhaps to dispose of some evidence or something like that.

But it doesn't make a lot of sense as a story but it's so specific about dropping her at Mona Vale bus station and she was going to the shopping centre, the shopping centre's on the way to the baths, like why?

So Headley and Sue write to the ombudsman, that's not a person, to get her original complaint and see what action, if any, was taken.

And they send the original handwritten signed statement that Chris makes to them, and then they lose the rest of the file.

And this statement shows that Chris Dawson clearly lied to the police. It also shows that his lies cover up things that make him look incredibly guilty.

In the two pages of statement, Chris just lies over and over and over again. There is not one mention of Joanne, who he moved in the day after Lynn vanished.

But they did put forward a powerful circumstantial case that Chris had likely drugged his wife, killed her, buried her in the garden, hence the cardigan that they had found, and then dug the remains back up later and moved them to an unknown location.

And the defence went after Joanne, saying that she was just doing this out of revenge and that her testimony was completely tainted.

The only evidence that Mr Dawson received any calls from Lyn is from Mr Dawson. No one apart from Mr Dawson has ever received a phone call from Lyn Dawson since she was last spoken to on Friday, January 8th, 1982.

And again, the judge pointed out that within the context of an emotional and stressful marriage breakdown, why would Lyn call him of all people and only him?

So go and check it out.

I think one of the best episodes is the one with the forensic linguist examining the statement, but go and find Hedley Thomas.

So go and listen to Teacher's Pet.

Though he did disregard the whole hitman testimony part.

But I believe everything else you're saying.

Though I do have to say that in the Teacher's Pet Podcast, Headley makes a very compelling case for this hitman theory being true.

And so yes, we have kept Mabel in here for about four hours. Double record of Lynette Dawson.

So even if you have listened to Tisha's pet, go and listen to it again.

And that sound is Mabel eating my head.