desire to resume a relationship with his wife, and about receiving phone calls from Lynette after she disappeared. Harrison rejected the alleged sightings of Lynette as "wholly unreliable", and found there was a "most compelling body of evidence" to reject the hypothesis that Lynette Dawson abandoned her family. He was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Lynette Dawson died "as a result of a conscious and voluntary act" by Chris Dawson. On December 2, 2022, Dawson was sentenced to 24 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 18 years, for the murder of Lynette. Media A 16-part Australian crime podcast series, The Teacher's Pet, by Walkley Award-winning journalist Hedley Thomas of The Australian, was broadcast in 2018 with a large amount of evidence that was not collected by any of the police investigations. The series has close to 30 million downloads and created a large amount of public interest in the case, but was made unavailable in Australia in consideration of the ongoing legal proceedings. See also List of people who disappeared References External links includes transcripts from various media reports and publications 1980s missing person cases 1982 crimes in Australia Missing person cases in Australia 1980s in Sydney Women in Australia Murder in Australia Uxoricides Murder_convictions_without_a_body