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Chris Dawson, now 77, was found guilty of killing his wife Lynette so he could pursue a relationship with ...

The Teacher’s Pet gripped the nation and now the only first-hand account of the story, told through the eyes of the schoolgirl Dawson pursued, is being published.

The 74-year-old will be sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court today for the murder of his first wife Lynette in 1982. Her body has never been found.

It was the unspoken question at Chris Dawsons murder trial: did the ex-football star drug spike his wifes drink on the night he murdered her?

Teachers Pet - started in 2018 by journalist Hedley Thomas - was the key to the courts finally catching up with Chris Dawson for the murder of his wife Lynette decades before.

Decades after she disappeared, the 33-year-old’s loved ones have spoken of a woman who adored her two girls, and of the babysitter brought into her Bayview home.

Chris Dawson left love letters – including some he signed as 'God' – for a teenage student at a school where he taught before his wife's disappearance, a c

Witness Greg Simms says he wouldn’t want to speak to former teacher and rugby league player who has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife in 1982

The teenage babysitter, known as JC, gave evidence at Chris Dawson’s murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court that he would leave her birthday and Valentine’s Day cards.

JC, who went on to be the family’s babysitter, has given evidence in a Sydney court where Dawson has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife Lynette in 1982