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The Teacher’s Pet: hit podcast thrust Lynette Dawson’s 1982 disappearance into the spotlight

The Teacher’s Pet podcast, which has been inextricably linked with the murder trial of Christopher Michael Dawson, won the highest accolade in Australian journalism for Hedley Thomas and Slade Gibson and has been downloaded 60m times internationally.

The judges who awarded the pair the 2018 Gold Walkley award said the Australian newspaper’s 220,000-word podcast “uncovered long-lost statements and new witnesses, and prompted police to dig again for the body of Lyn Dawson, who disappeared from her home in 1982”.

On Tuesday, Dawson, 74, of murdering his former wife Lynette four decades ago on

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