Hedley’s own family’s tragic loss inspired him to investigate the disappearance of Lynette Dawson
Hedley Thomas, 56, Brisbane, Qld
Dad, why are you going to so much effort?’ my son Alexander, then 18, asked, as we trawled through cobweb-strewn boxes filled with paperwork.
‘It’s powerfully important,’ I told him.
In the last box he handed down the ladder to me, I spotted a yellow folder labelled Lyn Dawson.
Excitement and hope pulsed through me. As a journalist, Lynette Dawson’s was the one story that had deeply troubled me for many years.
Sixteen years earlier, I’d come across the intriguing case of how Lyn Dawson, had vanished from her
Bayview home
