The police didn’t know about his girlfriend; the police didn’t know about their marital problems. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer III, observer
She [Lyn] didn’t have any money, she didn’t drive, she wasn’t worldly. ibid.
He married the babysitter; then they subsequently moved to Queensland. ibid.
How could you not question what happened to the wife? ibid. daughter
I smelt a rat. And Chris Dawson was in my crosshairs from that day. ibid. rozzer
Narcissistic personality, domineering in his relationships. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer IV, rozzer
2018 Podcast: The Teacher’s Pet. ibid.
It climaxes with the trial of Chris Dawson. ibid. dude
Accused allegedly asked witness to help find a hitman to kill his wife. ibid. newspaper headline
He brainwashed the children saying she’d run away because she didn’t love them. They grew up with broken hearts, but as we now know, this deception was just another example of Chris Dawson’s cruelty. 60 Minutes Australia: The Truth Hurts, 2023
The mystery of Lynn Dawson’s disappearance is a case that has gripped and horrified people around the world. ibid.
Dawson’s was a crime born of betrayal. In 1982 the Rugby League star turned school teacher was having an affair with a student. ibid.
Dawson had installed his babysitted in Lynn’s place just days after her disappearance. ibid.
In 1982 Chris murdered his wife Lynette. The crime went unsolved for 40 years. As did the fact he was having an affair with a 16-year-old pupil at the time. Tonight, staggering serious allegations about the other twin, Paul Dawson, who was also having sex with a number of his underage students. 60 Minutes Australia: Wife-Killer’s Twin, 2024
The pair were always inseparable. ibid.
[comment]: Australia, ten hours north of Sydney: JC and her husband, Chris Dawson, they had it all. Perfect looks. Family. Perfect Home. But she believed Chris had murdered someone, and she was going to be next. Nothing could have prepared me for what was coming. Twisted Twins s1e1: Dawson Twins, ITVX 2024
In the 1960s Chris and his identical twin brother Paul Dawson, they were both rugby league players. ibid.
40 years later Chris Dawson is arrested for murdering someone. ibid.
There’s this question being asked of Paul Dawson. ibid.
1982: A woman called Lyn vanished off the face of the Earth 16 years prior in January 1982. ibid. rozzer
JC [legal name] told me that she first met Chris Dawson while she was a student at Cromer High School. And what happened next absolutely floored me. Chris Dawson, he was her physical education teacher. And 33 years of age. I was gobsmacked because this wasn’t the first time I’d heard of Chris Dawson. ibid. rozzer
But it gets much more sinister … For legal reasons, she’s known as Alice. ibid.
She believed Chris killed his first wife to be with her. ibid.
Secret language between the twins. One of the technical terms for that is cryptophasia. ibid. expert
She [Alice] said Chris and Paul shared her at the same time. ibid. comment
Chris and Paul had wives at home. And not only that they have children. And apparently, their wives were completely oblivious. As far as they were concerned, their husbands were squeaky clean. ibid. rozzer
My goal was to find out what happened to Lyn Dawson and why. ibid.
Lyn’s gone and he [Chris] installs JC in the house. ibid.
And the whole story just became bigger than Ben-Hur. ibid. expert
It was more than a penny. It was like a bomb dropped. ibid. Chris’s daughter
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Theories range from a tragic accident or suicide to murder … ibid.
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‘19 year old Lewis Daynes was sentenced to at least 25 years today for the murder of Breck Bednar’ … ‘a sexual and sadistic motive’. When Kids Kill s1e2: Predator Online, news clips, Channel 5 2016
16th February 2014: Daynes sent a taxi to bring Breck thirty miles from his home in Surrey to Daynes’ flat in Essex. ibid.
Daynes: spent his day interacting with young boys. ibid.
At 11.06 a.m. on 17th February 2014 Essex police received a 999 call … ‘Lewis Daynes stabbed Breck Bednar after grooming him on the internet.’ Murder Games: The Life and Death of Breck Bednar, news, BBC 2018
On 17th February 2014 Surrey schoolboy Breck Bednar was lured to his death. ibid.
Beck had only been part of Lewis’s gaming group for a few months but some of the older boys were becoming suspicious. ibid.
Lewis maintained his story of self-defence but evidence was pointing to the contrary. ibid.
Lewis Daynes had been abandoned by his parents as a child and had grown up in and out of foster care. Living alone from the age of 16 he had developed unhealthy online interests. ibid.
In February 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar went in secret to meet fellow online gamer Lewis Daynes. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s7e1: Lewis Daynes, Sky Crime 2023
In 2011 aged 16, Daynes was accused of rape and computer hacking by a student at his school. ibid.
Breck got into a taxi telling his dad that he was visiting a friend from school. His family had no idea that he’d never return from that visit. ibid.
‘This is what he’d planned to do all along.’ ibid. expert
I need police and a forensic team to my address please. My friend and I got into an altercation and I am the only one who came out alive. A Killer Makes a Call s1e4: Lewis Daynes, Channel 5 2024
Grays, Essex, 14th February 2014: The body of schoolboy Breck Bednar lies in an Essex flat. ibid.
‘I said to him, I think you are being groomed.’ ibid. Breck’s mother
Breck is spying on their meeting. ibid.
‘You would expect the caller to be much more emotional. It just seems very methodical and thought-through.’ ibid. expert
‘The fight ended with me cutting his throat.’ ibid. Daynes
Grays, Essex: The persona that Lewis Daynes was able to project, how he was seen by other people online, really bore very little resemblance to the reality of him as a person. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s1e3, rozzer Colin Sutton, CI 2020
In 2011 there are very serious allegations made against Lewis Daynes that he has assaulted, sexually assaulted, boys that he met online. ibid. Sutton
Lewis Daynes gave the 999 operator a grizzly account of what he claimed was a tragic mistake. ibid.