The Teacher’s Pet 1/20 (Učitelův miláček, 2018-2020)

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Září 25, 2020

Hedley Thomas a Slade Gibson. Podcast o záhadném zmizení Lyn Dawsonové.

Připravil Australian v roce 2018-2020. Webová premiéra 1. dílu 15. 5. 2018. K poslechu zde.

Pozn.: Lyn and Chris Dawson appear to have the perfect marriage. He’s a star footballer and popular high school teacher. She’s a devoted wife and mother. They share a beautiful home above Sydney’s northern beaches. But when Lyn goes missing, dark secrets are buried. This is no fairytale, but a sordid story of strangely close twin brothers, teenage student lovers, and probable murder. The Australian’s Hedley Thomas digs deep into a cold case which has been unsolved for 36 years, uncovering startling new evidence. (anotace)

Lit.: anonym: The Teacher’s Pet. In web Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, b. d. (článek). – Cit.: The Teacher’s Pet is a 2018 Australian crime podcast that investigated the disappearance of Lynette Dawson. Published by The Australian newspaper, the podcast was hosted by journalist Hedley Thomas and produced by Slade Gibson. It has been downloaded 28 million times and reached number one in podcast charts in Australia, the UK, Canada and New Zealand.

Lynette Dawson was an Australian homemaker and mother. She disappeared without a trace in 1982 and her whereabouts, dead or alive, have never been determined. The Teachers Pet podcast investigated details of her marriage to rugby league player and teacher Chris Dawson, her disappearance, an extramarital affair between her husband and a sixteen-year-old school girl, claims of sexual misconduct between teachers and students at Cromer High and other Northern Beaches public high schools, flaws in the police investigation, effects on the families involved and the unwillingness of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to charge Chris Dawson despite two coronial inquests concluding that Dawson was dead and most likely killed by her husband.

Thomas created the podcast and the series was produced by Slade Gibson, former guitarist for the rock band Savage Garden. The series commenced in May 2018 and the core podcast concluded in August 2018 after 14 episodes. When announcing the final episode, Thomas stated that, „The investigating and reporting job has largely been done in examining and bringing to light the new evidence that’s out there,“ and added that more episodes would be produced when new leads are fully explored.

Two further episodes were added in late 2018 as the case evolved; the first covered a new dig for evidence at the Dawsons’s former Bayview home, and the second detailed the arrest of Dawson on 5 December 2018 by detectives from the Queensland Homicide squad. On advice from the Office of the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, and in the interests of a fair trial, The Australian removed The Teachers Pet from download in Australia in April 2019, prior to the upcoming court case. (…)