The more I read, the angrier I get that the police treated Lyn's disappearance as a missing person's case for so long. To make matters worse, Chris Dawson was the only person the police were liaising with because he was the legal next of kin. In error, Chris Dawson even remained the police's next of kin contact after he had divorced Lyn.
Talk about amateur hour! Little wonder the murderer was able to avoid his day in court for so many decades. A farce the police force need to ensure they never ever duplicate.
It is infuriating to read of this absolute refusal to even consider any other point of view other than Chris Dawson's. Her own family's point of view was discarded, over and over. They never believed it, never absorbed Dawson's yarn about Lynn and the venture into some praying shindig, Lynn's mum rode the rails of Sydney's network for years hoping to see her , knowing Lynn didn't drive.
No police woman was put on the case to see things from a different perspective, and there were police women back then. The prevailing view, at the time was along these lines... no fault divorce had just been bought into law, against all the posturing of churches, conservatives, etc as to it's correctness, divorce being a social disgrace.
One of the reasons for this was that women, those mercurial creatures, bereft of all integrity would just up and leave house and hearth, desert husbands and children without a backward glance, ( men would never do this, apparently ) , if divorce was made easier for women to achieve. They would be back anserwers, disobedient, layabouts smoking and drinking and not cooking the evening meal, and ironing shirts.
And Dawson was able to hitch himself and his murdering habits to this bandwagon, among many women who 'disappeared', Lynn was portrayed as this kind of ditzy, flighty creature taking off on a whim with some religious chancer.
Have things changed much?.... The disappearing wife is still an active myth, .. she ran off with a truck driver, she went to NZ, she 's gone back to her family in Croatia, etc...... Her body eventually turns up in a bin in the garage, or in a suitcase in the bush, or exposed by wind in the desert.......
www.thatslife.com.au
www.nsw.gov.au
www.abc.net.au
