The Teacher's Pet
4.6/5
Critic Rating
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.
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
James Marriot • The Times UK • Sep 23, 2022
"The Teacher’s Pet is (if you go in for this sort of thing) a gripping and masterly true-crime podcast...Hedley Thomas homed in so sharply on the apparent guilt of Lynette’s husband Chris...the director of public prosecutions forced The Australian to suspend the podcast."
Score: 5
Sylwia Opajdowska • Stuff NZ • Aug 16, 2021
"It’s a gripping, sad, frustrating and infuriating listen and lives in my head rent-free to this day."
Score: 5
Zoe Williams • The Guardian • Oct 24, 2018
"...the most compelling podcast since the first, explosive, true-life apparent failure of justice was retold by Serial."
Score: 4
Scott Lerner • PodcastReview.org • Oct 23, 2018
"Thomas excels at presenting every detail surrounding the final moments before Lyn’s disappearance...my main critique is that the breadth of the podcast borders on obsessive. There’s so much repetition that I wondered, on several occasions, whether the wrong episode was playing. Thomas spends much of his airtime recounting facts and other information that the audience already knows. He offers countless new voices, in interviews, to corroborate and repeat basic facts of the case. The purpose here, it seems, is to make an argument irrefutable by sheer mass."
Score: 5
Alison Wren • Discover Pods • Aug 14, 2018
"The Teacher’s Pet is one of those podcasts which has opened a real life Pandora’s Box with the investigation an ongoing one. This podcast is a must for listeners who enjoyed Up and Vanished, Dirty John, Trace and the podcast I cut my teeth on, Serial. You won’t be able to stop."
