A Current Affair: Sept 10

A Current Affair tonight tracks down the former schoolgirl seduced by Chris Dawson, husband of missing mother Lyn Dawson in the 1980s.

Australian Story tonight also revisits the Dawson case.

Renewed interest in the 36-year-old case is due to an extraordinary podcast called The Teacher’s Pet which has been downloaded more than 17 million times, making it one of the most popular true-crime podcasts ever produced in the world.

In January 1982, 33-year-old mother of two, Lyn, vanished from the family home on Sydney’s northern beaches.

Two days after her disappearance Chris Dawson moved his 16-year-old school girl lover, Joanne Curtis, into the family home and into their bed. Lyn Dawson has never been heard from since.

Two coronial inquests have found Lyn was killed by a known person, her husband Chris, but no charges have ever been laid against him

Tonight on A Current Affair we track down the schoolgirl seduced by Chris Dawson. We ask Joanne Curtis , who continues to live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, what she knows about Lyn’s disappearance and how she feels about the man who turned her life upside down.

And for the first time, we also hear from other former Cromer High students including a friend of Joanne’s, Michelle Walsh, who believes she too was being groomed by Chris Dawson.

7pm tonight on Nine.