An Australian court on Tuesday found the former high school teacher who was the subject of the hit podcast "The Teacher's Pet" guilty of murdering his wife 40 years ago, after public attention triggered renewed interest in the case.
The guilty verdict marks a dramatic conclusion to a cold case that has gripped Australia since the 2018 podcast put pressure on police to revisit their investigation. A 2003 inquest had recommended charging Christopher Dawson with his wife's murder but prosecutors declined, citing a lack of evidence.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison found Dawson deliberately killed his wife, Lynette Dawson, in January 1982 to pursue a relationship with a teenage student he was having an affair with, and who had babysat and lived in his Sydney home.
