Chris Dawson: Husband in podcast-famous case guilty of murder

An Australian man who became the subject of a popular crime podcast has been found guilty of his wife's cold case murder.

Chris Dawson's trial in a Sydney court this year followed decades of speculation about the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Lynette.

Her body has never been found and all the evidence was circumstantial.

Mr Dawson was charged in 2018 after the podcast garnered global attention and prompted a renewed investigation.

The 74-year-old denies killing Mrs Dawson, maintaining she had abandoned him and their two children - possibly to join a religious group.

But during the trial prosecutors argued the former school teacher had murdered Mrs Dawson because he wanted to have an "unfettered relationship" with their teenage babysitter - who was also his student - and viewed his wife as an impediment.

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