Chris Dawson

The daughter of convicted murderer Chris Dawson has revealed the cruel lie she and her sister were told after their mother Lynette disappeared.

December 6 - Dressed in a polo shirt, shorts and thongs, the then 70-year-old is extradited to Sydney, where he's charged with his first wife's murder and appears in court via video link. Dawson's lawyers pointed to various witnesses claiming to have seen Mrs Dawson alive and well after January 1982. January 1982 - Lynette 'Lyn' Dawson, 33, disappears from her home at Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches, leaving behind two young daughters. Dozens of Shanelle's school friends, work colleagues and neighbours said Lyn was besotted with her little girls and would never have left them. 'She was going for a swim in the swimming pool and when she went to get out of the pool and put her hands on the pool to get out it was dirt, and sometime after it was paved,' he said. If Shanelle could speak to her mother, she said she would tell her that she was sorry, that she loved her and would thank her for the first four-and-a-half years of 'nurturing'. I believe I saw my sister and I in the back of a car, and my mother slumped in the front,' she said. In a bombshell revelation, Shanelle later told 60 Minutes she remembered seeing her father with a shovel and her mother slumped in the front seat of a car in 1982 on the night she is believed to have died. Shanelle believes her father buried her mother by the pool before moving her body elsewhere the following day when he was alone (pictured is Chris and Lynette Dawson at their wedding) In the text, she asked her father to finally take responsibility for the pain he had caused the family when he denied his two daughters of their mother's love. Shanelle Dawson (pictured) believes her mother was buried by the pool that night before Dawson moved her body elsewhere the following day when he was alone How 'evil' Chris Dawson brainwashed his grieving kids with a cruel lie about their mother Lyn - as his brave daughter speaks for the first time about the night she 'saw him with a shovel and her mum's body slumped over in a car'