Timeline: Key events that lead to Chris Dawson's guilty murder verdict
Freya Noble and Orla Maher
Lynette Dawson's family have been waiting 40 years to find out what happened to her.
The mother-of-two was last seen on January 8, 1982, and a judge has now ruled she was murdered by her husband Chris Dawson on or around this date.
In the four decades since there have been two coronial inquests, digs at the Dawson family home on Sydney's Northern Beaches and now a criminal case.
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READ MORE: Chris Dawson found guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette in 1982
Below is a breakdown of the key events:
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