Hedley Thomas

Jun 13, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | David Murray |Matthew Condon |Hedley Thomas

A major police bungle over the timing of a crucial phone call knocked the initial investigation into Bronwyn Winfield’s disappearance badly off course. NSW police wrongly wrote down that a phone call was made from the Lennox Head home of Bronwyn and her estranged husband Jon Winfield at 2.13am on Monday May 17, 1993.

May 22, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Matthew Condon |David Murray |Liam Mendes |Hedley Thomas

Are commissioners of police and heads of homicide squads across Australia sitting on hundreds of cases of unsolved murders of women who were once haphazardly filed away as “missing”? As “uncaring” mothers and wives who abandoned their children and husbands or boyfriends – and never bobbed up again? It is more pressing now than ever to confront a systemic failure of the criminal justice system spanning decades until the late 1990s.

Dec 11, 2023 | seniorstoday.com.au | Hedley Thomas |Hui Jin

By Hedley ThomasIf you thought you knew the story of The Teacher’s Pet, get ready to beshocked. Hedley Thomas takes you behind the scenes with a blow-by-blowaccount of one of the most intriguing and enduring murder mysteries ofour time – the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitationof teenage students, the courtroom drama – and how justice was finallydelivered. Lynette Simms disappeared from Sydney’s idyllic northern beaches in1982 and was never seen again.

Nov 23, 2023 | schooldaysmagazine.com | Hedley Thomas

He claimed that his wife had phoned him from further up the coast to say she needed some time.away to think about their troubled marriage. He also claimed that Lyn would phone and speak to her parents as he said everyone was asking where she was. This never happened. Overtime he made up a litany of lies.

Oct 22, 2023 | betterreading.com.au | Hedley Thomas

Publisher details Author Hedley ThomasPublisher Pan MacmillanGenre Non FictionReleased 10 October, 2023ISBN 9781760784782 Synopsis If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked.Hedley Thomas takes you behind the scenes with a blow-by-blow account of one of the most intriguing and enduring murder mysteries of our time - the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of teenage students, the courtroom drama - and how justice was finally...