Investigative journalist Hedley Thomas has announced a third season of his investigative podcast series Bronwyn.
Thomas, who is best known for his podcast The Teacher’s Pet, revealed the series was “shaping up to be the most exhaustive podcast series we’ve done”.
In an email sent out by The Australian, the masthead behind Thomas’ podcasts, Thomas went on to explain that the new series will feature “new witnesses and new evidence” which “have helped to bring us closer to finding what happened to Bronwyn.”
The series centres around the 1993 disappearance of Lennox Head mother Bronwyn Winfield.
Hedley Thomas.
Thomas explained: “Bronwyn was a mother of two little girls. They lived in the coastal enclave of Lennox Head near Byron Bay. Important stories like this one have a long tail and Bronwyn’s goes back almost 32 years.”
Thomas revealed that he first head about the case seven years ago “while sitting in a comfortable chair in the home of a retired senior magistrate and coroner”.
“It was shortly before Christmas, 2017 and I was doing early interviews for an investigation into the disappearance of another missing woman, Lyn, for a podcast called The Teacher’s Pet. By chance, the same coroner had run two inquests a year apart, in 2002 and in 2003, into the presumed deaths of Bronwyn and Lyn. I wanted to delve deeply into Bronwyn’s disappearance for a podcast series as soon as I heard about it.
The Teacher’s Pet podcast.
“We have covered a lot of ground and revealed damning evidence in the Bronwyn podcast series. We have uncovered appalling failures during the early police investigations. In Season 2, we found compelling clues which we believe are pointers to the possible location of Bronwyn’s body. Jon Winfield, who was Bronwyn’s estranged husband at the time, has always emphatically denied wrongdoing.
Season 3 will be released to The Australian subscribers first on February 7.