The daughter of convicted Australian wife killer Chris Dawson has sensationally revealed that she remembered her father digging a grave for her mother

Shanelle Dawson is Lyn and Chris Dawson’s oldest daughter and she was just four years old when her mother vanished in January 1982.

She’s told the Australian 60 minutes program that she underwent hypnosis – during which she recalled her father digging near the family swimming pool at Bayview, on Sydney’s northern beaches.

She says she doesn’t believe her father will ever admit where he buried his then wife.

Justice Harrison found that Dawson murdered his wife so he could be with a 17-year-old babysitter, who can only be known as JC.

Shanelle said that while living in America for nine years, she came to realise that he had fostered an “abusive” environment for her while growing up.

“I could see that he was manipulative and gas lighting us all the time,” Ms Dawson said.

“My father definitely embodies the survival of the fittest, f*** everyone else. Just do what you need to do to get what you want,” Ms Dawson said.

“And I feel a lot of anger and rage towards him for being that way, but I simultaneously feel compassion and sadness that he is that way.”