Investigation into 33-year-old’s disappearance in 1982 to move beyond family home after dig reveals no significant clues

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Police detectives working to find out what happened to Sydney woman Lynette Dawson are wrapping up a search at her former home after finding no human remains and no significant clues about her disappearance.

Dawson was 33 when she went missing from the northern beaches in 1982, leaving behind two daughters.

Her husband, Chris Dawson, has long been a suspect in the case but the former Newtown Jets rugby league player denies any involvement in her disappearance.

Investigators dug up the Bayview home for almost a week but found no human remains and no significant clues.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Authorities sift through dirt as they search the former home of missing woman Lynette Dawson, at Bayview on the northern beaches. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

A police source on Monday said the only things beneath the now torn-up lawn were large pieces of rock.

Homicide squad commander Det Supt Scott Cook last week promised his team would dig “until we hit rock”.

The investigation into Dawson’s fate must now turn back to other avenues beyond the family home.