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Nine-week-old Australian baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip with her family. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. more...

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An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, agreed with this assumption. Interest in the case was so widespread that the findings of the inquest were broadcast live on Australian television - a first in Australia. Later, after a further investigation and a second inquest, Azaria's parents were arrested, tried, and convicted of her murder in 1982.

The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals, including the final high court appeal. Having exhausted all legal options, the chance discovery of a piece of Azaria's clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain's release, on "compassionate grounds." Lindy was released from prison and later exonerated of all charges. While the case is officially unsolved, the report of a dingo attack is generally accepted. Recent deadly dingo attacks in other areas of Australia have cemented public assumption that Azaria was carried off and killed by a dingo.

The story has been made into a TV movie, a feature film and a TV miniseries. There have also been numerous books about the case. Outside of Australia, the incident is often referred to as the Dingo Baby case. The case has given rise to the meme 'the dingo's got my baby!' and variations on that theme.

Azaria

Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (June 11, 1980 - August 17, 1980) was born at the Mount Isa Maternity Hospital in Queensland, Australia, daughter of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. She weighed nearly 3kg at birth and was 47cm long.

Disappearance of Azaria

Michael Chamberlain, his wife Lindy and their three children left Mount Isa in August 1980 and drove to Ayers Rock for a camping holiday. They arrived on the evening of Saturday, August 16.

On the night of August 17 1980, Lindy Chamberlain raised the alarm that Azaria had been taken from their tent by a dingo, an indigenous wild dog. Azaria had been sleeping in her bassinette. Three hundred people formed a human chain during the night and searched the sand dunes near the campsite. Azaria was never found.

One week later, Victorian tourist Wally Goodwin discovered Azaria's heavily blood-stained singlet, jumpsuit, booties and nappy.

Coronial inquests

The initial Coroner's inquest into the disappearance was opened on December 15, 1980 before Denis Barritt, SM. On February 20, 1981, in the first live telecast of Australian court proceedings, and the first court hearing convened at Uluru, Mr. Barritt reported that the likely cause was a dingo attack. In addition to this finding, Mr. Barritt also concluded that subsequent to the attack, the body was taken from the dingo and disposed of by an unknown method by a "person or persons, name unknown."

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