biography
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Chamberlain, Lindy (Alice Lynne)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Mother of the ‘dingo baby’, born in Whakatane, New Zealand. The disappearance of her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, at Uluru (Ayers Rock), in 1980, made her the subject of national obsession in Australia. Married to pastor Michael Chamberlain (who was tried with her, and whom she has since divorced), she claimed the baby was taken by a dingo. She was found guilty of murder, and gaoled, but released in 1986 when a baby's jacket was found at the base of the rock. A judicial inquiry found that forensic evidence used in the 1982 trial was unreliable, and that the dingo story was probably correct. In 1988 the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal quashed all convictions against the couple, and they received A$1 million in compensation. The saga is recounted in John Bryson's Evil Angels (1985), and was later filmed, and her autobiography Through My Eyes appeared in 1990. |
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