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More Dingo Attacks
Lorraine Hunter's son had been attacked by a dingo. The very day before Azaria went missing. -
It's Impossible!
An expert in wounds (Professor Cameron) said that it is impossible that a dingo took the Chamberlain's baby for a dingo's jaw would not be big enough to enclose a baby's head. However Cameron did admit that this belief came from studying a plaster cast not an actual dingo's jaw. -
Samples not tested.
A police man (John Lincoln) found a large paw print a few centimeters from Azaria's cot. He also found what looked like blood outside the tent. He took samples but these samples were not tested. -
Azaria Chamberlain gets taken
The Chamberlain family (Lindy, Michael, and their three children) were camping at the base of Uluru on a family holiday. Lindy had put her three children to sleep, and went to an evening BBQ with the other campers. Lindy says she went back to the tent and saw a dingo dragging something out of the tent. Worried Lindy checked on her children only to find blood-spattered bedding and a pool of blood where her daughter, nine week old Azaria should have been. -
Continued Lindy is found guilty
the action of slitting of the baby's throat. A forensic biologist said that she found evidence of blood throughtout Lindy's car, by taking scrappings from the car and adding a solution of orthotolidine. A forensic odontologist told the court that the damage to the jumpsuit showed no evidence of tooth marks or saliva from a dingo. He said the jumpsuit had been cut with scissors. Lindy was sentenced to life in prison. -
Lindy is found guilty
Lindy Chamberlain was found guilty, and convicted of murder by a jury in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, her husbane (Michael Chamberlain) was convicted as an accessory to the crime. Darwin-based detectives lead the investigation. A tourist had found the baby's jumpsuit near a dingo lair, he picked the jumpsuit up and folded it. A television report stated that the jumpsuit had been found that way. A fluorescent examination of the baby's jumpsuit showed a bloody mark consistent with -
Continued Azaria's jacket is found
the other half of the time they cut with their teeth. -
Azaria's jacket is found
Azaria's jacket is found burried near the dingo's lair. Lindy was released from prison and the case was reopened. It was found that throughtout the case local police improperly handled the evidence, blood-spatter and did not close off the crime scene. The forensic biologist had used orthotolidine to find traces of blood, which picked up the traces of copper oxide found in the sound deadener used by the car manufacturers. Months of experiments found that half of the time dingoes tear fabric. But -
The Royal Commission commenced
The Royal Commission commenced and hear 92 days of evidence, where 145 witnesses testified. -
Convictions overturned
All convictions against Lindy and Michael Chamberlain were overturned.
