Posted on 12/17/2011 2:49:37 PM PST by naturalman1975
A NEW inquest into the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain will begin on February 24, Fairfax reports.
Fairfax says Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Morris will conduct the inquest into the death of Azaria, who was nine weeks old when she disappeared from her parents' tent at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in 1980.
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Fairfax says that Ms Morris is reopening the inquiry mainly because of information provided by the Chamberlains' legal counsel regarding dingo attacks since Azaria's disappearance.
Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering Azaria and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982, while her then-husband Michael was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of being an accessory after the fact.
A subsequent royal commission exonerated the Chamberlains in 1987. Their convictions were quashed but a further coroner's inquest in 1995 delivered an open verdict.
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“The dingo ate yo’ baby!!”
The best defense in that case would be to track down and kill all the dingoes in the area, hoping that autopsies would reveal if one had consumed human. Failing in that, there is a limited practical range for dingoes before their scumber would indicate consumed human.
IIRC, a few years later they found the baby’s clothes. They had been torn up by dingos.
I guess the verdict wasn’t good enough for the state.
This just proves that dingoes got the babies clothes. While finding the babies blood on the clothes could indicate that the baby was injured, it does not say by who, or if the baby was killed and eaten by the dingoes.
One article of clothing, Azaria's missing matinée jacket, was found in an area full of dingo lairs years later after a tourist fell to his death in the middle of that area.
Engineer Les Harris, who had conducted dingo research for over a decade, said that, contrary to Cameron's findings, a dingo's carnassial teeth can shear through material as tough as motor vehicle seat belts. He also cited an example of a captive female dingo removing a bundle of meat from its wrapping paper and leaving the paper intact. His evidence was rejected.
Evidence to the effect that a dingo was strong enough to carry a kangaroo was also ignored.
Also ignored was the removal of a three-year-old girl by a dingo from the back seat of a tourist's motor vehicle at the camping area just weeks before, an event witnessed by the parents.
An Aboriginal man gave evidence that his wife had tracked the dingo and found places where it had put the baby down, leaving the imprint of the baby's clothing in the soil. This evidence was discounted, because the man spoke on behalf of his wife, but in the first person, according to Aboriginal custom.
The test that found "fetal haemoglobin" on the car's front seat when applied to the 'sound deadener' sprayed on during the manufacture of the car yielded virtually identical results.
Evidence was also presented that adult blood also passed the test used for fetal haemoglobin, and that other organic compounds can produce similar results on that particular test, including mucus from the nose, and chocolate milkshakes, both of which had been present in the vehicle where the baby was allegedly murdered.
Crucial to the change in public opinion was a string of dingo attacks during the late 1990s on Fraser Island off the Queensland coast, the last refuge in Australia for isolated pure-breed wild dingoes. In the wake of these attacks, it emerged that there had been at least 400 documented dingo attacks on Fraser Island alone. Most were against children, but at least two were on adults.[24]
In April 1998, in a scenario strikingly similar to the story told by Lindy Chamberlain, a 13-month old girl was grabbed by a dingo and dragged from a picnic blanket at the Waddy Point camping area. In this case, the child was dropped when her father intervened.
Off hand, I'd say there is enough evidence to say the dingo really did do it.
I take it this is some wilderness area and these people were camping there. Is that really a smart thing to do with a small infant?
I’ve always thought one of the real problems with little babies is they don’t always realize something is wrong and call out.
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