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The Crown alleged that Lindy Chamberlain had cut Azaria's throat in the front seat of the family car, hiding the baby's body in a large camera case. She then, according to the proposed reconstruction of the crime, rejoined the group of campers around a campfire and fed one of her sons a can of baked beans, before going to the tent and raising the cry that a dingo had taken the baby.
[11] [23] On 12 June 2012, an Australian coroner made a final ruling that a dingo took baby Azaria Chamberlain from a campsite in 1980 and caused her death. [24] [25] Morris apologised to the Chamberlain family while an amended death certificate was immediately made available to them. [26]
In the 1988 film Evil Angels (also known as A Cry in the Dark), Chamberlain, as played by Meryl Streep, exclaims, "The dingo's got my baby!". In the 1991 Seinfeld episode "The Stranded", Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) uses the phrase "the dingo ate your baby" while mimicking an Australian accent in a scene at a party. In the 1994 movie The ...
The wild Australian dogs are generally not aggressive, but attacks on people and their pets have been recorded. Some dingoes that are considered to be aggressive are monitored by rangers with tags.
"Little did I know," she said with a chuckle -- cutting to how a year later a detective from the Michigan State Police called her at work, scaring her that she could be in trouble.
Michael Leigh Chamberlain (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-Australian writer, teacher and pastor falsely implicated in the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria, which was later demonstrated to be the result of a dingo attack while the family was camping near Uluru (then usually called Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal. Sarah ...
Three reports of dingo attacks on humans caused special attention: On 19 August 1980 a nine-week-old girl named Azaria Chamberlain was taken by one or more dingoes near Uluru. [15] Her mother was suspected and convicted of murder. Four years later she was released from prison when the jacket of the baby was found near Uluru.