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Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (11 June 1980, Mount Isa – 17 August 1980, Uluru) was a two-month-old Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 during a family camping trip to Uluru in the Northern Territory. [1] Her body was never found.
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 ...
[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]
The latest must-see true crime documentary is the three-part Sundance Now and AMC+ series, Trial in the Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story, which reexamines the 1980 case about a mother ...
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.
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.
The dingo killed by authorities in June after separate attacks on a 7-year-old boy a 42-year-old French woman was the first to be destroyed on the island since 2019.
On 19 August 1980 a nine-week-old girl named Azaria Chamberlain was captured by a dingo near the Uluru and killed. [13] Her mother was suspected and convicted of murder. Four years later she was released from prison when the jacket of the baby was found in a dingo den and the mother was therefore found innocent.