Australia - Azaria Chamberlain, 9 weeks, Northern Territory, 17 Aug 1980 - dingo baby

[Casshew]

Coroner won't reopen Azaria case


October 6, 2004


[/url]The 24-year-old case into missing baby Azaria Chamberlain will not be reopened, the Northern Territory Coroner's office says.

The decision followed a Northern Territory police investigation into claims by Melbourne pensioner Frank Cole that he shot a dingo that had the nine-week-old baby in his jaws the night she disappeared.

Azaria disappeared on Friday August 17, 1980, from a tent during a family camping holiday at Uluru, in central Australia.

"The Coroner's Office has determined not to reopen the inquest into the death of Azaria Chamberlain," the coroner's office said.

"The information provided to it by Mr Cole through Northern Territory Police did not satisfy the Coroner's Office that there were new facts of evidence making it necessary or desirable to re-open the inquest." The decision came as Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton called for the case into her missing daughter to be closed once and for all.

Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said she had almost no faith in Mr Cole's claims.

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[VespaElf]

This is one of those cases Ive never made up my mind on.
Granted I dont know much but Ive never been 100% sure...........anyone have any thoughts?

[Casshew]

Hi messicake ~ the arterial spray under the steering column of the car ~ that they figured was blood spraying from little Azria's throat while it was cut, was later found in several vehicles of the same make.. it was just a discoloration in what they treat the metal with.

Lindy always said that azaria was wearing a little matinee jacket, she described it as white with a lemon edging... after being in prison for years the little jacket was found.

I believe the Dingo was guilty and this poor family was destroyed and broken apart for nothing. Very very sad.

[lisag]

I too believe the dingo took baby Azaria.
I am not sure if I believe Frank Cole's version of seeing the baby in it's jaws, but I do believe that the dingo took her. That is probably hwy her body has never been located.

[lostfaith]

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1437907.htm

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Three other dingo attacks helped solve mystery of Azaria Chamberlain's death

Thirty-two years after a 9-week-old infant vanished from an Outback campsite in a case that bitterly divided Australians and inspired a Meryl Streep film, the nation overwhelmingly welcomed a ruling that finally closed the mystery.

A coroner in the northern city of Darwin concluded Tuesday that a dingo, or wild dog, had taken Azaria Chamberlain from her parents' tent near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru.

More: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0612/Three-other-dingo-attacks-helped-solve-mystery-of-Azaria-Chamberlain-s-death-video



Dingo took Azaria Chamberlain, coroner finds

A DINGO was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom today that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.

Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.

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Mr Chamberlain has picked up Azaria's death certificate, which was changed as a result of the decision.

The certificate's previous cause of death was stated as unknown; now it reads the death was "as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo".

More: http://www.news.com.au/national-old/dingo-took-azaria-coroner-finds/story-e6frfkvr-1226392715293