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10-15-2004, 10:42 PM
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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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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