The Azaria Chamberlain Case To Be Reopened

“A dingo ate my baby” is, unfortunately, one of the most enduring quotes in Australia’s recent history. The sentence became a memorable catchphrase uttered by Meryl Streep in Fred Schepisi’s 1988 melodrama Evil Angles about the real life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her infant daughter Azaria Chamberlain who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in the Northern Territory over 30 years ago.

The case produced a media storm after Lindy Chamberlain – who claimed she saw a dingo leaving the tent – was convicted of murdering her eight-week-old daughter and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982. She was later exonerated for the crime, but was never freed of the public skepticism about her innocence.

The case may be decided on once and for all, after a Northern Territory coroner has instigated a new inquest into Azaria’s death.

The new inquest will go down in February 2012 and will probably be the final attempt to figure out exactly what happened and, once and for all, put a stop to Americans yelling: “A dangow ahyute moy boiybay!” at visiting Australian travellers.

Via ABC news

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