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Mon Jun 11, 2012, 11:49 PM Jun 2012

A dingo really did take her baby.

Australian coroner says dingo took baby in notorious 1980 Outback case where mom once blamed

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken murder conviction, an Australian coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

The eyes of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and her ex-husband, Michael Chamberlain, welled with tears as the findings of the fourth inquest into the disappearance of their 9-week-old daughter, Azaria, were announced in court. Lindy Chamberlain served more than three years in prison for the baby's death, but was later cleared and has always maintained that a wild dog took her.

"We're relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga," a tearful but smiling Chamberlain-Creighton told reporters outside the court in the northern city of Darwin.

Azaria disappeared from a campsite near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru. The case became famous internationally through the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark."

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-11/news/sns-ap-as-australia-dingo-death_1_aboriginal-name-uluru-dingo-coroner

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