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More than three decades after Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from Central Australia, a new inquest has been announced to finally try to discover what happened.

The baby girl’s father, Michael Chamberlain, says the news is a milestone and he’s pleasantly surprised.

“I’m sure this time it will be the ultimate verdict which we’ve been looking for,” Dr Chamberlain told ABC Radio on Sunday.

The inquest will look at new evidence suggesting a dingo attacked Azaria.

The Northern Territory government has confirmed Coroner Elizabeth Morris will conduct the inquest, which will start on February 24 and represents the final legal chapter in the case.

Azaria was nine weeks-old when she disappeared from her parents’ tent at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in August 1980, sparking court cases that saw her mother Lindy Chamberlain sentenced to life in jail in 1982.

Mr Chamberlain was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of being an accessory after the fact.

The couple were both exonerated by a royal commission in 1987 and subsequently had their convictions quashed, although an inquest in 1995 delivered an open finding.

Mrs Chamberlain, now Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton after remarrying, has always maintained that she saw a dingo leaving her tent on the night Azaria went missing.

The claims were greeted sceptically by many Australians at the time of the disappearance and the saga was captured in the movie Evil Angels.

In a short statement on Sunday the NT Coroner’s office said it was reopening the inquest into Azaria’s death after information provided by the girl’s parents in relation to dingo attacks on infants and young children.

“This information was then further investigated by a coronial investigator,” the statement said.

“It is as a result of this investigation that the coroner has made the decision to reopen the inquest,” it said.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/12390267/azaria-inquest-would-hear-of-new-attacks/

I remember all this happening when I was a child – I never thought Lindy did it. I blame the dingo. I have Lindy’s book somewhere here too

IT will go down as Australia’s greatest mystery. The death of Azaria Chamberlain, 30 years ago, remains unsolved. The police file is still officially open.

The third and final inquest in 1995 recorded the cause and manner of Azaria’s death as “unknown”. Two previous inquiries raised the possibility of death by dingo, followed by human intervention.

More questions. Like so much else about the case, the answers depends on what you want to believe.

Lindy Chamberlain’s conviction for murder was overturned, as was Michael’s for being an accessory. She didn’t do it. It is accepted that a dingo did.

But how did the dingo rip Azaria from a bassinet in her family’s tent and drag her over the sand, then remove her body from her buttoned jumpsuit and turn the singlet, which was inside the jumpsuit, inside out?

And then leave the baby’s matinee jacket, which was found six years later 153m away, without opening the top button?

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/did-a-dingo-really-do-it-well-never-know/story-e6frfkvr-1225903713717#ixzz0wFNQIjpp

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It is 30 years since Azaria Chamberlain died at the hands of a dingo. I remember all about it – I was 9 at the time. It was a sad case and Lindy shouldn’t  have gone to jail.

On a sad note tomorrow is my dad’s anniversary – will be 5 years since he died and I miss him so much still. There is a poem on my site that my aunt wrote – The Garden Of My Heart Remembers