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   From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   This story had some following in AFU and   
   possibly AFCA. NY Times just did a retro-look   
   at it:   
      
   [NY Times]   
      
   Vindication at Last for a Woman Scorned by Australia's News Outlets   
      
   "Dingo's Got My Baby": Lindy Chamberlain's Trial by Media   
      
   To American ears, the word can seem odd, even comical: dingo. Sounds a lot   
   like "dingbat." Wasn't that what Archie Bunker called his wife, Edith, on   
   "All in the Family"?   
      
   But there is nothing laughable about the dingo, Australia's native wild   
   dog and a predator capable of inflicting considerable harm. Certainly,   
   nothing was funny about the most famous episode involving that animal: the   
   1980 disappearance of 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain while her family was   
   camping in the Australian outback.   
      
   Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, said that a dingo had entered a tent where   
   the baby lay, and made off with her; the body was never found. An initial   
   inquiry supported her account. But then another inquest was held, and soon   
   Ms. Chamberlain stood accused of having slit Azaria's throat.   
      
   Found guilty of murder in 1982, she was sentenced to life in prison, only   
   to be released three years later when new evidence surfaced that absolved   
   both her and her husband, Michael so, it took nearly three more decades   
   before a coroner, in 2012, finally issued what the now-divorced parents   
   had long sought: full vindication in dingo attack.   
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   rest:   
   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/vindication-at-last-for-a-w   
   man-scorned-by-australias-news-media.html   
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