Case 136: Azaria Chamberlain
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Lindy Chamberlain returned to the tent by herself and exclaimed a short time later: “My god, my god, a dingo has got my baby!”
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Why was it so hard to believe a wild predatory animal would go after an infant?
Poor Azaria 😢 and also her poor family... I can't even imagine the turmoil they went through, losing their tiny baby girl then being accused of murdering her! Horrible how they were smeared by the media.
It wasn't incompetence by the relevant authorities, it was an attempt to protect the tourism industry at the expense of an innocent mother.
I agree. It was all about protecting something but not the innocent. Absolutely disgraceful. I hope to this day that those involved in what was nothing short of a witch hunt are haunted by their actions.
What's wild to me is that Lindy was basically accounted for by other campers at all times, hard to believe she faced a mob like that who refused to believe the testimony regarding her whereabouts, instead focusing on 6 minutes when she was unloading things from the car. Damn dingos!
With the timeline, it would literally be impossible for jer to kill her baby and get rid of her unless everyone in the camp helped. That's why they came up with the bogus 'blood' in the car to set her up
Even when viewed against the incompetence of authorities in Casefile episodes to date, the sheer staggering stupidity of the Northern Territory authorities in this case stands out.
Agreed, and replicated to a degree later with the Joanne Lees & Peter Falconio case.
It's literally terrifying how quickly these "experts" come out and just spew garbage, like the definition of the baby's name, and people just accept it without question. The dude who picked up a bucket of sand in his mouth and presented it as proof a dingo couldn't do it?--stupidest thing I've ever hear. Why his colleagues didn't laugh him out of the room is just crazy. Also, the claims that Lindy didn't react react "normally"? Who can say how a person will act in these circumstances. Everyone is different. She was said to be religious and maybe that's how strong her beliefs were. I know people these days can't really relate, but some people have a strong faith to get them through.
It wasn't just the press and the authorities. People who harassed them are just as awful.
The way Australians treated Lindy and Michael was awful. I never thought her guilty. I was new to Australia at the time and was disgusted at what was done to them. I was so happy when the truth came out. It ruined their family and I am so sorry for them.
Thanks for simplifying the feelings of the nation you just moved to.
I think you will find that there were varying opinions, and your hunch was no different to anyone else's.
I was a child when this happened but I remember it well. It left an indelible imprint on me: you can not always trust authorities. I remember how divided the country was. But my Mum and I did not believe Lindy did it. It felt like it was Mum, Lindy and I against all of Australia!! I always stood up for her and I'm glad I did!
That’s wonderful. 🦋💙🙏
A witch hunt at its finest.
I hope all those involved feel absolute shame. Its disgusting and still going on.
This is a very interesting but heart rending case. I researced it myself years ago. The book you mention is a great read. The film was great too. Its absolutely shocking what that family went through, especially Lindy, let alone Michael and kids. Thank you for putting up this case. I enjoyed it immensely. Great research too! 👍😁
Lindy, you probably won't see this, but when all this happened I was among those who thought you guilty, I was 17, immature, the press was not favourable towards you. I look back, what hell you went through!!! So much for the "experts", a lynch mob was more appropriate. May the rest of your life be happy, you deserve it. Sandra
Yes it really was a crazy trial by media, that was led by the court system & news reports. I was a similar age. Most of us were sucked in during those first few years. I hold the same story of shame in my lap. Apologies to the Chamberlain family for the pain and suffering.🙏👣
@@ralsharp6013 it takes a real maturity to admit you were writing and apologize.
@@margaretbanks8969 I was really lucky that my older sister was interested in the case. She pointed out indescrepencies. A great reader, she got right into sleuth books during our teenage years.
Thank you for your comment. This family really did suffer greatly.
Excellent coverage of a case that divided a nation. Thank you.
Nt police ignored aborigines who have had 3000 years of living with dingos and consulted an expert from well knowj centre of dingo activity London.
smh ☹
If I could give you 10 👍 I would. You’re absolutely amazing!!👏🏼👏🏼
Been waiting. Glad your back. Best podcast out there
As an autistic person I can only too easily draw parallels between the behavior criticized by the authorities and the behavior I also exhibit during times of stress. Talking about things matter of factly is one of the main ways I'm able to get through some of the toughest times I've experienced and the thought that my grief or anguish would only be taken seriously if I showed it in a way that would break me is something I always have to be afraid of.
Same. I'm not a crier, I don't wail or weep. My feelings are masked because I'm used to playing calm for others. also I'm just not neurotypical.
Ooh the excitement of the notification can't wait always had such an interest in this sad story and only seen the mother in a recent interview was eventually proved innocent and rightly so pity it didn't come sooner!!! RIP baby girl⚘thanks for the upload x
Hurray. I've been waiting for a new episode.
Yes!! Welcome back, Casefile Team!! 💜🙏🏾✨🌹
“The dingo ate my baby!”
✨That poor woman! (Well, poor baby, too!). This is such an unusual case. I’m glad the truth finally came out.
Way too late she was in prison like 3 years or something they paid her out $3 million pardon
@@louisestevenson5102 1.5 million and it barely covered their legal costs. Lindy also missed the first 3 years of her second daughter's life as she was born in prison and took her away immediately. They have suffered terribly.
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I was 18 when this happened,i never ever thought Lindy killed her baby . What this woman and her family went through is appalling.
Yess finally! Missed this show.
pretty sure the jaw of a dingo and human are different, like we can’t chew bones, when dogs can (well at least my dog), so probably they can carry the baby.
(sorry for my bad english, it’s not my native language)
Agreed and that ridiculous 'experiment' of holding a bucket of sand in their teeth by someone (was it a cop?) was not only the epitome of stupidity but so ludicrous I was embarrassed just hearing that it happened! Talk about keystone cops!!
O M G thank you!!
This is exactly why all of our justice systems are flawed. We are all human and we judge people based on our own perceptions. You can have 50 "experts" say different things. You can have a jury that is swayed by sympathy, anger or any number of their own issues. On the other hand, having only a judge decide leaves you at risk of bias and corruption. I believe all serious crimes should be decided by a panel of 12 judges. Just like a jury, it has to be unanimous. No saying a few agree and a few don't, so good enough. Maybe there's a better way, but it's my best guess.
Our court systems are full of games, lies, twisting of facts and a desire to win. It's not in the best interests of justice to keep things the way they are. We only hear about the big cases, but what about all the cases we don't hear about where the same things happen. Regular people don't have the resources to fight against any of that.
Every system is full of "games, lies, twisting of facts and a desire to win". All of them--the press, the government, the church. It's not just the justice system. In the end, the average person is the loser.
I feel like any more people cannot critically think about anything or consider any opinion that might go against their pre-conceived ideas. It's as if the chance a person could be wrong about something is the worst thing in the world.
Not to tar all in the judicial system with the same brush, but there is no doubt that there is something of a club mentality in the lofty seats of power, where no 'expert' wants to be wrong, and fiercely held positions of authority are bought for the right price, all at the expense of everyone below them. Seems it's always been that way and likely always will be. At least if they didn't call it justice it might not feel so ludicrous.
Anyone else believe the mom was innocent from the start? The police can be so ignorant sometimes smh
F L Man, to be honest. I wasn’t sure. I thought maybe it was an accident and they thought they were going to get in trouble or something. But something just didn’t seem right. I was so confused. I am simply glad the truth came out. Phew! 🙏🏾💕
I did
Yes.
Casefile remember me ? I said one day this channel will have 100k subscribers. I commented it back on of the other podcasts when there was only 1.8k subscribers. Delighted to see more podcasts by you. Finally 😎
Great recaps thank you Sir!
Thank f..k you're back. Missed you heaps, re listened to most of my faves.
ok freak...you still sad and pathetic ?married your dogs yet ?
One size doesn't fit all in discussing human emotions.
THE greatest SHAME of the majority of Australian public. Trial by Media !! I was 23 when this occurred. Most of the time I recall being appalled by the overall public dialogue. It was a good lesson for me in learning our Justice system cannot be trusted, how easily people will allowed themselves to be convinced by the LOUDEST voice... Even now little has changed. One only has to look & listen at current conversations in the public domain... EG: Race and Religious belief systems. It would be good to know as a Nation we've grown & matured as a society ... Or do we just wipe these instances away as being " Human Nature , & we're innately flawed "; oh well ho hum !
Even in Canada I have heard of this unusual case.
Guess who missed you xx
This was one of the first times that our media persecuted an innocent woman based on gossip and sensationalism. After this story was played out in 1980 and the intervening years, so many Aussies lost faith in our news. It was rammed down our throats that she was guilty.
I feel like in this case the judge forgot to tell the jury "make sure you affirm a conviction behind a reasonable doubt" and it was more like "well, what do you feel probably happened" It doesn't even matter what was more likely, we shouldn't put people in prison just because we are 60% sure they did this or that, or even 90% for that matter.
Also I don't understand the fixation on the dingo, it could have also been some random person and a dingo happened to be nearby at the time.
Well known you can't move in London without falling over a dingo
The baby's got my Dingo!
My issie with the theory she idd it from the start is the time table makes it impossible unless everyone from the campsite (people they didnt know well) were all in on it and helped cover it up. Yeah not realiistic in the least. The police not accepting thecresults of the first inquest and inventing a ton of junk science should have gotten THEM put in jail...
Edit: not to mention all the trackers who followed the tracks that night. All lying to protectv a baby killer they dont know and who even they felt was acting weird..
This poor family 😢
I can't believe they were ever convicted of murder. This poor family.
Good Lord two young, healthy boys a newborn baby girl and relatively young, active parents ...just myself. In my car, I have probably contaminated the majority of the surface in the vehicle with my blood.... I feel that it would be more suspicious if the vehicle lacked any blood stains.... Of course, I'm not a highly trained investigator in the employee of a government....
Axaria means gift from God not sacrifice.in wilderness
What happened to last week's uploads, Act I & Act II?
I was excited when I seen my notifications to say you've uploaded new videos... Such sadness and disappointment was soon to follow when I tried playing them 😫😪😭
Apologies for that. We'll be adding them again soon as there were some technical difficulties. We're trying to solve this at the moment.
@@CasefileTrueCrimePodcast looking forward to them, hopefully they don't cause you too much grief.
Wow. What an "amazing" story.
Australian sophistication lol
Let's hope after 40years that our forensic experts can now tell the difference between blood and paint???
Paid witnesses are a scourge from hell.
Right?! OMG.
I would never agree to be hypnotized...nkt becauze of religion but becauze its so easy toanipulate someone into 'remembering' what u want them to 'remember'
'At stake is law and order..
No
At stake is justice....without justice law and order is meaninglees
I hate how the heartbreaking phrase Lindie screams has turned into a joke and a meme. She was totally innocent and agonized by the death of her poor sweet baby. It’s not a joke, and not funny.
You don't stop a 6 year old and ask him to tell you the truth about his baby sister's death I'd BN in Lindy's shoes I would be insisted the woman was arrested and charged pressed for harassment and psychological abuse of a child.
Is this where that Seinfield reference is from?
Yes, but that line was used many times before Seinfeld.
Shoulda just put a shrimp on the barby and called it a day
That's it Americans are no longer allowed rights.
@@isaiahjackson8416 Oddly prophetic!
Azaria
It was said, by an online news article that canine hairs were found on the singlet and jumpsuit, but if it were dumped anywhere by the mother to cover the crime, many canines could have been in contact with it. Lindy killed that child and the trip covered it adequately. I have one child and NO WAY would I be planning any camping trip with an almost newborn baby, unless I needed a cover for a murder or death!@
How does it feel to be wrong!
No dingo,s in Portugal.
I am committing the sin of multiple comments on the same video, and I beg inter-web forgiveness🙏
I just can't help but wonder if, with the explosion in popularity of the televised "Forensic Police Drama" police investigators worldwide, have realized the importance of maintaining an uncorrupted crime scene? It would seem that with approx 20 years(2023 @ posting)
of inundation with CSI
protocols, a typical t.v. viewer may be significantly more knowledgeable in said protocols than yester-years average cop...
As I said, just wondering, no disrespect intended
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Who leaves an iinfant unattended inside a tent in the wild!!!!!
My thoughts exactly. You wouldn't leave a turkey or a ham so accessible yet your own frkn baby?! INSANITY
I’m 15 but even then when I go camping I always make sure I zip up the tent so I don’t get eaten by a wild animal. All because of this.
Shopping district of Tennant Creek? 😂😂😂
Haven't watched this vid. yet but looked at many others and my current opinion is:- finding of the matinee jacket means nothing as it could have been planted at any time and placed so well that it took 6 years to find. Of course Lindy would have said that the child was wearing the jacket when taken by a dingo, same as if the child had been wearing it when killed whether by accident or otherwise. Dingoes would not likely enter a tent with other humans in it. No dingo killings of this nature before or after. I think that Lindy and Michael are guilty of something and it reeks of the Deorr Kuntz scenario. And lastly, although Lindy never saw a dingo, nor anyone else, she immediately said that a dingo took the baby, as though having pre-planned that exclamation, knowing beforehand that the baby was NOT there. And if wrapped in many blankets for the cold, less chance of any dingo smelling anything of interest, including inside a tent. Lindy killed the child!!
Wow!
Just noting the date of this podcast: Before the shit hit the fan. Who would have ever dreamt?
- April 2021
The first inquest are actually the most accurate findings, but the authorities used 'human intervention' as an excuse to re open the case against lindy and micheal and not find who he dingo belonged to
1:48:40 there is DNA NOW?!?
She really suffered twice over for the loss of her child and I didn't even know she was vindicated....So good to know.
Did you know that even recently w/all the sickening revelations of Spirit Cooking and satanic ritual of consuming babies, etc, that the "Dingo baby" was being attributed to her?....because she and her creepy partner at the time were actually in Australia during this period. It was being speculated that this baby was one of her first....
Her who? Who is "her"?
@@sfletch3042 Hillary Clinton. It's another one of those dumb conspiracy theories like pizzagate.
Please. This was a trial by media. The local aboriginal trackers even said azaria was likely taken by a dingo and they all dismissed them.
@@minacerra well what do they know they've only lived with dingoes for 3000 years.
I really hope that all your deep and very sad delusions have dissipated in the three years that have passed since you posted this comment.
I feel that what most people cannot comprehend, is that Christians, with all that faith and trust in the Lord, can sometimes have differnet reactions to some of those who dont. They have peace.
I know it's not really something to joke about but the way he says "my go, my god a dingo got my baby" complete with William Shatner pauses made me lol. That said, it's kind of shitty that people basically made a meme out of something that seems to have actually happened.
“The dingo ate your baby. “. Elaine Benes.
41:07 so? Proud loving mama
Here's why I think they did it. A baby being carried away from a campsite in a dingos mouth would be wailing and that would have been heard by the entire campsite. No one reported hearing anything.
They did hear the baby. Briefly.
The only part of Azaria was her face, as she was bundled with several blankets. A 9-week old skull hasn't fused; it's still delicate. The jaw of a dingo can easily grab the head of a baby and crush it before it can go into full cry.
The dingo more than likely gave the baby a very violent shake, probably breaking her neck instantly. One cry was heard, and a few women there heard her cry out, so did Azaria's father. One or two women also said the cry seemed to have been cut off as quickly as it started. This means that baby Azaria was killed very quickly by the dingo, which are intelligent superb hunters with incredibly powerful jaws. People need to stop thinking "dog."
Experts testified that the act of taking the baby in his mouth would have instantly killed the baby. She did let out a cry initially which drew Lindy's and the campsite members attention, but would have been killed seconds later
@@waspie1690
I understand that I could also be very wrong.
How about riggamortis was set in thats why there was no blood
Rigamortis takes several hours.
@@glowingunknown5625 Rigor mortis.
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1:52:01 of course they separated... damn man...why do people have to attack based on their opinion without FACTS??? THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE MEDIA RUNNING WITH A FALSE NARRATIVE!!!
"Professor James Cameron"... anyone else?
OK first few minutes described IKEA
The one time ministers behave consistent with their trust in God it raises absurd suspicions.
Also, I think, it's much easier to accept your baby was killed by nature / accident, then by some asshole humans who should know better.
I think you meant those things in your second sentence the other way around.
Yes a very religious man this Michael Chamberlain was . Amazing the skeletons that can crawl out ones closet.
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8 videos and 7 subscribers. I think you should be SEEKING advice from Casefile and not GIVING it.
So, you actually tok the time to stalk my profile? Don't have much going on in life do you, keyboard warrior?
It's stated the baby had dark hair yet in all the photos she is blonde....
Babies can change their hair colour, just like their eye colour, quite quickly.