02-20-2022, 04:05 PM
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This is probably one of the saddest stories I've shared here. If not the saddest.
Lindy Chamberlain is an Australian woman. Back in 1980 she went camping with her family to a camp near Uluru / Ayers Rock, but eveything went wrong when a Dingo came to the tent and took her nine-week-old daughter Azaria.
From here things got worse for Lindy Chamberlain. You see, at the time it was believed that Dingos presented no credible threats to human, so at the time the Australian public was firmly divided at that time between those who believed she was guilty and those who were not sure. Not only that, but Lindy and her husband Michael were menbers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church instead of being Christian/Catholic. Back in the day the Seventh Day Adventist Church was treated like some kind of dark, sinister, satanic cult rather than just another Christian denomination (albeit one with some weird stuff attached to it).
In hindsight, it was the media who were responsible - though they were aided and abetted by the incompetence of the investigators at that time. The reporters kept stopping their interviews and forcing Lindy to stop crying, then airing the sixth or seventh take of the interview in order to make Lindy appear unemotional (thus implying that she did it). As for the investigators? Well, one of the things they did is that they checked the family's car and found blood on it, which was used as evidence against them..... until it was later found out that it wasn't blood. It was red paint.
Lindy and her husband were convicted on the murder of Azaria in 1982. She was released in 1986 after the release of new evidence. They were officially pardonded in 1987.
Another travesty about the whole thing is that even after releasing Lindy and overturning their convictions, then having a third inquest into Azarias death they never changed the death certificate to say "killed by a dingo". It was left as unknown causes. Michael spend 7 years gathering evidence of dingo attacks in Australia and fighting for a 4th inquest to change the death certificate and it wasnt until a 6 year old was mauled on Fraser Island did people take notice. They finally changed the death certificate in 2012.
And how did the U.S.A took this? They made jokes about it. Yankees saw dingoes eating babies as the peak of comedy for some reason.
SOURCES:
Lindy Chamberlain documentary on Channel 10
https://youtu.be/SSntp5x3VVc (Channel 7)
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/animal-...855974ff09
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17129061
Examples of "Dingo ate my/your baby" jokes:
https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y (Seinfield)
https://youtu.be/syQnKj9jt4c (Conan)
https://youtu.be/ADpKWbu_Hwc (Tropic Thunder)
https://youtu.be/81FGVh1dj0A (The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 16)
Lindy Chamberlain is an Australian woman. Back in 1980 she went camping with her family to a camp near Uluru / Ayers Rock, but eveything went wrong when a Dingo came to the tent and took her nine-week-old daughter Azaria.
From here things got worse for Lindy Chamberlain. You see, at the time it was believed that Dingos presented no credible threats to human, so at the time the Australian public was firmly divided at that time between those who believed she was guilty and those who were not sure. Not only that, but Lindy and her husband Michael were menbers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church instead of being Christian/Catholic. Back in the day the Seventh Day Adventist Church was treated like some kind of dark, sinister, satanic cult rather than just another Christian denomination (albeit one with some weird stuff attached to it).
In hindsight, it was the media who were responsible - though they were aided and abetted by the incompetence of the investigators at that time. The reporters kept stopping their interviews and forcing Lindy to stop crying, then airing the sixth or seventh take of the interview in order to make Lindy appear unemotional (thus implying that she did it). As for the investigators? Well, one of the things they did is that they checked the family's car and found blood on it, which was used as evidence against them..... until it was later found out that it wasn't blood. It was red paint.
Lindy and her husband were convicted on the murder of Azaria in 1982. She was released in 1986 after the release of new evidence. They were officially pardonded in 1987.
Another travesty about the whole thing is that even after releasing Lindy and overturning their convictions, then having a third inquest into Azarias death they never changed the death certificate to say "killed by a dingo". It was left as unknown causes. Michael spend 7 years gathering evidence of dingo attacks in Australia and fighting for a 4th inquest to change the death certificate and it wasnt until a 6 year old was mauled on Fraser Island did people take notice. They finally changed the death certificate in 2012.
And how did the U.S.A took this? They made jokes about it. Yankees saw dingoes eating babies as the peak of comedy for some reason.
SOURCES:
Lindy Chamberlain documentary on Channel 10
https://youtu.be/SSntp5x3VVc (Channel 7)
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/animal-...855974ff09
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17129061
Examples of "Dingo ate my/your baby" jokes:
https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y (Seinfield)
https://youtu.be/syQnKj9jt4c (Conan)
https://youtu.be/ADpKWbu_Hwc (Tropic Thunder)
https://youtu.be/81FGVh1dj0A (The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 16)