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Lindy Chamberlain Lindy Chamberlain i(A61391 works by) (a.k.a. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton; Alice Lynne Murchison)
Born: Established: 1948
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Female
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Alice Lynne (Lindy) Chamberlain, mother of Azaria Chamberlain who in 1980 was taken and killed by a dingo at a campsite at Uluru, Northern Territory. Lindy Chamberlain was charged with Azaria's murder and found guilty after a second inquest in 1982. She was sentenced to life imprisonment and confined to Darwin Prison. After a royal commission into the her conviction, new evidence was considered and in 1988 Lindy's conviction was quashed. (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography website)

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