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At about 10pm that night, the two of them heard a cry from the tent in which their 4-year-old son and month-old daughter, Azaria, were sleeping. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Australian wrongly convicted of murder. Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton is a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Yahoo Web Search Yahoo Settings. Sign In. Search query.

Author John Bryson wrote a book about the case, called Evil Angels. The movie was released in other countries as A Cry in the Dark. But police said that the woman was lying and they did not need to check. This created interest in the media, but there was no truth to the story.

KidzSearch Safe Wikipedia for Kids. Jump to: navigation , search. Azaria Chamberlain. Mount Isa , Queensland, Australia. Uluru , Australia. Like all bosses, he is defeated by chasing him and throwing Boom Berries at him to reduce his health bar to zero, then using the Portal Weapons crafted beforehand to send him back to his own dimension.

Dingodile is one of the most intelligent of Cortex's henchmen. In general, he is a pyromaniac who is quite vicious and seldom seen without his flamethrower. Despite his dangerous and cunning personality however, like many enemies of Crash, he is sometimes buffoonish and reckless.

His own trigger-happy and destructive nature often is the key to his downfall. He also tends to have a darkly playful and rather humorous side, as he often tends to make jokes about food. Before battling Crash in Warped , for example, he cackles "Break out the butter I'm gonna make toast!

When Dingodile first appeared, he had a raspy Australian accent. However, in Crash Bash, he had an uncharacteristically deep and somewhat goofy laugh whenever he won a minigame. He regained his first accent in Crash Nitro Kart. Dingodile is generally portrayed as sleazy and underhanded.

He enjoys preying on the weak; in fact, he nearly fried a penguin with his flamethrower before battling Crash. He is also sometimes treacherous, and is not above betraying even Cortex for his own gains, which is evident in Crash Twinsanity when he attacks him, along with Crash, in his boss battle.

Despite his slimy nature however, he has a hidden cultured side. He enjoys croquet, fine literature and cooking when not gleefully roasting something with his flamethrower, that is. In Crash Nitro Kart , Dingodile is seen showing traits of cowardice. Examples of this are present when he covers his eyes during a particularly high jump, and when he says lines such as "I can't look!

Trance, and is not present when he is not under his mind control. In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time , he seems to have discarded his more villainous side, desiring to only live in retirement and run his diner.

Tropies in exchange for returning him home. This is notable evidence that he indeed has had a change of heart. He also seems to have a rather vulgar sense of humor, as when he and the other playable characters saw the N. Tropies flirting with each other, while the others felt both digusted and confused, Dingodile was amused.

He is also more foul-mouthed than he was in previous games, and is one of the few characters in the game to use swear words. In Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! Neo Cortex and trying to stop Crash and Coco from ruining the mad scientist's plan of multiverse domination. However, with different versions of Dingodile appearing, him turning back to being a villain may not be the case.

Dingodile has the appearance of both a dingo and a crocodile combined: his body shape is that of a crocodile, but it is covered in brown fur like a dingo. He has large darker brown patches visible on his back in Crash Team Racing. This seems to have been removed in future appearances, though view of them may just be blocked by his flamethrower's gas tank.

While he is mostly covered in fur, his hands, feet, belly and muzzle are covered in skin like a crocodile's belly, which is beige. He is often shown with sharp, crooked teeth. His eyes are usually brown, except for Crash Nitro Kart , where they were green probably due to N.

Trance's brainwashing , and the N. Sane Trilogy and Nitro-Fueled where they are dark blue. In Twinsanity and It's About Time , he has yellow scleras. In the latter game, his green scales extend along his back to his neck. He is usually seen carrying a flamethrower with a big tank on his back. He is approximately 2 meters 6 feet tall and weighs about 95 kilograms.

He gains size and weight in his appearances in Twinsanity and on-wards, to the point of looking pig-like in Crash of the Titans. His pants can be beige, green or blue, and he never wears shoes or a shirt though in It's About Time , he wears a black leather vest.

In Crash Nitro Kart , he wears one of N. Trance's hypnotism helmets. In On the Run! And, in Tank arenas he can fire two shot volleys. Dingodile, a half dingo, half crocodile monstrosity who enjoys reading Shakespeare, playing croquet, and roasting orange marsupials with his flamethrower.

The Chamberlains said that they sometimes used the camera bag as a place to stuff Azaria's clothes. Biologist Joy Kuhl, the prosecution's thirty-fifth witness, presented what the Crown saw as some of its most damning evidence. Kuhl told jurors that her tests proved that the blood found on the dash support bracket in the Chamberlain's Torana belonged to an infant. On cross, Defense Counsel Phillips forced Kuhl to admit all the plates she used in her actual blood tests "have been destroyed"--a practice she called "standard procedure in our laboratory.

Crown witness Bernard Sims had investigated about two dozen attacks by dogs on humans in his job as a London ondontologist. Sims saw nothing consistent with a dingo attack in Azaria's clothing, claimed that a dingo attack would cause "copious" bleeding, and indicated that a baby's head could not fit into the jaws of a dingo. On cross, Sims reaffirmed that a the opening of a dingo's "mouth wouldn't allow it to get [over a baby's skull. Sims, staring at the photograph, could only concede that his earlier supposition might have been mistaken.

James Cameron was the final witness for the prosecution. Cameron, a professor of forensic medicine, testified that Azaria was killed by "a cutting instrument across the neck, or around the neck" held by a human. He exhibited to the jury slides of Azaria's clothing taken in his laboratory with ultra-violet light which he believed showed the pattern of bloodied fingers.

Cross-examination focused attention on previous cases in which Cameron's pro-prosecution testimony had helped incriminate what turned out to be innocent suspects. On October 13, the defense began its case. John Phillips ended his opening statement by pointing to the witness stand and saying, "I call Mrs. Tears slid down Lindy's face as she described the clothing her daughter was wearing the last night she laid her down: "She had a white knitted Marquis jacket, with a pale lemon edging.

The point became obvious, when spectators realized that the print made by so-called bloodied fingers showed four phalanges, while Lindy Chamberlain, and virtually every other human on the planet, have only three. Much of Ian Barker's cross-examination of Lindy was devoted to poking holes in her story about seeing a dingo in the vicinity of the family tent. He asked her to explain how a dingo, shaking a bleeding baby, would not have left large quantities of blood in and around the tent. He also challenged the defendant to account for the fetal blood which his experts claimed to have found in the family car.

Lindy resisted saying, "I'm not going to speculate how it got there. Chamberlain," the Queen's Counsel said at one point, "may I respectfully suggest to you that the whole [dingo] story is mere fantasy? More than two dozen defense witnesses followed Lindy to the stand. Several testified as to the Chamberlain's fine character and their grief over the loss of their daughter.

Other witnesses told either of their own frightening encounters with Ayer's Rock dingoes, or testified in general about the aggressiveness of the region's wild dogs. In addition, eight defense forensic experts would attack the dubious tests or conclusions of the prosecution's experts, on subjects ranging from fiber to blood evidence.

The defense saw Professor Barry Boettcher as one of its most important forensic experts. Boettcher attacked Joy Kuhl's conclusions that the Chamberlain car contained significant quantities of fetal blood. In complicated testimony that might have flown right over the heads of the jurors, Boettcher tried to explain why Kuhl's testing method might have produced false positives for fetal blood.

Later, another expert, Richard Nairn would also pile on Kuhl's results, arguing that the sheer number of Kuhl's tests was irrelevant: "Two hundred bad tests are poorer than one good test. Some of the most riveting defense testimony came from defense dingo expert Les Harris contended that a dingo after prey the size of Azaria would "make seizure, which would be of the entire head, and it would close its jaws sufficiently to render the mammal immobile.

Harris said dingo kills in the field produce "very little" blood and that they characteristically shake their heads after taking prey "to break the neck. Except for one recalled expert, the last defense witness was Michael Chamberlain. Ian Barker, in his cross-examination of Michael, focused heavily on the his actions in the first hours after Azaria's disappearance. Barker suggested that Michael's failure to ask Lindy certain questions, or to go running off into the brush in search of his daughter, was because he already knew Lindy had killed his daughter: "Could it be because you knew that the dingo did not take her, and that she was dead at the hands of your wife?

Barker," Michael insisted again. Courtroom observers concluded that Chamberlain's testimony lacked spirit; it seemed both weary and inappropriately nonchalant. When his long hours on the stand finally ended, he took a seat in the courtroom next to his wife, and held her hands. Phillips, in his summation, stressed that the prosecution failed to provide even a remotely plausible explanation as to why Lindy Chamberlain would want to kill her own child.

Barker, summing for the Crown, admitted that no motive had been proved, but insisted that was neither the prosecution's intent or its job. He turned the tables by asking the jury to consider the lack of evidence that might suggest the dingo was guilty. On October 28, , Justice Muirhead instructed the jury--in a manner that generally pleased the defense.

He reminded them that Sally Lowe distinctly remembered hearing a baby's cry coming from the Chamberlain's tent, and that if she was correct about that, then the prosecution's assertion that Azaria was at the time lying dead in the Chamberlain's car with her throat cut could not be true. Most journalists left the Darwin courtroom expecting an acquittal. On October 29, at pm, the foreman of the Chamberlain jury announced its verdict. The jury found Lindy guilty of murder, and Michael guilty of being an accessory after the fact.

Across Australia, the jury's verdict was greeted mostly with approval and, in places ranging from a speedway in Perth to a bar in Darwin to a convention of dentists in Newcastle, with sustained applause. Reports later indicated that the jury was initially considerably more divided that its verdict indicated, having first split four for conviction, four for acquittal, and four undecided.