The Lindy Chamberlain Story

The Lindy Chamberlain Story
VANCE FERRELL
THE COMPLETE STORY - FROM 1980 TO 2004
Harvestime Books
HB952 The Lindy Chamberlain Story by Vance Ferrell Published by Harvestime Books Box 300, Altamont, TN 37301 USA Printed in the United States of America Cover and Text Copyright 2004 by Harvestime Books
I was involved with the case for eight years. Because of this I would often be asked at dinner parties, in pubs, in fact anywhere, for my opinion. I dont recall having much of an opinion . . But something disturbed me. I returned again and again to the case and what I saw, what I had missed, was the impossible time bracket that enclosed Azarias disappearance. Reliable witnesses showed that Lindy would have had no more than 10 minutes in which to kill her baby . . and return to the campsite carrying a tin of baked beans and looking as normal as everyone else. It could not have happened. I would give that opinion when asked and then everyone would argue, present their versions picked up from no one knows where . . The problem was the Chamberlains were members of a small sect with strict beliefs not always in line with mainstream churches. For instance, they go to church on Saturdays, a day most Australians set aside to worship at beaches or racetracks . . And so they turned on the Chamberlains the hatred reserved for people who worship in different temples and they became obsessed. James Oram, in Sunday Telegraph, November 6, 1988
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THE LAST PART OF THE MYSTERY HAS FINALLY BEEN SOLVED

PART ONE OF FIVE Ayers Rock, a massive boulder in the middle of the Australian desert, is a popular tourist destination. During the day, vacationers climb it; and, in the evening, they watch it turn red in the sunset. Dingoes are the native wild dogs of the continent. In late 1979, because of recent dingo attacks on children, government officials in Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory (Ayers Rock National Park is in its southwest corner) issued an order that, henceforth, no dingoes should be fed, as they previously had, by the staff and tourists at Ayers Rock. It was thought that, as a result of the ban, the dingoes would leave and go elsewhere in the desert in search of food. In 1969, just after graduation from Avondale, Michael Leigh Chamberlain married Alice Lynne (Lindy) Murchison. By 1980, Michael was an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and an assistant to the president of Avondale College. In August of that year, the family decided to visit Ayers Rock National Park for a weekend camping holiday. Taking with them their three children, they camped at the large Uluru campsite. Their oldest son, Aidan, was six years old at the time. Their second son, Reagan, was only three. Lindy had given birth to a baby girl, Azaria, only ten weeks earlier (actually only nine weeks and four days). Azaria had been a planned baby. Her parents had wanted a girl; and that is what they got. She was a beautiful child, with no deformities, and had a Biblical name which means Blessed of God. In the winter of 1980, there was about one serious dingo attack on a child at Ayers Rock every week. But with the school holiday season approaching, that fact was kept secret. The tourist dollar is king at Ayers Rock; for it is the leading tourist attraction in the entire Northern Territory. Fear of dingo attacks could cut tourist revenue by tens of thousands of dollars. Although a few signs were posted, telling them not to feed the dingoes, virtually no one was aware of the dingo danger. (The Australian winter occurs during our summer months: June through September. During part of that time, school is out and the desert is not so hot.) There may have been 2,000 tourists there on Sunday, August 17, 1980. That evening, as the sun was fast westering, Lindy went to their tent, in the tourist camp, and laid little Azaria in her carry basket on the floor. She then went out to where her husband and the tourists were gathered around a campfire. Rather quickly she was alerted by a cry; and she went back to check on the baby. As she neared the tent, she saw something that looked like a dog run out the door with something in its mouth, immediately turn at the tent corner, and disappear. Inside the tent, the baby was gone. Immediately, she rushed out. Michael, Michael, the dingos got my baby! The Australian media called it the trial of the century. The most lurid, sensational stories were spread by the press all over the nation: Adventists were said to be a weird people. Someone looked for the definition of the babys name, Azaria, in the Oxford English Dictionary; but they accidently (?) obtained the meaning of Azazel (the scapegoat of Leviticus 16), which was said to be sacrifice in the wilderness. (As mentioned earlier, Azaria is a Hebrew word, meaning Blessed of God.) It was said that the Chamberlains purposely went to Ayers Rock in order to slay the infant. Lindy was said to have buried the child in the sand after doing it. On and on went the wild stories; all of them were untrue. Nearly the entire nation was led to believe that the baby was killed in the desert in an Adventist religious ritual. The nation was stirred to its core; and a great majority of the people were convinced that Lindy had murdered her child. Certain things helped bring that conviction about: One was the fact that Lindy was the type that showed little emotion in public. If she had wept openly as most mothers would, it would have helped. Another problem was that the Northern Territory government was extremely anxious to sidestep the fact that it was responsible for what had happened! That order, to not feed the wild dogs, should not have been given or it should have been followed up by getting rid of the oversupply of dingoes in the area,especially the one that had become so vicious. Another problem was the fact that the dingo which took the babywas known. It was Ding, the special pet of one of the staff families at the park. Although born wild, like all the other dingoes, Ding had been partially tamed by members of several families that worked at Ayers Rock Park. But there was one family,
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the Cawoods, who gave him the most attention and love. Prior to the ban on feeding dingoes, they fed him every evening. They even let him into the house on cold nights, so he could warm himself by the heater. On one occasion, Ranger Ian Cawood had wormed Ding. Ding was a healthy young male, the same color as the red Ayers Rock soil. He had distinctive markings because he was part dog, was somewhat larger and stronger than other dingoes, and was the pet of about six families at Ayers Rock. Ding was a semi-domesticated creature. And, in his travels from home to home, he had acquired several other names, including Scarface and (among aborigines) Kulpunyathe devil dog. He was an easily recognized red dingo, with a white band around his neck. With a tail longer and bushier than pure dingoes, he was a large, strong male. But new rules banned tourists and park staff from feeding dingoes. So Ding had been losing weight rapidly. The problem was that dingo males bring the food to their mates with young; and it is believed that Ding may have sired a litter and, while himself starving, was trying to forage for food to take to both mother and pups. The new no-feed order affected all the dingoes; Ding was the most deprived because he was the most domesticated. Without food from the park staff and tourists, Ding became desperate for food. One photo, taken about the time of Azarias death, showed Ding to be an emaciated animal, with his ribs clearly showing. Crazed by hunger, he began attacking children. The first of these was an aboriginal girl. This attack was never reported to authorities. Then, on June 23, only two months before Azaria died, Ding attacked the daughter of one of the staff families (Amanda Cranwell). But her parents did not disclose this incident until April 1984. Little Amanda, only four at the time, was dragged out of the family car by the head and neck. Max Cranwell, the father, later said, I feel we could be in the position of the Chamberlains ourselves. As things have gone on, we have felt that the same thing could have happened to usand Phyllis [his wife] might now be in jail. Ding was clearly identified in that attack. Other attacks were against tourists. In that two-month period of attacks, no dingo was shot, except for the alleged shooting of Ding. The morning after Ding attacked Amanda, Ian Cawood told Max that Ding had been dealt with. Word spread among the staff that Ding had been shot. Keep in mind that the Cawoods, more than the others, had for over a year provided a special home for Ding. Although (like all the others) they obeyed the no-feeding ban, they did not want to kill their pet. So Cawood drove Ding to a slaughterhouse at Curtin Springs Station, about 60 km [37.3 mi] east of Ayers Rock. He was well-fed there. It is known that an
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aborigine (Nipper Winmatti), from Ayers Rock, later recognized Ding at the slaughterhouse. Thinking he had gotten lost, the aborigine may have brought Ding back on his truck. Or perhaps, missing his families, Ding went back by himself. Either way, once back at Ayers Rock Park, he rapidly began starving again. There are photos which confirm this. (The aborigines were the original natives of Australia, when the British first arrived and settled the land.) There were nine confirmed sightings of Ding alive after Cawood claimed to have dealt with himseveral by the staff houses. Therefore we can have certainty that Cawood had not shot him before the attack on Azaria. Because he had earlier attacked the two children, as well as several tourists, all the workers knew that half-starved Ding was dangerous. It was their responsibility to shoot the animal, but none did; even though, from the sightings they knew he was still alive. They knew it was the pet of some of the families. It is known that Ding walked about Ayers Rock village for about 12 hours that day, before the baby was taken. Among those who saw him was the aborigine, Nipper Winmatti, who knew the dingo well. A few minutes before Azaria disappeared on that fateful evening, a dingo was seen walking toward the Chamberlain tent. A mother with a busload of children from Sydneys Newington College saw itand described it as a big red dingo. When shown a set of dingo photographs, she identified one as the dingo she saw. It was Ding. A social worker, from the Australian county of Victoria, and a Victorian Trainee schoolteacher also saw a dingo walking toward the Chamberlain tent. When separately shown a series of 15 dingo photos, both selected a photo of Ding as the animal they saw. At about 8 p.m. on August 17th, Lindy put Azaria to bed; she first rubbed her bottom with a lanolinbased cream. Lanolin is a fatty substance extracted from sheeps wool. It may have attracted the dingo. Just before putting the infant to bed in the tent, Lindy had been talking to Greg Lowe, a Tasmanian tourist, at the barbecue site. Because he did not know which tent was the Chamberlains, he watched as she went to it. From where he stood he had a clear sighting, from the side, and saw her back out of the tent, after laying the infant down. She had both arms free. (This was important, because the later accusation was that she carried the infant to her car and killed it.) She put her left arm around her six-year-old son, Aidan. Her right arm was in full sight of Greg Lowe; and it was holding nothing. Then, wearing the same floral dress she earlier had on (not the tracksuit trousers the Crown alleged she changed into), he saw her walk toward her car. About four-and-a-half minutes later, he again saw her; and he and his wife, Sally, conversed with her at the campfire. She had been out of
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sight of the other campers for about 10-12 minutes. During that time, she was later charged with having (1) changed from her floral dress to a tracksuit, (2) taken Azaria to her car, and (3) killed her there, using a pair of scissors, and (4) changed back into the floral dress. All in a space of 10-12 minutes. Yet Lindy was only out of Greg Lowes sight for about four and a half minutes. Her oldest son, Aidan, was six years old at the time. He was with his mother the entire 10-12 minutes she was away from the campfire and with Azaria in the tent. But he did not testify in the court trial, because Lindy did not want him emotionally hurt by what would have been a grueling cross-examination. Lindy rejoined her husband around the campfire; and, as they stood there conversing with Greg and Sally Lowe, a life-changing event was taking place. Looking for food, Ding crept into their tent. Reagan, the three-year-old Chamberlain child, suddenly awoke with Ding standing on top of him. Like Amanda Cranwell, he had nightmares for years afterward. Although too young to address the court, the boy never changed his story: The dingo stood on top of me. It is of interest that, if Azaria had not been in the tent, the dingo would have attacked Reagan and probably killed her. Les Harris, president of the Dingo Foundation, later said that Ding would not have been able to tell the infant Azaria apart from any other small animal a rabbit or a bandicoot. Harris explained that he would have picked her up and then killed her with a violent shaking, breaking the infants neck. Azarias last cry was heard around the campfire. It was between 8:02 and 8:03 p.m. That was bubby crying! said Aidan Chamberlain to his father, who was talking to the Lowes. Turning to Lindy, Michael said, Wasnt that bubby crying? Immediately, Lindy went to the tent. It is highly significant that Aidan, Michael, and Sally all heard the baby cry while Lindy stood beside them after the time when the prosecution alleged that Azaria had already been murdered by her in the car. Sally Lowe described the cry as being a cutoff cry and an urgent one. The dingo came out of the front opening of the tent just as Lindy came hurrying to the front entrance. But, because of a shadow cast by a wooden fence, she could not clearly see what was in its mouth. As the dingo came out, it was shaking whatever was in its mouth, which Lindy initially thought to be a sandshoe. (It should be mentioned here that Chief Constable Frank Morris later testified that, when she was interviewed by him at 8:30 p.m. that evening about the death of her baby, she said she actually saw the baby in the dingos mouth. But Lindy denies this. Throughout the trial and all that followed, Lindy was always very careful to only speak the truth as she knew it.)
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The description she later gave of the animal exactly fit Ding. Suddenly, in great fear for the safety of her children, Lindy ran to the tent. As she did, she noticed a dingo standing near their car. (It very likely was the second one which was to follow Ding.) A quick look inside told her what had happened; and, shouting, she ran to the group. Michael! Michael! A dingos got my baby! Judith West, who was reading in a nearby tent, heard her shouted words. The Chamberlains quickly shouted the problem to everyone standing around; and Michael and Greg Lowe ran from the barbecue area in the direction where Lindy saw the dingo go. (The front of their tent faced west, the direction of the campfire. When Ding came out of the tent with the baby, it went to the tent corner, turned and ran east.) There were two dingoes by the Chamberlains tent; one was Ding. As the people began shouting, both animals ran east from the campsite, knowing it was the quickest way to hide. About a hundred yards east of the Chamberlain tent was a lengthy sandridge, which ran north to south. Upon reaching it, an animal could disappear over it and not be seen. But even without it, a dingo could be hard to see among the desert brush. Michael and Greg chased after one dingo which headed due east. They were close to it; but, when they saw that it was carrying nothing, they gave up the chase and began searching among the brush. The second dingo, which was Ding, ran southeast with no one immediately after it. It ran about 150 meters [164 yd] and then stopped. But a Victorian schoolteacher, Murray Haby, was trying to track it. To the left (north) of him were the other men; so the thought came to mind to change directions. Turning a full 90o to the right, he searched along the sandridge toward the south, hoping to find where that second dingos tracks cut across the sandridge. Murray found the tracks! He later described them in a Channel 10 interview as rather deep, as if the dingo was carrying something. His evidence was later corroborated by two native tracking experts. Following those tracks, Murray arrived at a spot where there was a cloth impression in the sand. The tracks went around it in a circle that was about three or four meters in diameter. From there, the tracks headed south. Murray followed them until they disappeared on the edge of a tourist parking lot. A tourist rushed in his car over to the Police Station; but no one was there. Running next door, he banged on John Beaseys home. John opened it and told him to go across the road and tell the ranger (second in charge) what had happened. It was Cawoods home; but no one was there. Returning to Beasey, he demanded help. John went next door and woke up Senior Constable Frank Morris. They were the first park staff to learn what had happened.
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(It should be noted that there were three homes clustered together by the police station: Beasey was only a mechanic. The other two were Morris, head policeman, and Cawood, the second-in-command of the park rangers. One or another of this cluster of buildings will repeatedly enter into this story.) Then Beasey headed south, alerting the rangers there, while Morris went north, alerting other park attendants. Morris found Ian Cawood and Ranger Iain Marshall drinking at the bar at the Ayers Rock Chalet. Cawood later testified in court that, as soon as he was notified, he drove directly to the campground to help in the search. But Iain Marshall later told private investigators that Cawood first drove to his home. (He later testified that he did not spent the last part of the night at home; but he was searching known dingo lairs during that time.) Meanwhile, Anna Marshall, the rangers wife, ran in and told Roberta Downs, the full-time nurse at Ayers Rock, A child has been taken by a dingo! Then there was silence for a time, as the two women looked into one anothers eyes. Both knew what had happened. It was Roberta who only a few days before had argued with Anna about the dingo attacks, telling her, Do we have to wait till a child is seriously injured or killed before we do something? (Roberta was to become a close friend of the Chamberlains.) The searchers were told by staff to go to the Sunrise Hill parking area. Sunrise Hill is a paved portion of that long sandridge. It is customary each morning at dawn for tourists to go there and, with the morning sun behind them, watch the brilliant red sunrise on Ayers Rock to the west. From Sunrise Hill, the tourists were fanned out in a wide-ranging searching party. By this time, all the tourists knew they were searching for a dingo which had taken baby Azaria. Not one of them had the slightest suspicion that the babys mother had killed it. That theory was a later government fabrication, foisted on an ignorant, gullible public. For the first two and a half hours, all 300 searchers aimlessly wandered through the desert brush. During that time, the top-ranking staff had time to decide what they should do to begin the cover-up. About 10:30 p.m., the tourists were called together; and, by order of Chief Constable Frank Morris and Chief Ranger Derek Roff, they were divided into three groups of 100 each and told to walk shoulder to shoulder throughout their assigned area. One group was sent east, one north, and the other south. The police were careful not to send the campers toward the west. The rangers homes, which Ding considered home base, were in that direction. Because of Dings attacks over the previous two months on chil-
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dren, the rangers knew about the dingo attacks. They knew that the only dingo which had made most or all of the attacks was Ding, a staff family pet which had not been shot. Ding had been positively identified by three people, as he walked toward the tent that night; and two trackers positively identified the tracks, carrying the baby away from the tent, as belonging to him. His footprints were larger than those of regular dingoes. Holding the infant by the head, Ding immediately ran offjust as Lindy approached the tent and saw him leave. Ding carried Azaria, by the head, to a location on the sandridge to the east of the camp, about 100 meters [109.4 yd] from the tent. Putting her down, the dingo picked her up at the center of gravity. For this reason, the only saliva was on a matinee jacket which was not found until 24 years after the Azaria attack. More on that jacket later in our story. According to Lee Harris of the Dingo Foundation, Ding would have carried Azaria, by the head, a short distance; then he would set her down and picked up her body at the center of gravity. It is known that dingoes will do a 90o turn when under mild pursuit. The second dingo had also turned south upon reaching the sandridge. Ding may have circled the baby several times before heading south with the infant, as a warning to the other dingoes, to not steal his prey. We know part of Dings travels that night, from information supplied by a private investigator who, shortly afterward, hired aborigines to track the animal. Those people, descendants of the original inhabitants of Australia, have uncanny tracking abilities in the desert sand. In addition, Ding had easily identifiable tracks. Because he was part dog, Ding was a somewhat larger dingo with bigger feet than regular dingoes. According to two trackings that night and two more the next morning, Ding then carried his prey to the backyard of a home of an Ayers Rock ranger (the Cawood home, located a little southwest of the camp). This was Dings special home, where he had earlier been fed and cared for. Something happened in the backyard of that home that particular night. Val Cawood had also been at the bar with her husband. As soon as the alert reached them, she immediately drove homeand found something in her backyard. Trackers later found Dings front paws sinking deeper into the sand, indicating that he was carrying something heavy, all the way to that backyard.
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Val then went across the street and asked Lyn Beasey for assistance. Lyn quickly went next door and asked Margaret Morris, the constables wife, to babysit her children. She did this until early the next morning, when Lyn returned. Neither Val nor Lyn would ever say what they did in the backyard that night. The three women lived next to each other and had extremely close friendships; so much so that they tended to shut out others. (John Beasey, was a full-time mechanic, working for Conservation Commission at Ayers Rock; and he was the first park worker to be told about the disappearance of the infant. Ian Cawood had lived most of his life at the park; and, at the time of the attack, he was a ranger (second in charge). Frank Morris was the constable in charge of the Ayers Rock Police Station. These three families, living close to one another, were at the center of the cover-up.) About 10 p.m., Lyn went back home to change out of her clothes. They may have become dirty, although she claims that she needed to put on warmer clothing. We know it was very cold that night and the two women were outside in back of the Cawood home for many long hours during that time. At about 11:30 p.m., Roberta Downs drove past the Cawood home. She was surprised to see three women in the backyard at that late hour: Val Cawood, Lyn Beasey, and Vals 18-year-old daughter, Debbie. Roberta was deeply concerned that the Chamberlains would have a difficult time sleeping on this very cold night; so she was headed to a motel to arrange sleeping accommodations for them, for the remainder of their stay at the park. Later when a private researcher asked Val Cawood about what she wore that night, she inadvertently admitted that she burned the slacks she had worn. What spilled on those clothes that she needed to burn them? At one point in the later trial, when Lindy was asked about the bloody handprints on the terrycloth jumpsuit, she said they could have been those of Mrs. Cawood. They were somewhat small handprints; and Mrs. Cawood was a woman of small stature. Gradually, at the time and in later years, evidence accumulated that the body of baby Azaria was ultimately taken to an out-of-the-way part of the base of Ayers Rock. But did Ding take it there, or did Val or Lyn? It is highly significant that the native tracker said that, when Ding left the backside of the Cawood home that night, he was running fast and was not carrying a load. They did not afterward find animal tracks from the Cawood home carrying anything away. Meanwhile when the first one to follow Ding (Mur-
ray Haby, who had found the clothing print in the sand) lost the dingos track at the parking area, he decided to keep looking. Soon he found Dings tracks again. He followed them almost to the back fence of the Cawood home. But when he arrived there, Murray decided he was following the wrong animal; for surely, he reasoned, a wild animal would not go behind a private home. Thinking the tracks must be those of a domesticated dog, he turned back and rejoined the group searching to the east, north, and south. That same night, Chief Ranger Derek Roff went to Nipper Winmatti, an aboriginal tracker, and asked him to track the dingo which had taken the infant. Months later, the Northern Territory Attorney General rejected the Winmatti evidence; for Roff later claimed that the tracker never searched for anything that night. This was said because what Winmatti discovered that night would have exonerated Lindy completely. The aborigines have an astounding ability to track movements in the sand. Hurrying to the Chamberlain tent, Winmatti saw that two dingoes had been there; one was larger than regular dingoes and one was regular dingo size. The larger one sniffed at the back corner of the outside of the tent, smelling something inside. Heading to the tent entrance, the large dingo went inside and stood over three-year-old Reagan. Winmatti saw the tracks over the boy. Then the tracks led to the back corner of the tent, where the dingo pulled the baby out of its carry basket. From then on, the front paws of the tracks sank deeply in the sand, as the dingo traveled. It was obviously carrying the baby. Just outside the tent door, the tracker saw a few drops of blood. The deep tracks went around the side of the tent and southeast toward the sandhill. At this juncture, Winmatti ran home for warmer clothes. Arriving back, he followed the tracks to the sandhill, where they turned southwest for about 150 yards [137 m]. During this time, twice he saw drag marks for about 12 feet [3.65 m] on the left side of the dingos tracks (caused by the babys booties). Arriving at the place where Azaria had been put down, Winmatti saw what obviously was a cloth impression in the sand. Winmatti paused and named (for Roff, who accompanied him) the parts of the body which rested on the ground: the babys bottom and her two feet. He saw the tracks of the dingo in the three-meter [9.84 ft] circle. He also saw the second dingo tracks draw near. Obviously, the larger dingo was circling to warn off the intruder. Picking up the body, the large dingo headed south, along the sandridge. As Winmatti followed the tracks, he noticed a scar
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in the dingos front left paw. The dingo also had a slightly incorrect placing of its feet as it walked, indicating a muscle problem in its front leg. A few days later, Winmatti saw Ding walking openly near the Cawood home. Examining his footprints in the sand, it was clear that they matched; Ding had taken the infant. The big red dingo with the white band around its neck was Ding. Winmatti told journalists and they printed his story. But the jury was never told about this, nor any discoveries by the three different trackers that night and the next morning: Murray Haby, Nipper Winmatti, and Nui Menigerie. If they had been permitted to tell their stories, all three would have led the jury to the Cawood home and to the real killer: Ding. Continuing to follow the tracks, they led Winmatti to the Anzac Pole, a flag pole and memorial to Australias war dead, located close to Sunrise Hill parking area. But, beyond this point, the tracks had been trampled over by the searchers. Repeatedly, Winmatti tried to find them, but failed. It was not until ten hours later, in the daylight, that Winmatti found where the baby was taken. When Winmatti told the officer in charge of Ayers Rock police station, Chief Constable Frank Morris, that the tracks went to Cawoods home, Morris thanked him for the information, handed him a carton of beer, and told him he need not tell anyone else. That effectively silenced the tracker for a time as the initial investigation proceeded. (Among his duties, Morris was required to enforce the liquor laws which said that no aborigines could have beer at Ayers Rock. He normally enforced this rule rigidly.) At around 12:45 a.m., each of the three groups of searchers arrived back at Anzac Pole. There they saw an aborigine who was reading tracks. It was Nui Menigerie, a second native tracker. They also saw two park officials there with him. Menigerie had been asked by Stewart Mitchell (unaware of the cover-up plan), a park ranger, to search for the child. About twenty of the searchers joined the tracker in his search. Among those who stayed to observe the tracker for awhile was Max Whittaker and his daughter Rosalie. Like the Lowes, the Whittakers were tourists who had pitched their tent close to the Chamberlains. Although called to testify in court, the prosecutor was careful not to ask the Lowes and Whittakers about the tracker or the fact that Derek Roff and one other park official was with him. (As for the defense attorney, he was a disaster; more about him later.) Indeed Roff denied, to the press, that any trackers had searched that fateful night! With the help of a strong fluorescent flashlight in
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the hand of Rosalie Whittaker, Menigerie kept going. They traveled a quarter of a mile [.4 km] and, like Murray Haby, they tracked to Cawoods backyard, arriving there about 1:15 a.m. Entering it, they found Val Cawood standing there. But after looking around very briefly, someone in authority called out, Okay, well call it quits! Well call the search off for the night. Hot chocolate is being served at the camping area. Come and have a drink. Meanwhile, well go and search the known dingo lairs. The search party left; and, apparently, all was quiet again at the Cawood home. But then, between 2 to 3 a.m. Peter Elston, the commercial pilot at Ayers Rock, arrived. He was searching for Roberta Downs, his fiance. Since, at this very late hour, a light was on at the Cawood house, he stopped there. Since most people entered it by the back door, he quietly walked around to the backand found Val Cawood, Lyn Beasey, and Margaret Morris huddled around a spot in the back corner of the yard. It was the very same corner where Winmatti later claimed to have lost the deep tracks. Elston later told a private investigator that he saw a shovel in Vals hand. When asked where Roberta was, they told him that she was with the Chamberlains at the Uluru Motel. Elston says he could sense that the women did not want him there. So he blurted out, What are you doing? Not having time to think of something different to say, Val answered that they were searching the backyard because dingoes sometimes brought prey to a house. He watched them walk around for a few minutes; then he left there, in the middle of what was reported to have been a bitterly cold night. When later individually questioned by private investigators, Lyn said she had only been on the Cawoods back veranda, had not gone into their backyard, and had not done any searching that night. Val said they searched all the backyards that night. Just as happened most other days in the year, the next morning the sun came up with piercing beauty in a cloudless sky, turning Ayers Rock burning red, then brilliant gold. It was now 11 hours since Azaria had disappeared. As by prearrangement the previous night, several hundred tourists and nearly all the officials gathered outside the police station which, as you will recall, was next door to John Beaseys and Frank Morris homes, and across the road from Ian Cawoods house. Not one person had any doubt that a dingo had taken baby Azaria. Everyone grieved with Lindy and Michael; and all wanted to do what they could to help in this second search. Although Nipper Winmatti (the aboriginal tracker)

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had followed Dings tracks the night before, this morning, he went back to the Chamberlain tent with his wife, Barbara, to see if he could learn more. She was also an excellent tracker. But most of the tracks around the tent had been obliterated by the tourists. Because the searchers had been kept away from that southwesterly area, they once again found the tracks intact on that part of the sandridge, along with the booties drag marks, the cloth imprint in the sand, and the heel marks dragging through the sand. Once again they came to the area where Winmatti ended his search the night before. But now, in the daylight, bypassing the parking area at Anzac Pole, they followed a path that runs parallel to the road going toward the Cawood house. Once again, they found Dings heavy tracks, which led them to the backyard behind Cawoods home. Then they noticed something odd: Now the tracks totally stopped about one meter short of a horizontal metal bar (actually a piece of water pipe), supported by vertical pipes about two meters apart, with a couple strands of barbed wire underneath, which served as Cawoods back fence. Enough room for Ding to go in and out while keeping people out. It was obvious, as Winmatti looked over the fence, that all the tracks in the backyard had been carefully wiped out. The entire backyard had been worked over. Winmatti and those with him arrived at the back fence at about 7 a.m., just as the searchers were assembling on the road in front. Upon seeing Winmatti, Derek Roff (chief ranger at Ayers Rock) and Ian Cawood (ranger, second in charge) came around to where Winmatti was standing. When Winmatti told the two rangers that the tracks led to Cawoods backyard, Cawood became angry, accused him of lying, told him that the dingo carrying Azaria had gone south, and that was where he should do his tracking! Then Cawood offered Winmatti money if he could find any tracks in that backyard. It was an interesting comment. Because they had to get several hundred people started on the mornings search, Cawood and Roff found it necessary to hurry away. Left alone once again, Winmatti led his team around the outside of the rear fence to its other side. There he found the tracks again! They were the prints of the same dingo; but now the animal was traveling light and running, as though he had been chased off. Ding had been tracked into the southeast corner of Cawoods backyard; and he left from the northeast corner. Apparently he left through the front entrance gate to the backyard, which was at that corner. The aborigines followed the tracks for about half
a kilometer [3/10th of a mile]; then they gave up. It was obvious to them where the baby had been taken; so they gave up the search for where the dingo had gone thereafter. At this point, the matter of blame should be discussed. First, there were a few of the park officials. The Cawoods wanted a pet and had partly domesticated Ding, which was also a buddy to several of the other rangers. When the order went out to not feed dingoes, they obediently stopped feeding Ding. When Ding brought the dead baby to their backyard that night, they did what many in their situation would do: They decided to eliminate the evidence. A few close friends helped. Keep in mind that Vals husband had earlier given assurance, to Max Cranwell, that he had taken care of Ding; this meant he had shot the dog. They could be blamed if Ding was found to be the culprit. In addition, orders had earlier been issued not to make pets of the dingoes; for doing so would make them too familiar with humans. And they might come near their facilities and tents. But they never imagined that their silence and initial cover-up would result in the imprisonment of the dead babys mother! Fortunately, after Lindy was convicted and imprisoned, some of the other staff confided in a few investigative reporters. From then on, they and several other ranger families lived in constant dread that their secret would be discoveredand they would be blamed for the death of Azaria. What started out as a minor cover-up, in the eyes of the law, became a major crimewith a sentence of life imprisonment for the infants mother. This put incredible pressure on the eleven people to remain quiet. If they confessed in those early years, some of those eleven might have gone to jail instead. Second, there were the main park officials. The order, to not feed the wild dogs, was a foolish one; this had started all the trouble. Either the animals should be fed or (if a ban was imposed) every dingo in the area should have been shot, when children began being attacked. Local officials knew that Ding was the one who had attacked four-year-old Amanda Cranwell. He had grabbed her by the head and neck and dragged her out of the family car! In the two months prior to the death of little Azaria, he had attacked other children of tourists. Ding was larger than the average dingo; and, in spite of his partial domestication, was apparently fiercer than other animals. His attacks were brazenly done, even in full daylight. Yet the park officials had not shot Ding and the other dingoes in the area. Ding never tried to hide out; but he regularly walked the streets of the settle-
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ment. Several photographs had been taken of him and his distinctive markings during those two months before the August 17 killing. All through the initial coverup, local park officials had no thought that it would lead to putting Lindy Chamberlain in prison. The problem was that the evidence about Ding was so strong, that in order to cover over it, a human culprit had to be found. Because of that, the government stepped in. This brings us to the third group: There were the officials, of the Northern Territory, who plotted the worst evils of all. They worked purposely, step by step, to get Lindy Chamberlain given a life sentence in prison: they did this in order to cover up a series of mistakes made within their territory. Ayers Rock was the largest park in the Northern Territory and its primary money maker. They recently built an expensive airport as part of the park facilities, replacing the aerodrome landing strip (henceforth used only for private planes). Hundreds of thousands of tourists went there each year, especially during the winter while school was out (June to September); and thousands more came the rest of the year. When they arrived, they spent money. Shortly after the dingo attack, the Northern Territory government moved the main Ayers Rock airport to a site that is adjacent to the massive Yulara Village, which is the new tourist complex. Costing $150 million, the Village is the biggest single investment ever attempted by the Northern Territory government. But it was understandable; since Ayers Rock brought the most money into its coffers. They did not want tourists to think that wild dogs were going to kill their children, when they arrived at Ayers Rock. If news of the dingo attacks and the dingo killing became well-known, tourism at the park would fall off dramatically; and the Territory would lose massive amounts of money each year. It really had nothing else to offer but thousands of square miles of desert, plus alligators in a few northern rivers. With all this in mind, Territory officials set to work to frame Lindy Chamberlain as the killer of the infant. There was a mystery regarding what happened that night behind the Cawood home. The conclusion of several private investigators was that the women had taken the baby from Ding, chased the animal off, and buried the body. But why did they remain in the backyard most of the night? Why was the clothing found over by Ayers Rock later? Why did the clothing have regular soil on the clothes when foundwhen there is only sand over by the Rock? Why was the jumpsuit in such excellent condition, when it was first found? In view of later findings and the final disclosure made a few months ago in 2004, I will suggest that
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this is what happened: The women took the baby from Ding, chased him off, and then buried the body, and guarded it that night, lest Ding return for it. Either a dingo dug up the baby and carried it off, or the Cawoods secretly placed the infant over by the Rock to be found laterand remove suspicion from them. It was obvious that everyone knew that a dingo had taken the baby. If Ding carried the baby off to the Rock, he had to do it within a day or twofor he was shot dead only a few days later. Yet the latest evidence reveals he was not the one discovered with the baby at the base of the Rock, a day or two before Goodwin found the jumpsuit. More on this later. Additional tracking, done the day after the momentous event, showed that neither Ding nor any other dingo had yet carried the heavy infant away from the Cawood home. So, if a dingo carried the baby to the Rock, he only had perhaps three days at the most in which to do it. It is highly significant that, when the clothing was later found in a remote area at the base of Ayers Rock, the same alkaline soil was on the clothing that was in the backyard of the Cawood residence. Throughout the entire region for hundreds of square miles, everything was sand, except for some hauled-in dirt in the backyards of the staff homes. It should be mentioned here that Lee Harris, president of the Dingo Foundation of Australia, later told an investigator that the only dingo which would take its prey to the Cawood home would be a dingo which was a pet at that house. He also said that the only human who could take prey from the mouth of a semidomesticated dingo would be that dingos master. But there were still other unsolved factors which were not to be solved until over two decades later: Why had the clothing been carefully taken off the infantinstead of being torn off by an animal intent on devouring the child? Why was the clothing found at the Rock, not in the Cawood backyard? Why was the terrycloth jumpsuit taken off at the Rockin a manner which could only be done by human hands? Lastly, if the clothing was found over by the Rock, why was no evidence ever found of the baby nearby? The answers are coming later in this present report. A short time after Azaria disappeared, the tracker, Winmatti, saw Ding near the Cawood home. That was when he examined Dings footprints in the sandand declared he was the one who had taken the infant. Where did he find him? between the BP store and the sandhill, out in the public, apparently in no hurry to go anywhere. Immediately, Winmatti ran to Ian Cawood, thinking he would want to shoot Ding (not knowing that Cawood would not want to do that). Grabbing his gun, Cawood ran across the campground. But arriving at a spot a little out of range of the dingo,
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Cawood shot at him. As might be expected, the bullet skipped on the ground and Ding ran off into the bush. Derek Roff later commented that Ding knew Cawood so well, he could have walked up to him and shot him through the head. A ranger told an investigator that Cawood was an excellent shot and never missed, even when out of range. But Winmatti did not give up. He got his 40-yearold son, Colin; and, taking a couple camp dogs, they pursued Ding. Setting a camp dog on him, they hoped to kill the dingo; but he was extremely vicious. Then Colin hit him a glancing blow on the head with a nulla nulla, before he ran off. Thinking he would die soon after, they left. Later that same day, on the main road close to Cawoods home, Peter Elston and Roberta Downs saw the police officer, Frank Morris, put a bullet through Dings head. Falling dead, Morris picked up the body, threw it on the back of his truck, and drove off. This would be the only justice done in the Azaria case for six long years. It is of interest that Morris later denied having killed Ding after the Azaria attack. Keep in mind that Ding was supposed to have been shot by Cawood prior to the arrival of the Chamberlains to the park. Yet there were seven confirmed sightings of Ding after Cawood is supposed to have shot him. On Thursday, August 21, the Chamberlains arrived home at Avondale. About 10 p.m. that evening, Lindy called her close friend, Jenny Ransom. They spoke until about 2 a.m. Lindy broke down and wept four or five times. Jenny recalls Lindys words: If I am true to the Lord, then I know that baby will be placed back in my arms just as beautiful as what she was on that day that she was taken. Seven days after the infants death, on Sunday, August 24, a tourist named Wally Goodwin was walking around Maggie Springs,when he found part of Azarias clothing. It was the jumpsuit. He quickly sent someone in his group to contact the police. Senior Constable Frank Morris immediately sprang into action. He set up road blocks, to keep all tourists away. Then he brought in John Beasey, Derek Roff, Ian Cawood, and Constable Gordon Nobleand had them walk throughout the entire area, obliterating all tracks. When that was done, Winmatti was told to go to the area and search it for tracks. Meanwhile, the press was having a field day. Wild theories and accusations continually increased. Adventists all over Australia were looked upon with suspicion. People were beginning to think that all the people in the church might be as evil-minded as Lindy. All this came at a time of theological upheaval in Australia. The Standish brothers and a number of older, retired Adventist ministers had opposed Desmond Fords influence in the schools and churches of
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Australia in the 1970s. By 1980, when I began writing about the theological crisis in Australia and how it had entered the U.S., the situation was rapidly worsening. For about fifteen years, Ford had converted the Avondale faculty and Division staff to new theology concepts: only believe salvationregardless of conduct, standards, beliefs, and practices. He left Australia in the late 1970s. As the leading Bible teacher at Pacific Union College for several years, Ford had, by the early 1980s, indoctrinated a majority of the faculty and many of the students at that California school with his liberal views. The 1980 Glacier View meetings revealed that many other Bible teachers in the church already partially shared his errors. That was understandable; for all our men who had obtained doctoral degrees in areas of religion in outside universitieshad been molded to one extent or another, by their professors, in down with the law antinomianism. It was only one month after the Glacier View meetings in Colorado ended, that Azaria was killed in Australia and the wrath of the nation fell on our people there. Two government inquests were held and, then, a lengthy trial. Excitement was at a fever pitch throughout the nation. Nearly everyone wanted Lindy imprisoned. Coroner Denis Barritt, a former Melbourne detective, held the first inquest. The location was Alice Springs, in the south central part of the Northern Territory. A number of people, including Nipper Winmatti, were questioned. Winmattis testimony was extremely important; yet, because of his cautious ways and poor English, the significance of what he had to say was not properly understood. In addition, aborigines do not trust whites; so they do not give information unless specifically asked. Another problem was that an officer at the park had brought him a case of free liquor the night before. It had its intended effect; and Winmatti was still partially drunk the next day, when he testified in court. Half a dozen times, Winmatti said the tracks went west; but his words were always overruled as though he had said south. He also said that the dingo which did go south was not the one with Azaria. Here is just one example of the confusion during Winmattis testimony: In an attempt to get Winmatti to say he had not tracked the dingo that first night, the questioner, Mr. Macknay, asked this confusing question: You did not track in the night time, only daytime? Winmatti answered, No. From that, it was declared by the prosecution that he had not tracked that night, but only on some later day when tracks had been ruined. When asked how many of the dogs paws he could see in the sand, Winmatti replied, Four. Immediately someone spoke up, to explain that aborigines could only count up to five; so his statement about four was meaningless.
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After the inquest, Tom Loftus of the Sydney Daily Mirror decided to figure out what Winmatti was really saying. After talking to him at the Rock, Loftus, in a July 1983 article, wrote: He trailed them [the paw marks] to a roadway, where they had proceeded west to the house, then occupied by Ranger Ian Cawood . . Mr. Winmatti escorted the Mirror team along the route he had tracked and showed where he had lost the tracks at a crossroad beside the rangers residence. The government could just as easily have obtained this information themselves; but they did not want it. Coroner Barritt concluded his official findings with this astounding statement: The body of Azaria was taken from the possession of the dingo and disposed of by an unknown method, by a person or persons, name unknown. He also wrote that a dingo took the child while it slept in the family tent; but that a person or persons, using a pair of scissors, disposed of the body. Two points here: (1) The body had been taken by a dingo, not a person. (2) A person got hold of the body later. Why did Mr. Barritt come to those conclusions? It was because of the terrycloth jumpsuit (which at the time was frequently, but improperly, referred to as a jacket). You will recall that it was found near the base of the Rock by Wally Goodwin seven days after the infant disappeared. The problem was that this jumpsuit had obviously later been removed from the infant by human hands because the buttons had been carefully cut off of it; then the jumpsuit had been carefully removed from the infant. An animal would have torn through it all in the process of devouring the dead child. (In addition, there was no dingo saliva on the jumpsuit. It was therefore concluded, by the prosecution in the court trial, that no dingo had ever touched the body.) Of course, if Winmattis testimony had been properly understood, a far different conclusion would have been reached at the later trial jury. But the jury was never told about this or any discoveries by the three different trackers that night or early the next morning: Murray Haby, Nipper Winmatti, and Nui Menigerie,all of whom arrived at the same conclusion: A dingo had carried the body to the backyard of the Cawood home. If they had been permitted to tell their stories, all three would have led the jury to the Cawood home and to the real killer: Ding. But, instead, in order to protect the tourist dollars, flowing into Ayers Rock, and avoid a terrific scandal about permitting starving dingoes to remain in the
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park after children had been savagely attacked, a trumped-up charge against Lindy was pushed through the court. It is highly significant that Mr. Barritt exonerated the Chamberlains, at the conclusion of the inquest, and extended his sympathy. Consider his words: You have not only suffered the loss of your beloved child in the most tragic circumstances; but you have all been subjected to months of innuendos, suspicion, and probably the most malicious gossip ever witnessed in this country. Barritt also severely castigated the Northern Territory police forensic unit that investigated the incident; and his comments were carried live on national televisionwhich greatly embarrassed the police. As a result, they determined to pursue their investigation until they came up with more evidence; so a regular trial on murder charges against Lindy could be held. During the actual jury trial, Roberta Downs, the camp nurse, testified that she was a passenger for three hours in the Chamberlains car, shortly after Azaria was killed; yet there was no smell of blood in the car. (It is significant that everyone who got to know the Chamberlains recognized their solid characters and quickly sided with them. This included not only Roberta, but also the Whittakers, Lowes, and others. After providing the Chamberlains with lodging at the motel, Roberta rode in the car with them to Avondale, to help minister to them in their grief; afterward she returned to Ayers Rock, where she was the park nurse.) Before testifying at the Chamberlain trial, Murray Haby, the schoolteacher from Melbourne, was told not to mention that he had followed the dingos tracks that nightor that they led him to the backyard of the Cawood home. But he told the truth anyway. Derek Roff had been the chief ranger at Ayers Rock National Park for 15 years before Azarias death. On the night of Azarias death (before he understood the significance of what had happened), he asked Nipper Winmatti to come and track. But, in court, he denied having asked him or that Winmatti did any tracking that nighteven though Roff accompanied him. You will recall that, after learning where the tracks led, at about 10:30 p.m. on the night Azaria died, Roff and Constable Morris organized a search party which sent the people north, south, and eastbut not west, where the Cawood house was located. Although Roff was twice present when a group of trackers arrived at Cawoods house about 1:15 a.m that night and present again when two other aboriginal trackers followed tracts to Cawoods house at 7 a.m. the next morninghe testified that the aborigiContinued on the next tract HCR 77, BOX 38A - BEERSHEBA SPRINGS, TN 37305 USA

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nes believed the dingo carrying Azaria went south into the wilderness. Joy Kuhl was a botanist, said to be a forensic expert. At the trial, she claimed to have found fetal blood in the Chamberlain car. Thirty-one top Australian scientists disagreed with her findings. At the time of the trial, she was employed in forensic laboratories in Sydney. But when the trial was over, she was given a high-paying, permanent job with the Northern Territory police. Sally Lowe testified in court that she heard the baby cry after the time that the government alleged that Lindy had killed the baby. Prior to taking the stand in the trial, Sally was given an extensive grilling by Northern Territory police, who asked her to change her evidence. They wanted her to say that what she heard was a bird call. On Friday, October 29, 1982, the jury found Lindy guilty of murder; and she was sentenced to life imprisonment. When the foreman of the jury announced, Guilty as charged, her whole being almost collapsed. Lindy was imprisoned in the Berrimah Jail in Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. She was pregnant at the time she was sent to prison; and her next baby was taken from her 30 minutes after she gave birth to it in jail. Michael Chamberlain was found guilty as an accessory to murder. But the judge did not agree with the jurys verdict on this; so he only gave Michael a $300 good behavior bond. Normally, in Australia, accessory to murder would carry a sentence almost as severe as murder itself. By the time the trial and the appeals began, the church had financed much of the cost for the Chamberlain caseso far, well-over $500,000; individual church members raised about half of it . Phil Ward had known Lindy and Michael back at Avondale College, before they were married. Within two-and-a-half days after Lindy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Ward formed a three-man team to investigate. A massive cover-up had been perpetrated; and he was determined to set her free. The second team member was Don McNicol, a Seventh-day Adventist and former policeman; he volunteered to help solve the Chamberlain case. He spent the next 18 months in virtually full-time work on the case. The third man to join the team was Arthur Hawken. He was a former builder who had to retire early because of a back injury. For a number of years, he traveled once a year to central Australia, to collect semi-precious stones. While doing this, he became
close friends of leading aborigines. He was made an honorary member of the Central Australian Aboriginal tribe. Hawken had earlier been personally asked, by Lindys parents (Pastor and Mrs. Cliff Murchison), to find out if the aborigines knew anything about Azarias death. His work proved invaluable in helping to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the baby. Whereas hardly anyone else knew how to effectively do so, Hawken had learned how to talk to the aborigines. Hawken was a patient, careful researcher, and just what the team needed. He had already collected hours of taped interviews with the aborigines. Ward provided travel and lodging funds for Hawken to work more efficiently. The next day (only four days after the court verdict), Ward booked a flight for Hawken to central Australia. As soon as he left that day, the other two flew to Alice Springs. Knocking on the door of the first coroner, Denis Barritt, they asked if they could speak with him and he agreed. When they told him about Nipper Winmattis conclusion, that the dingo had gone to Cawoods house,for the first time Barritt suddenly realized what had happened. Barritt told them that the first person in Ayers Rock they should see would be Chief Ranger Derek Roff. He added the strange remark, Its very interesting. His evidence gets better with the passing of time. Ward and McNicol decided to fly north to Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, and talk to Lindy Chamberlain at the Berrimah Jail. It was the size of a large house, with only a wire cyclone fence around it. But nothing was accomplished during their brief conversation. Although Lindy had been sentenced to hard labour for life, she was never made to do any. Recognizing that the sentence could be enforced, she feared to cooperate with private investigators. Early in their investigations, the team had a radio microphone stolen; and, soon after, McNicols luggage. It was only later that they discovered, from a highplaced contact, that the Northern Territory police were responsible for the thefts. The investigations of the three men continued for a year-and-a-half. A major problem they encountered was opposition from other pro-Chamberlain groups. Although friends of the Chamberlains, they could not decide whether or not humans had intervened with the dingo and Azaria, after the animal initially ran off with the infant. Another problem was Stuart Tipple. He was a young country lawyer who had been hired by the South Pacific Division (formerly Australasian Division) in Wahroonga, to defend the Chamberlains. Yet while he did no investigating himself, he consistently opposed
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all efforts by others to figure out what had happened, so Lindy could be freed. The Chamberlain case was his first criminal case in private practice; and he seemed to have no idea what to do. So he did nothing and opposed what others tried to do. The only thing he seemed good at was continually counseling with leaders in the Division office as to what his next move should be. The teams other main opposition came from the leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. Both they and Tipple came up with the theory that any investigations would jeopardize Lindys chances of being released. It is very possible that pressure may have been placed on them by the government. At any rate, church leaders consistently opposed the teams work. Eventually, in order to stop the investigation, church leaders went so far as to contact the Queensland police and ask them to arrest Wards fellow investigator, Arthur Hawken! Although the police turned down the churchs request as foolish, Ward, a Seventh-day Adventist himself, was deeply shaken that his own church leaders would try to have part of his staff arrested. Keep in mind that, by the early 1980s, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Australia, was solidly new theology in belief. Lowered standards and modified teachings prevailed in conference churches and at Avondale College. The Sabbath was lightly regarded and worldliness prevailed in the churches. Unfortunately, many faithful believers had found it necessary, because of harassment, to separate into independent groups. Before he realized the full extent of the animosity by church leadership to their investigation, Ward made the mistake of acceding to a request by Pastor Ron Craig and Stuart Tipple to meet with them. During the conversation, he told them part of what they had so far discovered. Immediately afterward, all that he told them was forwarded to Northern Territory police. From then on, Territory police began harassing the team. If new theology church leaders, to protect themselves from problems with the government, are willing now to abandon faithful church members to imprisonment, what would they do later, when an extreme National Sunday Law is enacted? When Ward flew to Ayers Rock, he interviewed Chief Ranger Derek Roff at his office. Roff was very friendly and agreed that a dingo might have taken the infant and killed it. Several new and important points came out of the two-hour taped interview. One was that, if the body had been buried, a dingo would have dug it up shortly afterward. Another was the first news to Ward: about a special dingo at Ayers Rock, called Ding, which had been partly tamed by the Cawoods and fed by them, although he also got food from other
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staff homes. But, Roff added that he had been told that Ding had been shot by Cawood eight weeks before Azaria disappeared. Roff also said that Ian Cawood was the only one among the staff with a high-power rifle and that he was an excellent marksman. Then came a very special discovery. Roff casually mentioned that, at the time Azaria disappeared, it was the one time in the year when all the brush was green. He gave Ward the exact figures from his rainfall chart, establishing that the vegetation was especially green on September 17, 1980. Roff also penciled a map, showing Ward exactly where everything was located in the park and where everyone lived. For the first time, Ward realized that the Cawood home was west of the campground, not south. That evening, after leaving Roff s office, Ward walked through the brush near the campground and discovered that none of it tore at his clothing. When everything was green, there would be even less possibility of damage. So Ward bought a terrycloth jumpsuit of the same make as was on the infant; and, on a return trip to the Rock when everything was green, he wrapped it on his leg and walked through the brush for an hour. Not a stitch or loop was pulled, nor the slightest damage occurred. Yet the prosecution had said that, because the jumpsuit was undamaged, the infant could not have been carried off that night by a dingo. On a second taped visit to Roff, Ward asked about what the dingoes in the park were like before the feeding ban was imposed. Here is a portion of the tape: Ward: Dingoes go into tents though? Roff: They do at the Rock. Ward: Do they go near houses? Roff: Yes. Ward: Do they eat at houses? Roff: Oh yes, they did. But everybody, at that time, was feeding them. The motels were. Drivers were inducing them to walk up the aisles of their buses. They would be fed biscuits. People were encouraging them into their houses . . That is the trouble, you see. We get them used to this thing. Then, of course, the more you feed them, the more they are used to and the more they want. And that is where the problem is. That is why I feel very sure that it could certainly have been a dingo [that took Azaria]. As the trial had progressed, and Roff realized that Lindy was going to prison when he knew she was innocent, he began telling facts in the courtroom. Although resolutely declaring that no one at the park had any involvement, Roff said a dingo probably took the infant. That is why he could say so much to Ward on these interviews. Denis Barritt was right when he previously told Ward, Its very interesting. His evidence gets better with the passing of time. Later in this second taped interview, Roff said this:
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You know, Ding was a very handsome dog. A very quiet dog. It is unbelievable that he attacked that child. Yet Im stuck with the idea that he must have. There was a history of four kids attacked up to the time that I came back from a trip. It had been Derek Roff who had issued the order in the summer of 1980, that no one should feed the dingoes anymore food. After returning to Sydney, Ward learned that Division officers, determined to stop his investigations, had ordered Michael Chamberlain not to speak to his team anymore. Running low on funds, Ward mortgaged his home in order to raise money to keep the investigation going. On a later trip to central Australia, Ward and McNicol stopped in to visit Iain Marshall and his wife Anna. He had been a ranger at Ayers Rock in the summer of 1980. He told the investigators that it had been extremely cold that night; and, yes, there had been many dingo attacks in the preceding months. In addition, it was not customary to shoot troublesome dingoes. But one, named Ding, had been a special problem. Upon inquiry, Marshall said that, to his knowledge, the only dingo which had attacked children was Ding. He explained that this was due to the fact that Ding was the only dingo which had been tamed; and this made him unafraid to attack humans. Anna then showed them color photos of Ding, which she said were taken about the time when Azaria was borneight weeks before the infants death. She added that it was only a few days later that Ding attacked Amanda Cranwell, pulling her out of the car. Ward was shocked to see how thin the animal appeared. It was not until after leaving them that night that Ward realized that it was the feeding ban, imposed a couple months earlier, which had caused the dingoes in the area to starve. They had become used to handouts; and there were just too many dingoes in the area and not enough wild game. This was why Ding was attacking people. The next morning, they returned to the Marshall home and took pictures of the photo. Mr. Marshall told them that the public was ordered not to feed the dingoes anymore; so this instruction was not only given to the staff. Signs had been posted for weeks all over the area. The next person they visited was Ranger Rohan Dalgleish, who by this time was living in Alice Springs. Because he had only arrived at Ayers Rock six weeks before Azarias death, he had a crystal sharp memory of what happened and when. He explained that nothing was ever done to stop dingoes from attacking people! None were ever shot. And, before Azaria was taken, Ding had not been shot either, but taken to a slaughterhouse at a distance.
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Over a period of many months, much more information was collected; and the totality of it was devastating. Earlier in this report, you will read it and more besides. Ward believed he now had enough evidence to get Lindy Chamberlain out of prison. It had not been easy to obtain. He had received two threatening phone calls and had equipment stolen. Twice, team members had caught policemen snooping on them. One was tailing their car so obviously, that McNicol stopped his car and told him that he, McNicol, would drive more steadily, so as not to lose him. But now they had the evidence! Surely church leaders and their hired lawyer, young Stuart Tipple, would be thrilled to open up the case again and exonerate Lindy! But, unbelievably, Tipple refused to even see Ward. He absolutely refused. But he did say that there was one way to get the information to him. Put it all in writing and mail it to me, Tipple said. There seemed no other way to get the matter before the court; so Ward and McNicol sat down and laboriously spent two full days typing up all the data. It was prepared in the form of a set of legal statements, called affidavits; and then it was personally mailed to Tipple. They also sent copies to Denis Barritt, who had become their friend. He received his copy on January 26, 1983; and he replied that there was enough evidence here to definitely get Lindy out of prison. Ward and his team were thrilled. The church would be vindicated, Lindys name would be cleared, and she would be set free. But Ward still did not grasp the fact that church leaders would rather leave one of their members in prison than to do anything which might cause discomfort to the government. On Friday, the 28th, Ward still had not been contacted by Tipple. Yet the first appeal case was only one week away. That Friday afternoon, Ward phoned Tipple, who was not there. At 4:40, Tipple called backand told Ward he wasnt going to use any of the affidavit material for the appeal. He did not say whether he had read it, or what he thought of it, or why he refused to use it. He just said he wasnt going to use it! Ward had thought his work was done. Now Chamberlains attorney could carry it on to victory. Ward felt crushed. When Ward later phoned Barritt, a veteran police detective, he was once again assured that there was enough evidence in the affidavit to free Lindy. Three days later, a car hit Ward; and he almost died from broken bones. He wondered, afterward, whether it had been an accident. Months later, when he finally recovered, Ward contacted his own attorney, Trevor Nyman, who told him there was a way he could pursue his own private prosecution of the people who were at Ayers Rock on the night Azaria died. That would bring the entire matter
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out in the open and, in the process, clear Lindy. This charge would be conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, by concealing the identity of the dingo which took Azaria Chamberlain from her tent. But, checking with contacts he had made on various levels (many of them high-placed), Ward and Nyman learned that there was one individual who would prevent their case from going through. He was the only person Ward did not dare to name, a man very far up in the Northern Territory government. According to what Wards contacts told him, this government leader had considerable influence over Chief Minister Paul Everingham, Solicitor General Brian Martin, Attorney General Jim Robertson, and senior people in the police and Crown law departments. Knowing that there was not enough evidence to convict Lindy Chamberlain, it was arranged for evidence and the judicial process to be rigged. If Wards evidence was presented to the Appeals Court, Ayers Rock Park would lose millions of dollars and what the Northern Territory government had done would be exposed. Ward was told that, after Denis Barritt, the coroner in the first inquest, severely reproved the Northern Territory police, it was arranged that a second inquest would be heldthis one under the supervision of a different coroner. Further forensic examination had found a small adult handprint on the jumpsuit (Val Cawood was a small adult); but, at the second inquest, it was charged that the handprint belonged to Lindy. Fetal blood was supposedly found in Lindys car. A man from Darwin was selected as coroner for the second inquest; he had already been told what his decision should be. Witnesses were instructed, in secret signals which they should follow in the courtroom, telling them when to say yes, no, or when to stop speakingeven in midsentence. But no evidence about dingoes was provided to the court; since none of it was good. After the second inquest, the government also suppressed new evidence about another baby that had afterward been killed within the Northern Territory! Once again, it was a pet dingo; this one near Tennant Creek. The dingo took an aborigines baby. Three men saw it; and one of them, named Green, shot at the dingo, wounding it as it dropped the baby. Running to it, they found the baby already dead. When Lindy was charged with murder, two of those men told the police that they would testify at the trial. But police were sent to Tennant Creek and threatened them. They were told that if they did, they would be charged with failure to report the death when it oc-
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curred. So Green and Rodgers kept quiet. As the court trial date neared, one forensic expert found he had made a mistake. The trial was delayed while he was told to give the faulty evidence as though it were true. After a guilty verdict had been handed down against Lindy, thirty-one top scientists signed a document, disagreeing with the forensic blood tests about fetal blood having been in Lindys car. (In reality, there was no blood of any kind in the vehicle.) The government immediately contacted all the jury members and told them to state, in writing, that the blood evidence had not been significant in their decision. Although only one member of the jury did so, that one statement was widely published in the Australian news media. As long as the public was kept in the dark, officials in the Northern Territory and Ayers Rock were winning. How is it in our own nation? How much of what we are told is really true? At this juncture, Phil Ward decided to go to press with a book disclosing his findings. The small, 192page book, Azaria! What the Jury Were Not Told, was published in August 1984. It contained 54 pieces of evidence not presented to the trial jury. All of that information, plus more, is presented in this present report. As soon as the book was printed, Ward mailed a copy to every second house in the Northern Territory; so its citizens could learn what was being done. It is remarkable what a free press can do. One columnist, Malcolm Brown of the Sydney Morning Herald, had strongly defended the Chamberlains throughout the entire controversy. In response, they often received 100 letters a day from readers (Alan Gill, Sidney Morning Herald, September 16, 1988). That same year, the next major event occurred. A nationwide television network phoned Ward and asked him to appear the next day on Good Morning, Australia. He did not realize that it was a trap. Ward was quite used to public speaking and radio and television appearances; but, awakening at 2 a.m. the next morning, he was impressed to kneel by his bed and pray for help in what the day would bring. Arriving at the station, he was ushered into the studio. Less than a minute into the interview, a thought flashed to mind; and Ward raised the subject of libel writs. Not expecting him to say that, the interviewer was quite surprised. What would you say if writs were served on you? he asked. That would be fantastic, replied Ward. It would give me a chance to prove everything I say in court!

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There was a rustling sound at the other end of the studio as a man suddenly walked in. Well, announced the interviewer, theres a man who has seven writs he wants to serve on you. With glee, Ward replied, Thats the best thing to happen in the Chamberlain case in months! Here is the background on this: Ward had given that affidavit to Tipple, the Chamberlains attorney, only two weeks before the first of the Chamberlains two Appeals Court hearings. But Tipple refused to use the evidence supplied him by Ward. Ward was later to learn that, under Australian law, if evidence is provided to an attorney in a case, and he does not use it, that evidence cannot be used in another case originated by the one who searched out the evidence. This meant that, although he wanted to, Phil Ward could not initiate a lawsuit to get Lindy out of jail. But he knew that if he was sued, he could use that evidence! And now the suit had been filed. Those suing Ward are the seven people residing at Ayers Rock National Park at the time of Azarias death. They include the police officer in charge of the Ayers Rock Police station, two rangers, the wives of these park officials, and the adult daughter of one official. After reading the preceding part of this report, you know that this would consist of the Morris, Cawood, and Beasey families. If those people were guilty, why would they risk taking legal action? The answer is the nature of Australian libel laws. In Australia, the right to a fair trial is legally more important than freedom of the press. Once charges are made against someone, the media cannot comment on the case, lest they prejudice a jury. Because of these legal facts, those who are guilty sometimes sue the media for libel to stop the media from reporting on their activities. After the media interest dies down, the suit is usually withdrawn. But this plan backfired because a new legal precedent had just been enacted, that the people taking out libel writ cannot withdraw it without the approval of the person they are suing. Ward had determined that he would not grant that approval. He wanted to bring all the data out into public, in court. Just before the writs were served on Ward, lawyers for the seven demanded that he place a retraction of his book in every major newspaper in the nation. Because he refused to do this may be another reason the writs were servedto force him to print those retractions. Ward estimated his libel suit would cost him $250; but he had many friends, including Adventists,
who were raising money to help him. However, future developments in the case changed the whole picture. The third major event of 1985 was the publication of John Brysons 560-page Evil Angels,which (when a U.S. publishing house printed the book) spread the news of the scandal to America. Although not an Adventist, Bryson had grown up in Melbourne next to an Adventist family that had befriended him as a youth. In his book, Bryson (an attorney and writer) vividly portrayed how everything went wrong by the police, the media, the second inquest, the court trial, and the two appeals. He inferred that the police were like evil angels, trying to destroy an innocent woman. They bungled the initial investigation of the missing child. The press exploited insignificant details, as though they meant something important. Experts, called in to test evidence, proved incompetent. The prosecution pieced together an explanation for its murder chargethat not even on-site television crews (trying to reenact what happened at the camp) could make convincing. Yet, in spite of all this, Lindy had still been convicted of slitting her infant daughters throat with a pair of scissors. By the end of 1985, both court appeals by the Chamberlains had been lost; and there was no further right to appeal. The situation appeared hopeless. Yet the evidence collected by Ward and his two associates had been given to Stuart Tipple, the Chamberlains lawyer, two weeks before the first of those two appeals. The evidence which could have freed Lindy had sat unused on his desk. Tipple, apparently a rather spineless individual, was working for the South Pacific Division of Seventhday Adventists, headquartered at Wahroonga. It was rather obvious that his studied opposition, to Wards investigations, found its origin in the Division office. Church leaders were legally obligated, under the Trustee Act, to exercise due diligence in seeing that the $250,000, given by church members to clear the Chamberlains, was spent in the best possible way. Rejecting Wards evidence outright was not due diligence. By late 1985, leaders of the several laity groups who had given money to the church, to defend Lindy, were angry with Division leaders for refusing to use the evidence discovered by Phil Wards team. In order to protect themselves, those Division leaders did two things: First, they placed a clause in the Divisions constitution, protecting themselves from legal action and requiring the Division to pay their legal costs for any criminal or civil action against them. Second, they made sure that they retired on or before the 1985 General
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Conference Session. Unfortunately, the leaders who took their place continued to oppose Wards efforts to free Lindy. They and their predecessors had earlier worked closely with Desmond Ford, in pushing the new theology into every conference office and local church in Australia and New Zealand. When men are ruled by a belief in lowered standards and behavior does not count,their personal standards and behavior can get pretty bad. Throughout the two inquiries and the court trial, Lindy Chamberlain had maintained that, before laying Azaria in her carry bed, she had placed a terrycloth jumpsuit on her and, then, a matinee jacket over that. The terrycloth suit had been found by a tourist, Wally Goodwin, near Ayers Rock seven days after Azaria disappeared; yet there were problems with it: First, it was in relatively good condition; and, because it had no dingo saliva on it, the inference was made that no dingo had carried the child off. This was considered evidence against her. After publication of the two books (Wards and Brysons), public indignation over the imprisonment of Lindy Chamberlain steadily increased. The Christmas 1985 issue of the Australian edition of People magazine published its latest yearly vote by the people of the nation, as to the Australian I would most like to meet. The nations prime minister could only make second place. The public declared that they would most like to talk to Lindy Chamberlain. Sympathy for the mother kept increasing. To make matters worse for the government, the libel suit against Phil Ward was steadily nearing. The evidence he could present in court would stun the nation. Yet the government could not stop the suit from progressing. But a sudden development changed the whole picture. On Saturday, February 2, 1986, while searching for the body of a tourist who had fallen from Ayers Rock, one of the tourists in the search party found that missing matinee jacket! It had dingo saliva on it in exactly the area where the body would have been carried. At this juncture, under pressure from the entire nation, the Northern Territory caved in. Six days later, Lindy was released from prison in Darwin, by an official pardon from the Northern Territory Judiciary. The date was Friday, February 8, 1986. But, unwilling to travel on the Sabbath, she waited till Sunday to return home to the Avondale College campusand to her family. All through those years, Michael had continued to work there. To welcome her arrival, yellow ribbons were displayed all over the campus and on the homes. Although her life sentence had been remitted, she remained convicted of having murdered her child. So groups, which had previously supported her, now
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joined in demanding an overturning of the previous conviction. At the same time she was granted a pardon, the Northern Territory Judiciary announced that a formal inquiry would be made into the case, that they would be willing to allow someone outside the Territory to be in charge of the case, and that fresh evidence gathered by Territory police would be consideredalong with other possible evidence. Even though pardoned, Lindy was not exonerated. According to the court record, she was still a criminal. When interviewed shortly afterward by Sixty Minutes (the Australian version), and asked, Why dont you just let the whole thing drop, now that you are out of jail? She replied that she had to fight to clear her name. Finally, on Thursday, September 15, 1988, during a brief hearing, three judges of the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously ruled that their convictions over the death of their child, Azaria, were rendered null and void. For the first time in eight years, Lindys jaw quivered; and she wept and wept. Beside her stood her blond husband, Michael, who was also close to tears. But their legal dispute with the government was not over. They wanted the Northern Territory to repay them for their years of suffering. If payment was not forthcoming, they said they would consider civil action. Unfortunately, even though they had been fully (fully!) vindicated, the Division president refused to rehire Michael Chamberlain as a denominational pastor in any capacity. For the sake of the churchs public image, they told him to find a job somewhere else. Michael was crushed. In November 1988, the first major motion picture ever made about Adventists was released: The $8 million A Cry in the Dark, featured Meryl Streep and Sam Neill. It was based on Brysons book; and it created a sensation, as several continents learned of the scandal Australians hoped to keep to themselves. Still later, Lindy was awarded a very large sum of money by the government for what she had suffered. She took the money, divorced Michael, and married someone named Creighton.
AT PRESS TIMEWe had to slightly reduce the type size of this final tract, because new information has just arrived from relatives of Lindys second husband: On top of all her other troubles, after Lindy was released from prison, she learned that her husband violated the marriage agreement. That was why she divorced him. Later, on a lecture trip to the U.S. she met a single Adventist man in Seattle, Richard Creighton, about five years younger than herself, who had a carpet business. At a later time (about 1995), they married. Eventually, they left Seattle and moved back to Australia where they now live. His parents have a carpet business in Pennsylvania.
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On the day after Lindys conviction was squashed (September 16, 1988), the Northern Territory Australian made this statement: The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain remains as baffling today as it did eight years ago. Probably the full story about what happened at Ayers Rock will never be revealed. Because of the findings of Phil Ward and John Bryson, part of the mystery had been solved. Yet there remained several unanswered questions: One question is Why did Val stand out in the cold for hours that night? I will suggest that she was guarding the buried child until her husband returned from the search. Cawood probably told his wife to bury the body and remain by it through the night until he returned. While both were at the Chalet bar, the Cawoods were alerted to what had happened. Both immediately drove home in separate carsand found Ding in the backyard. Only Mr. Cawood, who was the one chiefly responsible for feeding the dog, would have dared to take the infant from him without being bitten. Then they drove Ding off. Everyone who later came upon Val in that backyard found her standing there, not doing anything. For example, between 2-3 a.m. Peter Elston found all three women, as he put it, huddled around a spot in the back corner of the yard; and Val had a shovel in her hand. Perhaps she intended to use it to hit any dingo that came near. Another question is concerning how the infants clothes were later found at a distant location. Cawood had lived at Ayers Rock most of his lifelonger than anyone else thereand knew that Ding or another dingo would eventually take the buried body. (You will recall that Roff told an investigator that if the body had been buried, a dingo would have dug it up shortly afterward.) So, after the search parties were disbanded for the night, it may be that Cawood did not spend the rest of the night searching known dingo lairs, as he later testified in court; but he may have returned home, carefully exhumed the bodyand placed it out in the desert. Another question is How were the clothes removed so neatly from the infant? Another important one: Who used a tool to neatly cut the buttons off the terrycloth jumpsuit? The fact that it was done was used in court to help convict Lindy. Everyone, especially the accusing prosecution attorneys, knew a dingo could not have done it. This last part of the puzzle was solved in the early summer of 2004. The infant, with all its clothes still on, was found by a man between two and six days before Wally Goodwin found the jacket, seven days after Azaria was taken from the tent. Here is this new disclosure in its entirety:
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My Azaria Secret: Man Claims He Shot Dingo that Had the Baby. Sydney (Australia) Sunday Telegraph, July 4, 2004. An elderly Melbourne man says he shot the dingo that killed Azaria Chamberlain and then retrieved her body from its jaws. [Note: He did not shoot Ding, the actual killer of Azaria, but a dingo who afterward found the bodyeither in Cawoods backyard or where they had carried it to the base of Ayers Rock. In the presence of two witnesses, Frank Morris shot Ding in the head, a few days after the Azaria attack.] Frank Cole claims [that after he found Azaria] the toddlers body may have been buried in a Melbourne backyard by one of his mates [friends]. Mr. Cole, 78, told Melbournes Sunday Herald Sun he wanted to unburden himself of the secret. Over the past 25 years, Ive had nightmares and many sleepless nights over the whole affair, Mr. Cole said. But I may not have long left, and if anything happened to me, nobody would know the truth. A spokesman for Northern Territory police said last night they would investigate the matter. Mr. Cole said he had fled the NT [Northern Territory] after finding Azaria, fearing he might face jail for using a firearm in a national park. He also claimed he had informed Azarias mother, now Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton after remarrying, and [also] the producers of an $8 million telemovie about the saga. Azaria disappeared from Uluru campsite on August 17, 1980; but her body was never discovered. After two inquests and a trial, her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was jailed in 1982 for murder, only to be freed in 1986. Mr. Cole said he was camping with three mates near Uluru when he went to find food for their dog. He said he shot what he thought was a rabbit, but discovered on closer inspection it was a male dingo. As I approached it, I saw that it had a baby in its mouth, Mr. Cole continued. He said he placed the baby on the front seat of his ute [an Australian vehicle] and drove back to the campsite. We were shocked. We realized what had happened and we were in tears, he said. The baby had four puncture holes in its head and one of its ears was missing. Otherwise, it didnt seem to have been harmed, but it had obviously been dead some time. We were crying, two of us were, when we saw the state the little bub was in, all covered in blood. We decided wed try and clean it up, so we got some water boiling, and started to take its clothes off. One of my mates started cutting the clothing with a knife, but another one said to undo the buttons. We had some trouble with the buttons on the jacket [the terrycloth jumpsuit, not the matinee jacket over it, which would have been rather easy to slip off], so I took a pair of small tin snips out of my tool box and cut the buttons off. The original coroners inquest, headed by former
Melbourne detective Denis Barritt, found that a dingo took the child while it slept in the family tent, but that a person or persons using a pair of scissors disposed of the body. Azarias bloodstained jumpsuit was found by Melbourne tourist Wallace Goodwin seven days after her disappearance. Her jacket was found nearby, close to the body of a tourist who fell from the rock in February 1986. Mr. Cole said that, fearing they might face serious consequences for having discharged a gun and having a dog in a national parkand as one of them had served time in prisonthe panic-stricken men decided not to tell police right away. Instead, they had planned that Mr. Cole would flee back to Melbourne with one mate and the gun, and the other two would later tell police they had hit the dingo on the road and discovered the baby. We left on the understanding the other blokes would go the authorities and report finding the dingo and the baby; but they never did what they promised, Mr. Cole said. The other two members had since died, he said. Mr. Cole said he had felt pretty lousy and guilty, when Mrs. Chamberlain was jailed. How do you think I felt? he said. It was on my conscience, of course it was, but I couldnt do anything by then. He said he had promised his mates he would stay silent. Tony Cavanaugh, producer of the telemovie, confirmed Mr. Cole had made approaches. That concludes the July 4, 2004, Sunday Telegraph news report. In summary, Frank Cole camped with three friends nearbut not atthe Uluru campground, where the Chamberlains had camped only a
few days earlier. The men chose to avoid being near tourists; apparently they had heard nothing about Azarias disappearance. In order to find fresh game, Cole drove his vehicle to a distant location; so the sound of gunfire would not be heard. There he found a dingo holding fully clothed Azaria. Having shot the animal, he drove back to camp with the baby in his car. If you will look at the map on page 6 of tract 2 of this tract set, the area where the clothes were later found was distant, isolated, yet close to the road where a car could quickly stop and run over close to that isolated part of the Rock. Arriving back at camp, he probably told the others where he found the infant, and the remaining two may have placed the naked infant there, along with the clothes; from which the jumpsuit buttons had been removed. It is very possible that Cawood had only recently placed the body in that same general area, which was so accessible by car, yet so isolated. But there is also the possibility that the other two men buried the body of the child in a Melbourne backyard, as previously agreed upon. In the story of Lindy Chamberlain, an Adventist in Australia, we see a dim reflection of what will be our own experience when, after the National Sunday Law is enacted by nation after nation, an enraged world, goaded on by Satan, turns against Sabbathkeepers, tells wild stories about how evil they are, and works to wipe them from the face of the earth. vf
For a few moments it was the old Lindy Chamberlaintiny, vulnerable, and terribly ordinary as she tried in vain to stop the flood of tears, her jaw quivering with the effort. Alongside her and just as distraught was her blond-haired husband, Michael. He, too, sighed at the declaration. He, too, looked his old self as he smiled through his tears and put his arm out for his wife, who was near to collapse. As they were crushed by well-wishers from the packed court and the crowd gathered outside, one felt that old twinge of sadness and yet a reflective triumph that two such ordinary people could have dredged the depths of unfathomable determination, fought a seemingly unbeatable system, and won. The Australian Advertiser, Friday, September 15, 1988 It is the power of the media that is the frightening thing. There are people who deal with the media all the time and they get good at it. Im not one of them, but I believe its a game you can get bloody good at and play to your own advantage. But there are also people like the Chamberlains out thereordinary people from an ordinary town who suddenly get all this tremendous attention and have absolutely no idea how to deal with it. Sam Neill, quoted in The Australian Magazine, October 29, 1988
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Index to the Lindy Chamberlain Story

The following index was prepared by a friend who felt the coverage of the Lindy Chamberlain story was complete enough that it deserved a careful index. 1/1 = page 1, column 1, etc. (1) = names inferred, but total name not given. s/a = see also. aborigines (s/a Habby, Menigerie & Winmatti) 2/1-2, 3/1-5/2, 8/1, 9/1, 11/2, 12/2-13/1-2 Adventists (Seventh-Day) (cover-up, s/a Craig, Tipple) 1/1-2, (7/2), 11/1-2, 13/1, (13/2), 14/1, (15/1-2), 17/1-18/2, 20/2 // new theology 11/111/2, 14/1, 18/1 appeals (3 s/a inquests, trial) 13/1, 16/2-17/2, 18/2 Ayers Rock (National Park) 1/1-2/2, 4/1-5/1, 6-7, 8/ 1-10/2, 12/1-13/1, 14/1-2, 15/1-16/1, 17/1, 18/1, 19/1-2, 20/2 Azaria! What the Jury Were Not Told by Phil Ward 16/2, (18/1) Azazel (scapegoat) 1/2 Barritt, Denis (1st coroner, veteran police detective, exonerated Lindy) 11/2-12/2, 13/2, 14/2, 15/216/1, 19/2-20/1 Beasey, John (mechanic, cover-up, suit) 3/1-5/1, (7), 8/2, 11/1, 17/1 Beasey, Lyn (Johns wife, cover-up, suit) 5/1, 8/2, 17/1, (19/1) Brown, Malcolm (reporter) 16/2 Bryson, John (attorney, writer) (s/a Evil Angels) 17/2-18/1-19/1 Cavanaugh, Tony (s/a telemovie) 20/1 Cawood, Debbie (Vals 18-year-old daughter, coverup, suit) 5/1, 17/1, (19/1) Cawood, Ian (ranger) (drank, fed Ding, cover-up, suit) 2/1-5/2, (6-8/1), 8/2-11/1, (12/1-2, 13/2-14/ 1), 14/2, 17/1, 19/1-2, 20/2 Cawood, Val (wife of ranger Ian, drank, burned slacks, cover-up, suit) (2/1), 4/2-5/1, 8/2, 9/2, (10/1-2), 16/1, 17/1, 19/1 // shovel in hand 8/2, 19/1 Chamberlain, Aidan (Michaels & Lindys 6-year-old son) 1/1-3/1, (8) Chamberlain, Alice Lynne (Lindy) (mother, wife of Michael Chamberlain, later Creighton) 1/1-5/2, 7/2-8/2, (9/1), 9/2 -10/1, 11/1-14/2, 15/2, 16/2-20/ 2 // baby (new) taken away from her 13/1 // framing Lindy Chamberlain (s/a cover-up) 1/2, 2/ 2-3/1, 10/1, 12/2-13/1 // track suit vs dress 2/23/1 Chamberlain, Azariah (bubby, Michaels & Lindys 9-week-old daughter, killed) 1/1-5/2, 7/1-2, (8/1), 8/2, (9/1), 9/2, 10/2 -13/2, 14/2-17/1, (17/2), 18/ 1-19/2, (20/1), 20/2 // jumpsuit/jacket (terrycloth) 5/1, (6), 10/1-11/1, 12/1, 14/1-2, 16/ 1, 18/1, 19/1-20/2 // matinee jacket 4/2, (10/1), 18/1, 19/2 Chamberlain, Michael Leigh (father, SDA minister, 1st husband of Lindy) 1/1-2, (2/2), 3/1-2, (4/1) (7/2-8/1), 8/2 -(9/1, 11/1), (12/2), 13/1, 15/1, (16/ 2-17/2), 18/1-2, (20/1), 20/2 // accessory to murder 13/1 Chamberlain, Reagan (Michaels & Lindys 3-yearold son) 1/1, 3/1, 5/2 Cole, Frank (camper, found Azariah 7 days after disappearance, hid) (19/1), 19/2-20/2 cover-up conspiracy, intimidation (s/a Beasey, Cawood, Morris, Northern Territory officials, Tipple) 1/1-3/1, 4/1-5/2, 8/1, 9/1-14/2, 15/2-16/12 // alcohol to aborigines as cover-up 8/1, 11/2 // intimidation (severe) 13/2-14/1, 15/2 Craig, Pastor Ron (SDA met with Phil Ward) 14/1 Cranwell, Amanda (4-year-old daughter of Max, attacked by Ding) 2/1, 9/2, 15/1 Cranwell, Max (on staff) 2/1, 9/2 Cranwell, Phyllis (Maxs wife) 2/1 Creighton, Richard (Lindy Chamberlains 2nd husband) 18/2, (19/2) Cry in the Dark, A (movie with Meryl Streep & Sam Neill) 18/2 Dalgleish, Rohan (ranger) 15/1 dingoes (native wild dogs) (s/a Harris) 1/1-5/2, 8/113/1, 14/1-15/1, 16/1, 18/1, 19/1-20/2 // attacks on children by dingoes (s/a Cranwell, Green) 1/ 1-3/1, 4/1-4/2, 9/2-10/1, 12/2, 15/1, 16/1 // aborigines dingo victims 2/1, 16/1 // tourist dingo victims (s/a Chamberlain, Azariah) 2/1-3/
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1, 9/2 // ban on feeding dingoes 1/1-2/1, 9/2, 14/2-15/1 Ding (devil dog, scarface, dingo/dog cross) 1/15/2, 7/1, 8/1, 9/1-11/1, (11/2), 12/1, (13/2), 14/115/1, (16/1, 18/1), 19/1-2 // cloth impressions, drag marks of Azariah by Dings tracks 3/2, 5/2, 9/1 // Ding seen at scene of the abduction and after 2/2, 4/2, 10/2-11/1 // Ding killed 11/1, 19/2 // dingo, second 3/2, 4/2, 5/2, 7/1 divorce (Lindy & Michael Chamberlain) 18/2 Downs, Roberta (nurse, fiance was Peter Elston) 4/ 1, 5/1, 8/2, 11/1, 12/2 Elston, Peter (commercial pilot, fiance of Roberta Down) 8/2, 11/1, 19/1 Everingham, Paul (Chief Minister, Northern Territory) 16/1 Evil Angels by John Bryson 17/2, (18/1-2) Gill, Alan (reporter) 16/2 Good Morning Australia 16/2-17/1 Goodwin, Wally (found jumpsuit/jacket) 10/2-11/1, 12/1, 18/1, 19/1, 20/1 Green, Mr. (shot dingo who killed an aborigine baby) 16/1-2 Habby, Murray (aborigine tracker, teacher from Melborn (Victoria)) 3/2, 5/1-2, 8/1-2, 12/1-2 Harris, Lee (president of the Dingo Foundation of Australia) 3/1, 4/2, 10/2 Hawkin, Arthur (private investigator) 13/1-14/1 2 14 inquests (2, s/a appeals, Barrett, Macknay, trial) 11/2-12/2, 13/2, 14/2, 15/2-16/2, 17/2-18/2, 19/220/2 investigative reporters (s/a Brown?, Gill?, Loftus, Oram) 9/2 investigators, private (s/a cover-up/intimidation, Hawkin, McNicol, Ward) 4/1-2, 8/2, 10/1, 11/1, 13/1-2, 15/1 killing, ritual 1/2 Kuhl, Joy (forensic botanist, cover-up) 13/1 libel writs & suit (s/a trials, Ward) 16/2-17/1, 18/1 Loftus, Tom (investigative reporter) 12/1 Lowe, Greg (Tasmanian tourist) 2/2, (3/1), (8/1), (12/2) Lowe, Sally (wife of Greg) 2/2-3/1, (8/1), (12/2), 13/ 1 Macknay, Mr (legal questioner, cover-up) 11/2 Marshall, Anna (wife of Iain) 4/1, 15/1
Waymarks
Marshall, Iain (ranger, drank) 4/1, 15/1 Martin, Brian (solicitor general of Northern Territories) 16/1 McNicol, Don (private investigator, policeman) 13/ 1-2, 15/2 Menigarie, Nui (aborigine tracker) 8/1-2, 12/1 Mitchell, Stewart (park ranger) 8/1 Morris, Frank (chief constable, cover-up, suit) 3/15/1, (7/1), 8/1-2, 11/1, 12/2, 17/1, 19/2 Morris, Margaret (wife of Frank, suit) 5/1, 8/2, 17/1 Murchison, Cliff (& Mrs.) (parents of Lindy) 13/2 Neill, Sam (reporter) 20/2 Noble, Gordon (constable, cover-up) 11/1 Northern Territory (Australia) 1/1-2, 10/1, 11/2, 13/ 2, 16/2, 19/2 Northern Territory (Australian officials (cover-up, s/a Barritt, Everingham, Martin, Robertson) 1/2, 5/ 2, 10/1, 12/2-14/1, 16/1, 18/1-2 Nyman, Trevor (Phil Wards attorney) 15/2-16/1 Oram, James (investigative writer) 7/2 pardon, official (s/a trial) 18/1-2 Ransom, Jenny (friend of Lindy) 11/1 Robertson, Jim (attorney general Northern Territory) (5/1), 16/1 Roff, Derek (chief ranger, cover-up) 4/1-5/2, (6-7), 8/1, 9/1, 11/1, 12/2, 13/2-14/2-15/1, 19/1 Rogers, Mr. (saw dingo kill aborigine baby) (16/1), 16/2 Sixty Minutes (Australian) 18/2 telemovie (s/a Cavanaugh) 19/2-20/1 Tipple, Stuart (country lawyer for Chamberlains, s/a Adventists) (8/1), 13/2-14/1, 15/2, 17/1-2 trial, jury (s/a appeals, divorce, inquests, libel, pardon) 1/2, 3/1, 4/1, 5/1-2, 8/1, 12/1-13/2, 14/2, 16/1-18/1, 19/1-2 Ward, Phil (private investigator, author of Azaria!, s/ a libel) 13/1-17/2-18/1, 19/1 West, Judith (tourist) 3/2 Whittaker, Rosalie (daughter of Max) 8/1-2, (12/2) Whittaker, Max (tourist) 8/1, (12/2) Winmatti, Barbara (wife of Nipper) 9/1 Winmatti, Colin (son of Nipper) 11/1 Winmatti, Nipper (aborigine tracker) 2/2, 5/2, 8/19/1, 10/2-12/2, 13/2
This small map is difficult to read; yet it contains much information about the location of Ayers Rock in relation to the campsite and staff homes. I have placed easier-to-read identifying names by left side locations. The names on the right side are identified on the other map in this report. Notice the location of where the baby clothes were found: quite isolated, yet very close to the road.
OLD DOCHER RIVER RD. (DISCARDED LATE 1981)
W M 1 2
CLIMB [WHERE TOURISTS BEGIN THEIR CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE ROCK] CLOTHES FOUND HERE NEW ROAD TO ALICE SPRINGS (POST ROAD) MAGGIE SPRINGS CAR PARK MAGGIE SPRINGS NEW ROAD (POST ROAD) OLD ROAD (DISCARDED LATE 1981) AERODROME LANDING STRIP AYERS ROCK CHALET
CLIMB [WHERE TOURISTS BEGIN THEIR CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE ROCK] OLD DOCHER RIVER RD. (DISCARDED LATE 1981)
JUST ABOVE is a map of the key area. Notice these seven locations: The camping area (Uluru Campsite, where Azaria was taken), the Sandridge to the east of it. The Anzac Flag Pole and Car Park. The Cawood Homesite is across the road from the Morris home (Police Station and Residence), and the Beasey home. MARKED on that map are three routes which three trackers found. The first is the route which, according to three trackers, Ding took from the camp to the sandridge and along the road to Cawoods home. It is shown by this line:
The route taken by the second dingo toward the south is indicated by this line:
The route, taken by Ding, west to the Bore after being chased away from Cawoods home is shown by this line:
I was involved with the case for eight years. Because of this I would often be asked at dinner parties, in pubs, in fact anywhere, for my opinion. I dont recall having much of an opinion . . But something disturbed me. I returned again and again to the case and what I saw, what I had missed, was the impossible time bracket that enclosed Azarias disappearance. Reliable witnesses showed that Lindy would have had no more than 10 minutes in which to kill her baby . . and return to the campsite carrying a tin of baked beans and looking as normal as everyone else. It could not have happened. I would give that opinion when asked and then everyone would argue, present their versions picked up from no one knows where . . The problem was the Chamberlains were members of a small sect with strict beliefs not always in line with mainstream churches. For instance, they go to church on Saturdays, a day most Australians set aside to worship at beaches or racetracks . . And so they turned on the Chamberlains the hatred reserved for people who worship in different temples and they became obsessed. James Oram, in
(Australian) Sunday Telegraph, November 6, 1988
$2.50
For a few moments it was the old Lindy Chamberlain tiny, vulnerable, and terribly ordinary as she tried in vain to stop the flood of tears, her jaw quivering with the effort. Alongside her and just as distraught was her blondhaired husband, Michael. He, too, sighed at the declaration. He, too, looked his old self as he smiled through his tears and put his arm out for his wife, who was near to collapse. As they were crushed by well-wishers from the packed court and the crowd gathered outside, one felt that old twinge of sadness and yet a reflective triumph that two such ordinary people could have dredged the depths of unfathomable determination, fought a seemingly unbeatable system, and won. The Australian Advertiser, Friday, September 15, 1988
It is the power of the media that is the frightening thing. There are people who deal with the media all the time and they get good at it. Im not one of them, but I believe its a game you can get bloody good at and play to your own advantage. But there are also people like the Chamberlains out there ordinary people from an ordinary town who suddenly get all this tremendous attention and have absolutely no idea how to deal with it.
Sam Neill, quoted in The Australian Magazine, October 29, 1988

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