Disturbing Details Found At Azaria Chamberlain's Death Scene

When Azaria went missing, the only crime scene considered then was the family car, which is where authorities claimed Lindy killed her daughter. They concluded that findings of what looked like blood in the vehicle was sufficient to charge the Chamberlains (via Australian Broadcasting Corporation). However, it was not blood and would take almost six years before pieces of the truth started to come out. When a British tourist named David Brett fell to his death while climbing in Uluru in January 1986, the search for his body would turn up something else (via National Library of Australia). The site where his body was found had been a previous, yet undiscovered crime scene.

They did find the remains of Brett and realized that his body had been taken apart by the dingoes in the vicinity, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. In looking for the other parts of him, police came upon an item of clothing; it was a jacket that belonged to a baby. It was located near an area that had several dingo lairs, which supported Lindy's initial claims that a dingo did take her baby. The jacket found also matched the exact description of what was told to authorities a few years earlier, officially backing the initial story and clearing the couple of any involvement. Lindy was released afterward. But it would take another three decades before they would officially be vindicated when a coroner announced in 2012, that dingoes do pose a threat to humans and one killed Azaria, per The New York Times.