Summary
EVEN THOSE WHO most want to believe the story find it too extraordinary to accept on face value. In Melbourne a year ago, an old man wakes from anaesthetic-induced sleep after double hip surgery and groggily summons his son for what the older man thinks will be a death-bed confession. He shot the dingo that August night in 1980. THE dingo. Of Australia's several million dingoes, this was the most famous -- or, more correctly, the most infamous. Unless the scavenging wild dog itself had been robbed by another, this dingo had stolen nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain from the family tent at what was then known as Ayer's Rock.
Not only that, but rabbit-hunter Frank Cole and his three mates found the baby's mauled body practically in the dead dog's mouth. They panicked, now says Mr Cole (78). One of the others had a police record and shooting in the national park was illegal. Despite realising that a massive manhunt was going on all around them, they took the little body to their own campsite, washed it, put it in an overnight back and drove 2000km to Melbourne to bury it in a suburban backyard.See the full content of this document
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Another Bizarre Twist to the Tale of the Dingo
In the intervening 24 years -- especially the first dozen of them -- Azaria's mothe...
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