The Significance Of Azaria Chamberlain

The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain has captured the Australian public on 17 August 1980 between eight and nine o’clock. It was claimed by her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, that during the family camping trip to Uluru, the nine weeks old Australian girl was attacked by a dingo in the Chamberlain’s tent and her body was never found. The evidence used in the first few inquests and trials included the bloodstains on Azaria’s jumpsuit, which was found near the camping ground and the supposed blood in the Chamberlain’s car. These evidence insinuated that Azaria’s death was a homicide and that Lindy Chamberlain was guilty of her daughter’s murder. She was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment. Her husband, Michael Chamberlain was also found

The lack of dragging and the lack of saliva did not support the fact that a dingo carried Azaria four kilometres away from the tent. It was pointed out that the absence of saliva is because Azaria was also wearing a matinee jacket and so the dingo’s saliva might have only transferred onto the matinee jacket. However, the matinee was not found until three years later, but this still did not convince people that Azaria’s parents were innocent. At the time before the matinee jacket was discovered, people inferred that Azaria’s jacket was cut and torn in certain places by humans, particularly the collar, which was cut after the bloodstaining occurred. Scissor with the presence of human foetal blood on the cutting edge and on the hinge area was then found in the Chamberlain’s car, which acts as an individuating evidence. Proof has claimed that when comparable scissor was utilised in order to cut through blood that blood was deposited onto the cutting edge. It was inferred that the scissor discovered in Chamberlain’s car was used to cut through Azaria’s

A special ultraviolet technique was utilised in order to identify the positions of the bloodstains on the jumpsuit and to highlight the handprint found. Standard bloodstain pattern analysis helped identified the locations of the source of blood in the car as well as to help indicate that the blood in the tent was secondary transfer. In order to examine whether any prints or patterns were imprinted on the clothes, fibre analysis, oil tracing and fluorescent examination was used. Experts were also included in the process of investigation. For instance, an aboriginal tracker was included in the investigation to approve the presence of dingo footprints leading from the tent to the area where the clothes were