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March 6, 2012

Maybe the Dingo Did Eat Her Baby

Gorman & Kenneally, New York Times


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Thirty-two years ago, 9-week old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from a campsite in the Australian outback, and her mother’s claim that a dingo took the child caused a storm of public outrage and disbelief.

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