Lindy Chamberlain opens up about Azaria's death in harrowing new interview
It’s been 40 years since Lindy Chamberlain lost her daughter Azaria, while out camping in Uluru.
The unimaginable pain Lindy still feels over she and her husband losing their nine-week-old baby girl on the fateful night of August 17, 1980 still leaves her shaken to this day.
Her pain was deepened when in 1982, Lindy was charged with the murder of her baby and sentenced to a life in prison.
While she has always maintained from the outset that a dingo had taken Azaria from their tent, it wasn’t until 2012 when a coroner ruled that she had been telling the truth all along that she was given the dignity she deserved.
Despite Lindy’s name being cleared, she is still mocked by strangers in the street to this day.
Ahead of a new documentary mini series into the horrific story, she told The Sunday Project of the cruel taunts she still cops.
She was asked whether she thinks some Australians doubt her innocence.
“Obviously they do, they tell me so at times,” she said.
“It’s only about three weeks ago since I got my last dingo howls.”
Lindy says she “pretty much ignores it”.
“What’s the point? They’ve got the problem, not me,” she said.
She was then asked whether it was painful to discuss the events of the night in 1980, four decades on.
“It’s not my favourite topic,” she said.
“It’s a bit like going over the same things over and over again and I often think if I was asked a different line of questions you’d get totally different answers. And you’d go, ‘Wow, I never knew that.’”
She said she is never asked about her time in prison.
“Up until this mini series, I’ve only ever done one interview on prison,” she said.
“And I often think, ‘Wow, there’s three years of my life and people want to know everything but are they scared of that topic or what?’
“That amazes me. And they often tend not to ask you have you learnt anything? Have your opinions changed?”
“It was just like life was freeze framed. And then I got out and normal life continued.”
An inquest into Azaria’s disappearance in 1981 cleared her and her husband Michael of wrongdoing and found that a dingo had taken the baby.
However, a second inquest in 1982 ruled that Lindy was guilty of murder.
Chamberlain was eight months pregnant when she was sentenced to life in prison for supposedly killing Azaria by slicing her throat.
In June 2012, a coroner made a final ruling, saying that a dingo really did take Azaria Chamberlain and killed her.
A new documentary into the case called A Dingo’s Got My Baby will be broadcast on Channel 10 in the near future.