17 Facts About Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

In 1949, the family moved to Australia and based themselves in Victoria, with regular moves as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton's father transferred to pastor new churches.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton received her education in Victoria and gained her Matriculation in Benalla in 1965.

The new family then moved to Queensland, with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton later giving birth to her second child in Bowen in 1976 and, after living in Innisfail, they moved to Mount Isa in Northern Queensland.

Friends of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton's were aware that she had always wanted a girl and on 11 June 1980 the Chamberlain's first daughter, Azaria, was born.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was using her dressmaking skills to specialise in making wedding dresses to order.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton's second daughter and fourth child, Kahlia, was born in November 1982 at the Darwin Hospital while Lindy was in the custody of Darwin Prison after being falsely convicted of Azaria's murder.

The parents, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Chamberlain, were not implicated in any way with the disappearance of their child.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton surmised that the Chamberlains knew dingoes were in the area, attempted to simulate a dingo attack, recovered Azaria's buried body, removed her clothing, damaged the clothing by cutting, rubbed the clothing in vegetation, and deposited the clothing for later recovery.

On this basis and that of blood evidence of unknown origin found in the Chamberlains' car, the Chamberlains were prosecuted and convicted for the murder of their two-month-old baby, with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and Michael Chamberlain suspended for three years as an accessory to murder.

The prosecution's theory was that in a five- to ten-minute absence from the camp fire, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton returned to her tent, stopped her young son Aidan from following her, changed into tracksuit pants, took Azaria to her car, obtained and used scissors to cut Azaria's throat, either the carotid arteries or jugular veins.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton then returned to the tent and immediately claimed that she saw a dingo taking her baby with evidence implicating a dingo being purely coincidental.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton must have done it without her husband's knowledge or he was incredibly daring since he left his children in her care afterwards.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton told the police that he had given them the wrong camera case and then gave them the one that was allegedly used to conceal the body.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton chased in the direction she thought it had gone, and called out to her husband for a torch.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton produced photographs of dingoes enveloping the head of a baby-sized doll in its jaws.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was led to believe they were following the trail of a dingo carrying a heavy object believed to be Azaria's body.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton stated that he picked up the clothes to check the inside for human remains and then returned it to the ground and photographed it.