This riveting, true crime story recounts the sensational case of the "murder" of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain by her parents. Although the parents were pardoned and released last June, the case--including allegations of human sacrifice--has remained highly controversial.
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This riveting, true crime story recounts the sensational case of the "murder" of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain by her parents. Although the parents were pardoned and released last June, the case--including allegations of human sacrifice--has remained highly controversial.
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This book is the Notable Trials Library special edition of Evil Angels by John Bryson. The book provides an unbiased, painstaking account of the Lindy Chamberlain murder trial and appeal ? the famous Dingo Baby case. Author John Bryson is a retired attorney as well as an author of fiction, non-fiction and biography. His expertise in both the literary and legal arenas shows in this work. Although Evil Angels reads like a true crime novel and is often mistaken for a novel, it is actually a non-fiction work. Bryson spent four years studying the media reports, inquest records, trial transcripts and appellate record of the Lindy Chamberlain case and interviewed witnesses and investigators. The result is a chronicle of one of the most famous and controversial murder trials of the 20th Century.
On August 17, 1980, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain and their three children were camping at Ayers Rock in Australia. The youngest child, Azaria, was 10 weeks old. While the rest of the family socialized with other campers around the fireside, Lindy Chamberlain put the baby to bed in her bassinet in the family?s tent and returned to the fireside. Sometime later, several campers heard a baby?s cry. Lindy Chamberlain seemed unconcerned. One of the older Chamberlain children and Michael Chamberlain insisted that the cry came from Azaria and urged Lindy to check on her. A few moments later, Lindy came out of the tent screaming, ?the dingo?s got my baby.? Although other campers reported that a particularly brazen wild dog had been hanging around the campgrounds, no one other than Lindy actually saw the dingo take the baby, and no one actually saw a dingo when Lindy pointed and said ?will someone, please, stop that dog.? In the tent was a blood-spattered bassinet. No trace of the baby?s body was found, in spite of an extensive search. Some of the baby?s clothing was found in the desert beyond the campground, but the clothing had no trace of dingo saliva on it, nor was it torn apart.
At the inquest, the coroner concluded that a wild dog had killed the baby. The baby?s clothing was then sent to London for analysis by a forensic expert, who concluded that a dingo could not have killed the baby and left the clothing intact. The expert also concluded that the clothing had been handled by human hands while the baby was bleeding. Murder charges were brought against Lindy Chamberlain (the prosecutors contended that she sliced the baby?s throat while sitting in the family station wagon), and accessory-after-the-fact charges were brought against Michael Chamberlain (for supposedly planting the baby?s clothing in the wilderness).
Bryson?s account is remarkable for its lack of bias or slant. Bryson makes no attempt to paint Lindy as either innocent or guilty. She comes across in the book as a strangely icy person, showing little emotion beyond pride and resentment. Bryson reports the evidence and lets the reader draw his own conclusions as to what happened. Bryson does, however, paint a less-than-glowing picture of the Australian media and the general public who bought into the media?s rumors, and does a masterful job at suggesting that Lindy?s conviction was based upon an adverse public perception created by the media.
The case fascinated the Australian public, reaching almost public hysteria proportions. Bryson expertly sets out and analyzes the controversial aspects of the case ? the prosecution was unable to identify a motive for such an unnatural crime and there were no witnesses who could identify Lindy as the killer. The evidence was almost entirely circumstantial and forensic. The public opinion element of the case is quite macabre and sinister, involving suspicions about the Seventh Day Adventist religious practices of the Chamberlains and erroneous conclusions about the baby?s name.
The Notable Trials Library edition of the book which was published in 1992 (seven years after the book was first published) contains an afterword which details the discovery, years after the trial, of new evidence in a dingo?s lair. The Notable Trials Library edition also features an insightful introduction by Alan Dershowitz.
As with all of the Notable Trials Library books, the book is quarter-bound in leather and fine quality buckram, has gold-stamped lettering and decoration, gilt-edged paper and marbled endpapers. This is a keepsake volume.
