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Alice Lynne "Lindy" Murchison Chamberlain Creighton, usually known as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was at the centre of one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Originally accused and convicted of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria slept on the night she disappeared. Eight years later, her conviction was overturned after the discovery of new evidence, and both she and her then-husband Michael Chamberlain were acquitted of all charges. She was adjudged wrongly convicted after having spent three years in prison for murdering her baby, and having given birth to her fourth child while a prisoner. In 1992, she received $1.3 million compensation from the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment.〔Linder, Doug, Professor, (The Trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain: A Chronology ), University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, 1995–2011.〕 As the result of a fourth inquest in 2012, an Australian coroner made a ruling that a dingo had indeed taken baby Azaria from the campsite in 1980 and had caused her death. ==Early life== Alice Lynne Murchison was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, where she was known as "Lindy" from a young age. She moved to Australia with her family in 1949. She and her family were members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and she married fellow Adventist and pastor Michael Chamberlain on 18 November 1969. For the first five years after their marriage they lived in Tasmania, after which they moved to Mount Isa in northern Queensland.〔(Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Biography ), Accessed 2012-2-25.〕 At the time their daughter Azaria went missing, Lindy's husband Michael served as minister of Mount Isa's Seventh Day Adventist Church.〔Linder, Doug, Professor, (The Trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain ("The Dingo Trial") ), University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, 1995–2011.〕〔 In the 1970s the Chamberlains had two sons: Aidan, born in 1973, and Reagan, born in 1976. A family friend, Mrs Ransom, gave evidence that Lindy had always wanted a girl.〔, National Museum of Australia, p. 17, 2001. Accessed 2012-6-02.〕 Chamberlain's first daughter, Azaria, was born 11 June 1980, and her second daughter and fourth child, Kahlia, was born in November 1982. According to the findings of the third inquest, the evidence for some aspects of Lindy Chamberlain's mothering was undisputed: Chamberlain was "an exemplary mother". * She had no mental illness. * She was never violent with her children. * She had given no indication of being irritated with Azaria. * She gave no indication of being stressed when she took Azaria and indicated that she was putting her to bed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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