An elderly man is refusing to talk to police about his sensational confession that he knew that a wild dog had stolen a baby from an Outback camp 24 years ago, in one of Australia’s most mysterious deaths.

THE mother of a baby killed 24 years ago by a wild dog in the Australian Outback said yesterday she bears no grudge toward a man who claims he knew the infant’s fate but did not tell authorities.

The mother of a baby killed 24 years ago by a wild dog in the Australian Outback said today she bears no grudge toward a man who claims he knew the infant’s fate but did not tell authorities.