Australians have overwhelmingly welcomed the final chapter of a mystery that has captivated the nation for 32 years: Did a dingo really take a baby that vanished from an outback campsite in 1980?

Settling a 1980 case that split Australia and led to a mistaken murder conviction, a coroner ruled that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

A coroner opened Australia’s fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation’s history: The 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the outback.

A coroner today opened Australia’s fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation’s history: the 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback.