Australia tries to uncover if dingo really killed baby 30 years on

The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby’s cry followed, then abruptly went silent.

Inside the tent, the infant girl had vanished. Outside, her mother was screaming: “The dingo’s got my baby!”

With those panicked words, the mystery of Azaria Chamberlain’s disappearance in the Australian Outback in 1980 became the most notorious, divisive and baffling legal drama in the country’s history.

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