From the #1 True Crime podcast, 'A Perfect Storm'. The Dingo Took Over My Life is a true story, told by the Chamberlain's lawyer, Stuart Tipple, who led their fight for justice and exoneration. This story has become part of the fabric of Australian Culture and is still its high water mark of injustice. After raising the cry, «The dingo's got my baby!», Lindy Chamberlain was imprisoned for life with hard labour and had her baby, born in prison, taken from her. Following the accumulation of fresh scientific evidence which destroyed the prosecution case and confirmed her story, Lindy was released, after serving 3 years in prison and exonerated. This book shares that journey.
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Stuart Tipple. The Dingo Took Over My Life
Introduction
Chapter One. GUESS WHO I MET ON THE. WAY TO THE SHOPS!
Chapter Two. FROM PROVINCIAL NEW ZEALAND
Chapter Three. THE DINGO POUNCES
Chapter Four. THE FRAME
Chapter Five. THE PRIMARY EVIDENCE IS BUNK
Chapter Six. THE TRIAL
Chapter Seven. CONVICTIONS? IT AIN’T OVER YET!
Chapter Eight. RESEARCHING A DISASTER
Chapter Nine. THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE
Chapter Ten. THE BITTER STALEMATE
Chapter Eleven. CIVIL WAR
Chapter Twelve. HEADBUTTING A GOVERNMENT
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen. REPERCUSSIONS
Chapter Fifteen. A TORTURED CONCLUSION
The Ferry master. HOW STUART AND LES PULLED. HIM OUT OF THE SOUP
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To be, or not to be – that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them.
– Hamlet
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Some people were not satisfied and inquired further. There were serious questions as to whether there had been a dingo at all, and if something else had in fact happened. Now, in September 1981, that safeguard, being the finding of a competent coroner, was failing. The entire case that there had been a dingo attack which had cost baby Azaria her life was unravelling.
Stuart Tipple had a difficult path to negotiate. There were many obstacles in his way, the first being the Northern Territory. The Territory was very much the wild frontier of Australia, where everything was from time to time extreme and the resources for coping were limited. The Territory had an interior so dry that a stranded traveler might die of thirst. It had a “Top End” so wet that a stranded traveler might be drowned, or die of hunger. Even those in more temperate regions were affected by the changes of season. There were only two seasons in the Top End: Wet and Dry. In the change of seasons, when the air was pregnant with heat and moisture, there was a greater incidence of domestic violence. The Top End had had the devastating cyclone in 1974. The Territory was Australia’s front line in world conflict. Darwin had been heavily bombed by the Japanese and the area was still wide open to any invader from the north. And there were the crocodiles, box jellyfish and taipans.
