Australians Depart Wedding in a Car With a Macabre Past

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SYDNEY, Australia — The brother of a baby girl who was allegedly killed by a dingo in the Australian desert 28 years ago has brought a distinctly ghoulish touch to his wedding.

Azaria Chamberlain’s brother Aidan, now 34, was six when his sister vanished in August 1980 on a camping holiday near Ayers Rock.

Their mother, Lindy, maintained that a dingo must have dragged the 9-week-old from a tent and carried her away. The event prompted a national debate over whether Azaria had been taken by a wild dog or murdered by her parents.

Mr. Chamberlain was chauffeured from his wedding earlier this month in Queensland in the car that was forensically tested for his sister’s blood.

The tests eventually showed that it was not blood splattered inside the car but flecks of rust and remnants of a spilt caramel milkshake. Aidan and his new wife posed along with his father in front of the car, which has the license plate 4ENSIC.

“I’m proud they drove it in their wedding because it not only put someone in jail, it saved them and took them out of jail again,” Aidan’s father Michael told an Australian women’s magazine.

Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of the baby’s murder in 1982 and jailed for life.

Her husband received a suspended sentence for being an accessory to the alleged murder. Both were later exonerated.

Their story was made into a film, “A Cry in the Dark,” starring Meryl Streep.

Azaria’s body has never been found.


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