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About the Author; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; PART I; 1 The devil dingo; 2 The 'outback' pastor; 3 Kurrpanngu strikes; 4 In the wilderness; 5 Marks of passage; 6 'A dingo took my baby'; PART II; 7 Home; 8 The seeds of suspicion; 9 The first inquest; 10 Operation Ochre; 11 The second inquest; PART III; 12 The defenders gather; 13 The prelude; 14 Battle is joined; 15 An avalanche of opinion; 16 The defence; 17 It's only words; PART IV; 18 Another child is born; 19 The appeal to the Federal Court; 20 The appeal to the High Court; 21 Serving time; 22 Release

PART V23 'The fight has only just begun'; 24 The inquiry opens; 25 It's in the blood; 26 Where and how; 27 The dingo experts; 28 Ripping yarns; 29 Were the Chamberlains believable?; 30 The arguments; PART VI; 31 The Morling Report; 32 And so it went on; Key participants

A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession, no motive - and, apparently, credible evidence of their innocence. Yet the mother is convicted of murder; her husband, of concealing her crime. The case captures the public imagination like no other in Australia's history, and virtually divides the nation. Two appeals fail, and Lindy spends m