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09 Aug 11:20am

Filed under: Azaria Chamberlain, Juries, Lindy Chamberlain, Women

For anyone born before about 1978 the Azaria Chamberlain case will never lose its fascination - I could read about it all day.

So many people convicted this woman. Lindy Chamberlain with her husband Michael outside court in 1982.

But the thing that so clearly stands out in today’s News Ltd report about the “Chamberlain files” is that the women jurors in the 1982 murder trial of Lindy Chamberlain were so much harder on her than the men.

According to The Daily Telegraph: “The three women - a teacher and two housewives - all voted for conviction while at least four of the nine men had to be persuaded that she was guilty.”

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convinced says:

07:05am | 12/08/10

@loz - I stayed in the same camping ground in 1975 on a school trip and we never saw or heard a dingo or any other canine in the vicinity. The only 4 legged creatures we encountered were a plague of hopping mice…..that invaded our tents and coach,, and were… Read more »
JL says:

03:20pm | 10/08/10

“I, for one, never believed Lindy guilty, for the simple reason that there was no way I would kill my child, therefore why would, or could, any other woman?” - seriously??? There are many, many, many cases all over the world where women have killed their own children. There are… Read more »

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