Michael Chamberlain, the Australian man whose daughter’s tragic death in 1980 led to a notorious murder trial that inspired the 1988 Meryl Streep movie “A Cry in the Dark,” died Monday. He was 72. Chamberlain, who was born in New Zealand but became a pastor in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Tasmania during the 1960s, died of acute leukemia, according to SkyNews. He was vacationing in the Australian Outback with his then-wife Lindy when their nine-week-old daughter Azaria was snatched from a tent and killed. Also Read: Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech Sparks Donations Surge for Press Freedom Group The couple were later.
- 1/10/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
It's a movie line that inspired countless parodies. In the 1988 true-crime thriller A Cry in the Dark, Meryl Streep finds her daughter missing from a tent and cries in an Australian accent: "The dingo's got my baby!" Though mocked over the decades on everything from Family Guy to Seinfeld, at the heart of this moment lies a very real criminal case, one that gripped a nation in 1980s - and one that finally may be coming to an end. Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who was convicted - and then cleared - of murder in her 9-week-old baby's 1980 disappearance is...
- 2/24/2012
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
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