Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Chamberlain in a 1986 news broadcast
Born	Alice Lynne Murchison (1948-03-04) 4 March 1948 (age 69) Whakatane, New Zealand
Known for	Imprisoned for three years after being convicted of the murder of her baby Azaria Chamberlain (later exonerated)
Spouse(s)	Michael Chamberlain (1968–1991, divorced) Rick Creighton (1991-present)
Children	Aidan (born 1973) Reagan (born 1976) Azaria (June–August 1980) Kahlia (born 1982)

Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton (nee Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru (then usually known as Ayers Rock) in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The prosecution case was circumstantial and depended on forensic evidence.

Chamberlain was convicted on 29 October 1982 and her appeals to the Federal Court of Australia and High Court of Australia were dismissed. On 7 February 1986, after the discovery of new evidence, Chamberlain was released from prison on remission. Both accused were officially pardoned in 1987 and their convictions were quashed by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 1988. In 1992, the Australian government paid Chamberlain $1.3 million in compensation. In 2012, a fourth coronial inquest found that Azaria died "as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo."

Alice Lynne Murchison was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, the daughter of Avis and Cliff Murchison. She was known as "Lindy" from a young age. She moved to Australia with her family in 1969.

She and her family were members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and she married an Adventist pastor, the New Zealand-born Michael Chamberlain, on 18 November 1969. For the first five years after their marriage they lived in Tasmania, after which they moved to Mount Isa in northern Queensland. At the time their daughter Azaria went missing, Chamberlain's husband served as minister of Mount Isa's Seventh-day Adventist church.

In the 1970s, the Chamberlains had two sons: Aidan, born in 1973, and Reagan, born in 1976. A family friend, Mrs Ransom, gave evidence that Lindy had always wanted a girl. Chamberlain's first daughter, Azaria, was born 11 June 1980. Her second daughter and fourth child, Kahlia, was born in November 1982.