http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/science/australias-view-of-the-dingo-evolves.html?hpw

Thirty-two years ago, 9-week old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared
from a campsite in the Australian outback, and her mother’s claim that a dingo
took the child caused a storm of public outrage and disbelief.

The reason the whole story became so well known, of course, was that in reality
it has remained unclear whether the dingo did it. And over the ensuing decades,
the human drama and the figure of the dingo, Australia’s enigmatic wild dog,
have become entangled. Like the wolf in America, the dingo is a symbol that may
mean one thing to hunters or sheep ranchers and another to scientists and nature
lovers.

Now the Chamberlain case, and dingoes themselves, are back in the spotlight. On
Feb. 24, testimony ended in the fourth coroner’s inquest on Azaria’s death, and
the office of the Northern Territory coroner, which held the inquest, said a
ruling would be handed down within the next two months. This time, the
Chamberlain family hopes that the coroner will conclude, once and for all, that
a dingo killed Azaria.