Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story

Name: Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story
Released: 2021-09-16
Rating: 5
Cast: Sam Neill

5.0

September 16, 2021

1 Season • 3 Episodes

Ended

Documentary Crime News Reality

Overview

Trial in the Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story explores the case that has figured in Australia's collective consciousness since 1980 when a dingo took Chamberlain's defenseless baby in a random horrific attack. But it quickly turned into more than that, resulting in the trial of the century and Australia's most notorious miscarriage of justice. Through interviews with Chamberlain, her children, and eyewitnesses today, archival footage and broadcasts, and – for the first time – access to Chamberlain's personal archive of family stills, movies, audio recordings, and letters, the series is a compelling universal story that still resonates today.

Created By

Mark Joffe

Cast

Sam Neill

Self - Host

Episodes

1. The tragic loss of Azaria Chamberlain

September 16, 2021 • 50m

The tragic loss of Azaria Chamberlain to a dingo in the Australian outback is turned on its head by a sensationalist media, a disbelieving public, an aggrieved Territory government, and its biased police, all combining to send her mother, Lindy, to trial for her murder.

2. An obsessed and divided Australia

September 23, 2021 • 50m

An obsessed and divided Australia watches the trial of the century as facts and eyewitnesses are disregarded, false forensic evidence is presented and a provincial jury is swayed to convict Lindy for murder, sentencing her to life in prison with hard labor.

3. Three years into her life sentence

September 30, 2021 • 49m

Three years into her life sentence, following an intense public campaign and the confluence of extraordinary events, Lindy Chamberlain is suddenly released from prison but the fight for justice for her and her family continues, taking her story through to the present day, 40 years after the tragic death of her daughter Azaria.

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