It is now official: Azaria Chamberlain not quite 10 weeks old, was snatched from a bassinet at Uluru (then known as Ayers Rock) on August 17, 1980, killed and probably devoured by a dingo. 
 
 Mr and Mrs Chamberlain, Aidan and your extended families, please accept my sincere sympathy over the death of your dear and loved daughter Azaria 
 
 This morning, the Northern Territory Deputy Coroner, Elizabeth Morris, ended 32 years of speculation and innuendo by putting what appears to be the final seal on the case. 
 
 Justice at last for the Chamberlains ... coroner rules that a dingo did take baby Azaria from a tent in 1980. 
 
 Delivering her finding in the Darwin Magistrates Court, Ms Morris said: "In considering all the evidence I am satisfied the evidence is sufficiently cogent and excludes all other reasonable possibilities defined [as to] what occurred. 
 
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 "That was that after Mrs [Lindy] Chamberlain placed Azaria in the tent, a dingo or dingoes entered the tent, attacked Azaria and dragged or carried her from the area." 
 
 Ms Morris said she accepted the findings of the royal commission, conducted by Justice Trevor Morling in 1986-87, which had painstakingly gone through all aspects of the forensic evidence. 
 
 The amended death certificate for Azaria Chamberlain, with the cause of death now stated as being "attacked and taken by a dingo". Photo: Glenn Campbell 
 
 She also took into account three deaths of children, in Queensland, NSW, and Victoria following attacks by dingoes or dingo-cross dogs. 
 
 She said: "Mr and Mrs Chamberlain, Aidan and your extended families, please accept my sincere sympathy over the death of your dear and loved daughter Azaria." 
 
 Ms Morris said that amended death certificates had already been prepared stating that a dingo had taken the baby and they were ready for collection by Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (as she is now known after remarrying) immediately after the court adjourned. 
 
 Lindy Chamerlain after the coroner's verdict. Photo: Glenn Campbell 
 
 The hearing was an ironic repeat of the first coroner's inquest in 1980-81 when Michael and Lindy Chamberlain had sat together before coroner Dennis Barrett, who agreed to telecast his findings nationwide that a dingo had taken the baby. 
 
 Since then, the Chamberlains divorced and both remarried. 
 
 But in Darwin last night, they hugged each other and in the court this morning they sat together, with family members beside them. They hugged again after the finding. 
 
 Azaria Chamberlain, with her mother Lindy. 
 
 Following new scientific evidence in 1981, Mr Barrett's inquest finding was quashed and a new inquest ordered under coroner Gerry Galvin. That inquest heard evidence that blood from Azaria had been found in the Chamberlains' car on a pair of scissors and other possessions. 
 
 On the strength of this and other evidence from forensic experts, the Chamberlains went on trial in September 1982, Lindy for murder and Michael for being an accessory after the fact. 
 
 In November 1982, a Supreme Court jury in Darwin found the couple guilty. 
 
 Mrs Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment and Mr Chamberlain, convicted of being an accessory after the fact of murder, received a bond. 
 
 Mrs Chamberlain served three years in jail and though her appeals to both the Federal and High courts failed, new evidence and the finding of Azaria's matinee jacket at the base of Uluru in 1986 prompted the Northern Territory government to release her and order a royal commission. 
 
 The Chamberlains were exonerated, had their convictions quashed and were compensated. 
 
 But both sought a coroner's finding that a dingo had taken the baby. A third coroner's inquest under John Lounds returned only an open verdict, which left open the possibility that one or both of the Chamberlains might have been implicated in their daughter's death. 
 
 After the finding was delivered today, Ms Chamberlain-Creighton and her son Aidan, who was six at the time Azaria disappeared, embraced. 
 
 Spectators in the packed court clapped loudly and the Chamberlains went off to get their certificates. 
 
 Outside, an emotional Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said she was "relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga." 
 
 "No longer will Australia be able to say that dingoes are not dangerous and will only attack if provoked ... We live in a beautiful country but it is dangerous." 
 
 Mr Chamberlain thanked the "courageous and independent coroner" for her finding, saying she was "speaking for the dead". 
 
 "This has been a terrifying battle," he told reporters. 
 
 "Bitter at times, but now some healing and a chance to put our daughter's spirit to rest. 
 
 "It has taken too long [but] I'm here to tell you, you can get justice even when you think all is lost," he said. 
 
 - with AAP 

 Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken murder conviction, an Australian coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning. 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo Lindy Chamberlain leaves a courthouse in Alice Springs, Australia. A coroner found Tuesday, June 12, 2012, that a dingo took Chamberlain's baby who vanished in... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael, left, and Lindy Chamberlain leave a courthouse in Alice Springs, Australia. A coroner found Tuesday, June 12, 2012, that a dingo took the Chamberlain's... (Associated Press) 
 
 The eyes of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and her ex-husband, Michael Chamberlain, welled with tears as the findings of the fourth inquest into the disappearance of their 9-week-old daughter, Azaria, were announced in court. Lindy Chamberlain served more than three years in prison for the baby's death, but was later cleared and has always maintained that a wild dog took her. 
 
 "We're relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga," a tearful but smiling Chamberlain-Creighton told reporters outside the court in the northern city of Darwin. 
 
 Azaria disappeared from a campsite near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru. The case became famous internationally through the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark." 
 
 Many Australians initially did not believe that a dingo was strong enough to take away the baby. Public opinion swayed harshly against the couple; some even spat on Chamberlain-Creighton and howled like dingoes outside her house. 
 
 No similar dingo attack had been documented at the time, but in recent years the wild dogs have been blamed for three fatal attacks on children. Few doubt the couple's story today, but the latest inquest _ which the family had fought to get _ made it official that Azaria was killed in a dingo attack. 
 
 "No longer will Australia be able to say that dingoes are not dangerous and only attack if provoked," Chamberlain-Creighton said before leaving the court with her ex-husband and their three surviving children to collect Azaria's death certificate. 
 
 "We live in a beautiful country, but it is dangerous and we would ask all Australians to beware of this and take appropriate precautions," Chamberlain-Creighton said. 
 
 Coroner Elizabeth Morris said she "satisfied that the evidence is sufficiently adequate, clear, cogent and exact and that the evidence excludes all other reasonable possibilities" than that the baby was taken by one or more dingoes. 
 
 The findings mirror those of the first coroner's inquest in 1981, which found that a dingo took Azaria. But that inquest found that somebody had later interfered with Azaria's clothing, which was later found relatively unscathed in the desert. 
 
 A second coroner's inquest ended with Chamberlain-Creighton being charged with murder and Michael Chamberlain being charged with being an accessory after the fact. Chamberlain-Creighton, accused of slashing her daughter's throat with nail scissors and making it look like a dingo attack, was convicted in 1982 and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. 
 
 She was released in 1986 after evidence was found that backed up her version of events: the baby's jacket, found near a dingo den, which helped explain the condition of the rest of the baby's clothing. A Royal Commission, the highest form of investigation in Australia, debunked much of the forensic evidence used at trial and her conviction was overturned. 
 
 A third inquest could not determine the cause of death. 
 
 The fourth inquest heard new evidence of dingo attacks, including three fatal attacks on children since the third inquest. 
 
 Morris noted that dingo experts disagree on whether a dingo could have removed the clothing so neatly and without causing more damage. 
 
 "It would have been very difficult for a dingo to have removed Azaria from her clothing without causing more damage than what was observed on it, however it would have been possible for it to have done so," she said. 
 
 "I think it is likely that a dingo would have left the clothing more scattered, but it might not have done so," she added. 
 
 Michael Chamberlain had threatened to go the Northern Territory Supreme Court to force another inquest if Morris had not agreed to reopen the case. Another coroner had rejected his application in 2004 for a fourth inquest to challenge the 1995 open finding of the third. 
 
 "This has been a terrifying battle, bitter at times, but now some healing and a chance to put our daughter's spirit to rest," Chamberlain told reporters. 
 
 He said his quest for a death certificate that acknowledged his daughter had been killed by a dingo had seemed to be a "mission impossible." 
 
 "This battle to get to the legal truth about what caused Azaria's death has taken too long," Chamberlain said. 
 
 "However, I am here to tell you that you can get justice even when you think that all is lost. But truth must be on your side."
– The parents of Azaria Chamberlain have finally been exonerated 32 years after their 9-week-old baby vanished from a campsite in the Outback, sparking one of the most controversial investigations in Australian history. The evidence shows that a "dingo or dingoes entered the tent, attacked Azaria, and dragged or carried her from the area," a coroner has ruled, delivering what is expected to be the final word on the case, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The new inquest, the fourth, was opened after new evidence surfaced of dingo attacks on humans. The findings mirror those of the first inquest, but a second inquest led to mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton serving more than three years in jail for her baby's death, and a third could not determine a cause of death. In the years after the attack, public opinion was strongly against the mother, and some even spat on her and howled like dingoes outside her house, AP notes. "No longer will Australia be able to say that dingoes are not dangerous, and only attack if provoked," she said before leaving court with her ex-husband and their three surviving children to collect Azaria's new death certificate. "We live in a beautiful country, but it is dangerous, and we would ask all Australians to beware of this and take appropriate precautions."