Lindy Chamberlain wasn't believed when she claimed a dingo had taken her baby. She was found guilty of murder in October 29, 1982, and sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor. Michael was found guilty as an accessory after the fact; his sentence was deferred.
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Report Abuse. It is a true story, and the movie with Meryl streep was A Cry in the Dark. The rest of the story: after Lindy spending years in Jail, a final piece of the baby's clothing was found in teh wilderness.
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Infamous after being played by Meryl Streep in 1988's Oscar-nominated A Cry in the Dark, vindicated mother Lindy Chamberlain pursues a fourth inquest to prove her lost daughter was killed by wild dogs. The Australian tragedy that managed to turn into a running pop culture gag is back in the headlines yet again.
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The quote … , 'A dingo took my baby' comes from the multi award-winning movie, 'A Cry in the Dark', directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain and Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain.
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It's originally from the Meryl Streep and Sam Neill movie A Cry in the Dark which came out in 1988. It's based on a true story of an Australian mother who is accused of murdering her infant daughter, and she claims that it was dingoes that carried her daughter off and killed her.
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Her recounting was immortalized in 19888, when Meryl Streep played her in A Cry in the Dark, shouting in a heavy Australian accent, The dingo's got my baby!. That phrase has since been parodied by The Family Guy, Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and umpteen other television series and films.
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Lindy Chamberlain, who was convicted and eventually cleared of murdering her infant daughter Azaria, has prompted the unsolved case's fourth reopening since the 9-week-old first disappeared from an Australian outback campsite in 1980. She says new testimony on the dangers of dingos will put the matter to a finish.
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Lindy Chamberlain has devoted much of her life since her to proving that dingos killed Azaria and close the unsolved case. A decision in the latest inquiry to come within days. Streep, who earned her eighth Oscar nomination for her work in A Cry in the Dark, is up for number 17 this Sunday.
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its from Seinfeld, in one episode Elaine says to a women, who is talking about her finance(her 'baby')The lady stated where is by baby, have you seen my baby. Elaine sa … ys  Maybe the dingo ate your baby in an Australian accent.
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Julia Louis Dreyfus, as Elaine in the TV show, Seinfeld, in 'The Stranded' episode, blows off an annoying party friend, chirping, 'Maybe the dingo ate your baby?'.
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what's the movie with meryl streep that a dingo ate her baby
A Cry in the Dark is the movie with Meryl Streep that a dingo ate her baby.   A Cry in the Dark is the movie with Meryl Streep that a dingo ate her baby.