The "Dress"

[Cliff2]

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"The dress that got tongues wagging and split a nation

It is the dress that fuelled a thousand ugly rumours - the simple black outfit, decorated with red ribbons and buttons, which falsely convinced so many Australians 25 years ago that Lindy Chamberlain had killed her baby, Azaria.

Now, for the first time, the black outfit and matching red bootees, will go on show at the National Museum of Australia - the most controversial of around 500 oddities in the museum's collection usually hidden away from view..."

 

[honorthesabbath]

Oh Cliff--I remember that story. Of course many believe that the ONLY reason Lindy was convicted of murder was because she was SDA!! If it had been anybody else--they would believed her story straight away!!!

 

[NeverADullMoment]

That was a very sad story indeed.

 

[SassySDA]

Click here for the full story on the "Dress"


"The dress that got tongues wagging and split a nation

It is the dress that fuelled a thousand ugly rumours - the simple black outfit, decorated with red ribbons and buttons, which falsely convinced so many Australians 25 years ago that Lindy Chamberlain had killed her baby, Azaria.

Now, for the first time, the black outfit and matching red bootees, will go on show at the National Museum of Australia - the most controversial of around 500 oddities in the museum's collection usually hidden away from view..."

Yes, I remember that story. It was hard to fathom a dingo dragging off a baby for it's meal...especially for those of us in America who mostly think of dingos as dogs, dogs like WE are used to.

It was a fascinating story.

 

[SassySDA]

Oh Cliff--I remember that story. Of course many believe that the ONLY reason Lindy was convicted of murder was because she was SDA!! If it had been anybody else--they would believed her story straight away!!!

Funny, honor, I didn't realize she WAS Seventh-day Adventist. But it could have been part of why they didn't believe her. That poor family and what they went through...But God won out in the end.

 

[Cliff2]

Funny, honor, I didn't realize she WAS Seventh-day Adventist. But it could have been part of why they didn't believe her. That poor family and what they went through...But God won out in the end.

Not only the family were SDA's but the husband was an SDA minister at the time it happened. If I remember rightly they were at the Mt Isa SDA Church and obviously after that he could not longer stay there and returned to Avondale to do further study until Lindy was re-tried and sent to goal for three years until the babies top was found as it was just as Lindy said it was.

 

[Cliff2]

Yes, I remember that story. It was hard to fathom a dingo dragging off a baby for it's meal...especially for those of us in America who mostly think of dingos as dogs, dogs like WE are used to.

It was a fascinating story.

Since the others have been attacked by dingoes, one such attack resulted in the death of the young person on Frazier Is. just off the coast of Queensland.

 

[Cliff2]

An interesting link about dingoes

 

[mystery4]

Funny, honor, I didn't realize she WAS Seventh-day Adventist. But it could have been part of why they didn't believe her. That poor family and what they went through...But God won out in the end.

she is an SDA PK. Her parents are a great couple.

According to the tv series that was on a couple of years ago (appently it was what happened as seen through Lindy's eyes) it was cuz the NT Government didn't want them suing them and them having to pay out lots of money (there had already been a number of dingo attacks beforehand and they'd done nothing about it. someone else had already tried suing them, not sure whether or not they'd won).