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title: A Dingo Ate My Baby
description: "Two Australian cases—Lindy Chamberlain and Kathleen Folbigg—where circumstantial evidence led to convictions for infanticide, and where \"The Dingo Defense\" became a matter of life and imprisonment."
url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/a-dingo-ate-my-baby.md
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datePublished: 2026-06-11
dateModified: 2026-06-11
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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Two Australian cases—Lindy Chamberlain and Kathleen Folbigg—where circumstantial evidence led to convictions for infanticide, and where "The Dingo Defense" became a matter of life and imprisonment.
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