Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton: A Look Back into 32 Years of Pain, Public Ridicule and Forgiveness

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton had been accused of killing her own baby and making up a sick story involving dingoes to cover her crime.

She had been publicly judged and subsequently jailed. Known personalities made jokes about her claims. But on Tuesday, Chamberlain-Creighton was vindicated. One by one, she is accepting apologies being expressed, saying, "I think they have a huge amount of courage to admit that they were wrong."

Here is a look back into the story of Lindy Chamberlain and Baby Azaria, and the vindication on paper that came out 32 years later.

- Azaria Chamberlain was about nine weeks old when she was killed in Uluru (then called Ayers Rock) on August 17, 1980. Azaria was with parents Michael and Lindy, and brothers Aiden and Regan.

- The Chamberlain couple said a dingo or dingoes had snatched their baby from the family's tent.

- In 1980-1981, Coroner Dennis Barrett announced his findings that a dingo had indeed taken Azaria.

- A new inquest was ordered in 1981 under Coroner Gerry Galvin after new evidence surfaced refuting Mr Barrett's findings. Blood from Azaria had been found in the Chamberlains' car.

- The Chamberlains went on trial in September 1982: Lindy for murder and Michael for being an accessory to the crime. Two months later, a Supreme Court jury in Darwin found the Chamberlains guilty. Mrs Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mr Chamberlain received a bond.

- Azaria's matinee jacket and other new evidence surfaced at the base of Uluru in 1986. The Northern Territory government released Lindy and ordered a royal commission.

- The Chamberlain couple was exonerated and compensated. They asked for a coroner's finding that a dingo had taken Azaria, so a third inquest led by John Lounds followed. The findings this time left an open verdict.

- Michael and Lindy had divorced and remarried, so Lindy has been known as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.

- Northern Territory Deputy Coroner Elizabeth Morris on June 12 delivered her findings in the Darwin Magistrates Court. Ms Morris led the fourth and final inquest into the death of Baby Azaria.

- Ms Morris said: "I am satisfied the evidence is sufficiently cogent and excludes all other reasonable possibilities defined [as to] what occurred... 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 also considered the reported deaths of children since 1986 - in Queensland, NSW, and Victoria - as a result of attacks by dingoes or dingo-cross dogs.

- After getting a copy of her baby's official death certificate, Lindy told reporters: "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 said: "It has taken too long [but] I'm here to tell you, you can get justice even when you think all is lost."

- Baby Azaria's death certificate noted: "The cause of her death was as the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo."