A Cry in the Dark
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1:32:03
”And never laugh
or you’re an uncaring bitch.”

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I can’t cry to order and I won’t be
squashed into a dumb act for the public.

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Or for you.
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Is it not the case that your husband
declined to search on that Sunday night

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because he knew the baby was dead?
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- And he knew you had killed her.
- Definitely not.

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You invented the story of the dingo
removing the baby from the tent.

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I did not invent that story, Mr Barker.
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It’s the truth.
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The prosecutor put many questions to Mrs
Chamberlain when she was in the stand.

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But there was one allegation, a most
important allegation, that was never put.

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It was the allegation
that would have started with the words:

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”Mrs Chamberlain, the reason
you cut your child’s throat was...”

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The most important allegation.
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And it was never put.
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It was never put because Mr Barker,
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one of the best men in the business,
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just cannot think of any reason
why she would do it.

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No doubt the ordinary crocodile would
have gone out of its way to eat this baby.

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But our experience as Australians tells us
the dingo does not bear such a reputation.

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Now, what is this dingo
supposed to have done?

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It managed, if her story is true,
to kill the baby in the bassinet,

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drag it from the basket, shake her head
vigorously at the entrance to the tent,

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then carry her off in such a way
that left virtually no clues in the tent

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in the way of blood or hairs
or anything else.

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It left no blood or drag marks
at the entrance to the tent.

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It was able to pass by
the child’s mother, in full view,


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