Australia to probe 'dingo baby' mystery

SYDNEY - Australia will hold a new inquest into the 1980 disappearance and death of baby Azaria Chamberlain, a case which drew huge attention after the baby's parents said she had been snatched by a dingo, or wild dog, officials said.

The inquest will be the fourth into the child's death at Ayer's Rock, also known as Uluru, in the Australian outback.

The child's mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was convicted of murder in 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment, a conviction which was later quashed. A conviction against the father, Michael Chamberlain, as an accessory after the fact was also quashed.