SYDNEY, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Newly released documents show the jury in Australia's notorious Lindy Chamberlain case never thought much of her claims a dingo killed her baby daughter.
Notes written by the jurors during their deliberations indicated the panel was puzzled at the seemingly unemotional behavior of Chamberlain and her husband, Michael, after the disappearance of daughter Azaria in 1980.
The Daily Telegraph in Sydney said jurors were also unimpressed with the couple's defense, which contended Azaria was grabbed from their tent by a wild dingo while they were camping at Ayers Rock. One handwritten entry termed the defense case "purely smokescreen."
The newspaper said Monday it obtained the notes from Northern Territory police files after three months of negotiations.
Chamberlain was convicted of murder and spent more than three years in prison, where she gave birth to her fourth child, before being released in 1986, when new evidence was found. Meryl Streep and Sam Neil played the Chamberlains in the 1988 film "A Cry in the Dark."
In 1990, Chamberlain wrote a book about the case.
