ACHEIEVEMENT CHASE YOUR DREAMS, YOU MAY BE SURPRISED BY WHERE THEY LEAD YOU.

July 08, 2004
LINDY Chamberlain-Creighton does not believe the man who claims to have found the body of her daughter Azaria in the jaws of a dingo he shot. But the man, Frank Cole, apparently passed a lie-detector test with flying colours.

Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said that after speaking to Mr Cole she believed there were "a number of holes" in his story relating to the 1980 disappearance.

"There's nothing in his statement that didn't come from the newspapers," she told the Nine Network last night. "What, 2 1/2 thousand campers I think it was, something like that, at the rock that night - nobody mentions a rifle sound - you would have been able to hear that miles and miles and miles away."

But earlier this week her former husband said he may have heard a gunshot on the night the baby disappeared.

Ms Chamberlain-Creighton also doubted Mr Cole's description of trying to remove the baby's clothes.









"I always try to keep an open mind and then he started talking about buttons and how difficult the buttons were to undo on the jacket. And I thought, 'Really? a) It only had one button, not buttons, and, secondly, it was an extremely loose buttonhole and it wouldn't have been a problem getting it off'," Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said.

She added that it would be nice to have believed Mr Cole so she could put everything to rest and finally prove the prosecutors wrong over the murder charge she faced.

Ms Chamberlain-Creighton spent four years in prison between 1982 and 1986 before being released and then pardoned in 1987, acquitted in one of Australia's most notorious cases.

The new claims, which emerged on the weekend, appear to back her story that Azaria was snatched by a dingo, but she said she did not believe there was any human intervention that night. However, Mr Cole, 78, apparently passed a lie detector test, also broadcast on the Nine Network.

"(The polygraph test) tells me he's telling the truth in relation to those issues," said operator Steve Van Aperen.

"There is no doubt in my mind according to these charts and responses."

Ms Chamberlain-Creighton is understood to be visiting Uluru later this week with a film crew shooting a story about the baby's disappearance.

If it did turn out Mr Cole was telling the truth, she would not hold it against him that he had withheld the information for 24 years.

Meanwhile, residents of the house Mr Cole had identified as one of the potential burial sites said they had found nothing in the backyard despite extensive recent renovations.

Most of the yard is now underneath the footprint of the house.

Victoria police are investigating Mr Cole's claims.

I HAVE ALWAYS HAD MY THEORIES ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. I WAS A YOUNG GIRL WHEN IT OCCURRED, MY FATHER HAD FRIENDS "IN HIGH PLACES" AND WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE JUST WASN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTE THE PERSON WHOM WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE ALLEDGEDLY COMMITTED THE CRIME AND TO THIS DAY THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN CHARGED. IT ALL STILL REMAINS A MYSTERY. iT'S EVEN MORE OF MYSTERY NOW....LOL.