LOS ANGELES, CA ((Catholic Online) - The eyes of Azaria's parents welled with joyful tears as the findings of the fourth inquest into their daughter's disappearance were announced.

"We're relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga," Chamberlain-Creighton, who has since divorced and remarried, told reporters.

An inquest into the disappearance in 1981 had blamed a dingo. A second inquest a year later charged Chamberlain-Creighton with murder and her husband with being an accessory after the fact. She was convicted and served more than three years in prison before that decision was overturned. A third inquest in 1995 left the cause of death open.

The case became famous internationally through the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark," in which Meryl Streep played the mother.

Many Australians were skeptical that a dingo was strong enough to take away the baby, whose body has never been found. Public opinion swayed harshly against the couple.

No similar dingo attack had been documented at the time of the incident. In recent years, the wild dogs native to Australia has been blamed for three fatal attacks on children.

Many Australians doubt the couple's story today, but the latest inquest made it official that Azaria was killed in a dingo attack.

Brad Purcell, an expert on dingo behavior, said he was not surprised that a dingo would enter a tent and take a baby while older siblings slept, saying that many people blamed Chamberlain-Creighton for leaving the baby in a tent where a dingo could have been attracted by her crying.

"She was almost being condemned because she wasn't acting as a responsible parent," Purcell said.

Skepticism about the ruling remains. Frank Morris, a policeman who was at Uluru the night Azaria disappeared said he still believes the first coroner's finding that there was some human intervention.

Having since retired from the police force, he said that while he was not trying to blame the parents, he thought someone played a part in moving clothing Azaria wore that night.

"We don't know who. That is the $64,000 question," Morris said.

"If you go to court enough times, you are bound to get a win sooner or later," Morris added.

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