Early Life
Alice Lynne Murchison was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, where she was known as "Lindy" from a young age. She moved to Australia with her family in 1949.
She and her family were members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and she married fellow Adventist and pastor Michael Chamberlain on 18 November 1969. For the first five years after their marriage they lived in Tasmania, after which they moved to Mount Isa in northern Queensland. At the time their daughter Azaria went missing, Lindy's husband Michael served as minister of Mount Isa's Seventh Day Adventist Church.
In the 1970s the Chamberlains had two sons: Aidan, born in 1973, and Reagan, born in 1976. A family friend, Mrs Ransom, gave evidence that Lindy had always wanted a girl. Chamberlain's first daughter, Azaria, was born 11 June 1980, and her second daughter and fourth child, Kahlia, was born in November 1982.
According to the findings of the third inquest, the evidence for some aspects of Lindy Chamberlain's mothering was undisputed: Chamberlain was "an exemplary mother".
- She had no mental illness.
- She was never violent with her children.
- She had given no indication of being irritated with Azaria.
- She gave no indication of being stressed when she took Azaria and indicated that she was putting her to bed.
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