HEY, A DINGO REALLY DID EAT HER BABY...:

Azaria secret finally revealed (Adrian Tame, Sue Hewitt and Chris Tinkler, July 4, 2004, news.com.au)

AZARIA Chamberlain was killed by a dingo and her body hidden by men camping rough near Ayers Rock, one of the group has sensationally claimed.

An elderly Melbourne man says he shot the dingo that killed Azaria and then retrieved her body from its jaws.

Frank Cole also believes Azaria's body may have been buried in a Melbourne back yard by one of his mates.

Mr Cole, 78, told the Sunday Herald Sun he had lived with the secret of what happened to the 9 1/2-week-old girl for almost 25 years.

The ailing Pascoe Vale pensioner, who is the last of the camping party at the rock (now Uluru), said he wanted to unburden himself before it is too late.

"Over the past 25 years I've had nightmares and many sleepless nights over the whole affair," Mr Cole said.

"But I may not have long left and if anything happened to me nobody would know the truth."

Mr Cole said he had fled the Northern Territory after the discovery, fearing he might face jail for using a firearm in a national park.

His shock claims could solve one of Australia's most famous mysteries.