Spectral Disapparition And All The Lost Madeleines

As the search for the absent Madeleine (TM), bolstered by the further branding of 'loss nostalgia' via an aggressive advertising campaign just orchestrated by the affected parties, continues, concerned Mediums turn their attention to the likelihood of a spectral rendezvous between Madeleine McCann and Lindy Chamberlain's lost baby, Azaria Chamberlain, at Uluru/Ayer's Rock in Australia ...

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"A Dingo Took Her!"

"Azaria Chamberlain disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip with her family. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, supported this assertion. The findings of the inquest were broadcast live on television - a first in Australia. Subsequently, after a further investigation and second inquest, Azaria's mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was tried and convicted of her murder, on 29 October 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Azaria's father, Michael Chamberlain, was convicted as an accessory after the fact and given a suspended sentence.

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The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals, including the final High Court appeal. After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery of a piece of Azaria's clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain's release from prison, on "compassionate grounds." She was later exonerated of all charges. While the case is officially unsolved, the report of a dingo attack is generally accepted. Recent deadly dingo attacks in other areas of Australia have strengthened the case for the dingo theory.

The story has been made into a TV movie, a feature film [A Cry in the Dark], and a TV miniseries. There have also been numerous books about the case. Outside of Australia, the incident is often referred to as the Dingo Baby case
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Meanwhile, other paranormal specialists, skeptical of the Uluru connection, point instead to the disappearance in 1900 of a group of schoolgirls at the Hanging Rock while their supervisors were having a picnic at the base of the Rock, suggesting instead an intervention by the pre-historic elemental forces of Mother Nature:

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"On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picknicked at Hanging Rock, near Mt. Macedon in the State of Victoria. During the afternoon several members of the party disappeared without a trace …"

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Opposing these more orthodox paranormal practitioners are a small group of revenant hunters who maintain that the present child-centred hysteria is merely a hauntological re-enactment and re-visitation of the Brady Twins, forever and ever being axed to death by the patriarchal caretaking spectres of the Overlook Hotel, as likely to recur in a holiday resort in Portugal as one in Colerado ...

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... ho ho ho [as the Bishop said to Santa Claus].
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I liked the headlines the other day: "Police to examine Kate McCann's diary".

What exactly are the expecting to find, do you think?

May 2nd: killed daughter
May 3rd: disposed of body, lied to police, lol!!!
 
N

nomadologist

Guest
I know this is going to offend someone, or everyone, but is this the first time the UK has had one of these media "grief" orgies over a lost girl?

i'm genuinely curious whether it's really the first time.

we get em about every year or so. the last time it was really out-of-control, it was a pregnant woman, though, not a young girl, and it turned into the scott peterson trial
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"I know this is going to offend someone, or everyone, but is this the first time the UK has had one of these media "grief" orgies over a lost girl?"
Not the first such orgy by any means but definitely the biggest (except for maybe Diana). Thing is, each one is bigger than the last as far as I can see, this could go on until someone else with an equally photogenic family goes missing.
Er, or they find Madeleine of course.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I know this is going to offend someone, or everyone,

Doubt it, to be honest...this isn't the dailymail.com's comments section. :)

There was lots of coverage a few years ago over the Soham murders, although it wasn't as big as Maddie. However in that case I think the girls were only missing a couple of weeks before the bodies were found, so there wasn't this big search effort that went on for months and months (and months).
 
N

nomadologist

Guest
Unfortunately, it can get even worse if they find them. We found that one girl, Elizabeth Smart, alive and well, and the media frenzy continued. Especially because she was a decently attractive girl, and was getting more mature looking by the time she was found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart_kidnapping


Now she's a happy mormon BYU student.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Unfortunately, it can get even worse if they find them. We found that one girl, Elizabeth Smart, alive and well, and the media frenzy continued. Especially because she was a decently attractive girl, and was getting more mature looking by the time she was found."
Who was it when that guy confessed but then it seemed as though he had made it up? I think she was a beauty queen or something.
There was that weird Kaspar Hauser/City of Glass style one in Germany recently as well of course, I imagine that got a fair amount of media coverage.
 
N

nomadologist

Guest
There was a guy in Syracuse NY who kidnapped then kept a bunch of girls in dungeons for years at a time, Kaspar style.

That one didn't get as much attention because they didn't believe the girls after they escaped--the guy had made them write letters to their family and friends saying they'd just run away or gone to rehab and they'd be home in a couple years. In a few instances he even forced them to take him to meet their parents. They all had pretty bad psychological trauma issues that made them terrified of just telling their parents.

These girls were seen as "slutty" so, of course, the police thought that they couldn't have been telling the truth.
 
N

nomadologist

Guest
Who was it when that guy confessed but then it seemed as though he had made it up? I think she was a beauty queen or something.
There was that weird Kaspar Hauser/City of Glass style one in Germany recently as well of course, I imagine that got a fair amount of media coverage.

Oh wait, you were talking about John Mark Carr, who tried to claim he'd killed Jon Benet Ramsay. The creepiest little kidnapping/homocide victim ever.
 

Leo

Well-known member
John Mark Carr

a truly creeping, unbalanced character, but i'll be damned how he engineered his release from foreign custody (where he probably would have rotted in jail) to come back to the US and then pretty much walk away scott free on the charges here. totally sick but also brilliant, in a way.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
So, the sighting in Morocco was a false lead. What I don't get is this bit:

Doubts over the photograph had been expressed throughout yesterday despite claims by Clara Torres, who took the picture, that "either it's her [Madeleine], or she's got a twin sister".
Ms Torres was on holiday with her fiance and family when she shot the photograph, nearly four months after Madeleine went missing. She gave a round of radio and television interviews yesterday, insisting that the girl was Madeleine. After learning last night that it was not, she said: "I did what I had to do. It was not my intention to raise false hopes."
If it were me that had taken the picture I would be dead careful not to raise hopes, I would qualify everything I said with "maybes" and "could bes" - I mean, it's really hard to tell if someone you see is someone else you've seen pictures of. It seems obvious that this woman has let her desire to be part of the story (or, being charitable, her desire to save "Maddie") blind her to the truth and the way to behave. I find it bizarre.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
"Hopes dashed as blob in the sky turns out to be mere alien spacecraft"
 
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Guybrush

Dittohead
I finally succumbed to the pressure and looked up this sordid joke of a story. Ok, some photogenic kid went missing half a year ago? Cry me a river. The most unsettling thing about it is the obscene coverage it has received in the tabloid press even here, where it hasn’t even the faintest shade of the slightest bit of significance. I’m sensing a small shift in the making: where previously tabloids had to actually make up their own stories, now the exact same stories can be used worldwide, making the job for everyone involved so much easier. And the readers all the poorer for it.
 
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