Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton arrives at Darwin Magistrates Court in February for the fourth inquest into her daughter Azaria's death. A coroner ruled Tuesday, June 12, that a dingo was responsible. 
Azaria Chamberlain was two months old when she disappeared from her family's tent at Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, in August 1980. 
A file image of a captive dingo inside an enclosure at the Dingo Discovery and Research Centre in Victoria, Australia. Chamberlain-Creighton long maintained that a dingo took her baby. 
Lindy and Michael Chamberlain enter a Sydney court in January 1987. Lindy was sentenced to life in jail in 1982 for her daughter's murder, a conviction that was later quashed. 
A fence, thousands of kilometers long, attempts to keep dingoes away from livestock in a file image from 2005. - Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from a tent more than 30 years ago
- Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton claimed her baby had been taken by a dingo
- Prosecutors convinced a jury she was guilty of murder; conviction later quashed
- Mom's reaction: "Relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga"
(CNN) -- A coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo, a wild dog native to Australia, caused the death of a baby more than 30 years ago.
Azaria Chamberlain was just 2 months old when she disappeared from a tent during a family holiday to Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, sparking one of the country's most sensational and enduring murder mysteries.
"The cause of her death was as the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo," Elizabeth Morris, coroner for Northern Territory, announced to Darwin Magistrates court early Tuesday. "Dingos can and do cause harm to humans."
The girl's mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, long maintained that a dingo took her baby, even as she was sentenced to life in jail for her daughter's murder, a conviction that was later quashed.
During the trial, a witness recounted the then 32-year-old mother's cries of a "dingo's got my baby," which was immortalized in the 1988 film "A Cry in the Dark" starring Meryl Streep, who earned an Oscar nomination for the role.
Outside the court Tuesday, Chamberlain-Creighton said she and her family were "relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga."
2004 on CNN.com: Child staves off stalking dingo
"No longer will Australia be able to say that dingoes are not dangerous and will only attack if provoked," she said.
Evidence produced at the fourth inquest into Azaria's death in February included reports of attacks by dingoes and dogs assumed to be part-dingo or crossbreeds. The coroner heard that in 2001 a 9-year-old boy died as a result of a dingo attack on Fraser Island in the Australian state of Queensland.
Years later, two girls, each around 2-years-old, died in separate attacks by dogs believed to be part-dingo in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
In her findings, Morris said no other disappearance exactly like that of Azaria had been recorded.
However, she said, "it is clear that there is evidence that in particular circumstances, a dingo is capable of attacking, taking and causing the death of young children."
