Main defence witness in trial of Michael and Lindy Chamberlain dies

Barry Boettcher made a private visit to Mount Isa in 1984 in the aftermath of the Azaria Chamberlain case. The case had seen Pastor Michael Chamberlain and his wife Lindy convicted over the death of their daughter, Azaria, at Uluru on August 1980.

It did, and then the awful truth started to become apparent: that in all probability the re-agent being used in the Chamberlains’ car and on their possessions had indicated not the presence of blood at all, but of copper dust which was everywhere in Mount Isa and had affixed itself to sticky surfaces in the Chamberlains’ car. The supposed presence of blood had put the Chamberlains in the frame. The supposed identification of foetal haemoglobin had convicted them.

Boettcher finished his schooling at Melbourne Boys’ High and though not matriculating, went to Melbourne Teachers’ College to become a primary school teacher. Adept at swimming and water polo, he started teaching in rural Victoria and at Tanybryn he met a trainee nurse, Moira Henriksen, whom he married in 1955. They set off for their honeymoon with Barry riding a motorbike and his bride in a sidecar.

Boettcher lectured at Flinders University and was invited to participate in the First International Symposium on Reproductive Immunology in Varna, Bulgaria, where he was elected as a councillor on the governing body. In 1967, an International Biological Programme was initiated to investigate effects of people adopting new and different diets.

Boettcher attended a conference at Cambridge University organised by the Population Council, took up a Harkness Scholarship allowing him to travel to the United States and attended an international genetics conference in Tokyo, followed by a conference in Geneva on fertility control.In Alaska, Boettcher visited a Naval Arctic Research Station where he took trips to collect blood and saliva samples from Inuit people, and continued his studies on starch digestion.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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