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No. Topic Question or response Comment Labels and
actions

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156 People were asking what they could
do to help We asked them to round
up as many people with torches as
possible and start searching. There
were already between twenty and
thirty out.

157 We told them to try and keep the Told = assertive

dog on the move so that it would Note again ‘dog’ If she had

either drop it and run or keep believed the dingo had taken her

carrying her so we could catch it baby she would have said ‘so

and get her back. that it would either drop her and

run …’ The inconsistent use of

the pronouns ‘it’ and ‘her’ may

indicate that she knew the dingo

did not have her baby. Why use

the non-threatening noun ‘dog’

instead of ‘dingo’?

158 Michael asked me was I sure she Revisiting the tent … before the

wasn’t in the tent I said I was police arrived is an odd phrase.

positive but to come with me she Possibly suggesting that they had

wasn’t there before the Police tidied the scene

arrived.

159 as we were coming out of the tent Ambiguous sentence …. Does

we checked it together. it mean they only checked for

Azaria as they were coming out of

the tent. If so, they went in there

for another reason ‘before the

police arrived’

160 Michael lowered his torch and it fell But Michael’s sleeping bag was
on drops of blood on the bottom of under hers
his sleeping bag.

161 We didn’t notice any other blood Excuse … if they had a better

at the time. We knew she was torch would they have seen

bleeding. We looked for a trail of blood?

blood in front of the car in the sand.

but could not find any with our

torch.

Mr Sapir’s comments are extracted from The View Questionnaire – Manual, © LSI 1990 Laboratory For Scientific
Interrogation