Did this star athlete murder her newborn baby? (Part 2/2) | Forensic Files

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[Music] listeners Spirits were high for the balain Women's Water poloo team on the
night of Saturday March 18 1995 despite losing against their rival team during the club's Grand Final a few
hours earlier the players and their supporters were celebrating the end of an otherwise successful season with the
drinks at a bain Pub 19-year-old Kelly Lane was among them having played a solid game her parents had watched the
match but they couldn't stick around for drinks instead Kelly was joined by her boyfriend Duncan Gillies and his mother
Julie who had also attended the game at around 9900 p.m. a few of Kelly's teammates know noticed that
Kelly had left without saying a word Duncan and Julie were still there so her teammates didn't give it too much
thought and continued on with their night little did any of them know while playing an impressive Grand Final in
front of a crowd filled with her loved ones Kelly had been keeping a huge secret she was 9 months
pregnant the reason she'd left the pub was because she'd gone into labor Kelly took a taxi alone to the Bain
hospital about a kilometer away and was subsequently transferred to King George V Memorial Hospital where she gave birth
to her first child Kayla the following morning staff took pity on the polite and warm- natured
19-year-old Not only was it incredibly rare for a young woman to give birth alone and without a single visitor in
the hours following the delivery it was clear clear that Kelly was incredibly upset a social worker was assigned to
make sure she was okay Kelly explained that she and the baby's father Duncan Gillies had only
recently moved to Sydney from their hometown of Perth which was why she had no support Duncan was furthering his rugby
career while Kelly was training to play water polo for Australia at the 2000 Olympics it was the first time that
Women's Water poloo would feature at the event and she hoped to make the team unable to care for a child and not
wanting to have an abortion Kelly said the couple had agreed to place Kayla for adoption on the evening of Tuesday March
21 1995 Kelly requested a pass out so she could discuss the adoption with Duncan in
Private Hospital staff granted the request taking care of Baby Kayla so Kelly could get her Affairs in
order Kelly returned in the early morning hours saying Duncan didn't want to be involved in the adoption
process as per protocol the adoption agency still tried multiple times to contact to Duncan using the details
Kelly provided all attempts were unsuccessful Kelly explained that Duncan was purposely avoiding them because
she'd promised him he didn't need to be involved besides he was about to go overseas to play rugby and would be
unreachable for the next 2 weeks eventually after weeks of trying to contact the Duncan Gillies without
success the adoption agency had Kelly sign an affidavit confirming Duncan was Kayla's father and had consented to the
adoption she signed a second affidavit a few weeks later saying Duncan had ended
their relationship and wanted nothing to to do with their child or the adoption just months after giving birth
Kelly went on to represent Australia at a water polo tournament in Canada 6 months later while Kayla's
adoption was still being finalized Kelly was pregnant again this time with Tean [Music]
[Music] after the 2006 coronial inquest into tan Lane's whereabouts her case was
officially handed over to the New South Wales homicide Squad to be reinvestigated from
scratch detectives reviewed all the evidence uncovered so far and under took their own searches for Tegan Lane and
Andrew Norris they double checked Nationwide records from registry officers the immigration department Australia Post
missing persons reports and utility companies every possible spelling variation of tan was
considered checks were made for any Tegan born in 1996 with the connection to a woman named Mel or any variation of
that such as Melanie or Melissa but after 2 years of intense scrutiny detectives uncovered
nothing although Kelly had been caught in countless Lies when it came to teegan's birth there was one detail in
her story that remained unchanged in each version she maintained that after being discharged from Orban
Hospital on Saturday September 14 1996 she went back to Duncan Gilly's house in Gladesville
although detectives conducted a cursory search of the property during the missing person investigation in 2003 the
homicide Squad decided it was worth taking a closer look in early August 2008 Duncan's
former property was cordoned off as an extensive search commenced the weatherboard home had
undergone significant Renovations a couple of years prior yet police remained hopeful they might uncover
something of Interest over 5 days they scoured the property with kadava dogs checking the yard the
roof and inside the walls while a forensic anthropologist sifted through the soil underneath the
house they identified several small bone fragments which were sent away for further
testing results concluded that they weren't Human by this point tan Lane's case had
been in the hands of police Poli for more than 8 and 1 half years and in the public Spotlight for three in all that
time investigators failed to uncover a single piece of evidence indicating what had happened to
tan police had been keeping a close eye on Kelly with another covert tap placed on her
phone 1,200 phone calls were recorded in 2008 in addition to the 700 intercepted
in 2004 while Kelly said nothing incred Min ating during any of these calls there
was something about them that investigators found significant at no point did Kelly Lane
make her own attempts to find her missing daughter it was something they Den noted
early in the investigation if Kelly's story about giving Teegan to Andrew Norris was true
and she'd so desperately wanted to keep the whole ordeal a secret from her family and friends then why hadn't she
tried to find the pair herself Kelly initially claimed to have old diaries that might have outdated
contact details for Andrew and some mutual friends yet she never attempted to track these
down one journalist discovered that in 2003 Kelly visited a website that aimed to reconnect long lost school
friends she posted a brief message which read looking for Andrew Norris aged Ro 38 went to school possibly Western
Sydney went on to University then entered stock broking SL money markets she shared a similar message
shortly after adding that the Andrew Norris she was looking for had a partner named Melanie and they might now be
married no one responded and kelly didn't appear to make any attempts beyond that while this was wasn't an indicator
of guilt it led some to believe that Kelly wasn't trying to track Tean down because she already knew Teegan was
dead but like everything else in the case this was just an unsubstantiated Theory after 2 years of Investigations
the homicide Squad still had no concrete evidence tying Kelly to Tan's death but
they remained convinced she had killed the newborn the fact of the matter was there
was nothing to suggest anyone had ever seen Teegan Lane after she and Kelly were discharged from Orban hospital at
around midday on Saturday September 14 1996 by 300 p.m. Kelly was at her parents house in Fair light with no baby
in sight if it took around an hour to make the drive then what was Kelly doing during the unaccounted for 2hour window
[Music] based on the evidence at hand investigators started to piece together what they believed to be a likely
scenario by the time 21-year-old Kelly was nearing the end of her pregnancy with Teegan she was no longer the naive
firsttime mother she'd been when Kayla was born almost 18 months earlier as she' learned from her
experience at the Bain Park labor could occur at any time knowing she was expected to attend
the wedding of Duncan's family friends on Saturday September 14 1996 she couldn't risk going into labor in front
of the other guests or at any other awward moment time was of the essence in early September Duncan was
out of town on a rugby trip giving Kelly an ample window of opportunity to give birth without those close to her finding
out medical records showed she visited Riot Hospital on Saturday September 7 Monday September 9 and then again on
Tuesday September 10 each time she claimed her baby was overdue which had derailed her plan of a
home birth with her private Midwife and each time she sought to have an induction without any anti-al records to
prove the baby's gestation Hospital staff denied each of her requests on Wednesday September 11
1996 Kelly went to Orban Hospital on the other side of town giving the same story
she'd given at ride there her request to be induced was granted Teegan was born on Thursday
September 12th investigators believed it was at this point that Kelly started to panic
the unexpected complications with her retained placenta meant she required posttop care and she'd be pushing it to
be discharged in time to attend the wedding on Saturday knowing she couldn't take Tean
home but unwilling to go through what she now knew to be a lengthy complicated and emotionally grueling adoption
process Kelly lied to hospital staff and said she'd be receiving atome care from
her private midwife on Saturday September 14 she was granted permission to leave as long as
she completed some paperwork including the Guthrie test consent form and the registration form to submit to the
registry of bir's deaths and marriages an appointment was also made for a midwife to visit her at home in a
few days time with the just hours to spare before the wedding Kelly left at around midday
without completing any of the paperwork or signing the discharge papers no hospital staff or the other
patient Kelly was sharing a room with recalled seeing Kelly and Teegan leave that day however there was an unalarmed
fire escape directly opposite their room which Kelly could have exited from without passing the nurse's
station there was no CCTV footage to prove what happened after Kelly left the hospital but she claimed that was when
she met up with the Norris Andrew's mother and his partner Mel to hand Tegan over Kelly initially claimed to have
taken a taxi home but later said she'd driven herself homicide detectives ran checks
with every taxi company in Sydney and found no records of any passengers being picked up from Orban Hospital on
Saturday September 14 1996 they therefore believed that Kelly had driven herself home home and at some
point during that Journey she killed her two-day old baby and disposed of her body she then went about life as though
nothing had happened attending the wedding that evening where she was observed socializing drinking and
dancing on Monday September 16 Kelly called the Midwife program and cancelled the appointment they' made for her
saying her private Midwife had everything under control [Music] in the following days and weeks there
was nothing to suggest Kelly was suffering from postnatal depression or any other mental
disturbance therefore investigators believed Tegan's murder was motivated by Kelly's desire to move on without anyone
discovering she'd give him birth getting rid of Tegan would not only conceal her infidelity and remove
the responsibility of Parenthood it would enable her to pursue her dream of playing water poloo in the upcoming
Sydney 2000 Olympics in late 1997 Kelly asked the Australian College of physical education
if she could defer her tertiary studies to concentrate on making the Australian Olympic
team for 3 years she successfully lived her life as though Tegan had never existed and those close to her Were None
the wiser it was only when Tegan's birth was exposed through the adoption of baby
Jacob in 1999 that Kelly's guilt became obvious due to her multitude of Lies not only had she told eight
different stories to hospital staff adoption agencies social workers and police there were other inconsistencies
that also raised suspicion namely why had Kelly initially said she wouldn't be able to find Andrew
Norris's apartment then located it with ease when police drove her through his neighborhood why did she tell detectives
she'd gone to Duncan's old house to search for Andrew's phone number when she hadn't Kelly also said her circle of
friends had changed since 1996 and she no longer knew people from back then when in reality she'd maintained close
friendships from childhood and Beyond there were holes in her claims about tean's father too if Kelly really
did arrange for Andrew to take Teagan then why register her on her own Medicare card rather than
his and if Andrew was willing to raise tan why didn't he do something as simple as register her birth with the registry
office as far as investigators were concerned the only explanation for these inconsistencies was that the hospital
staff had urged Kelly to fill out the Medicare form and she couldn't see a way around it
Andrew never registered teegan's birth or sought a separate Medicare card because Andrew never existed in the
first place the problem for the homicide Squad was that it didn't matter how convinced
they were of this scenario they had no physical evidence to prove it they presented their case to the
director of public prosecutions who reviewed the case for 12 months while the investigation
continued during that time no sign of tan or Andrew surfaced adding weight to the theory that Teegan was dead and
Andrew was a fictional character created by Kelly in November 2009 the DPP made their
decision Kelly Lane was charged with tean's murder while the prosecution felt they
had a strong case they were fully aware of the challenges they faced by going to
court with only circumstantial evidence without tean's body they couldn't be certain that a murder had
even occurred even if the jury believed Kelly was lying about giving Tegan to her
biological father it still didn't prove that she'd done anything to harm the child or that the child was even
dead while Kelly's history of secret pregnancies adoptions and lies was certainly compelling from a legal
standpoint these details had no relevance to Tegan's case and would therefore likely be deemed inadmissible
in court however when Kelly's other children Kaylor and Jacob were born and adopted Kelly had signed affidavits that
featured various false statements including that Duncan Gillies was the father of both
babies in Jacob's case Kelly later signed another affidavit claiming the father was really a man named Aaron
Williams whom she'd met in London DNA tests conducted as part of the homicide investigation confirmed
that Duncan wasn't the father of either child while Aaron Williams was deemed to
be a product of Kelly's imagination the other false statements related to addresses Kelly had given and
the father's knowledge of the adoptions but the lies didn't stop there it turned out that when Kelly
requested a pass out from the hospital after Kayla's birth she wasn't going to speak to Kayla's father as she told the
staff that day had been Kelly's 20th birthday she had gone out to celebrate with
France based on the lies on these sworn affidavits the DPP made the decision to charge Kelly with three counts of
perjury to be tried at the same time as the murder charge this was viewed in legal circles
as an incredibly clever move not only did it mean the prosecution could strengthen their case
by using Kelly's history of secret pregnancies and adoptions it would also cast out on her credibility before a
jury but selecting an unbiased a jury was proving to be a challenge in and of itself
when Samantha Clark not her real name heard about the investigation into Teegan Lane she recognized Kelly
Lane Samantha worked at a clinic in Queensland that specialized in late term abortions in February 1999 Kelly
contacted the clinic seeking the termination of what she claimed to be her 24-week pregnancy with the
Jacob the latest the clinic would perform a termination was 5 weeks with the clock ticking Kelly traveled to
Brisbane alone to have the procedure when she arrived at the clinic an examination revealed she was already
beyond the cut off point at around 6 and A2 months pregnant the doctor was therefore unable
to proceed and Kelly returned to Sydney where she gave birth to Jacob 2 and 1/2 months
later after seeing Tan's case on the news Samantha remembered Kelly's visit and called the homicide Squad to report
it after all one of the resounding questions raised by the inquest was why Kelly had gone to Such Great Lengths to
conceal her pregnancies instead of having them terminated Kelly's mother Sandra had
testified at the inquest that she didn't particularly believe in abortion and said it was possible that Kelly knew of
her view Kelly's father Rober testified that he'd asked Kelly why she didn't terminate the pregnancies and she said
something along the lines of I couldn't hurt a baby but the truth was Kelly's visit to
Queensland in 1999 was actually the third time she'd been inside an abortion clinic through the course of the
investigation it was revealed that Kayla wasn't Kelly's first pregnancy she became pregnant for the
first time at age 17 it was 1992 and the father was her first boyfriend a surf Lifesaver named
Aaron tyak Kelly told Aon about the pregnancy but kept it a secret from everyone
else the couple ultimately decided to terminate the pregnancy Kelly chose to go to the
appointment alone and when she met up with Aaron afterwards she was devastated he described her to the ABC
as being a shattered girl what Aaron didn't know was that Kelly became pregnant again the
following year in November 1993 as their relationship was coming to an end this time she didn't tell anybody
she went to a clinic by herself at 5 months pregnant and had an abortion Kelly had been pregnant five
times between the ages of 17 and 24 despite being on the contraceptive pill and not a single friend or family member
ever knew about it prosecutors knew that Kelly's history of terminating pregnancies and placing
babies for adoption would elicit a strong response from some prospective jury members they'd have to take extra
caution to ensure that Kelly was being tried for tean's murder and not for her sexuality or her perceived morals
[Music] the news that Kelly Lane had been charged with Tegan's murder propelled the case back into the headlines with
the rumor mill swinging into overdrive with Kelly's private life exposed the public had their own
salacious questions about her string of pregnancies the results of Kaylor and Jacob's DNA tests hadn't yet been made
public leading some to wonder if had lied about their paternity to cover up the fact that she was being sexually
abused there were Whispers that she might have been impregnated by her Tormentor and had kept the pregnancy
secret because she was so deeply in denial about them herself others gossiped about Kelly's
perceived promiscuity with some speculating that her children were all the result of random Anonymous sexual
encounters police obtained DNA from the man Kelly was known to have had sexual relations with during the
1990s it turned out that Kaya's father was a rugby player she'd been seeing around the time she started dating
Duncan Jacob's father was a friend of her brothers whom she D dated casually after her relationship with the Duncan
ended neither of the men had any idea that Kelly had been pregnant and were completely shocked to learn that they
had fathered her children while their identities were withheld from the public to protect Kaylor and
Jacob's privacy word got out amongst the manly Community close friends of Kelly started
to distance themselves from her unable to comprehend to just how much she had kept from them over the
years the rumors took their toll and by the time Kelly was charged with Tan's murder her life looked markedly
different than it did at the time of the inquest she'd lost the job she loved at
Ravenswood School for Girls and was working as a receptionist at a physiotherapist office her marriage had
disintegrated and ended in divorce but there was one thing that remained unchanged Kelly's staunch insistence
that she was innocent as far as Kelly's defense team was concerned the chances of their
client being convicted were relatively slim after all there wasn't any concrete evidence that Tean was dead let alone
how she died or that Kelly had harmed her Kelly had absolutely no History of Violence and had character references
from more than 40 people who knew her well all attesting she would never hurt a child by all accounts Kelly was a
wonderful mother and teacher who had a special rapport with young children many spoke of the deep loving Bond she
shared with her daughter Emily they commended Kelly's strength and courage as she was vilified by the
media and the details of her private life were splashed across the news if anything the defense believed
that Kelly placing her other two children for adoption proved she was a responsible young woman she'd gone
through with the process twice despite the emot toll which showed how much she cared about the wellbeing of her
babies handing Tegan over to her biological father was just another act of kindness yes Kelly had told many lies
and wasted the efforts of people like adoption agent Virginia fun but that didn't make her a
murderer at the time of her secret pregnancies she was simply a young person who didn't have the maturity or
experience to deal with the difficult and emotional events especially without support from her loved
ones Kelly's defense team also believed that investigators had failed to establish a convincing
motive there had been lots of talk about Kelly's Olympic Ambitions and her desire
to make the team at any cost as far as the defense was concerned Kelly had never even been a serious
Contender for the Olympic team none of Kelly's friends or former coaches recall her ever speaking about
wanting to compete at the Olympics and the coach didn't think she had what it took to make the team
anyway even if that had been her goal and Andrew wasn't able to take the baby then it made sense to assume she would
have proceeded with adoption just as she had with Kayla and Jacob Kelly's lawyers also scoffed at
the suggestion that Kelly was motivated to kill tan so she could attended the wedding later that
day Kelly barely knew the couple who were getting married she was only there as dun and Gilly's guest and he wasn't
particularly close to them either and if Kelly really did want to attend the wedding then why wouldn't she
just request a hospital pass out for the night and leave Tegan in the staff's care as she'd have done when Kayla was
born the year before as far as Kelly's defense team was concerned she wasn't someone who
would even think of murdering a baby let alone go through with it along with the question of motive was
the question of whether Kelly was suffering from any form of mental illness that could have contributed to
her actions throughout the investigation into teegan's whereabouts Kelly had refused to attend counseling or undergo
a psychological evaluation the closest she came was during the 2004 coronial inquest when
her parents summoned a general practitioner to their home because Kelly was in a state of
distress Kelly told the doctor that she was confused and scared and didn't know how to handle the situation she was
in she regretted not telling her parents about the pregnancies but there had been
a lot of expectations on her in regards to her sporting career Kelly said she'd gotten caught up
in the expectations when deep down she wasn't happy and wanted something different from her
life the GP formed the view that Kelly's pregnancies were a cry for love instead of talking about how she
was feeling he thought the pregnancies were a dysfunctional way of trying to manage the
situation the doctor stated I think she was just scared and it was a nebulous kind of
fear Keen to further understand Kelly's motivations prosecutors hired a renowned
psychiatrist to review Kelly's entire file including her medical records and police
interviews while he never interviewed Kelly himself based on the information at hand the psychiatrist concluded that
there was nothing in Kelly's behavior that indicated any kind of psychiatric or mental
illness she was well aware of her actions and knew the difference between right wrong however he believed that Kelly
likely did have some kind of personality disorder the psychiatrist suspected the
two abortions Kelly had as a teenager were formative he believed that after terminating those pregnancies Kelly
developed a desire to be pregnant in order to have the baby she could not have each of the babies she subsequently
carried to full term with the result of what the psychiatrist labeled a repetition
compulsion he believed that by putting herself back in an unresolved state of conflict Kelly hoped to correct the
previous emotionally distressing experience by managing each subsequent pregnancy more
successfully while he acknowledged that such Behavior defired rational explanation and was extremely
destructive he said the compulsion to repeat Behavior was p [Music] powerful Kelly Lane's trial for the
murder of her newborn baby Teegan Lane commenced in August 2010 by this point Kelly was 35 years
old and her daughter Emily was nine if convicted Kelly faced a minimum of 10 years in prison meaning that in
the best case scenario Emily would be 19 by the time she got out worst case scenario Kelly faced Life Behind
Bars to safeguard against any possible delays the potential jury pool was four times the usual amount with each
prospective member carefully handpicked to ensure they held no moral opinions about abortion or adoption that could
impact Kelly's right to a fair trial the judge firmly told the prospective jurors the fact that this trial will
raise highly emotional issues relating to a mother's dealing with newborn children must not interfere with the
presumption of innocence to which Kelly Lane is emphatically entitled people of all ages genders and
backgrounds asked to be excused until there were just 12 individuals left with two serving as
backup the prosecution was led by Mark teski a formidable senior CR prosecutor who' secured convictions in some of the
nation's most high-profile trials including The bangalow Backpacker murders as covered in episode 109 of
case File and the Gonzalez family murders as covered in episode 103 of case File over 3 days teski presented a
highly detailed account of Kelly Lane's secret pregnancies and the subsequent lies she
told as for how she managed to become pregnant so many times while taking the contraceptive pill teski theorized that
the pill had been rendered ineffective because of Kelly's frequent binge drinking in her younger years which
often resulted in her vomiting she would regularly go out to the pub and she used to keep up with the
boy in her drinking he explained teski submitted to the jury that it was clear from the get-go that
Kelly never had any intention of bringing Tean home the jury could therefore rule out any
other possible reasons for the newborn's death such as accident or misadventure instead teski presented
that kelly didn't want to go through with the emotionally grueling and timec consuming adoption process again so
either shortly before or after leaving the hospital with Teegan she formed the intention to kill
her teski told the jury we don't don't know how or where the accused killed Tegan or how she disposed of the body
however the Orban hospital was just a couple of kilometers away from what was then the homebush Olympic site which at
that time in 1996 was surrounded by vast SS of vacant land a few building sites and deserted roads particularly at the
weekend so there was an opportunity nearby for the accused to find somewhere that was entirely private which would
have given her an opportunity to kill Tean and dispose of the body he said the fact that Kelly
attended a wedding straight after and was able to move on like nothing ever happened showed quote either a callous
disregard for human life or a complete ability to block out the terrible act she had just
committed however the prosecution did think that Kelly's actions took an emotional
toll teski told the jury that when Kelly gave birth to Jacob the following year quote the experience of killing Tegan
had been so awful that even the Practical difficulties involved in an adoption were preferable to killing
another child the defense objected to tedes scenario involving the homebush Olympic
site at no point was this location ever searched by police and there was nothing
to suggest Kelly had gone there after leaving Orban Hospital the judge agreed to the
objection and teski was ordered to withdraw this remark he told the jury to disregard that specific scenario
stating there is no evidence at all as to what happened to Tegan or the accused during those three plus hours between
when she left the hospital before midday to use her own words and when she arrived at her parents house at Fair
light at 300 p.m. I think it is fair to say ladies and gentlemen that it would not be
appropriate for you to speculate about what might have happened during that time Kelly's defense lawyer reminded the
jury that there was nothing out of the ordinary about Kelly's sexual behavior during her youth he said the only
difference between her and the young men she slept with was her ility to become pregnant the defense maintained that it
wasn't up to them to prove that Teegan was still alive instead their argument was that the prosecution had failed to
provide any evidence to confirm that Teegan was even dead let alone how she died and even if Tegan was dead there
was no evidence to suggest that Kelly had killed her if Teegan had indeed died while
under Kelly's care there was nothing to prove that Kelly had committed any act that demonstrated an intention to
seriously harm her it was entirely possible that Tegan had died by accident the defense acknowledged it was
possible that Kelly was lying about giving Tegan to a man named Andrew Norris or Morris but even if she was
that didn't mean she had murdered the child perhaps she was lying to protect the real identity of the person or
people she'd given Tak to it was possible the only reason those people hadn't come forward was due to
shame the trial dragged on for 3 months during which the prosecution called 75 Witnesses including former friends of
Kelly's her parents two ex-boyfriends Hospital staff social workers and employees from the adoption agencies
Kelly had worked with despite all the lies she' told Witnesses described her as a well-raised polite
and upstanding member of the community those who knew her including those who'd since distanced themselves
from her were adamant that she would never heard a child while Kelly's conduct during her
younger years certainly raised eyebrows amongst some in the courtroom it was also observed that many seemed to take
pity on her and the way in which her private life was being so openly discussed as time went by media interest
began to dwindle as many journalists formed the opinion that a murder conviction was
unlikely meanwhile birth certificates continued to trickle in as a result of the Nationwide School inquiries
prompting criticism from the judge about the prosecution's handling multiple times the trial was
put on hold while leads were followed up and evidence was debated for admissibility the defense called No
Witnesses and kelly didn't take the stand by the time closing arguments commenced the defense had argued that
the case should be thrown out completely Mark teski for the prosecution told the
jury there is only one person in the world who really knows what happened to Baby tan and that is Kelly
Lane she has given many different versions to the authorities and all of them can be shown to be
lies there is only one reason why she has told all those lies and that is because she was responsible for teegan's
death and she had no other information that could result in Tegan being found alive the truth was and still is
Dreadful the jury was dismissed to begin deliberations on Monday December December 6
2010 as days passed by with no verdict reached Kelly's legal team felt optimistic this meant the jury was still
deliberating which could be favorable for Kelly it was a whole week before the court was
reassembled for the three perjury charges they had no doubt Kelly was guilty however when it came to the
murder charge the jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision Kelly wept as the judge told
the jury that if they were willing he would accept a majority verdict again the jury was dismissed for
further deliberation tension was high in the packed courtroom when they reassembled 2
hours later with many wondering if there would be a hung jury and therefore a possible Ray
trial the visibly nervous forance stood and quietly delivered the verdict [Music]
guilty the courtrooms silence was shattered by the screams of Kelly's mother Sandra while Kelly herself let
out a low moan before collapsing hard onto the floor banging her head on the way
down it took paramedics 15 minutes to get her back into her seat at which point the judge Deni
bail Kelly was taken into custody to await sentencing which was scheduled to take place in 3 months
time the unexpected guilty verdict propelled the case back into the headlines after years of avoiding
interviews and declining to testify in both the coronial inquest and the trial Kelly went to the media to share her
story once and for all Kelly's new boyfriend Patrick began recording the couple's phone calls with
her permission and handed the audio over to Channel 7's Sunday night program Kelly said she felt like she was
being punished for being pregnant or placing babies for adoption telling Patrick it's hard to understand why I'm
still being raped over the calls for it as for the prosecutions case that Andrew Norris never existed Kelly
scoffed well I don't know how Teegan came about if he didn't exist I didn't make her by
myself she criticized the police investigation saying not enough was done to find Andrew Oran and was scathing
about the fact that searches were still being held during her trial to put Kelly's word to the test
Sunday night announced they would fund a $500,000 reward for information leading
to the whereabouts of t lane or Andrew Norris Kelly was hopeful that this would provide the Breakthrough she needed
telling Patrick someone might ring in now that hasn't seen the news before or didn't
put two and two together and have some information that either leads straight to Andrew or to Teegan now that she's
old enough to have her own connections to people it wasn't just Kelly who was critical of the
investigation prominent Criminal defense lawyer Chris Murphy told Sunday night that prosecutor Mark teski poisoned the
case when he wrongly speculated to the jury that Kelly killed Tean and dumped her body at the homebush Olympic site
even though this statement was withdrawn Chris Murphy said it planted an idea in
the minds of the jury that the prosecution knew more than they were letting on I find the Kelly Lane case the most
disturbing case I've ever come across Chris said this woman has no History of Violence
there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that she killed that baby or that that baby died I could not in a
million years under any circumstance safely conclude that she killed the baby deliberately to the high degree of proof
required for murder Kelly hasn't wanted to say what has happened to the baby that doesn't
mean she is guilty of murder nothing came of the reward offer and Kelly sentencing went ahead in April
2011 while the judge didn't believe Kelly's actions were the highest or lowest form of criminal culpability he
acknowledged there were two serious aggravating factors to take into consideration namely the life taken was
that of a defenseless baby and that baby met her an at the hands of her mother quote a person from whom she could
ordinarily expect protection sustenance and care he stated that even without knowing
how Teegan met her death he was quote satisfied Beyond a reasonable doubt that sometime after Kelly left the
hospital she formed the intention to take the child's life and did so very soon after forming that
intention the judge clarified it suggests a relatively although not completely spontaneous act
putting it bluntly Kelly must have found herself in a desperate situation and could see no way out from her
perspective irrational though it was there was simply no way out I find that the offense was
premeditated but only for a short time it was committed in a situation of desperation arising from a sense of
entrapment and isolation and a perceived inability to communicate with the very people who would have eased her burden
and helped her out of the desperate situation in which she found herself irrational though these feelings
were I accept that they were likely to have been experienced by Kelly new laws introduced in 2003 put
the standard nonp parole period for murder at 5 years if the victim was under 18 taking into account Kelly's
immaturity at the time of the killing the unlikeliness that she'd have a re offend and the law that applied when the
offense occurred in 1996 the judge stated I am satisfied that Kelly Lane is now a very different person to the
troubled personage that lay beneath the Golden Girl exterior the maturity has probably been
been cemented ironically enough because of the love and devotion that has grown between her and her daughter Emily it is
a further tragic irony that despite Kelly's maturity her Rehabilitation and the apparent resolution of the
difficulties that beset her in her youth she must now face a lengthy period in prison with that he sentenced Kelly Lane
to 18 years as Kelly was led from from the court a man's voice rang out from amongst the
spectators I'll help you he called days after Kelly's sentencing Chris Murphy the criminal lawyer who
appeared on Channel 7's Sunday night program to discuss Tan's case was contacted by a man named Maurice who
claimed to have some important information according to Maurice in 1996 he was working in Sydney as a taxi
driver on Saturday September 14 he picked Kelly and her newborn baby up from Orban hospital and began driving
them to Manley as they headed down River Road in Lane Cove a somewhat isolated stretch of
Bushland Kelly asked Maurice to pull over she got out bringing the baby with her when she returned a few minutes
later she was alone Kelly allegedly told Maurice she'd given the newborn to a babysitter not thinking much of it
Maurice continued the drive to Manley when Kelly got out of the car he noticed that she'd left a baby bag full
of nappies on the back seat Maurice called out to Kelly but she responded I don't need
it suspicious about this comment Maurice claimed he returned to the spot on River
Road where Kelly exited with the baby in a patch of nearby Bushland he found the baby and a bottle wrapped up
in a blanket next to a tree a woman passed by and Maurice spoke to her he said he was going to contact the
police but the woman offered to take care of it Maurice handed the baby over and didn't give it much more
thought it was only when he saw Kelly Lane's murder trial in the news that he recognized her face and realized the
significance of this moment Chris Murphy encouraged Maurice to go to the police with this
information and then went public with the claims Kelly's legal team rejected this
scenario saying we are aware of the taxi driver's claims but have no interest in pursuing
that line of inquiry the police warned that if Maurice was lying he'd be charged with
creating public Mischief Maurice's background was looked into not only did he admit to having
mental health issues it turned out that in 1996 he was banned from driving and couldn't possibly have been working as a
taxi driver while Mara's claims were ruled out Kelly appealed her conviction on eight
grounds although she maintained her innocent she argued that the judge had heard by failing to leave an alternative
count of manslaughter or infanticide to the jury she also argued that a new jury
should have been sworn in after Mark Tad des's prejudicial comments and that her
lawyer should have applied for a separate trial in respect to her perjury charges overall Kelly said the verdict
was unreasonable and couldn't be supported by the evidence the court of appeal rejected Ed
the application on all eight grounds with the panel of Judges concluding they were satisfied that the evidence
established Kelly's guilt Beyond Reasonable Doubt Kelly sought special leave to appeal to the high court of
Australia her request was denied meaning she'd officially exhausted all her Avenues of
appeal the only option she had left was to apply to the New South Wales governor
for a pardon and the only way that could happen was if fresh and compelling evidence was
presented as one specialist in wrongful convictions told the Australian women's weekly in Kelly's case that means either
Andrew Norris coming forward or Tean suddenly appearing or if Kelly changes her [Music]
story in 2016 award-winning investigative journalist Caro meldam Hannah opened a letter addressed to her
at the Australian broadcasting commission offices in Sydney dear Ms meldam Hannah the letter
read my name is Kelly Lane and I have been wrongfully convicted of murdering my baby in
1996 I believe if the public knew the real facts had all the information and saw the errors and questions that still
remain in my case they may be able to help perhaps come forward with where Andrew Norris our child or his family
are ultimately we are trying to locate Andrew our daughter or a family member Caro wasn't sure what to make of
the letter she was well known for her work on the ABC's popular current affairs program for corners but she'd
never covered tan Lane's case before so her first thought was that the letter must be a
prank Caro contacted Kelly in prison and confirmed the letter was legitimate when asked if there was any
way she could have harmed Teegan Kelly responded firmly there is no way there is no way
if Andrew didn't turn up I would have just left her there or I would have gone down the exact same path as before I
would have asked for some help I would have asked to see an adoption agent and I would have done the exact same
thing I did 18 months earlier I remember that day clear as I know a lot of people think I'm cold and
callous but those children were very important to me and I loved them I thought I was doing the right thing by
them Caro agreed to make a documentary about the case which would be titled exposed the case of Kelly Lane but only
under the condition that no topic was off limits and she would follow the truth wherever it
led Kelly agreed and in turn she handed over her entire case File and court records including private correspondence
sent between herself and her defense team Caro and a small team fully immersed themselves in the case they
tracked down and interviewed anyone and everyone from Kelly's Past who was willing to speak with them including
former water poloo coaches teammates boyfriends and even her parents they spoke to the coroner
prosecutors and homicide Squad detectives who worked on Kelly's case and were handed a USB containing
exclusive confidential police files from a secret informant after 9 months of intense
research the exposed team identified several holes in the investigation as well as questionable legal tactics that
had Dem masking was Kelly Lane wrongfully convicted during Kelly's trial police claimed that exhaustive efforts had been
made to interview all the former tenants of the apartment building on whis Beach
Street where Kelly said Andrew Norris had lived none of the tenants recalled ever
seeing Kelly there nor did they have any knowledge of a resident called Andrew Norris one former tenant did testify to
seeing maale addressed to Andrew Norris as well as Andrew Morris but his claims were discounted as he'd given various
inconsistent statements over the years however the exposed team discovered that there was at least one
tenant who had never been questioned a man named darl Hansen the team tracked darl down on
Facebook and organized a video meeting when car meldam Hannah showed a Daryl a photo of Kelly Lane taken in about
1996 he claimed he remembered seeing her around to the building darl said he used to spend a
lot of time in the downstairs car park working on his car late at night he remembered seeing Kelly exit the
building through the car park several times sometimes as late as 1:00 a.m. Daryl claimed he saw Kelly so many
times that he thought she must have lived in the building when pressed by Caro as to
whether he could be misremembering in hindsight Daryl insisted Kelly Lane was the person he had seen he was so sure
that he said he'd happily testified that in a court of law the exposed team also interviewed a
childhood friend of Kelly's named Natalie McCauley who had recently appeared on 60 Minutes in Kelly's
defense Natalie claimed that she remembered the SU of 1996 very clearly as it was the year that she and all her
friends had turned 21 early in the year Kelly allegedly confided in Natalie that she was having
a fling with another man she mentioned it at least three times over a 1-month period Natalie said she remembered the
name of Kelly's secret lover clearly as he had the same first name as Natalie's brother Andrew
Natalie claimed that she'd provided police with this information during the investigation and she'd also been
willing to testify in Kelly's defense at trial however she believed the police weren't interested because they were
already convinced of Kelly's guilt adamant that she wouldn't lie about such a thing especially given her
profession in child protection Natalie told exposed I am passionate about children's
rights I love children every day my waking hour is about protecting kids I'm not about to let my friend get off easy
if she's heard a child during the search for Tegan's father police had also spoken to a man
named Andrew Morris who recalled visiting Sydney's Northern beaches for a surf life saving competition in the mid
199s when shown a photo lineup of several young women Andrew moris recognized Kelly Lane but couldn't be
sure how or why he told the exposed team that the police then began drip feeding him
information about Kelly until he put two and two together and realized that they
once had a random one-off sexual encounter at the North Narine Surf Club it had happened around the same
time that tan would have been conceived Andrew had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution at Kelly's
trial not to suggest he was Tegan's father but to explain how Kelly came up with the Andrew Morris or Norris Persona
in the first place then at the last minute a deal was made between both legal teams Andrew wouldn't testify and
neither would Natalie McCauley this was just one of several factors that led Kelly's case to being
taken on by the bridge of Hope innocence initiative an organization dedicated to
examining possible wrongful convictions a spokesperson for the initiative told exposed about the deal
relating to Natalie McCauley and Andrew Morris for Kelly's supporters these allegations of witness coaching witness
swapping and Deals struck between the prosecution and defense were further evidence that Kelly hadn't received a
fair trial exposed also Unearthed record from Orban hospital that cast a doubt on the
timing of Kelly's departure with baby taken notes made by a registered nurse had Kelly leaving at 2:
p.m. that same nurse later provided a statement saying Kelly was discharged between 11:00 a.m. and 12:
midday if the hospital records were correct and Kelly really had left the hospital at 2:00 p.m. and was home in
fairl light by 3:00 p.m. then exposed posited that Kelly wouldn't have had time to kill Teegan and dispose of her
body even investigators who worked on the case were critical of the way things were
handled various individuals involved expressed their discomfort with Kelly's conviction the detective who led the
investigation into teegan's murder had since retired from the force she told exposed that police had
no evidence against Kelly and weren't ready when the DPP decided to proceed with the murder
charge I used every trick in the book the former detective explained and undercover strategy covert DNA samples
every resource that was available there was nothing absolutely nothing we didn't
have anything the exposed team also highlighted the fact that for all the digging police did to find Tegan's
biological father they never organized for a composite sketch to be made they questioned why such an image
wasn't broadcast around Australia asking anyone who had seen such a man to come forward the exposed team organized for a
former police officer turned forensic artist to visit Kelly in prison Kelly recalled Andrew's physical
features in detail and a clear composite sketch of Andrew Norris was created for
the first time the forensic artist who had 18 years experience creating sketches
believed Kelly was truthful in her description she was consistent throughout he said she didn't sway at
all in a phone call from prison Kelly told Caro meldam Hannah that from a very young age her athletic training taught
her to hide her emotions she was excellent at filing feelings away and being a different
person for different people people she also revealed that her first sexual experience was being date raped
while intoxicated at the age of 15 Kelly explained I don't think I valued my body
and my choices and my boundaries because everybody just seemed to be so frivolous
with it she struggled upon learning that several people in her life had indeed suspected she was pregnant at times but
never reached out while Kelly made it clear she didn't want to shift the responsibility onto
others she asked Caro wasn't I worth asking why were people afraid or why did they not want to ask me it's kind of sad
to think that no one reached out and said you seem different or you look different or are you
okay as part of the documentary Kelly agreed to meet face to face with Dr Ann Buist a forensic psychiatrist who
specializes in women's mental health and the relationship between mother and babies throughout her career Dr Buist
had worked with hundreds of women who'd been accused of abusing their children but she said that Kelly was her hardest
most difficult case Dr Buist told exposed that she didn't find Kelly to be a pathological
liar a narcissist or mentally ill she thought thought the secret pregnancies could be explained by
Kelly's upbringing during which she'd received the message that her family didn't like dealing with negative
emotions Dr Buist couldn't find a coherent narrative that Kelly could have killed Tean aside from the fact that she
had demonstrated the capacity to detach from her other children for Dr Buist one thing in
particular stood out during her interviews with Kelly When Kelly started talking about Andrew Norris her body
language changed the way she spoke about him seemed superficial Dr Buist told exposed there was something there that
didn't ring [Music] true exposed was released by the ABC in 2018 to rave reviews propelling Kelly's
case back into the spotlight members of the public hotly debated Kelly's guilty verdict and
shared outrage over what many now viewed as a wrongful conviction thousands turned to social
media to accuse the prosecution of misconduct and Kelly's defense team of negligence calls were made for Kelly to
be exonerated or at the very least retried but the documentary wasn't without its
critics many were quick to point out that crucial information was withheld from the viewers with some accusing the
ABC of provoking public excitement at the expense of accurate reporting retired Australian Barras
Simon Davis was one such critic Simon hadn't been involved in Kelly's trial in any capacity but after watching exposed
he was shocked by the trial's flaws and felt compelled to look into the case in detail Simon essentially fact checked
the claims made by exposed then published a book book titled on trial the case of Kelly Lane and the ABC in
which he debunked each one casting doubt on the claims made by former whisbe Street tenant darl Hensen
Simon said it was hard to believe a witness could so confidently recognize a stranger two decades after the fact
especially when the alleged interactions occurred in the dark of night furthermore while Daryl claimed
Kelly usually left in the middle of the night Kelly had told police that when she'd stayed at Andrew Norris's place
she left in the morning and went straight to water poloo training Simon Davis concluded ultimately Henson's evidence
was of such low probative value that it is questionable whether it would even be
admissible at a trial Simon Davis rejected the claims about witness swapping and game playing
between the opposing legal teams he pointed out that exposed had failed to tell Their audience several important
details regarding Natalie McCauley's claims firstly in Natalie's original police statement she made no mention of
Andrew despite later stating Kelly told her about Andrew at the time of their Affair secondly Natalie was
cross-examined by the prosecution at Kelly's pre-trial hearing before the jury was sworn
in some of the responses she gave led to doubts about her credibility she was therefore deemed unreliable and not
called to testify during the trial thirdly and to Simon Davis most importantly police had asked Kelly if
any of her friends knew about her affair with Andrew at no point did she mention
Natalie's name fourthly if Kelly really did think Natalie's testimony would have been
crucial then why did she make no mention of it when appealing her conviction according to Simon Davis's
research the Andrew Morris who appeared unexposed wasn't prevented from giving evidence due to some kind of witness
swapping deal he was stopped because shortly before the trial commenced it emerged that the random sexual encounter
Andrew had at the beach couldn't possibly have been with Kelly thus his testimony was irrelevant
as for the claim that Kelly left Orban hospital with Teegan at 2: p.m. Kelly herself told the police she'd left the
hospital quote before 12:00 sometime the patient sharing her room also testified that Kelly and Tegan left
by 11:00 a.m. the nurse had listed eight other matters on Kelly's file at 2: p.m. not
just Kelly's departure Simon Davis pointed out that all these matters hadn't taken place
simultaneously many likely occurred before 2: p.m. and the nurse simply recorded the time she was making the
notes taking these factors and several others into account Simon Davis concluded that exposed was inaccurate
and misleading he stated legitimate questioning of a jury's verdict is one thing however
questioning of a verdict which has twice been the subject of app pellet review without real reference to the appeal
judgments and by apparently suppressing many of the relevant facts is quite another ultimately exposed was little
more than a recycling of old arguments long since rejected by the courts or disavowed by Kelly herself and placing
them in 2018 and presumably hoping no one noticed their Antiquity or knew they had been rejected
regardless of its criticisms exposed raised some thought-provoking questions and led many to wonder if the
prosecution really had met the standard of proof required to reach a conviction The Bridge of Hope innocence
initiative petitioned the Attorney General of New South Wales to open a full inquiry into the investigation
prosecution and conviction of Kelly Lane they also called for an urgent review Into the policing and
prosecutorial practice practices that led to Kelly being charged in the first place Dr Michelle Reuters a lawyer and
spokesperson for the group told 60 Minutes one of the things I've found the most extraordinary about Kelly Lane's
case is that people find it easier to believe that a young mother would kill her child than they would believe her
father would accept responsibility for that child and to disappear forensic Criminal ologist Dr
zany Mallet spent 2 years looking into Kelly's case and agreed that an urgent review was
needed she believed that just because Kelly was a liar it didn't make her a murderer Dr Mallet told 60
minutes I'm not saying Kelly is innocent I'm not saying she is guilty all I'm saying is if she is going to be in
prison let there be evidence for that or let her out [Music] for the Australian public one of the
most scandalous details about the case was the fact that Kelly had become pregnant five times in 7 years despite
being on the contraceptive pill the fact that she determinated two pregnancies in the past one of which was
considered a late term left people wondering why she didn't just do so again instead of proceeding with three
secret pregnancies others questioned why Kelly didn't abstain from sex entirely if she
kept finding herself in an undesirable predicament but the ongoing interest also prompted conversations about
whether Kelly Lane was unfairly judged based on her sex life which ultimately had nothing to do with whether or not
she was capable of murder many argue that she was subject to trial by media and the prosecution
used [ __ ] shaming as a strategic device at her trial even the DPP who charged Kelly
with murder admitted that her case was prosecuted because it raised all sorts of
values the same DPP came under Fire from the public when he told ABC's exposed that he didn't think Kelly presented a
risk to other people's babies but quote she seemed to be a bit of a risk to the virile young male portion of the
community but the judge who oversaw the trial said it was necessary to lay the facts of Kelly's personal life
bare while he acknowledged this would have been a humiliating and intrusive experience for Kelly and her family and
that the meteor excitement led to Kelly's life being examined at a prurient level quote the fact remains
that there is a need to gain insight into the offender behavior in an Endeavor to gain an understanding of the
level of culpability involved in the murder itself some of these matters might at first
blush seem peripheral to the ascertainment of culpability and the assessment of the objective criminality
involved but in truth I think that the answers to these Troublesome questions are highly relevant in that
regard Dr zany Mallet is one of many who believe Kelly Lane was a victim of trial
by media she has compared Kelly's situation to that of Chamberlain whose wrongful
conviction for the murder of her baby aarya was covered in episode 136 of case File Dr Mallet believes that like Lindy
Kelly was scrutinized for not being emotional enough or responding in the way people thought a mother
should she told women's weekly clearly Kelly was never in line to win a mother of the year award and
she disgraced herself by lying so often and so flagrantly but it's still a big leap to say she
killed her [Music] baby Caro meldam Hannah told Mama Mia that Judgment of Kelly's sex life
remained one of the prominent discussions when it came to this case there was a lot of [ __ ] shaming
back then she said and it's clear there's a lot of [ __ ] shaming now nevertheless Caro told the
ABC I can understand why people are haunted by this case there's a two-day old baby at the center of it where is
Teegan and what happened to her there's nothing more vulnerable than a newborn baby these factors aside one of the
biggest criticisms about Kelly Lane's case is the police handling of the investigation and why it took them so
long to commence a search for Tegan or question Kelly in the first place those who believe Kelly was unfairly
convicted don't think enough was done to find Andrew Norris and are critical of the fact that investigators were still
searching for Andrew and Teegan while both the coronial inquest and murder trial were
underway but as the prosecution argued Kelly essentially sent police on a wild goose chase when she told them Teegan
was taken by her father and any delays were therefore Kelly's fault others commended the police's
intensive search efforts attesting they did the most thorough job possible given
they were searching for a needle in a hyack while Kelly's case is polarizing even many who believe in her innocence
have serious doubts that Andrew Norris ever existed as Simon Davis stated in his
book one is driven to conclude that if Andrew and his mom and Mel do exist they must must be huddled together under a
proverbial Rock never in the annals of crime in Australia or perhaps anywhere would
there have been so much reaching out searching for or imploring of a human being to come forward as there has been
for Andrew moris Norris the case would arguably be the most publicized murder conviction in
Australian history and yet still no sign of Andrew Morris slis in a phone call to Kelly in prison Caro
mildrum Hannah said that something didn't add up about the Andrew Norris story I'm not convinced on this name
Caro told Kelly and I need you to help me Kelly became somewhat defensive insisting that the name of teegan's
father was Andrew Norris emphasizing it was spelled with an N Caro pressed on asking if it was
possible possible that Andrew Norris might not be his real name for the first time in over two
decades Kelly said absolutely absolutely I don't know 100% if his name was Andrew Norris
because I don't know if what he was telling me at the time was the truth or if I've made a
mistake of course that's a possibility if teegan's biological father was really out there he never
came forward by March 2024 Kelly Lane was 48 years old she had served her minimum
period of 13 and A2 years and was eligible to apply for parole but just 2 years earlier New
South Wales passed the nobody no parole legislation which prevented any prisoners convicted of murder from
receiving parole if they hadn't cooperated by identifying their victim's location
[Music] a statement released by Kelly's parole board read The Authority is not satisfied that
the offender has cooperated satisfactorily in police investigations or other actions to identify the
location of Tagan with that Kelly's bid for release was denied public debate followed with one
New South Wales politician describing Kelly Lane as a political prisoner she told the
guardian the nobody no parole law undermines the fundamental objective of parole to support Community safety with
a focus on the rehabilitation of the offender at their core they further punish the person who has served their
time the fact is Kelly Lane has done her time and she has been an exemplary prisoner and she should not remain in
prison any longer Justice Anthony wheelie the former Supreme Court Judge who oversaw Kelly's
trial agreed in the years since Kelly's conviction he'd publicly admitted that Kelly's case affected him
emotionally while he accepted the jury's verdict justice wheelie said he wasn't convinced that the crown had proved its
case and he voiced his misgivings about aspects of how the trial was conducted since the nobody no parole
legis ation was passed Justice wheie joined many others in calling for changes to this new
law after Kelly's parole was denied Justice wheie told a current affair that the law shouldn't be applied to Kelly's
case not only did he call the case enigmatic and say there was a question mark surrounding her guilt he pointed
out that the law wasn't intended to apply to people like her stating because of the way it was worded
it slant her back inside for four more years I believe that had this law not been passed then she would be back in
the community where she belongs he told the ABC that this law was particularly problematic in cases
where the offender maintained their innocence what is the point of Judges making the sentences if the legislation
extends the time they spend in prison Justice Willie asked we shouldn't increase the time they
spend in jail if they're maintaining their innocence because if they didn't commit the crime they have no idea of
where the body might be one of Kelly's most vocal supporters Dr zany Mallet told the ABC that the
point of the nobody no parole law was to provide closure for victims families Dr mallad said that didn't
apply in Kelly's case because quote the family of Tean is also Kelly's family and they believe in her
innocence you have to wonder if we keep Kelly in prison who is that serving Kelly Lane is due to be released
in 2028 she continues to maintain her innocence while Kelly's critics often point out that she has never shown any
remorse her supporters rebut that kelly didn't kill tan so she has nothing to be
remorseful about if tan Lane is still alive as Kelly claims she would be 28 years old
at the time this episode goes to air to this day no evidence of teegan's existence beyond the day she left
hospital with Kelly has ever surfaced over the years many have discussed the significance of the mother
daughter relationships highlighted by this case by Kelly keeping her pregnancy secret
from her own mother she severed any potential relationship with Tean and the choices she made in that regard then
impacted her relationship with her daughter Emily during her incarceration Kelly has
only been allowed to speak to Emily for 10 minutes a day when Kelly was sentenced Justice
wheelie remarked it is a tragedy at three levels this case reflects the most profound tragedy of the relationship
between mother and daughter Kelly's parents continued to support her when asked by 60 minutes if
they believed Kelly's story about what happened to tan her mother Sandra responded Yes I do it sounds improbable
but a lot of improbable things happen in life Kelly's Father Robert agreed adding
the truth is Stranger Than Fiction isn't [Music] [Music] it e but

Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 2)

*** Content Warning: Child victim *** [Part 2 of 2] When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her newborn baby Tegan in 2009, the circumstantial case sparks debate around the country. Was this star athlete a cold blooded killer or a woman unfairly judged on her poor decision making?

Watch part 1 here: https://youtu.be/TJ-2DdP0tA4

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Brief Summary

Kelly Lane was convicted of murdering her newborn, Teagan, amid controversy over evidence and societal judgments about motherhood.

Key points

The Secret Birth. Kelly gave birth alone in a hospital, a shocking twist to her story.
The Investigation Begins. After two years, detectives found no evidence of Tegan Lane, raising suspicions about Kelly.
The Murder Charge. In November 2009, Kelly Lane was charged with the murder of her daughter Tegan.
Kelly's Trial Begins. Kelly Lane's trial for the murder of her newborn baby Teegan Lane commenced in August 2010.
Guilty Verdict. The jury delivered a guilty verdict, leading to a dramatic courtroom reaction.
Kelly's Media Response. After her conviction, Kelly shared her story with the media, feeling punished for her past.

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