![]() The theory goes that Keli, who fell pregnant five times in seven years, believed a child would interfere with her sporting ambitions, particularly her chances of representing Australia at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. When the child could not be traced, the social worker contacted the police. Several days later, Keli changed her story, and claimed that Tegan lived in Perth. She denied that Tegan or her other child, a boy, had ever been born, insisting this was her first birth. When Keli gave birth in 1999 and put the baby up for adoption, a social worker employed by the Department of Community Services (DOCS) enquired about Keli’s other children. Her mother, who was a team manager, confirmed during episode one of Exposed, that she had no idea Keli had been pregnant. Perhaps one of the most bizarre details of the case, is that Keli played water polo for Australia, requiring her to present multiple times a week in front of dozens of teammates and coaches in a swimming costume. ![]() Her family and friends, according to police reports and subsequent investigations, were unaware she had ever been pregnant. Her first two pregnancies had been terminated, the third child was carried to term and put up for adoption, and the fourth had been Tegan. In 1999, three years after giving birth to Tegan, Keli fell pregnant for the fifth time. They also found her guilty of lying under oath. Keli Lane murdered Tegan LeeĪ jury determined that Keli was guilty of murdering Tegan prior to the wedding she attended on September 14. These are the three prevailing theories about what happened during that 48 hour period. Something happened to Tegan between September 12 and September 14, and Exposed led by investigative journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna, intends to uncover exactly what. Two days later, she attended a wedding, with no sign of the baby, and no acknowledgement that she had even given birth. Keli was 21 years old when she gave birth to Tegan at Auburn Hospital on September 12, 1996. The circumstantial evidence is, of course, overwhelming. A murder weapon was never recovered or any physical evidence that a murder was committed. To begin with, the body of Tegan has never been found. There are, however, a number of peculiar details about the case that led to a conviction in December 2010. Keli Lane, 43, is serving an 18 year jail sentence in Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre for the 1996 murder of her newborn baby Tegan Lee Lane and three counts of lying under oath. 2.The three part documentary series Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane currently airing on the ABC explores one of Sydney’s most infamous murder cases in living memory. Sy Scholfield quotes "I Had No Idea Keli Was Pregnant," Sydney Morning Herald, 25-26 June 2005, p. On 15 April 2011 Lane was sentenced to 18 years' jail with a non-parole period of 13 years and five months. The jury found Lane guilty of the murder of Tegan. On 13 December 2010 a jury found Lane guilty of lying under oath in relation to documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies. This time she claimed the man's name was Andrew Norris handing over the baby in Auburn Hospital carpark. Lane was interviewed by police again in May 2003. During a police interview, Lane claimed that she had given Tegan to the baby's father, a man called Andrew Morris, with whom she claimed to have had a brief affair. Keli Lane was an elite water polo player at national and international level. The social worker, concerned for the health of the child, placed the baby in temporary foster care. Lane advised a social worker that this was her first child and that Gillies was the father. In 1999, Lane gave birth to another child and, after being refused an abortion in Queensland, she decided to put the child up for adoption. Two days after giving birth to Tegan, her mother Keli Lane and her partner, rugby league player, Duncan Gillies, attended a friend's wedding and there was no sign of the baby. Australian missing infant her mother convicted of her infanticide.
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