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[Music] listeners Spirits were high for the balain Women's Water poloo team on the
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night of Saturday March 18 1995 despite losing against their rival team during the club's Grand Final a few
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hours earlier the players and their supporters were celebrating the end of an otherwise successful season with the
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drinks at a bain Pub 19-year-old Kelly Lane was among them having played a solid game her parents had watched the
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match but they couldn't stick around for drinks instead Kelly was joined by her boyfriend Duncan Gillies and his mother
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Julie who had also attended the game at around 9900 p.m. a few of Kelly's teammates know noticed that
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Kelly had left without saying a word Duncan and Julie were still there so her teammates didn't give it too much
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thought and continued on with their night little did any of them know while playing an impressive Grand Final in
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front of a crowd filled with her loved ones Kelly had been keeping a huge secret she was 9 months
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pregnant the reason she'd left the pub was because she'd gone into labor Kelly took a taxi alone to the Bain
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hospital about a kilometer away and was subsequently transferred to King George V Memorial Hospital where she gave birth
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to her first child Kayla the following morning staff took pity on the polite and warm- natured
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19-year-old Not only was it incredibly rare for a young woman to give birth alone and without a single visitor in
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the hours following the delivery it was clear clear that Kelly was incredibly upset a social worker was assigned to
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make sure she was okay Kelly explained that she and the baby's father Duncan Gillies had only
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recently moved to Sydney from their hometown of Perth which was why she had no support Duncan was furthering his rugby
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career while Kelly was training to play water polo for Australia at the 2000 Olympics it was the first time that
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Women's Water poloo would feature at the event and she hoped to make the team unable to care for a child and not
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wanting to have an abortion Kelly said the couple had agreed to place Kayla for adoption on the evening of Tuesday March
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21 1995 Kelly requested a pass out so she could discuss the adoption with Duncan in
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Private Hospital staff granted the request taking care of Baby Kayla so Kelly could get her Affairs in
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order Kelly returned in the early morning hours saying Duncan didn't want to be involved in the adoption
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process as per protocol the adoption agency still tried multiple times to contact to Duncan using the details
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Kelly provided all attempts were unsuccessful Kelly explained that Duncan was purposely avoiding them because
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she'd promised him he didn't need to be involved besides he was about to go overseas to play rugby and would be
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unreachable for the next 2 weeks eventually after weeks of trying to contact the Duncan Gillies without
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success the adoption agency had Kelly sign an affidavit confirming Duncan was Kayla's father and had consented to the
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adoption she signed a second affidavit a few weeks later saying Duncan had ended
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their relationship and wanted nothing to to do with their child or the adoption just months after giving birth
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Kelly went on to represent Australia at a water polo tournament in Canada 6 months later while Kayla's
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adoption was still being finalized Kelly was pregnant again this time with Tean [Music]
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[Music] after the 2006 coronial inquest into tan Lane's whereabouts her case was
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officially handed over to the New South Wales homicide Squad to be reinvestigated from
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scratch detectives reviewed all the evidence uncovered so far and under took their own searches for Tegan Lane and
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Andrew Norris they double checked Nationwide records from registry officers the immigration department Australia Post
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missing persons reports and utility companies every possible spelling variation of tan was
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considered checks were made for any Tegan born in 1996 with the connection to a woman named Mel or any variation of
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that such as Melanie or Melissa but after 2 years of intense scrutiny detectives uncovered
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nothing although Kelly had been caught in countless Lies when it came to teegan's birth there was one detail in
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her story that remained unchanged in each version she maintained that after being discharged from Orban
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Hospital on Saturday September 14 1996 she went back to Duncan Gilly's house in Gladesville
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although detectives conducted a cursory search of the property during the missing person investigation in 2003 the
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homicide Squad decided it was worth taking a closer look in early August 2008 Duncan's
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former property was cordoned off as an extensive search commenced the weatherboard home had
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undergone significant Renovations a couple of years prior yet police remained hopeful they might uncover
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something of Interest over 5 days they scoured the property with kadava dogs checking the yard the
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roof and inside the walls while a forensic anthropologist sifted through the soil underneath the
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house they identified several small bone fragments which were sent away for further
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testing results concluded that they weren't Human by this point tan Lane's case had
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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
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time investigators failed to uncover a single piece of evidence indicating what had happened to
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tan police had been keeping a close eye on Kelly with another covert tap placed on her
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phone 1,200 phone calls were recorded in 2008 in addition to the 700 intercepted
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in 2004 while Kelly said nothing incred Min ating during any of these calls there
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was something about them that investigators found significant at no point did Kelly Lane
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make her own attempts to find her missing daughter it was something they Den noted
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early in the investigation if Kelly's story about giving Teegan to Andrew Norris was true
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and she'd so desperately wanted to keep the whole ordeal a secret from her family and friends then why hadn't she
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tried to find the pair herself Kelly initially claimed to have old diaries that might have outdated
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contact details for Andrew and some mutual friends yet she never attempted to track these
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down one journalist discovered that in 2003 Kelly visited a website that aimed to reconnect long lost school
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friends she posted a brief message which read looking for Andrew Norris aged Ro 38 went to school possibly Western
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Sydney went on to University then entered stock broking SL money markets she shared a similar message
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shortly after adding that the Andrew Norris she was looking for had a partner named Melanie and they might now be
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married no one responded and kelly didn't appear to make any attempts beyond that while this was wasn't an indicator
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of guilt it led some to believe that Kelly wasn't trying to track Tean down because she already knew Teegan was
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dead but like everything else in the case this was just an unsubstantiated Theory after 2 years of Investigations
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the homicide Squad still had no concrete evidence tying Kelly to Tan's death but
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they remained convinced she had killed the newborn the fact of the matter was there
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was nothing to suggest anyone had ever seen Teegan Lane after she and Kelly were discharged from Orban hospital at
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around midday on Saturday September 14 1996 by 300 p.m. Kelly was at her parents house in Fair light with no baby
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in sight if it took around an hour to make the drive then what was Kelly doing during the unaccounted for 2hour window
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[Music] based on the evidence at hand investigators started to piece together what they believed to be a likely
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scenario by the time 21-year-old Kelly was nearing the end of her pregnancy with Teegan she was no longer the naive
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firsttime mother she'd been when Kayla was born almost 18 months earlier as she' learned from her
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experience at the Bain Park labor could occur at any time knowing she was expected to attend
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the wedding of Duncan's family friends on Saturday September 14 1996 she couldn't risk going into labor in front
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of the other guests or at any other awward moment time was of the essence in early September Duncan was
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out of town on a rugby trip giving Kelly an ample window of opportunity to give birth without those close to her finding
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out medical records showed she visited Riot Hospital on Saturday September 7 Monday September 9 and then again on
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Tuesday September 10 each time she claimed her baby was overdue which had derailed her plan of a
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home birth with her private Midwife and each time she sought to have an induction without any anti-al records to
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prove the baby's gestation Hospital staff denied each of her requests on Wednesday September 11
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1996 Kelly went to Orban Hospital on the other side of town giving the same story
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she'd given at ride there her request to be induced was granted Teegan was born on Thursday
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September 12th investigators believed it was at this point that Kelly started to panic
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the unexpected complications with her retained placenta meant she required posttop care and she'd be pushing it to
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be discharged in time to attend the wedding on Saturday knowing she couldn't take Tean
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home but unwilling to go through what she now knew to be a lengthy complicated and emotionally grueling adoption
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process Kelly lied to hospital staff and said she'd be receiving atome care from
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her private midwife on Saturday September 14 she was granted permission to leave as long as
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she completed some paperwork including the Guthrie test consent form and the registration form to submit to the
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registry of bir's deaths and marriages an appointment was also made for a midwife to visit her at home in a
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few days time with the just hours to spare before the wedding Kelly left at around midday
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without completing any of the paperwork or signing the discharge papers no hospital staff or the other
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patient Kelly was sharing a room with recalled seeing Kelly and Teegan leave that day however there was an unalarmed
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fire escape directly opposite their room which Kelly could have exited from without passing the nurse's
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station there was no CCTV footage to prove what happened after Kelly left the hospital but she claimed that was when
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she met up with the Norris Andrew's mother and his partner Mel to hand Tegan over Kelly initially claimed to have
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taken a taxi home but later said she'd driven herself homicide detectives ran checks
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with every taxi company in Sydney and found no records of any passengers being picked up from Orban Hospital on
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Saturday September 14 1996 they therefore believed that Kelly had driven herself home home and at some
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point during that Journey she killed her two-day old baby and disposed of her body she then went about life as though
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nothing had happened attending the wedding that evening where she was observed socializing drinking and
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dancing on Monday September 16 Kelly called the Midwife program and cancelled the appointment they' made for her
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saying her private Midwife had everything under control [Music] in the following days and weeks there
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was nothing to suggest Kelly was suffering from postnatal depression or any other mental
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disturbance therefore investigators believed Tegan's murder was motivated by Kelly's desire to move on without anyone
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discovering she'd give him birth getting rid of Tegan would not only conceal her infidelity and remove
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the responsibility of Parenthood it would enable her to pursue her dream of playing water poloo in the upcoming
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Sydney 2000 Olympics in late 1997 Kelly asked the Australian College of physical education
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if she could defer her tertiary studies to concentrate on making the Australian Olympic
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team for 3 years she successfully lived her life as though Tegan had never existed and those close to her Were None
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the wiser it was only when Tegan's birth was exposed through the adoption of baby
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Jacob in 1999 that Kelly's guilt became obvious due to her multitude of Lies not only had she told eight
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different stories to hospital staff adoption agencies social workers and police there were other inconsistencies
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that also raised suspicion namely why had Kelly initially said she wouldn't be able to find Andrew
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Norris's apartment then located it with ease when police drove her through his neighborhood why did she tell detectives
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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
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friends had changed since 1996 and she no longer knew people from back then when in reality she'd maintained close
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friendships from childhood and Beyond there were holes in her claims about tean's father too if Kelly really
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did arrange for Andrew to take Teagan then why register her on her own Medicare card rather than
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his and if Andrew was willing to raise tan why didn't he do something as simple as register her birth with the registry
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office as far as investigators were concerned the only explanation for these inconsistencies was that the hospital
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staff had urged Kelly to fill out the Medicare form and she couldn't see a way around it
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Andrew never registered teegan's birth or sought a separate Medicare card because Andrew never existed in the
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first place the problem for the homicide Squad was that it didn't matter how convinced
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they were of this scenario they had no physical evidence to prove it they presented their case to the
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director of public prosecutions who reviewed the case for 12 months while the investigation
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continued during that time no sign of tan or Andrew surfaced adding weight to the theory that Teegan was dead and
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Andrew was a fictional character created by Kelly in November 2009 the DPP made their
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decision Kelly Lane was charged with tean's murder while the prosecution felt they
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had a strong case they were fully aware of the challenges they faced by going to
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court with only circumstantial evidence without tean's body they couldn't be certain that a murder had
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even occurred even if the jury believed Kelly was lying about giving Tegan to her
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biological father it still didn't prove that she'd done anything to harm the child or that the child was even
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dead while Kelly's history of secret pregnancies adoptions and lies was certainly compelling from a legal
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standpoint these details had no relevance to Tegan's case and would therefore likely be deemed inadmissible
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in court however when Kelly's other children Kaylor and Jacob were born and adopted Kelly had signed affidavits that
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featured various false statements including that Duncan Gillies was the father of both
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babies in Jacob's case Kelly later signed another affidavit claiming the father was really a man named Aaron
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Williams whom she'd met in London DNA tests conducted as part of the homicide investigation confirmed
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that Duncan wasn't the father of either child while Aaron Williams was deemed to
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be a product of Kelly's imagination the other false statements related to addresses Kelly had given and
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the father's knowledge of the adoptions but the lies didn't stop there it turned out that when Kelly
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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
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staff that day had been Kelly's 20th birthday she had gone out to celebrate with
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France based on the lies on these sworn affidavits the DPP made the decision to charge Kelly with three counts of
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perjury to be tried at the same time as the murder charge this was viewed in legal circles
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as an incredibly clever move not only did it mean the prosecution could strengthen their case
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by using Kelly's history of secret pregnancies and adoptions it would also cast out on her credibility before a
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jury but selecting an unbiased a jury was proving to be a challenge in and of itself
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when Samantha Clark not her real name heard about the investigation into Teegan Lane she recognized Kelly
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Lane Samantha worked at a clinic in Queensland that specialized in late term abortions in February 1999 Kelly
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contacted the clinic seeking the termination of what she claimed to be her 24-week pregnancy with the
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Jacob the latest the clinic would perform a termination was 5 weeks with the clock ticking Kelly traveled to
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Brisbane alone to have the procedure when she arrived at the clinic an examination revealed she was already
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beyond the cut off point at around 6 and A2 months pregnant the doctor was therefore unable
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to proceed and Kelly returned to Sydney where she gave birth to Jacob 2 and 1/2 months
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later after seeing Tan's case on the news Samantha remembered Kelly's visit and called the homicide Squad to report
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it after all one of the resounding questions raised by the inquest was why Kelly had gone to Such Great Lengths to
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conceal her pregnancies instead of having them terminated Kelly's mother Sandra had
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testified at the inquest that she didn't particularly believe in abortion and said it was possible that Kelly knew of
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her view Kelly's father Rober testified that he'd asked Kelly why she didn't terminate the pregnancies and she said
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something along the lines of I couldn't hurt a baby but the truth was Kelly's visit to
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Queensland in 1999 was actually the third time she'd been inside an abortion clinic through the course of the
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investigation it was revealed that Kayla wasn't Kelly's first pregnancy she became pregnant for the
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first time at age 17 it was 1992 and the father was her first boyfriend a surf Lifesaver named
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Aaron tyak Kelly told Aon about the pregnancy but kept it a secret from everyone
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else the couple ultimately decided to terminate the pregnancy Kelly chose to go to the
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appointment alone and when she met up with Aaron afterwards she was devastated he described her to the ABC
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as being a shattered girl what Aaron didn't know was that Kelly became pregnant again the
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following year in November 1993 as their relationship was coming to an end this time she didn't tell anybody
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she went to a clinic by herself at 5 months pregnant and had an abortion Kelly had been pregnant five
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times between the ages of 17 and 24 despite being on the contraceptive pill and not a single friend or family member
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ever knew about it prosecutors knew that Kelly's history of terminating pregnancies and placing
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babies for adoption would elicit a strong response from some prospective jury members they'd have to take extra
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caution to ensure that Kelly was being tried for tean's murder and not for her sexuality or her perceived morals
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[Music] the news that Kelly Lane had been charged with Tegan's murder propelled the case back into the headlines with
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the rumor mill swinging into overdrive with Kelly's private life exposed the public had their own
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salacious questions about her string of pregnancies the results of Kaylor and Jacob's DNA tests hadn't yet been made
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public leading some to wonder if had lied about their paternity to cover up the fact that she was being sexually
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abused there were Whispers that she might have been impregnated by her Tormentor and had kept the pregnancy
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secret because she was so deeply in denial about them herself others gossiped about Kelly's
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perceived promiscuity with some speculating that her children were all the result of random Anonymous sexual
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encounters police obtained DNA from the man Kelly was known to have had sexual relations with during the
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1990s it turned out that Kaya's father was a rugby player she'd been seeing around the time she started dating
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Duncan Jacob's father was a friend of her brothers whom she D dated casually after her relationship with the Duncan
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ended neither of the men had any idea that Kelly had been pregnant and were completely shocked to learn that they
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had fathered her children while their identities were withheld from the public to protect Kaylor and
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Jacob's privacy word got out amongst the manly Community close friends of Kelly started
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to distance themselves from her unable to comprehend to just how much she had kept from them over the
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years the rumors took their toll and by the time Kelly was charged with Tan's murder her life looked markedly
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different than it did at the time of the inquest she'd lost the job she loved at
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Ravenswood School for Girls and was working as a receptionist at a physiotherapist office her marriage had
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disintegrated and ended in divorce but there was one thing that remained unchanged Kelly's staunch insistence
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that she was innocent as far as Kelly's defense team was concerned the chances of their
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client being convicted were relatively slim after all there wasn't any concrete evidence that Tean was dead let alone
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how she died or that Kelly had harmed her Kelly had absolutely no History of Violence and had character references
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from more than 40 people who knew her well all attesting she would never hurt a child by all accounts Kelly was a
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wonderful mother and teacher who had a special rapport with young children many spoke of the deep loving Bond she
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shared with her daughter Emily they commended Kelly's strength and courage as she was vilified by the
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media and the details of her private life were splashed across the news if anything the defense believed
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that Kelly placing her other two children for adoption proved she was a responsible young woman she'd gone
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through with the process twice despite the emot toll which showed how much she cared about the wellbeing of her
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babies handing Tegan over to her biological father was just another act of kindness yes Kelly had told many lies
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and wasted the efforts of people like adoption agent Virginia fun but that didn't make her a
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murderer at the time of her secret pregnancies she was simply a young person who didn't have the maturity or
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experience to deal with the difficult and emotional events especially without support from her loved
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ones Kelly's defense team also believed that investigators had failed to establish a convincing
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motive there had been lots of talk about Kelly's Olympic Ambitions and her desire
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to make the team at any cost as far as the defense was concerned Kelly had never even been a serious
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Contender for the Olympic team none of Kelly's friends or former coaches recall her ever speaking about
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wanting to compete at the Olympics and the coach didn't think she had what it took to make the team
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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
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have proceeded with adoption just as she had with Kayla and Jacob Kelly's lawyers also scoffed at
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the suggestion that Kelly was motivated to kill tan so she could attended the wedding later that
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day Kelly barely knew the couple who were getting married she was only there as dun and Gilly's guest and he wasn't
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particularly close to them either and if Kelly really did want to attend the wedding then why wouldn't she
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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
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born the year before as far as Kelly's defense team was concerned she wasn't someone who
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would even think of murdering a baby let alone go through with it along with the question of motive was
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the question of whether Kelly was suffering from any form of mental illness that could have contributed to
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her actions throughout the investigation into teegan's whereabouts Kelly had refused to attend counseling or undergo
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a psychological evaluation the closest she came was during the 2004 coronial inquest when
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her parents summoned a general practitioner to their home because Kelly was in a state of
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distress Kelly told the doctor that she was confused and scared and didn't know how to handle the situation she was
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in she regretted not telling her parents about the pregnancies but there had been
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a lot of expectations on her in regards to her sporting career Kelly said she'd gotten caught up
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in the expectations when deep down she wasn't happy and wanted something different from her
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life the GP formed the view that Kelly's pregnancies were a cry for love instead of talking about how she
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was feeling he thought the pregnancies were a dysfunctional way of trying to manage the
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situation the doctor stated I think she was just scared and it was a nebulous kind of
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fear Keen to further understand Kelly's motivations prosecutors hired a renowned
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psychiatrist to review Kelly's entire file including her medical records and police
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interviews while he never interviewed Kelly himself based on the information at hand the psychiatrist concluded that
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there was nothing in Kelly's behavior that indicated any kind of psychiatric or mental
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illness she was well aware of her actions and knew the difference between right wrong however he believed that Kelly
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likely did have some kind of personality disorder the psychiatrist suspected the
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two abortions Kelly had as a teenager were formative he believed that after terminating those pregnancies Kelly
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developed a desire to be pregnant in order to have the baby she could not have each of the babies she subsequently
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carried to full term with the result of what the psychiatrist labeled a repetition
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compulsion he believed that by putting herself back in an unresolved state of conflict Kelly hoped to correct the
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previous emotionally distressing experience by managing each subsequent pregnancy more
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successfully while he acknowledged that such Behavior defired rational explanation and was extremely
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destructive he said the compulsion to repeat Behavior was p [Music] powerful Kelly Lane's trial for the
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murder of her newborn baby Teegan Lane commenced in August 2010 by this point Kelly was 35 years
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old and her daughter Emily was nine if convicted Kelly faced a minimum of 10 years in prison meaning that in
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the best case scenario Emily would be 19 by the time she got out worst case scenario Kelly faced Life Behind
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Bars to safeguard against any possible delays the potential jury pool was four times the usual amount with each
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prospective member carefully handpicked to ensure they held no moral opinions about abortion or adoption that could
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impact Kelly's right to a fair trial the judge firmly told the prospective jurors the fact that this trial will
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raise highly emotional issues relating to a mother's dealing with newborn children must not interfere with the
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presumption of innocence to which Kelly Lane is emphatically entitled people of all ages genders and
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backgrounds asked to be excused until there were just 12 individuals left with two serving as
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backup the prosecution was led by Mark teski a formidable senior CR prosecutor who' secured convictions in some of the
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nation's most high-profile trials including The bangalow Backpacker murders as covered in episode 109 of
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case File and the Gonzalez family murders as covered in episode 103 of case File over 3 days teski presented a
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highly detailed account of Kelly Lane's secret pregnancies and the subsequent lies she
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told as for how she managed to become pregnant so many times while taking the contraceptive pill teski theorized that
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the pill had been rendered ineffective because of Kelly's frequent binge drinking in her younger years which
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often resulted in her vomiting she would regularly go out to the pub and she used to keep up with the
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boy in her drinking he explained teski submitted to the jury that it was clear from the get-go that
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Kelly never had any intention of bringing Tean home the jury could therefore rule out any
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other possible reasons for the newborn's death such as accident or misadventure instead teski presented
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that kelly didn't want to go through with the emotionally grueling and timec consuming adoption process again so
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either shortly before or after leaving the hospital with Teegan she formed the intention to kill
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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
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however the Orban hospital was just a couple of kilometers away from what was then the homebush Olympic site which at
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that time in 1996 was surrounded by vast SS of vacant land a few building sites and deserted roads particularly at the
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weekend so there was an opportunity nearby for the accused to find somewhere that was entirely private which would
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have given her an opportunity to kill Tean and dispose of the body he said the fact that Kelly
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attended a wedding straight after and was able to move on like nothing ever happened showed quote either a callous
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disregard for human life or a complete ability to block out the terrible act she had just
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committed however the prosecution did think that Kelly's actions took an emotional
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toll teski told the jury that when Kelly gave birth to Jacob the following year quote the experience of killing Tegan
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had been so awful that even the Practical difficulties involved in an adoption were preferable to killing
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another child the defense objected to tedes scenario involving the homebush Olympic
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site at no point was this location ever searched by police and there was nothing
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to suggest Kelly had gone there after leaving Orban Hospital the judge agreed to the
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objection and teski was ordered to withdraw this remark he told the jury to disregard that specific scenario
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stating there is no evidence at all as to what happened to Tegan or the accused during those three plus hours between
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when she left the hospital before midday to use her own words and when she arrived at her parents house at Fair
00:38:01
light at 300 p.m. I think it is fair to say ladies and gentlemen that it would not be
00:38:08
appropriate for you to speculate about what might have happened during that time Kelly's defense lawyer reminded the
00:38:17
jury that there was nothing out of the ordinary about Kelly's sexual behavior during her youth he said the only
00:38:23
difference between her and the young men she slept with was her ility to become pregnant the defense maintained that it
00:38:32
wasn't up to them to prove that Teegan was still alive instead their argument was that the prosecution had failed to
00:38:39
provide any evidence to confirm that Teegan was even dead let alone how she died and even if Tegan was dead there
00:38:49
was no evidence to suggest that Kelly had killed her if Teegan had indeed died while
00:38:56
under Kelly's care there was nothing to prove that Kelly had committed any act that demonstrated an intention to
00:39:02
seriously harm her it was entirely possible that Tegan had died by accident the defense acknowledged it was
00:39:12
possible that Kelly was lying about giving Tegan to a man named Andrew Norris or Morris but even if she was
00:39:20
that didn't mean she had murdered the child perhaps she was lying to protect the real identity of the person or
00:39:27
people she'd given Tak to it was possible the only reason those people hadn't come forward was due to
00:39:38
shame the trial dragged on for 3 months during which the prosecution called 75 Witnesses including former friends of
00:39:47
Kelly's her parents two ex-boyfriends Hospital staff social workers and employees from the adoption agencies
00:39:55
Kelly had worked with despite all the lies she' told Witnesses described her as a well-raised polite
00:40:03
and upstanding member of the community those who knew her including those who'd since distanced themselves
00:40:10
from her were adamant that she would never heard a child while Kelly's conduct during her
00:40:17
younger years certainly raised eyebrows amongst some in the courtroom it was also observed that many seemed to take
00:40:24
pity on her and the way in which her private life was being so openly discussed as time went by media interest
00:40:33
began to dwindle as many journalists formed the opinion that a murder conviction was
00:40:39
unlikely meanwhile birth certificates continued to trickle in as a result of the Nationwide School inquiries
00:40:47
prompting criticism from the judge about the prosecution's handling multiple times the trial was
00:40:53
put on hold while leads were followed up and evidence was debated for admissibility the defense called No
00:41:01
Witnesses and kelly didn't take the stand by the time closing arguments commenced the defense had argued that
00:41:11
the case should be thrown out completely Mark teski for the prosecution told the
00:41:17
jury there is only one person in the world who really knows what happened to Baby tan and that is Kelly
00:41:25
Lane she has given many different versions to the authorities and all of them can be shown to be
00:41:32
lies there is only one reason why she has told all those lies and that is because she was responsible for teegan's
00:41:40
death and she had no other information that could result in Tegan being found alive the truth was and still is
00:41:52
Dreadful the jury was dismissed to begin deliberations on Monday December December 6
00:41:59
2010 as days passed by with no verdict reached Kelly's legal team felt optimistic this meant the jury was still
00:42:08
deliberating which could be favorable for Kelly it was a whole week before the court was
00:42:16
reassembled for the three perjury charges they had no doubt Kelly was guilty however when it came to the
00:42:24
murder charge the jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision Kelly wept as the judge told
00:42:32
the jury that if they were willing he would accept a majority verdict again the jury was dismissed for
00:42:40
further deliberation tension was high in the packed courtroom when they reassembled 2
00:42:47
hours later with many wondering if there would be a hung jury and therefore a possible Ray
00:42:54
trial the visibly nervous forance stood and quietly delivered the verdict [Music]
00:43:07
guilty the courtrooms silence was shattered by the screams of Kelly's mother Sandra while Kelly herself let
00:43:14
out a low moan before collapsing hard onto the floor banging her head on the way
00:43:20
down it took paramedics 15 minutes to get her back into her seat at which point the judge Deni
00:43:28
bail Kelly was taken into custody to await sentencing which was scheduled to take place in 3 months
00:43:36
time the unexpected guilty verdict propelled the case back into the headlines after years of avoiding
00:43:44
interviews and declining to testify in both the coronial inquest and the trial Kelly went to the media to share her
00:43:51
story once and for all Kelly's new boyfriend Patrick began recording the couple's phone calls with
00:43:59
her permission and handed the audio over to Channel 7's Sunday night program Kelly said she felt like she was
00:44:08
being punished for being pregnant or placing babies for adoption telling Patrick it's hard to understand why I'm
00:44:16
still being raped over the calls for it as for the prosecutions case that Andrew Norris never existed Kelly
00:44:25
scoffed well I don't know how Teegan came about if he didn't exist I didn't make her by
00:44:33
myself she criticized the police investigation saying not enough was done to find Andrew Oran and was scathing
00:44:41
about the fact that searches were still being held during her trial to put Kelly's word to the test
00:44:50
Sunday night announced they would fund a $500,000 reward for information leading
00:44:55
to the whereabouts of t lane or Andrew Norris Kelly was hopeful that this would provide the Breakthrough she needed
00:45:04
telling Patrick someone might ring in now that hasn't seen the news before or didn't
00:45:10
put two and two together and have some information that either leads straight to Andrew or to Teegan now that she's
00:45:16
old enough to have her own connections to people it wasn't just Kelly who was critical of the
00:45:25
investigation prominent Criminal defense lawyer Chris Murphy told Sunday night that prosecutor Mark teski poisoned the
00:45:32
case when he wrongly speculated to the jury that Kelly killed Tean and dumped her body at the homebush Olympic site
00:45:40
even though this statement was withdrawn Chris Murphy said it planted an idea in
00:45:45
the minds of the jury that the prosecution knew more than they were letting on I find the Kelly Lane case the most
00:45:53
disturbing case I've ever come across Chris said this woman has no History of Violence
00:46:00
there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that she killed that baby or that that baby died I could not in a
00:46:08
million years under any circumstance safely conclude that she killed the baby deliberately to the high degree of proof
00:46:15
required for murder Kelly hasn't wanted to say what has happened to the baby that doesn't
00:46:23
mean she is guilty of murder nothing came of the reward offer and Kelly sentencing went ahead in April
00:46:34
2011 while the judge didn't believe Kelly's actions were the highest or lowest form of criminal culpability he
00:46:42
acknowledged there were two serious aggravating factors to take into consideration namely the life taken was
00:46:50
that of a defenseless baby and that baby met her an at the hands of her mother quote a person from whom she could
00:47:00
ordinarily expect protection sustenance and care he stated that even without knowing
00:47:07
how Teegan met her death he was quote satisfied Beyond a reasonable doubt that sometime after Kelly left the
00:47:16
hospital she formed the intention to take the child's life and did so very soon after forming that
00:47:25
intention the judge clarified it suggests a relatively although not completely spontaneous act
00:47:35
putting it bluntly Kelly must have found herself in a desperate situation and could see no way out from her
00:47:42
perspective irrational though it was there was simply no way out I find that the offense was
00:47:50
premeditated but only for a short time it was committed in a situation of desperation arising from a sense of
00:47:59
entrapment and isolation and a perceived inability to communicate with the very people who would have eased her burden
00:48:06
and helped her out of the desperate situation in which she found herself irrational though these feelings
00:48:13
were I accept that they were likely to have been experienced by Kelly new laws introduced in 2003 put
00:48:23
the standard nonp parole period for murder at 5 years if the victim was under 18 taking into account Kelly's
00:48:32
immaturity at the time of the killing the unlikeliness that she'd have a re offend and the law that applied when the
00:48:39
offense occurred in 1996 the judge stated I am satisfied that Kelly Lane is now a very different person to the
00:48:50
troubled personage that lay beneath the Golden Girl exterior the maturity has probably been
00:48:56
been cemented ironically enough because of the love and devotion that has grown between her and her daughter Emily it is
00:49:04
a further tragic irony that despite Kelly's maturity her Rehabilitation and the apparent resolution of the
00:49:11
difficulties that beset her in her youth she must now face a lengthy period in prison with that he sentenced Kelly Lane
00:49:22
to 18 years as Kelly was led from from the court a man's voice rang out from amongst the
00:49:31
spectators I'll help you he called days after Kelly's sentencing Chris Murphy the criminal lawyer who
00:49:42
appeared on Channel 7's Sunday night program to discuss Tan's case was contacted by a man named Maurice who
00:49:49
claimed to have some important information according to Maurice in 1996 he was working in Sydney as a taxi
00:49:59
driver on Saturday September 14 he picked Kelly and her newborn baby up from Orban hospital and began driving
00:50:07
them to Manley as they headed down River Road in Lane Cove a somewhat isolated stretch of
00:50:14
Bushland Kelly asked Maurice to pull over she got out bringing the baby with her when she returned a few minutes
00:50:24
later she was alone Kelly allegedly told Maurice she'd given the newborn to a babysitter not thinking much of it
00:50:35
Maurice continued the drive to Manley when Kelly got out of the car he noticed that she'd left a baby bag full
00:50:42
of nappies on the back seat Maurice called out to Kelly but she responded I don't need
00:50:51
it suspicious about this comment Maurice claimed he returned to the spot on River
00:50:57
Road where Kelly exited with the baby in a patch of nearby Bushland he found the baby and a bottle wrapped up
00:51:05
in a blanket next to a tree a woman passed by and Maurice spoke to her he said he was going to contact the
00:51:15
police but the woman offered to take care of it Maurice handed the baby over and didn't give it much more
00:51:23
thought it was only when he saw Kelly Lane's murder trial in the news that he recognized her face and realized the
00:51:30
significance of this moment Chris Murphy encouraged Maurice to go to the police with this
00:51:37
information and then went public with the claims Kelly's legal team rejected this
00:51:44
scenario saying we are aware of the taxi driver's claims but have no interest in pursuing
00:51:51
that line of inquiry the police warned that if Maurice was lying he'd be charged with
00:51:59
creating public Mischief Maurice's background was looked into not only did he admit to having
00:52:06
mental health issues it turned out that in 1996 he was banned from driving and couldn't possibly have been working as a
00:52:14
taxi driver while Mara's claims were ruled out Kelly appealed her conviction on eight
00:52:23
grounds although she maintained her innocent she argued that the judge had heard by failing to leave an alternative
00:52:30
count of manslaughter or infanticide to the jury she also argued that a new jury
00:52:36
should have been sworn in after Mark Tad des's prejudicial comments and that her
00:52:41
lawyer should have applied for a separate trial in respect to her perjury charges overall Kelly said the verdict
00:52:49
was unreasonable and couldn't be supported by the evidence the court of appeal rejected Ed
00:52:56
the application on all eight grounds with the panel of Judges concluding they were satisfied that the evidence
00:53:02
established Kelly's guilt Beyond Reasonable Doubt Kelly sought special leave to appeal to the high court of
00:53:11
Australia her request was denied meaning she'd officially exhausted all her Avenues of
00:53:19
appeal the only option she had left was to apply to the New South Wales governor
00:53:24
for a pardon and the only way that could happen was if fresh and compelling evidence was
00:53:30
presented as one specialist in wrongful convictions told the Australian women's weekly in Kelly's case that means either
00:53:40
Andrew Norris coming forward or Tean suddenly appearing or if Kelly changes her [Music]
00:53:53
story in 2016 award-winning investigative journalist Caro meldam Hannah opened a letter addressed to her
00:54:01
at the Australian broadcasting commission offices in Sydney dear Ms meldam Hannah the letter
00:54:09
read my name is Kelly Lane and I have been wrongfully convicted of murdering my baby in
00:54:17
1996 I believe if the public knew the real facts had all the information and saw the errors and questions that still
00:54:25
remain in my case they may be able to help perhaps come forward with where Andrew Norris our child or his family
00:54:34
are ultimately we are trying to locate Andrew our daughter or a family member Caro wasn't sure what to make of
00:54:44
the letter she was well known for her work on the ABC's popular current affairs program for corners but she'd
00:54:52
never covered tan Lane's case before so her first thought was that the letter must be a
00:54:59
prank Caro contacted Kelly in prison and confirmed the letter was legitimate when asked if there was any
00:55:07
way she could have harmed Teegan Kelly responded firmly there is no way there is no way
00:55:15
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
00:55:22
would have asked for some help I would have asked to see an adoption agent and I would have done the exact same
00:55:28
thing I did 18 months earlier I remember that day clear as I know a lot of people think I'm cold and
00:55:37
callous but those children were very important to me and I loved them I thought I was doing the right thing by
00:55:46
them Caro agreed to make a documentary about the case which would be titled exposed the case of Kelly Lane but only
00:55:55
under the condition that no topic was off limits and she would follow the truth wherever it
00:56:02
led Kelly agreed and in turn she handed over her entire case File and court records including private correspondence
00:56:11
sent between herself and her defense team Caro and a small team fully immersed themselves in the case they
00:56:20
tracked down and interviewed anyone and everyone from Kelly's Past who was willing to speak with them including
00:56:26
former water poloo coaches teammates boyfriends and even her parents they spoke to the coroner
00:56:34
prosecutors and homicide Squad detectives who worked on Kelly's case and were handed a USB containing
00:56:41
exclusive confidential police files from a secret informant after 9 months of intense
00:56:48
research the exposed team identified several holes in the investigation as well as questionable legal tactics that
00:56:56
had Dem masking was Kelly Lane wrongfully convicted during Kelly's trial police claimed that exhaustive efforts had been
00:57:08
made to interview all the former tenants of the apartment building on whis Beach
00:57:12
Street where Kelly said Andrew Norris had lived none of the tenants recalled ever
00:57:19
seeing Kelly there nor did they have any knowledge of a resident called Andrew Norris one former tenant did testify to
00:57:27
seeing maale addressed to Andrew Norris as well as Andrew Morris but his claims were discounted as he'd given various
00:57:35
inconsistent statements over the years however the exposed team discovered that there was at least one
00:57:43
tenant who had never been questioned a man named darl Hansen the team tracked darl down on
00:57:52
Facebook and organized a video meeting when car meldam Hannah showed a Daryl a photo of Kelly Lane taken in about
00:58:00
1996 he claimed he remembered seeing her around to the building darl said he used to spend a
00:58:08
lot of time in the downstairs car park working on his car late at night he remembered seeing Kelly exit the
00:58:15
building through the car park several times sometimes as late as 1:00 a.m. Daryl claimed he saw Kelly so many
00:58:24
times that he thought she must have lived in the building when pressed by Caro as to
00:58:29
whether he could be misremembering in hindsight Daryl insisted Kelly Lane was the person he had seen he was so sure
00:58:37
that he said he'd happily testified that in a court of law the exposed team also interviewed a
00:58:45
childhood friend of Kelly's named Natalie McCauley who had recently appeared on 60 Minutes in Kelly's
00:58:52
defense Natalie claimed that she remembered the SU of 1996 very clearly as it was the year that she and all her
00:59:00
friends had turned 21 early in the year Kelly allegedly confided in Natalie that she was having
00:59:07
a fling with another man she mentioned it at least three times over a 1-month period Natalie said she remembered the
00:59:17
name of Kelly's secret lover clearly as he had the same first name as Natalie's brother Andrew
00:59:26
Natalie claimed that she'd provided police with this information during the investigation and she'd also been
00:59:32
willing to testify in Kelly's defense at trial however she believed the police weren't interested because they were
00:59:40
already convinced of Kelly's guilt adamant that she wouldn't lie about such a thing especially given her
00:59:48
profession in child protection Natalie told exposed I am passionate about children's
00:59:55
rights I love children every day my waking hour is about protecting kids I'm not about to let my friend get off easy
01:00:04
if she's heard a child during the search for Tegan's father police had also spoken to a man
01:00:13
named Andrew Morris who recalled visiting Sydney's Northern beaches for a surf life saving competition in the mid
01:00:20
199s when shown a photo lineup of several young women Andrew moris recognized Kelly Lane but couldn't be
01:00:28
sure how or why he told the exposed team that the police then began drip feeding him
01:00:35
information about Kelly until he put two and two together and realized that they
01:00:40
once had a random one-off sexual encounter at the North Narine Surf Club it had happened around the same
01:00:48
time that tan would have been conceived Andrew had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution at Kelly's
01:00:56
trial not to suggest he was Tegan's father but to explain how Kelly came up with the Andrew Morris or Norris Persona
01:01:04
in the first place then at the last minute a deal was made between both legal teams Andrew wouldn't testify and
01:01:14
neither would Natalie McCauley this was just one of several factors that led Kelly's case to being
01:01:24
taken on by the bridge of Hope innocence initiative an organization dedicated to
01:01:29
examining possible wrongful convictions a spokesperson for the initiative told exposed about the deal
01:01:36
relating to Natalie McCauley and Andrew Morris for Kelly's supporters these allegations of witness coaching witness
01:01:44
swapping and Deals struck between the prosecution and defense were further evidence that Kelly hadn't received a
01:01:51
fair trial exposed also Unearthed record from Orban hospital that cast a doubt on the
01:01:58
timing of Kelly's departure with baby taken notes made by a registered nurse had Kelly leaving at 2:
01:02:07
p.m. that same nurse later provided a statement saying Kelly was discharged between 11:00 a.m. and 12:
01:02:15
midday if the hospital records were correct and Kelly really had left the hospital at 2:00 p.m. and was home in
01:02:22
fairl light by 3:00 p.m. then exposed posited that Kelly wouldn't have had time to kill Teegan and dispose of her
01:02:31
body even investigators who worked on the case were critical of the way things were
01:02:37
handled various individuals involved expressed their discomfort with Kelly's conviction the detective who led the
01:02:45
investigation into teegan's murder had since retired from the force she told exposed that police had
01:02:53
no evidence against Kelly and weren't ready when the DPP decided to proceed with the murder
01:02:59
charge I used every trick in the book the former detective explained and undercover strategy covert DNA samples
01:03:08
every resource that was available there was nothing absolutely nothing we didn't
01:03:15
have anything the exposed team also highlighted the fact that for all the digging police did to find Tegan's
01:03:23
biological father they never organized for a composite sketch to be made they questioned why such an image
01:03:30
wasn't broadcast around Australia asking anyone who had seen such a man to come forward the exposed team organized for a
01:03:39
former police officer turned forensic artist to visit Kelly in prison Kelly recalled Andrew's physical
01:03:47
features in detail and a clear composite sketch of Andrew Norris was created for
01:03:52
the first time the forensic artist who had 18 years experience creating sketches
01:03:59
believed Kelly was truthful in her description she was consistent throughout he said she didn't sway at
01:04:09
all in a phone call from prison Kelly told Caro meldam Hannah that from a very young age her athletic training taught
01:04:17
her to hide her emotions she was excellent at filing feelings away and being a different
01:04:24
person for different people people she also revealed that her first sexual experience was being date raped
01:04:31
while intoxicated at the age of 15 Kelly explained I don't think I valued my body
01:04:39
and my choices and my boundaries because everybody just seemed to be so frivolous
01:04:45
with it she struggled upon learning that several people in her life had indeed suspected she was pregnant at times but
01:04:54
never reached out while Kelly made it clear she didn't want to shift the responsibility onto
01:05:00
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
01:05:11
to think that no one reached out and said you seem different or you look different or are you
01:05:20
okay as part of the documentary Kelly agreed to meet face to face with Dr Ann Buist a forensic psychiatrist who
01:05:28
specializes in women's mental health and the relationship between mother and babies throughout her career Dr Buist
01:05:36
had worked with hundreds of women who'd been accused of abusing their children but she said that Kelly was her hardest
01:05:43
most difficult case Dr Buist told exposed that she didn't find Kelly to be a pathological
01:05:51
liar a narcissist or mentally ill she thought thought the secret pregnancies could be explained by
01:05:58
Kelly's upbringing during which she'd received the message that her family didn't like dealing with negative
01:06:05
emotions Dr Buist couldn't find a coherent narrative that Kelly could have killed Tean aside from the fact that she
01:06:12
had demonstrated the capacity to detach from her other children for Dr Buist one thing in
01:06:19
particular stood out during her interviews with Kelly When Kelly started talking about Andrew Norris her body
01:06:26
language changed the way she spoke about him seemed superficial Dr Buist told exposed there was something there that
01:06:38
didn't ring [Music] true exposed was released by the ABC in 2018 to rave reviews propelling Kelly's
01:06:50
case back into the spotlight members of the public hotly debated Kelly's guilty verdict and
01:06:57
shared outrage over what many now viewed as a wrongful conviction thousands turned to social
01:07:04
media to accuse the prosecution of misconduct and Kelly's defense team of negligence calls were made for Kelly to
01:07:12
be exonerated or at the very least retried but the documentary wasn't without its
01:07:19
critics many were quick to point out that crucial information was withheld from the viewers with some accusing the
01:07:26
ABC of provoking public excitement at the expense of accurate reporting retired Australian Barras
01:07:35
Simon Davis was one such critic Simon hadn't been involved in Kelly's trial in any capacity but after watching exposed
01:07:44
he was shocked by the trial's flaws and felt compelled to look into the case in detail Simon essentially fact checked
01:07:52
the claims made by exposed then published a book book titled on trial the case of Kelly Lane and the ABC in
01:08:00
which he debunked each one casting doubt on the claims made by former whisbe Street tenant darl Hensen
01:08:09
Simon said it was hard to believe a witness could so confidently recognize a stranger two decades after the fact
01:08:16
especially when the alleged interactions occurred in the dark of night furthermore while Daryl claimed
01:08:23
Kelly usually left in the middle of the night Kelly had told police that when she'd stayed at Andrew Norris's place
01:08:30
she left in the morning and went straight to water poloo training Simon Davis concluded ultimately Henson's evidence
01:08:39
was of such low probative value that it is questionable whether it would even be
01:08:44
admissible at a trial Simon Davis rejected the claims about witness swapping and game playing
01:08:52
between the opposing legal teams he pointed out that exposed had failed to tell Their audience several important
01:08:59
details regarding Natalie McCauley's claims firstly in Natalie's original police statement she made no mention of
01:09:08
Andrew despite later stating Kelly told her about Andrew at the time of their Affair secondly Natalie was
01:09:16
cross-examined by the prosecution at Kelly's pre-trial hearing before the jury was sworn
01:09:21
in some of the responses she gave led to doubts about her credibility she was therefore deemed unreliable and not
01:09:30
called to testify during the trial thirdly and to Simon Davis most importantly police had asked Kelly if
01:09:38
any of her friends knew about her affair with Andrew at no point did she mention
01:09:44
Natalie's name fourthly if Kelly really did think Natalie's testimony would have been
01:09:51
crucial then why did she make no mention of it when appealing her conviction according to Simon Davis's
01:09:59
research the Andrew Morris who appeared unexposed wasn't prevented from giving evidence due to some kind of witness
01:10:07
swapping deal he was stopped because shortly before the trial commenced it emerged that the random sexual encounter
01:10:15
Andrew had at the beach couldn't possibly have been with Kelly thus his testimony was irrelevant
01:10:25
as for the claim that Kelly left Orban hospital with Teegan at 2: p.m. Kelly herself told the police she'd left the
01:10:32
hospital quote before 12:00 sometime the patient sharing her room also testified that Kelly and Tegan left
01:10:42
by 11:00 a.m. the nurse had listed eight other matters on Kelly's file at 2: p.m. not
01:10:49
just Kelly's departure Simon Davis pointed out that all these matters hadn't taken place
01:10:56
simultaneously many likely occurred before 2: p.m. and the nurse simply recorded the time she was making the
01:11:05
notes taking these factors and several others into account Simon Davis concluded that exposed was inaccurate
01:11:13
and misleading he stated legitimate questioning of a jury's verdict is one thing however
01:11:22
questioning of a verdict which has twice been the subject of app pellet review without real reference to the appeal
01:11:28
judgments and by apparently suppressing many of the relevant facts is quite another ultimately exposed was little
01:11:37
more than a recycling of old arguments long since rejected by the courts or disavowed by Kelly herself and placing
01:11:45
them in 2018 and presumably hoping no one noticed their Antiquity or knew they had been rejected
01:11:55
regardless of its criticisms exposed raised some thought-provoking questions and led many to wonder if the
01:12:02
prosecution really had met the standard of proof required to reach a conviction The Bridge of Hope innocence
01:12:09
initiative petitioned the Attorney General of New South Wales to open a full inquiry into the investigation
01:12:16
prosecution and conviction of Kelly Lane they also called for an urgent review Into the policing and
01:12:24
prosecutorial practice practices that led to Kelly being charged in the first place Dr Michelle Reuters a lawyer and
01:12:32
spokesperson for the group told 60 Minutes one of the things I've found the most extraordinary about Kelly Lane's
01:12:40
case is that people find it easier to believe that a young mother would kill her child than they would believe her
01:12:47
father would accept responsibility for that child and to disappear forensic Criminal ologist Dr
01:12:56
zany Mallet spent 2 years looking into Kelly's case and agreed that an urgent review was
01:13:02
needed she believed that just because Kelly was a liar it didn't make her a murderer Dr Mallet told 60
01:13:12
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
01:13:20
prison let there be evidence for that or let her out [Music] for the Australian public one of the
01:13:30
most scandalous details about the case was the fact that Kelly had become pregnant five times in 7 years despite
01:13:37
being on the contraceptive pill the fact that she determinated two pregnancies in the past one of which was
01:13:44
considered a late term left people wondering why she didn't just do so again instead of proceeding with three
01:13:50
secret pregnancies others questioned why Kelly didn't abstain from sex entirely if she
01:13:57
kept finding herself in an undesirable predicament but the ongoing interest also prompted conversations about
01:14:06
whether Kelly Lane was unfairly judged based on her sex life which ultimately had nothing to do with whether or not
01:14:13
she was capable of murder many argue that she was subject to trial by media and the prosecution
01:14:21
used [ __ ] shaming as a strategic device at her trial even the DPP who charged Kelly
01:14:29
with murder admitted that her case was prosecuted because it raised all sorts of
01:14:35
values the same DPP came under Fire from the public when he told ABC's exposed that he didn't think Kelly presented a
01:14:43
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
01:14:53
community but the judge who oversaw the trial said it was necessary to lay the facts of Kelly's personal life
01:15:01
bare while he acknowledged this would have been a humiliating and intrusive experience for Kelly and her family and
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that the meteor excitement led to Kelly's life being examined at a prurient level quote the fact remains
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that there is a need to gain insight into the offender behavior in an Endeavor to gain an understanding of the
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level of culpability involved in the murder itself some of these matters might at first
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blush seem peripheral to the ascertainment of culpability and the assessment of the objective criminality
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involved but in truth I think that the answers to these Troublesome questions are highly relevant in that
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regard Dr zany Mallet is one of many who believe Kelly Lane was a victim of trial
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by media she has compared Kelly's situation to that of Chamberlain whose wrongful
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conviction for the murder of her baby aarya was covered in episode 136 of case File Dr Mallet believes that like Lindy
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Kelly was scrutinized for not being emotional enough or responding in the way people thought a mother
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should she told women's weekly clearly Kelly was never in line to win a mother of the year award and
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she disgraced herself by lying so often and so flagrantly but it's still a big leap to say she
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killed her [Music] baby Caro meldam Hannah told Mama Mia that Judgment of Kelly's sex life
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remained one of the prominent discussions when it came to this case there was a lot of [ __ ] shaming
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back then she said and it's clear there's a lot of [ __ ] shaming now nevertheless Caro told the
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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
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Teegan and what happened to her there's nothing more vulnerable than a newborn baby these factors aside one of the
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biggest criticisms about Kelly Lane's case is the police handling of the investigation and why it took them so
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long to commence a search for Tegan or question Kelly in the first place those who believe Kelly was unfairly
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convicted don't think enough was done to find Andrew Norris and are critical of the fact that investigators were still
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searching for Andrew and Teegan while both the coronial inquest and murder trial were
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underway but as the prosecution argued Kelly essentially sent police on a wild goose chase when she told them Teegan
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was taken by her father and any delays were therefore Kelly's fault others commended the police's
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intensive search efforts attesting they did the most thorough job possible given
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they were searching for a needle in a hyack while Kelly's case is polarizing even many who believe in her innocence
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have serious doubts that Andrew Norris ever existed as Simon Davis stated in his
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book one is driven to conclude that if Andrew and his mom and Mel do exist they must must be huddled together under a
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proverbial Rock never in the annals of crime in Australia or perhaps anywhere would
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there have been so much reaching out searching for or imploring of a human being to come forward as there has been
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for Andrew moris Norris the case would arguably be the most publicized murder conviction in
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Australian history and yet still no sign of Andrew Morris slis in a phone call to Kelly in prison Caro
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mildrum Hannah said that something didn't add up about the Andrew Norris story I'm not convinced on this name
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Caro told Kelly and I need you to help me Kelly became somewhat defensive insisting that the name of teegan's
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father was Andrew Norris emphasizing it was spelled with an N Caro pressed on asking if it was
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possible possible that Andrew Norris might not be his real name for the first time in over two
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decades Kelly said absolutely absolutely I don't know 100% if his name was Andrew Norris
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because I don't know if what he was telling me at the time was the truth or if I've made a
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mistake of course that's a possibility if teegan's biological father was really out there he never
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came forward by March 2024 Kelly Lane was 48 years old she had served her minimum
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period of 13 and A2 years and was eligible to apply for parole but just 2 years earlier New
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South Wales passed the nobody no parole legislation which prevented any prisoners convicted of murder from
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receiving parole if they hadn't cooperated by identifying their victim's location
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[Music] a statement released by Kelly's parole board read The Authority is not satisfied that
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the offender has cooperated satisfactorily in police investigations or other actions to identify the
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location of Tagan with that Kelly's bid for release was denied public debate followed with one
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New South Wales politician describing Kelly Lane as a political prisoner she told the
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guardian the nobody no parole law undermines the fundamental objective of parole to support Community safety with
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a focus on the rehabilitation of the offender at their core they further punish the person who has served their
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time the fact is Kelly Lane has done her time and she has been an exemplary prisoner and she should not remain in
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prison any longer Justice Anthony wheelie the former Supreme Court Judge who oversaw Kelly's
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trial agreed in the years since Kelly's conviction he'd publicly admitted that Kelly's case affected him
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emotionally while he accepted the jury's verdict justice wheelie said he wasn't convinced that the crown had proved its
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case and he voiced his misgivings about aspects of how the trial was conducted since the nobody no parole
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legis ation was passed Justice wheie joined many others in calling for changes to this new
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law after Kelly's parole was denied Justice wheie told a current affair that the law shouldn't be applied to Kelly's
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case not only did he call the case enigmatic and say there was a question mark surrounding her guilt he pointed
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out that the law wasn't intended to apply to people like her stating because of the way it was worded
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it slant her back inside for four more years I believe that had this law not been passed then she would be back in
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the community where she belongs he told the ABC that this law was particularly problematic in cases
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where the offender maintained their innocence what is the point of Judges making the sentences if the legislation
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extends the time they spend in prison Justice Willie asked we shouldn't increase the time they
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spend in jail if they're maintaining their innocence because if they didn't commit the crime they have no idea of
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where the body might be one of Kelly's most vocal supporters Dr zany Mallet told the ABC that the
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point of the nobody no parole law was to provide closure for victims families Dr mallad said that didn't
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apply in Kelly's case because quote the family of Tean is also Kelly's family and they believe in her
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innocence you have to wonder if we keep Kelly in prison who is that serving Kelly Lane is due to be released
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in 2028 she continues to maintain her innocence while Kelly's critics often point out that she has never shown any
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remorse her supporters rebut that kelly didn't kill tan so she has nothing to be
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remorseful about if tan Lane is still alive as Kelly claims she would be 28 years old
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at the time this episode goes to air to this day no evidence of teegan's existence beyond the day she left
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hospital with Kelly has ever surfaced over the years many have discussed the significance of the mother
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daughter relationships highlighted by this case by Kelly keeping her pregnancy secret
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from her own mother she severed any potential relationship with Tean and the choices she made in that regard then
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impacted her relationship with her daughter Emily during her incarceration Kelly has
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only been allowed to speak to Emily for 10 minutes a day when Kelly was sentenced Justice
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wheelie remarked it is a tragedy at three levels this case reflects the most profound tragedy of the relationship
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between mother and daughter Kelly's parents continued to support her when asked by 60 minutes if
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they believed Kelly's story about what happened to tan her mother Sandra responded Yes I do it sounds improbable
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but a lot of improbable things happen in life Kelly's Father Robert agreed adding
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the truth is Stranger Than Fiction isn't [Music] [Music] it e but