Exposed: Keli Lane tapes from prison revealed

AN explosive documentary has revealed exactly what was said between convicted baby killer Keli Lane and the journalist she asked to clear her name.

FOR anybody who followed the remarkable, heartbreaking story of little Tegan Lane, last night was must-watch television.

An explosive documentary, Exposed: The case of Keli Lane, aired on the ABC detailing the contents of exclusive prison interviews with the mother of Tegan, presumed baby killer Keli Lane.

Lane, 43, is serving an 18-year sentence for the murder of her two-day-old daughter in 1996. She was convicted despite Tegan’s body never being found.

In the documentary, investigative journalists Caro Meldrum-Hanna and Elise Worthington chat with the convicted killer in a series of recorded interviews.

Keli Lane was found guilty of murdering her two-day-old baby, Tegan.

In one recording, Lane discusses why she lied about three secret unwanted pregnancies between 1996 and 1999.

“The lies were around the shame or the embarrassment or the humiliation of the life I was leading not different to any other young person that makes silly choices or is covering up a part of their life,” Lane says.

She explains how she concealed the three pregnancies, telling the pair it wasn’t particularly hard.

“Do you know what,” Lane says. “I don’t even remember really putting that much effort into it.

“Of course, avoiding people was probably my biggest attempts. I was very good at isolating myself, so wherever everyone was going, I might only go for a little while, or I was going between training, work, home ... I was really good at dodging everyone.”

Lane claims her daughter is alive today.

In another conversation, Lane tells Meldrum-Hanna about the last moment she had with her daughter. Lane claims she gave Tegan to her father — a man she called Andrew Norris but later said was named Andrew Morris.

“She’s so beautiful and just, she’s asleep and she was tucked in this ... capsule. I was very upset, I was crying, and Andrew was with ... his mother,” she says.

“They’d obviously been sitting in the chairs waiting and they stood up as we approached. And just as they feeling of, ‘Is this the right thing to do?’

“I looked at them and, not to judge, but I didn’t know them.”

Police have not been able to track down Andrew Norris and prosecutors at her trial successfully argued that instead of handing her baby over, she instead left hospital with her, murdered her and disposed of her body.

No topics were out of bounds, according to Meldrum-Hanna, who last week told news.com.au the three-part series had driven people “mad”.

She said it is “more believable” that Lane killed her baby than gave it away, but the question has lingered.

The 43-year-old is not eligible for release until 2024 at the earliest.

“In the end, it became more believable that Keli Lane killed her baby,” Meldrum-Hanna said.

Lane contacted Meldrum-Hanna from Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre. In her first phone call with the award-winning journalist, Lane begged for her help to clear her name.

“The biggest hope for me is that someone comes forward with my daughter,” she told Meldrum-Hanna.

“She’d be an adult now. So she obviously has had a whole life perhaps not knowing she is my child.”

Lane, who played high-level water polo during one of her pregnancies, appealed her original conviction at the High Court.

Her lawyers tried to argue for a lesser conviction of manslaughter but were unsuccessful.

Her earliest release date is 2024.

Viewers of Tuesday night’s documentary shared mixed opinions about Lane’s guilt.

Keli Lane was a liar...how can we believe her now? #KeliLane #Exposedabc

— Michael Byrnes (@MichaelByrnes) September 25, 2018

I will wait to see if #ExposedABC uncovers any new evidence supporting Keli Lane's innocence. But given how many prisoners have large bodies of evidence already to support their innocence - and are STILL in jail, I am flabbergasted as to how this one takes priority

— Amy McQuire (@amymcquire) September 25, 2018

I understand how secretive and conniving teenagers can be but #KeliLane's parents buried their heads in the sand. They only saw what they wanted to see. A perfect daughter. #EXPOSEDabc

— ms meh (@ms_meh) September 25, 2018

The thing about compulsive liars is that they can 100% believe their own lies. They are very good at reconfiguring their own reality. To them they are not lies. Also. Did she never once consider birth control? Also also. She was in bathers?! #KeliLane

— katrina (@cold_shuga) September 25, 2018

The first episode of Exposed: The case of Keli Lane aired on the ABC on Tuesday night