Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 2/2)
When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her newborn baby Tegan in 2009, the circumstantial case sparks debate around the country. Was this star athlete a cold-blooded killer or a woman unfairly judged on her poor decision-making?
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Elsha McGill - research, writing
Milly Raso - creative direction
Mike Migas - production, music
Andrew D.B. Joslyn - music
Comments (30)
At the end of the day, what stands out to me is that Kelly herself did not seem to be particularly motivated to make sure Tegan was alive for her own assurances as someone who claims to care so deeply.
Not my favorite episode— writing and storytelling were excellent, I just hate unresolved cases. Funny thing is, this one kept my fiancé, who’s not much of a true crime content consumer, up at night. It’s been a week and he can’t stop bringing it up.
Hi Casey, hi team! I was wondering something. What's the difference between being a Patreon for Casefile and being a subscriber for Casefile Premium on for example Apple Podcaster? It seems like, subscribing on Podcaster will give me access to all of the Casefile presents content. But Patreon will only give me access to Casefile. So? Is there a difference that I'm missing? Any added perks of being on Patreon besides being able to comment like this?? I'm starting to feel kinda stupid that I'm paying the same money for much less content 😅 especially since I can't stand ads, so it just means that I'm not listening to the other Casefile presents material at all!! Would appreciate a reply so much, thank you 🙏🏼
With Patreon we get no adds, extra episodes (now called Premium Picks) and episodes are released a week earlier , behind the scenes episodes, Q&A’s. I mostly sub to them on Patreon to support their work.
Q from a non-Aussie: Is it relatively normal to refer to your kid as "the second child", or "the baby" instead of by name?
I really dislike this woman but even I think her sentence has been extreme and undeserving. Compare this outcome to the case of Matthew Leveson or Niamh Maye… what the heck!
Clearly her form of contraception wasn't working. This girl was extremely immature and irresponsible. I hope her babies that were adopted have happy fulfilling lives.
This was either proven beyond a reasonable doubt or her defense team was so ineffective as to not follow-up on the most crucial point: to prove she didn't kill her daughter, they needed to find Tegan or Andrew. I get that the defense doesn't have the burden of proof but when the circumstantial evidence in a no body case is that high, the only good defense is proving the truth, like the Chamberlains were ultimately able to do.
The defence has no onus to prove anything. Nada
Reminds me a bit of the kerry babys cases in Ireland
great breakdown on a polarising case, I do think she did kill her daughter. It will be interesting what everyone other than Aussies think
Do you think that Kelly should be executed in circumstances where there is no actual evidence she harmed the baby?
No.
As an Australian, I truly can't understand how we don't have the death penalty in this place. Our incarcerated are more well treated than our old age pensioners, it's disgusting.
That's just a fascist race to the bottom.
This kind of makes me think of the Lucy Letby case in the UK recently. They had no smoking gun but she was convicted. Would love to see casefile cover that case too. Thanks again Casey!
There was a great deal more evidence in the Letby case.
Australia's Casey Anthony.
That house is Gladesville was mine at the time . I remember when the police came and taped up the house and excavated. Though they didn't come inside or look in the roof. I had bought the house with my two sisters and we lived there together. We had to pack our things and stay at our parents place for few weeks. They had brought over a French special excavator and dug up our backyard. It felt surreal.
Wow! This must give you chills!
This reminds me so much of the disappearances of both Kyron Hormon and Sky Metalwala, two cases with an eerily similar total lack of evidence and a very tight-lipped mother/stepmother. Except those cases are in the U.S., and there's been no attempt at prosecution in either one. I'm not sure how to feel about that because i would love to see prosecutions in both cases, but I'm struggling to see anything but reasonable doubt in this one. (I could have sworn Casefile did Kyron Horman but it's not coming up for me on Google! Which was the episode where Casey did the ridealong with Paul Holes?? Oh wait lol that was EARONS, of course.) In any case, another stellar two-parter and nuanced handling of a huge case. Great job, gang.
The prosecution was a case of immaculate deception.
Well said, Michael! These cases that evoke so much emotion with prosecutors wanting to make career advances = public wanting punishment- evidence be damned
Can you do the case of Operation Forest Strip. It's of a Russian serial killer who killed over 58 citizens. He outdid any American killer ted Bundy's, but, or eu Moores couple murders. Truly criminal did a 58 minute YouTube, podcast on it this year, but I think it be a great 8, 12 part episode for ya.
Meh, no body, no existence. And a women who can't accept accountable. Not saying she killed the baby. But she knows something. Yet denies her babies existence.
Say what you will about her guilt, but a man would never have been convicted on such flimsy “evidence.” I’ve seen countless cases of probable femicide where they don’t even prosecute bc there’s no body
Give her the chair.
Whilst I don't necessarily believe she's innocent, I feel like this is a clear case where it was not proven '...beyond a reasonable doubt' that she killed her child. We can't convict people because we think they might have.
I tried to express the same idea in part 1, and I had someone respond "She’s been convicted which is why she is in jail. So yes we can assume she is guilty." Such people must be new to these shows. How could anyone be so naive.
Could you possibly cover the case of Sally Clark. In case you are worried about explaining the maths involved (which is the main point of the case), I believe I can help you to get that point across.