Shocking reports are speaking about an Olympic hopeful who played the role of master of deception by hiding multiple pregnancies and births from everyone before the last child she had vanished without a trace.
In 1995, Keli Lane seemed like she was the future of Australian water polo. It wouldn't be wrong to call her a silver medal-winning performance with the Junior Women's team at the World Championships in Quebec, marked as one of the nation's rising talents.
By then, she was already getting recognition as a possible contender for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. For the public, she was their golden girl, very driven and disciplined and seemingly on a straightforward path to a sporting stardom.
But behind such an image, Lane was said to be living the ultimate double life that was designed around secrecy.
Soon, her infant daughter went missing in 1996, and that's when everything was set into motion.
Lane gave birth to her daughter in 1996 September, roughly 38 weeks into her pregnancy. Two days after that, she was discharged from the hospital and left with the baby alone. No one saw the child after Lane left the hospital. She claimed to have handed the baby to a man that she said was the baby's dad, but no evidence about his existence surfaced.
This is where people found out more about her mysterious personality and how she got pregnant several times, weaving a pattern of concealed terminations and adoptions. and at least one birth that resulted in a tragedy.