After the DOCS realised that Lane’s story doesn’t add up, they begin to look a lot closer. By November of 1999, they have reported Tegan Lane as a missing child to police. At this point however, the justice system begins to stall. There just isn’t enough information about what happened in 1996 for police to launch a case. In February of 2001, Lane sits down with police to undertake an informal interview. The interviewing detective fails to notice that Lane is seven months pregnant with the child of her new boyfriend. In this interview, Keli claims she gave Tegan to the girl’s father Andrew Morris. Police start to search for him, but no sign is found.
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Then, in a 2003 interview with police, conducted in a more formal setting, Lane names Tegan’s father as Andrew Norris, arousing police suspicion. There is another interview in 2004, and by June of 2005, an official inquest into the disappearance of Tegan Lane had begun.
The inquest meets several times over the next year and concludes by February of 2006 that Tegan Lane is likely dead. They pass the case to unsolved homicide. Immediately, police face a problem. The case is a dead end, with limited information, little evidence and nothing that directly points to Tegan being dead, or anybody being behind it. They must search for their clues. This search includes excavating the entire backyard of Duncan Gillies’ old house with the use of cadaver dogs, but nothing is found.
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