Keli Lane

In this ground-breaking three-part television event, Caro Meldrum-Hanna investigates one of Australia's most notorious crimes: the disappearance of baby Tegan Lane and the conviction of her mother Keli Lane of her murder.

All of these women are notorious, but are all of them deadly?Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine. Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. They represent some of the most hated women in Australia. The infamous list includes psychologically damaged, sometimes deranged, women on the edge. But, as we will see, accused doesn't always mean guilty.

When I walked through the officedoor each day, I knew that almost every decision I made would make someone unhappy…Frank and Fearless is a gripping and forthrightaccount of some of the toughest cases faced by Nicholas Cowdery during his time as Directorof Public Prosecutions for New South Wales. The headline-grabbing criminal trials of Gordon Wood, Keli Lane and Jeffrey Gilham (who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his brother and was tried for the murders of his parents in 1993) are examined with forensic precision, along with the DPP's contentious decision not to prosecute artist Bill Henson and members of The Chaser.