Lani’s backstory includes heartbreak, child loss, and other traumatic events.
The character was first introduced in 2015 when she arrived in Salem as a newly hired police officer.
Abe and Lani immediately hit it off and began to grow their father/daughter bond.
Lani also began to grow close to Abe’s son, Theo Carver.
Lani found a place in Salem and eventually fell head over heels with Eli Grant.
She was happy with her life until her aunt Paulina Price came to town and changed her life forever.
However, Lani’s world flipped upside down when her aunt Paulina Price came to Salem.
Eventually, viewers were let in on the fact that Paulina was actually Lani’s real mother.
Paulina had given Lani to her sister, Tamara Price, to raise as a baby.
This also meant that Abe couldn’t be Lani’s true father.
WhenLani found out about her parentageshe was shocked.
Paulina told her daughter that her biological father, T.R.
Shortly after, T.R.
popped up in Salem and he and Lani began to get to know each other.
Although he claimed that he had changed, it was all a lie.
She knew she didn’t follow protocol and had killed her father with her service weapon.
with Lani’s weapon in self-defense.
However, the guilt continued to weigh on Lani.
When Abe and Paulina decided to walk down the aisle, Lani made her own life-changing decision.
After Lani turned herself in for killing T.R., she was given minimum prison time for involuntary manslaughter.
Eli later returned to spend Christmas in Salem with his children, but left soon after.
Although Lani is currently behind bars, fans are hopeful that she’ll return to Salem in the future.
