Georgia Tann - Black Market Baby Dealer

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Georgia Tann stole over 5,000 children from Memphis streets and hospitals between 1924 and 1950.

This episode tells the shocking true story of Georgia Tann, a social worker who operated a black market baby adoption ring in Memphis from 1924 to 1950, stealing over 5,000 children from poor families, single parents, mental institutions, and even off the streets. The narrative reveals how she collaborated with corrupt officials, abused children in her care, and supplied babies to wealthy clients including celebrities, before dying of cancer just before facing charges.

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A grim look at how adoption was turned into theft.

Georgia Tann's story lands as a grim account of how an adoption network was twisted into child theft, moving from Memphis streets to the orphanage at the center of the case.

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You want a Memphis true-crime case where adoption, power, and child theft collide head-on.

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