Episode 10: Bye, Bye Baby: Georgia Tann's Black Market Adoptions

True Crime on Our Minds Podcast

This episode discusses Georiga Tann, who profited from the black market adoptions of an estimated 5000 children from the early 1920s up until her death in 1950. Many of the children she adopted out were stolen from unwed or single mothers, or families with limited financial means.
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Sources:
The Baby Thief: The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s., Barbara Bisantz Raymond
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