203: The Hicks Babies

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

More than 200 babies, known as the “Hicks Babies,” were sold by Dr. Thomas Hicks from the back of the Hicks Community Clinic in McCaysville, Georgia during the 1950s and 1960s. Until his actions came to light, he was a respected and beloved doctor in McCaysville, known for helping everyone…often taking things like a sack of potatoes in return for payment. Some town residents defend his actions to this day, but the “Hicks Babies,” as they became known, are still struggling to find their birth mothers and come to terms with their origins and the damage Hicks did by keeping his practice shrouded in mystery.

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1:02.0	On March 5th, 1972, Is it Bazed.
1:03.0	On March 5th, 1972, the residents of MacK's Valjorgia were in mourning.
1:08.8	Their beloved former town doctor had lost his battle with leukemia and passed away at age 83, leaving behind a wife,
1:16.4	son, and daughter. Doc Hicks had a reputation as being the kind of doctor everyone needs.
1:22.2	He'd do anything for anyone. as being the kind of doctor everyone needs.
1:23.0	He'd do anything for anyone.
1:25.0	In the poor remote copper mining town straddling the Georgia Tennessee border
1:29.0	in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
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