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Criminal

Melinda and Judy

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her own, she tried to learn something about her biological parents. And when she went to the county courthouse and asked to see a copy of her birth certificate, she discovered that she was an unwitting participant in a traumatic history of a small town in Georgia where Dr. Thomas Hicks stole and sold babies to parents desperate for children of their own. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:00.0

This episode contains descriptions of violence and is not suitable for everyone.

1:05.0

Please use discretion.

1:07.0

We took a little drive about a mile from our house and she parked in this little park area and she said

1:20.6

I'm not your birth mother, but I am your mother.

1:26.8

And I love you as if you were my own daughter.

1:31.2

But you came from a clinic in Georgia and the doctor was selling babies and so we

1:38.1

paid money for you. I just didn't really understand what she was telling me except for the fact that she loved me and I was her daughter regardless.

1:54.0

This is Melinda Dawson.

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