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Listener discretion is advised. During the 1940s,

1940s, 10 took hundreds, maybe thousands of babies from their birth mothers,

mostly women who were poor or uneducated and so couldn't fight back.

And then she would place the babies with childless couples

who would pay up to thousands of dollars.

Tan told those parents the money was just to cover expenses,

but in truth, most of the money went into Georgia Tans pocket.

Tans' tan-printed slick brochures to advertise the children.

At holiday times, she'd plant newspaper stories, offering Christmas babies available for adoption.

She shipped babies from coast to coast on late night flights and then would distribute the babies to waiting parents in the lobby of a hotel.

She provided children to Hollywood celebrities like June Allison. to

waiting parents in the lobby of a hotel. She provided children to Hollywood celebrities like June

Allison and Joan Crawford got her twin girls from Tan too.

Tan's baby business grew and she needed more and more children.

So she turned to her good friend, a juvenile court judge named Camille

Kelly who was well connected in Memphis City government. She had a stews

down in the welfare department when someone would apply for assistance because of they lost

the job this person would get their name and get in touch with Camille Kelly. Camille

Camille Kelly would send the deputy out, pick them up, take them back, award custody

to Georgia Tan, and Georgia Tan was selling.

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