The Baby Thief
How Georgia Tann turned the public adoption industry into a for-profit kidnapping scheme.
14 min readFeb 21, 2022
In December of 1990, Ms. Alma Sipple was scanning the TV dial and just so happened on NBC’s “Unsolved Mysteries.” She sat forward on her chair, as Robert Stack told the story of an infamous Tennessee social worker who’d made a fortune running a black-market baby adoption ring for over 3…