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Speaker 2: Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. It's time
for another edition of The fact Hunter podcast. As we
record on this late Sunday afternoon, July the twenty sixth,
twenty twenty six. Hope everybody had a great weekend. A
special Sunday edition of The fact Hunter. This past Wednesday,
we had rabbit Hole Wednesday and we put three kind
of obscure rabbit holes out there, and I asked you
which one you know was the most interesting, and it
was overwhelming. The story about Georgia tan aka Bulah George
tan born in July eighteenth, eighteen ninety one, died September fifteenth,
nineteen fifty basically the same day that the story broke.
And I'm sure that was just a coincidence, whether she
truly died of cancer, took her own life, or the
powers that be took her out, because listen, she had judges, governors.
She would have been a threat. And you know, when
it comes down to things like that, when it's a
power play, usually the people with the most power come
out victorious. And what's very interesting when you take the
time to look at the Wikipedia. It's an extremely sanitized
which is kind of mind blowing when a child trafficking
scheme can come out sanitized when you look at the
true story. Another thing I should mention, I strongly encourage
every one of you to get a newspaper dot com
subscription if you can. Normally you can get it for
a dollar for the first week, do all the research,
you can clip it, and then you can cancel that.
We only spent a dollar. But going back to the
original timeframe of these stories and seeing how they were
viewed and written back then is truly mind blowing. But
before we get into the story, I just wanted to
throw something out there, big shout out to one of
our listeners. You know, you look at the roots of
these names, and Beulah and Hebrew is metaphorically of Judea, right,
and then you have her last name Tan, which again
was ta n before it was americanized with double N,
which means dragon. So it's basically you can look at
it as the dragon of Judea. And you know what
an evil woman she truly was. And we're going to
just jump right into it. It's again, she was born
Beulah George Tan. She was an American child trafficker who
operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, which was an adoption
to agency in Memphis, Tennessee. She used the unlicensed home
as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme
from the nineteen twenties until a state investigation into numerous
instances of adoption fraud being perpetrated by her closed the
institution in nineteen fifty, and she legitimately died within twenty
four hours of the story going public of cancer. Whether
or not you know, this came to light when she
was dying and she said, hey, you know, don't release
the story till I'm gone or again. It was a
power play and they took her out. We don't know,
but how did she do this? While she used pressure tactics,
she used threats of legal action and other methods to
take children from their birth parents, mostly single, poor mothers,
and sold them to wealthy patrons. Tan also arranged for
the taking of children to born that were born to
inmates should say at Tennessee mental institutions, and those born
to wards of the state. Through her connections truly evil stuff.
Tan also arranged for what her victims, who were now
adult referred to as kidnapping. In some cases, single parents
would drop their children off at nursery schools, only to
be told that welfare agents had taken the children. In
other cases, children would be temporarily placed with the society
because a family was experiencing, say illness or unemployment, only
to find out later that the society had adopted them
or had no record of the children ever being placed.
And again a lot of this happened, you know, at
the turn of the century everybody started depending on the
state and the government. Before then it was more community
and even the church. And here you have this woman
Tan documented as taking children born to unwed mothers. And
back then, you know, what was the old story. You know,
if she went off to fat camp, she'll be back
in you know, six or seven months, yeah, you know,
and or you know that the newborns required long term
medical care. And when the mothers asked about the children,
Tan told them that the babies had died, but they
were actually placed in foster homes or adopted, and her
crimes were accomplished with the aid. And how many times
have we had a podcast, whether it was the Cash
for Kids podcast. These corrupt judges who the wrath should
be tenfold what an ordinary citizen should be right. With
the aid of Memphis Family Court Judge Camille Kelly, who
used her position of authority to sanction Tan's tactics and activities,
Tan would identify children as being from homes which could
not provide for their care, and then Kelly would push
the matter through her dockets. So Kelly also severed custody
of divorce mothers. She would put the children with Tan,
who arranged for adoption of the children, into homes better
able to provide for the children's care. Now, many of
the children were placed into homes where they were actually
used as child labor on farms with abusive families. You know,
to say this is evil stuff is like saying the
Atlantic Ocean is a little wet. It's awful. And when
the adoptive parent discovered that the information on the child
was incorrect, right, whether it was cases of falsified medical
histories or whatever the case may be, Tan would often
threaten the adoptive parents with possible legal action that would
force the surrender of their children and that would be
ordered by Judge Kelly, and then Tan would destroy the
records of the children that were processed through the Society
and conduct minimal background checks on the adoptive homes as
long as they had the cash right and even many
of the files of the children were fictionalized before being
presented to the adoptive parents, which covered up the child's circumstances.
How they were placed with the Society, and as a result,
the Child Welfare League of America dropped the Society from
the list of qualifying institutions in nineteen forty one. But
remember nineteen forty one, the world, the state, the country
was focused on the beginning of World War II, or
at least the America's involvement. Obviously it started before that,
but the Georgia Tan Tennessee Children's Home Society scandal resulted
in adoption reform laws in nineteen fifty one. Now, how
did the out of state adoptions work with the Tennessee law.
At the time, the home charged about seven dollars per adoption,
and you had adoptions in surrounding states such as Mississippi, Arkansas,
and Missouri, they were about seven hundred and fifty dollars
to be arranged. However, Tan also had arranged for out
of state private adoptions or she charged a premium upwards
of five thousand dollars per child. And this is nineteen thirties,
forties and fifties. That's a lot of money. Now, she
pocketed about seventy five percent of the fees for her
personal use, and obviously the other twenty five percent probably
went to paying off judges, maybe a police if he
got a sniff, and the governor. There's a lot of
people who were getting some cash. Now. The Tennessee Children's
Home Society was closed in nineteen fifty. And here's the thing.
Ten made millions millions of dollars selling children. Now here's
the thing. Ninety percent of the children sold went to
New York in California. New York and California did vow
to take action, but the adoptions were never investigated, so
no children were ever restored to their adopted or their
original family, I should say, and it's just awful. Now.
There were notable personalities which we mentioned on Wednesday. Joan Crawford, right,
daughters of Christina, I should say, daughters Christina Crawford and
twins Kathy and Cynthia were adopted through the agency. June
Allison and husband Dick Powell also used the Memphis base
home for adopting a child, as did the adoptive parents
of professional wrestler Rick Flair and New York Governor Herbert Lehman,
who signed a law sealing birth certificates from New York
adoptees in nineteen thirty five. And man, I think there's
been two movies made, Missing Children A Mother's Story from
nineteen eighty two Stolen Babies from nineteen ninety three, and
the subject of Georgia tan Does appear in an episode
of Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women entitled Above the Law
that aired September thirteenth, twenty thirteen, and also appeared on
an episode of the Infamous Unsolved Mysteries. So it's something,
it truly is, you know, becoming the director of this
Memphis chapter of the Society in nineteen twenty seven, ran
through nineteen fifty you're talking twenty three years, and through trickery, deceit,
and outright fraud, she stole children from parents through a
variety of sources such as baby scouts, corrupt judges, and
even more corrupt politicians. And she placed over five thousand children.
And that's just the ones they could account for all
over the country, and again many of them to Jewish
families in New York and to some very big names
in California. How did they do it well? Birth certificates
were rewritten to make the children's background fit the desires
of prospective parents. They are taking Christian children and giving
them Jewish sounding names. Other records were destroyed to cover
the tracks of the Oran Orphanage and their criminal acts
of kidnapping. Pardon me a tongue twist there, and you
know it's just it's vile, and if you're a follower
of Christ, her operation was satanic in both method and consequence.
She stole children from their God given families, buried their
true identities beneath these forged documents, and sold them them
into lives built on deception. Christian children were deliberately severed
from parents who would have possibly, maybe hopefully, taught them scripture,
prayed with them, and raised them in the knowledge of
Jesus Christ. Maybe not. But to take them out of
that background, give them Jewish names under false circumstances is
so evil. Giving those children fabricated names and religious backgrounds
wasn't just paperwork, man, That's the calculated erasure of their
Christian heritage and the spiritual inheritance their families had every
right to pass down. The consequences reached far beyond those
five thousand children. She Georgia Tan and the power so
that be the governor, the judge, and listen, there was
many people involved, and we'll talk about them. Them. They
shoutered bloodlines, and they've redirected generations away from the faith
of their forefathers. Some of those children may never have
heard the gospel within the homes that God originally gave them,
and their own children were then raised beneath an identity
founded upon kidnapping and lies. This was warfare against the family,
the truth, and the souls of children. And it was
an enterprise that was fueled by greed and protected by
powerful people. John ten Ten says, the thief cometh not
but for to steal and to kill and destroy. And
a few descriptions fit Georgia Tan's work precisely, Evil Dragon
of Judea. And you know, children were often taken from
their mothers under the pretense of seeking medical care. The
mothers were later told their children died and had buried
without notification. I mean, how do you even keep up
with all the lies. So Tan would run ads and
newspapers throughout the country with captions like you want a
real live Christmas present, that's how, which she would put
in the newspaper. Children would be delivered throughout the country
by her workers and her lesbian lover partner and adopted daughter,
Anne at Wood Hollinsworth, who quote volunteered at the Tennessee
Children's Home Society. And you had more political clout behind it,
Edward Hall boss Crump. He was the political clout behind
Georgia Tan. He wielded great power and influence in Memphis
and Tennessee. So he would send his cronies to hand
any disputes, whether they be threats or maybe grease the
palms with a fifty dollars bill, which in nineteen thirty
or forty would have meant the world to some people.
He would also use his influence to change laws to
fit the needs of Georgia, Abe d Walldouer. And this
is the part of the story that doesn't get enough,
and I don't even think you'll find it on a Wikipedia.
As a matter of fact, we're in real time. Let
me just do a quick command, Fwald, he isn't here
one time. In Wikipedia, it says in a nineteen forty
seven letter, Tans attorney Abe Waaldauer said that the prospective
adoptive couple had complete custody and control of the child
for one year. They may submit the child to a
physical or mental examination. The wish totation any steps. If not,
the Tennessee Children's Home takes it back without question. So
her protector, her confidant, her legal arm was a Jewish guy.
And again his name was Abe Waldauer, and he was
an assistant city attorney under Krump. He was Georgia Tann's
personal attorney. He was appointed Collector of Customs for the
Tennessee Arkansas District by FDR. This story reaches through obviously connections,
reaches the top of the food chain in the United
States of America. He also served as chairman of the
Tennessee Board of Elections. Again, he was implicated in the
State of Tennessee investigation regarding the black market selling of
children by Georgia tan. The investigation claim that Boss Krump
protected Georgia Tann by his political influence and Abe used
his office to rewrite laws and protect criminal activities. I'm
just reading it here. A Baldour was also the longtime
chairman of the board of Trustees, and he was also
chairman of the Memphis Jewish Welfare Fund and President of
the Jewish Welfare Fund. Okay, so the local and the
big one got it. Charges were never filed against Waldour.
So everyone either died or nothing to see here, right
rewriting laws to cover her tracks man and of course
she contributed generously to Boss Crump's campaigns. Juvenile Court Judge
Camille Kelly provided upwards of about twenty percent of all
the children Georgia had, she would direct them her way.
So Judge Kelly would use the court to remove parental
rights and to give George of the necessary documentation to
take children and place them as she wished. Later inquiries
estimated that upward of five hundred children that were not
quote easy to adopt died, mostly through starvation and neglect,
and in some cases many of the bodies have never
been found again. It's estimated that Tan made millions of
dollars through trafficking children. Fees for her services ran between
seven hundred and fifty dollars and five thousand dollars each
and again. Famous people who used her services, Joan Crawford,
June Allison, actress Lanna Turner, obviously the parents of Rick Flair,
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York, who again sealed birth
certificates Mobster Frank. I think the Enforcer Nitty and his
wife adopted their son Joseph from tam Even. Mary Tyler
Moore actually won an Emmy for her portrayal of Tan
in the television movie Stolen Babies in nineteen ninety three.
And again here's the thing. They say. She died of
cancer carsonosis, which is I guess in the uterus according
to doctor Alma Richards death certificate. I'll have to do
a background check on doctor Alma Richards again three days
before the files were charged. And here's her obituary. Services
for Miss Georgia ten who had headed the Memphis branch
of the Tennessee Children's Home Society for twenty six years,
will be held at four pm today at the National
Funeral Home. The Reverend James Watston Watson Bardon, pastor of
Whitehaven Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be at Hickory, Mississippi,
her former home, at thirty tomorrow. The veterans social worker
died at her home at ninety one Stonewall at four
twenty am yesterday, four to twenty April twentieth. Wow, that's interesting.
Yesterday after a long illness which had confined her to
bed since last Easter, which had become critical in the
past few days. She was fifty nine years old, and
I get it, people aged differently back then. You look
at her pictures, she didn't look like she was in
her seventies. But again, it's just all positive. She operated
the home since nineteen twenty four, which she had placed
more than five thousand babies for adoption and was recognized
as a national authority on adoption laws. These people, these monsters,
will go out of their way to protect each other.
And it's so evil. It is just so evil. Moving along.
So again. Four years ago she estimated that up to
that time she had placed five thousand children for adoption,
and while she kept no record of of course, she
kept no record of the total. Mistan was educated at
Martha Washington College in Virginia and took social courses at
Columbia University for two summers. And I'm looking for the
important stuff because much of the thing, much of these
things we've talked about I did want to go back
and read these articles in real time. And this is
from the Memphis Press skimatar and this is from September
of nineteen fifty. How it was written on that day.
And I got this Adobe document. I'm blowing it up
so I can read it. And again this is real time.
The headline on page one written by Clark Portius, who
was a Press skimitar staff right, others figure in Tan case.
Taylor thinks reports suggests Confederates were behind this. Robert Taylor,
special counsel in the investigation of Shelby County Branch of
Tennessee Children's Society, said the late Miss Georgia Tan apparently
had Confederates in her scheme of what he calls illegal
adoption practices. The charges made in Taylor's final report included
with the report of Miss Valley Miller, State Supervisor of
Adoptions submitted to the Tennessee Welfare Commission to Governor Browning,
and the reports are in a ninety four page blue
covered pamphlet on slick paper printed by Wimmer Brothers three
thirty seven, Madison. This is how they used to write
back that every detail was included. Taylor's report said the
operation was too large and too extensive and too detailed
to have been promoted by one person. She Mistan must
have had stenographic assistants and advisors. So the state has
charged that Miss Tan, executive secretary of the Memphis Home
superintendent of the state organization, misappropriated nearly half a million
dollars and suit has been filed to recover it from
her estate. So after she passed, the state took everything back.
Taylor's report said Misstan charged about seven to fifty per child,
with an actual cost of one hundred per adoption. Now
the state charges this was done by having home employees
take several children to California or New York on one
plane trip and then charging each set of foster parents
for a trip. Missus Miller, who operated the home after
the investigation started and until it closed, charged that records
were falsified in order to make Jewish foster parents believed
they were adopting Jewish children. And remember during that time,
Jewish people generally couldn't adopt Christian Obviously, of course, now
the church has been so infiltrated, it doesn't make any
difference whatsoever. But Miss Miller told him an inquiry from
a couple after she took over. They were from an
eastern city and had paid cost of delivery of the child.
The wife was so overwrought with anxiety she had to
consult psychiatrists. And that's how they wrote back then as well.
My grandfather he died in a plane crash, and the
newspaper literally said in the article the Wilmington News Journal,
you know when they told my grandmother news, she fainted.
That's how they wrote back then. The records indicated this
Jewish couple were people of considerable means and maintained a
high cultural and social standard of living. There was little
information to indicate that their reasons for wishing to adopt
a child, especially distance, or concerning their childlessness. The record
of the two month old infant scheduled to go to
this home was sketchy and contain no medical history or verifications.
The record had been altered to give the child fictitious
Jewish paternity to conform to the request and the story
given to the adoptive parents. Missus Miller said forty one
children placed in homes of New York residents whose adoptions
are pending were placed with Jewish families, although verifications are incomplete,
it appears that it will be impossible to establish from
more than three or four of the children that there
is any Jewishness in their natural family heritage. While the
factor of religion as determinative above all others, this is
how people were back then. While the factor of religion
as determinative above all others in the selection of an
adoptive home may be quite es, especially when the natural
parent has expressed no preference and the child has no
religious training yet for no older children, the adjustment to
very different culture standards can be a contributing factor to
the child's lack of acceptance of his adoptive parents, with
resulting emotional disturbance. And I mean, this is just so evil,
and they understood it back then. It was more significant
the stories seventy six years ago than understanding the religious
side of it than when you look at the Wikipedia,
the vanilla side of it. They going to say. It
should be noted that the study of records thus far
has revealed only two instances where maladjustment of children placed
in Jewish homes have been recognized. Like at that point
that short period of time, they've done a full study,
it's and then you know that goes on to talk
about babies dying, the juvenile court, and of course the
later involvement of that name right that we talked to.
And it was also I'm sure there was more people
in this, right, it was just the names that came out.
There are always many, many more people, right, Judge Kelly,
all these other people. There's one other story I found,
and this would have been the Memphis This is called
the commercial from Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday morning, September sixteenth, nineteen
fifty and the headline was capture in Sean or I'm sorry, allies,
capture in Sean Drive for Soul, powerful offensive launched from South.
Congress approves martial appointment and then on the left side,
investigating groups as foster parents paid duplicate fees, and it
just goes on about the baby sales and it's just horrific.
I really encourage everyone to go get a subscription to
this newspapers and to go back and to see how
here's the thing I know, that's why I wanted to
bring this article up. Bear with me, this is real time,
and I've got paper clippings, digital paper clippings up and
some of them are easy to read. But they came
up with a report and this reminds me of the
nine to eleven Commission and the Warren Commission. So executive
head of institution dies, the board will attempt to recover
funds to return to the source. A three man committee
of the Board of the Tennessee Children's Home Society here
yesterday reported that Miss Georgia Tan of Tennessee, the society's
executive director, profited by collecting duplicate fees from foster parents.
The committee said Tan made her profits by charging we
already talked about that report. Clear's board. That's the next
mini headline in the story. Are you ready? The report
was released only a few hours after the death yesterday
morning of the fifty nine year old welfare worker. Mistann
died of cancer, unaware that she was even involved in
a scandal. The committee report said she profited without the
knowledge or consent of the home or the directors, adding
that the money involved was paid directly to Mistan. The
report highlights several days of searching investigation into activities of
the agency by the Homes Board and state investigators. The
inquiry was touched off Monday night when Governor Browning said
state agents told him that I can't tell if that's
fifty or ninety because this paper the weight was scanned.
It looks like ninety percent of the baby's placed by
the home were exported to New York and California in
the one million dollar baby black market. The Society's report
said that after a full investigation, we do not find
any evidence whatsoever of the sale for adoption of any
child or children. It called upon Robert Taylor, Memphis attorney,
who was named special state investigator in the case, to
make all information he had regarding the charges available to
the board. It also promised that all efforts will be
made to recover all the money and properly collected by
mistand and return the funds to the parents. The report
this is the giant asterisk before we sign off here.
The report was signed by Abe Waldour attorney, John Brown,
United States District Attorney, and Dick Trippier business executive. All
three are members of the Society's board. So Abe Waldeer,
who played a large part in this, was part of
the three man investigative committee. Your sub committee heretofore appointed
to make an investigation of the charges against the Tennessee
Children's home appearing in both Memphis newspaper beg leave to
make the following report. After full investigation, we do not
find any evidence whatsoever of the sale for adoption of
any child or children, but on the contrary, find that
each and every adoption has been for the best interest
and welfare of the child. We do, however, find that
on occasions our executive Secretary Mistan, without the knowledge or
the consent of the home or the directors, has collected
from out the state foster parents more money for expensive
such as investigation services transportations than was warranted for proper
in that where special investigations or placements were to be
made in the same city, each foster parent was charged
the full fee for this investigation or transportation, whereas the
expense should have been appointed among all the foster parents.
This was wrong. This money was paid directly to Miss
Tan No part of the home. Neither the home nor
any of its directors knew anything about this as wrong
and does not now condone or ratify it. And then
they go on to say the home does not suffer
the excess money collected you know, from the foster parents
by Miss Tann has explained herein has never come into
the possession of the home. It was just her nobody else,
and on it goes. And to see those three people
in charge of it, it's just like everything else in
this world, whether it's Kennedy, the Apollo one right, even
the guy who tried to expose the Apollo one, right,
Gus Grisselm hangs the lemon, you know, he's how are
we going to go to the moon if we can't
even talk to a tower that's fifty yards away from us.
And the next day all three die in a fire.
And then there's a guy, an independent investigator. He finds
all kinds of inconsistencies. He writes like one hundred and
seventy five page letter to I don't remember it was
Congress or who it was. And a couple of days later,
his car just stalls out on the train tracks and
train hits his car, kills him, his wife, and his stepdaughter.
Just a coincidence, all these coincidences in the fifties and sixties.
But there you go, next level evil, next level cover up.
And you know, in this case, many children could have
grown up not knowing Jesus because of this evil and
the depths of it. It's just brutal. So thanks for
your time. I hope you do investigate this for yourself.
If you find any other connections, feel free to email
us and I'll share them with the audience. That's the
fact Hunter at mail dot com. The fact Hunter at mail,
not gmail dot com. True the evil stuff. God bless you.
Keep your head on a swivel and Christ in your heart.
And until we meet again, my friends, we will't see you.
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