who was georgia tann
She sat forward on her chair, transfixed, as Robert Stack told the story of the. late Georgia Tann, an infamous Tennessee social worker who'd made a fortune running a black-market baby adoption ring in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Sipple recognized Tann immediately - that face, that air of authority. ''When they showed her picture,'' she says, ''I let out a scream.