Roisin Ni Fiachra
Roisin Ni Fiachra's JournalThe Monster of Memphis - A real life horror story
For 20 years, a Tennessee baby thief kidnapped more than 5,000 children from the streets, hospitals, and shanty towns of Memphis. Now, 70 years later, survivors of her 'house of horrors' are confronting the past.
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No one knows or perhaps cares to remember the exact day the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis closed. What is known is that 69 years ago, in late November or early December, the place workers later called "a house of horrors" closed its doors for good.
Shutting the Children's Home Society down may have cast it into obscurity, but by then the home had already permanently changed the lives of more than 5,000 children. The unimaginable horror of the place still reverberates today not because many of the children were orphaned or abused but because they were stolen.
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Her favorite scheme was to drive through impoverished neighborhoods, picking out the prettiest children, then offer them rides in her shiny black luxury car. Once the children were in, they usually never saw their families again.
https://www.insider.com/georgia-tann-tennessee-children-home-society-survivors-speak-out-2019-12
Tennessee Children's Home Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Children%27s_Home_Society
Georgia Tann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann
If you're ever in Tennessee, and need a bathroom break? Be sure to bring your cross, garlic, and holy water. Monsters walk among us.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38235660/georgia-tann