The Crimes and Influence of Georgia Tann
Hopefully you are already a reader of this blog so you know that most of the cases that I write about involve murder. Sure, there have been a few in which that may not be a forgone conclusion but either there has been a death of some sort, or in cases of people who have disappeared they are most often presumed dead. This case is different than those, and although there were apparently some deaths, possibly related, murder was never a word used, nor was it charged. No, because the crime here was almost bigger than murder. Bigger than murder you say? Yes, I know it seems impossible but this crime, perpetrated by one woman who was aided (some say unknowingly) by very influential people affected the lives of thousands of people. In fact, the effects of these crimes are still evident today, nearly 65 years later. Georgia (born Beulah George) Tann was born in 1891 in Mississippi. It was a time of repression when it came to women. Women did not ...