51 Times That Greed Took Over And Turned People Into Monsters

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Georgia Tann kidnapped close to 5,000 children between 1924 and 1950

We like to think that most people are inherently good, that they’ll do the right thing when the time comes, but when money enters the picture everything changes. You’ll find in these stories that when greed takes over people will do whatever they have to for a little bit of money… whether it’s get rid of a loved one or attempt to kidnap themselves. Greed can get its claws in anyone regardless of who their parents are or how they grew up, and more often than not a person driven by greed will meet a terrible end. The following stories of unsavory acts caused by greed will shock you to the core and make you think about how far you would go for a few extra bucks. 

Be warned… these stories aren’t for the faint of heart. Viewer Discretion Advised.

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Adoption can be a beautiful thing, but when people take advantage of the adoption system it’s absolutely awful. Georgia Tann was a woman who stole and sold an estimated 5,000 children between 1924 to 1950. She used the Tennessee Children’s Home Society as a place to funnel stolen children to new families. Initially she took children from poor families whom she felt had too many mouths to feed. After she ran out of families Tann started nabbing kids from maternity wards before bribing doctors to tell their parents that the baby didn’t survive. Tann skimmed money from the payments that came in from families who were adopting the children and by the time the authorities cracked down on her she had about a million dollars from her scam. Before she could be prosecuted for the crimes Tann passed away from uterine cancer.