Mike Matheny
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59 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Mike Matheny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Basically drove from Atlanta to Michigan, not knowing whether our adoption was real, whether our birth mom was real.
Somebody asked me yesterday what I would say to you if you were in front of me, and the only thing I kept coming back to was, what if it was one of your children? What if it was your daughter that was pregnant or your daughter that couldn't have children who was trying to adopt, and somebody came in, a predator, and preyed on them?
It was just this, like, holy shit moment. Oh my gosh, this is Nick. This is the family.
And so I think by connecting and meeting us and seeing how S was thriving, right, it also gave them that answer of like, okay, we did the right thing for us and he's where he's supposed to be.
Did you ever see the documentary, Don't Fuck With Cats? I have not seen it, no. Guy starts out hurting animals online and ends up killing a human. It's like this group of normal people come together online where they're like putting together pieces of the puzzle, like the wrapper from the cigarette and the picture on the wall in the hotel to track this guy down.
And they eventually give like Interpol what they need to find this guy. I feel like it's a good analogy for sort of our little Facebook group. The rule of the group was once you're admitted, you have to sort of write out your family's story with how you connected with Tara.
there were so many lies it's like you're almost able to piece things together in your story based on the information in other people's stories yeah there was like someone that said that you know tara collected eight ten fifteen thousand dollars or whatever you know on october 25th and we're like we were with her in the hospital that whole day so it's like where she was clickety clacking on her cell phone it's like she was in there robbing people blind while our son was being born
Nick was in the back of the courtroom and heard us read our impact statement. And he was the one that made the connection that, oh my gosh, this is the family that was matched with Stephanie.
It was 100% that the birth mom was terrified of Tara.
Tara's got our money. We're already in Detroit. We're like in the middle of it. You keep asking for more money and it's like nobody wants to cut ties.
We met Tara in Chick-fil-A downstairs, which was like, we're like on pins and needles. And Tara was like, I'm famished, you know? Like, we're going to go sit in Chick-fil-A and have a chicken sandwich.
This bullshit story about how, you know, that morning she was at the bank, at Bank of America, blah, blah, blah, like conducting some business. And she, you know, she blacked out and she fell and she hit her head and she had to go get multiple stitches.
And she was telling us that she probably had a concussion and that the doctor told her that she needed bed rest, but it was so important for her to be there for us. for the birth of this baby. And the reason I say that's important is because there were so many of those type of stories.
Gunshot. Did she seem like she had a concussion?
Tara's sitting in the corner of the table. Teresa and I are literally sitting in chairs against the wall. Facing the bed. While Tara is, you know, on her cell phone, Like, the whole dynamic was just so freaking weird.
And Tara comes to me and was basically like, so, can I get that check? I walked past her like she didn't exist.
Like, here we are. This is real.
I think she had every intention of having us drive to Detroit. I don't think she had any intention of us going home with the baby.
She's camped out waiting for us, and she is pissed off. because she wants her money. Teresa said they ignored Tara Lee's demand for her final $4,000 payment. And that's when we put the hospital on notice that we didn't want Tara anywhere near the NICU.
And so I called what turned out to be Matt's cell phone, left him a voicemail. And then it was like, I don't know, probably lunchtime. I was walking into the hospital by myself. I had just parked the car. It was snowing. I see this 313 number. Mike answered.
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