Peter McDonald
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265 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Peter McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were so excited that days ahead of time, they laid out everything they wanted to take to Detroit. What are you packing for this trip? golf clubs. Did you really?
Friday, October 19, 2018. It was the Matheny's last night in Atlanta, before sleepless nights and bottles of breast milk. To celebrate, they went out for a big Italian dinner with Mike's mom. Then, driving home, as Mike said, everything flipped upside down. Teresa was in the back seat when she got a strange email from an adoption company they'd worked with. She didn't think anything of it.
But when she read it aloud to Mike, he said it made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He knew something was off. Ever since they'd first connected with Tara Lee, Mike had been suppressing his true feelings about her.
Teresa hurried down to the basement where the nursery was, exchanged some alarming text messages, and then called adoption attorney Tanya Corrado in Detroit.
Mike ran downstairs and found Teresa on her knees, sobbing.
When morning came, the Mathinis packed their car with everything their baby could possibly need, plus golf clubs, and took the 75 North to Detroit, hoping beyond hope that whatever Tara Lee did, Stephanie was who she said she was, and baby S would become their son. It was somewhere around Cincinnati, Ohio, at 70 miles per hour, that Teresa suddenly panicked.
In all the chaos to get information from Tara Lee, she realized that they never received any proof of Stephanie's pregnancy. No photos of her. No ultrasound of the baby. No proof of life. And that was agonizing enough. But there was something else They weren't the only couple Tara Lee collected money from and matched with Stephanie and her son.
There was another set of parents who thought the baby boy would be theirs. Next time on Baby Broker, we'll meet the other couple.
And you feel like she's trying to get you to give an answer right there in the driveway.
This season on Baby Broker.
I get answers from someone who saw inside Tara Lee's scam and built an army against her.
a local investigative reporter goes sniffing into Tara Lee's business.
And the FBI tells me how they pursued Tara Lee.
Plus, on the first of every month, subscribers get a binge drop of a brand new series. That's all episodes, all at once. Search for The Binge on Apple Podcasts and hit subscribe at the top of the page. Not on Apple? Head to getthebinge.com to get access wherever you listen. Baby Broker is an original production of Sony Music Entertainment and Perfect Cadence.
It was hosted and reported by me, Peter McDonald. I'm the executive producer, along with Catherine St. Louis and Jonathan Hirsch of Sony Music Entertainment. Stephen George recorded the narration at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. We used music from Audio Network and a few tracks from Epidemic Sound. News clips are courtesy of WXYZ7 in Detroit, Michigan.
Our production managers are Tamika Balance-Kolosny and Sammy Allison. Our lawyers are Allison Sherry and Kathleen Farley. Special thanks to Steve Ackerman, Emily Rasek, and Jamie Myers.
I'm sorry to have to put you through this this way. I love you very much. And you always hate to hurt the ones you love.
I had a lot of trouble. breathing up in colorado this year i went to the doctor when i got back and he ran some tests and found that i had terminal non-operable cancer i wasn't too thrilled about that announcement so i went to a second doctor He told me the same thing. So, just to be sure, I went to a third doctor. And he told me the same thing.
I've seen what chemotherapy does to people. It puts them through a lot of pain and a lot of suffering and a lot of agony. It seems like 95% of the time, they just suffer for another six months or a year and then die.
I decided that I would not put all of my loved ones through that kind of an ordeal.
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