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Teresa Matheny's initial description of 38-year-old Tara Lee as someone who cussed like a sailor and was covered in tattoos was so striking, it almost sounded like a quote. It was, and I found it in the second paragraph of Tara Lee's introductory email to the Mathenys. She wrote, I swear like a truck driver and am covered in tattoos.
She also wrote that she had a master's degree in social work from Northwestern and that her passion was to help birth mothers. She wrote, I'm constantly teaching life skills to these women who have had no one to help them grow and evolve. That phrase, help them grow and evolve, struck me as pejorative.
I'm sure she didn't mean it that way, but it sounds a little like social Darwinism, as if the birth mothers she worked with were inferior and primitive. She said her fee for evolving Stephanie was $9,000. The day after Teresa and Mike had their upsetting call with Courtney Edmond, they drove to Port Huron with their fingers crossed, desperately hoping Tara Lee and Stephanie would show up.
They parked, went inside, got a booth, and waited. Then they spotted a woman with black hair, tattoo sleeves, and bright designer nails walking toward them. Behind her were a petite pregnant woman with brown hair and two men, the birth father and Tara Lee's assistant, Jay. Teresa and Mike exhaled. From Sony Music Entertainment and Perfect Cadence, this is Baby Broker. I'm Peter McDonald.
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There's no limit to how far criminals will go to cover their tracks. But investigators will go even further to uncover the truth. I'm Nancy Hixt, a senior crime reporter for Global News. This season on Crime Beat, I'll take you from the crime scene to the courtroom and inside some of Canada's most high-profile cases and some you've likely never heard of before.
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