Things Worth Noting
Mary Bateman, known as the Yorkshire Witch, was a shrewd early 19th-century con artist from northern England who masterfully exploited superstition and vulnerability for profit. Born in 1768, she evolved from petty thefts in her youth to elaborate frauds in Leeds, posing as a mystic under aliases to sell fake prophecies, charms, and remedies while […]
Jeffrey Epstein rose from a working-class Brooklyn background and college dropout to a financier worth nearly $600 million by 2019 through sharp networking and high-end financial services. Starting as a math teacher at Dalton School, he entered Wall Street at Bear Stearns in 1976, quickly becoming a limited partner focused on options trading. After leaving […]
Georgia Tann (1891–1950) ran a notorious black-market baby business through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis, stealing and selling over 5,000 children from poor families to wealthy clients across the U.S. from 1924 to 1950. Operating an unlicensed adoption agency, she used coercion, outright kidnapping, falsified records, and sealed birth certificates to hide her […]