294: Darin Werkmeister – Tender Hearts Adoption Scam

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Darin Werkmeister reviews his adoption fraud case where the subject solicited unsuspecting hope-to-be parents via the internet, leading them to believe she would facilitate adoptions with pregnant young women seeking to find homes for their babies. The subject was convicted of scamming 43 heartbroken couples. The investigation received national news attention, warning others of the cruel scheme to defraud. Darin served in the FBI for 21 years.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jerry. Before we get to the episode, I want to introduce you to a new podcast
0:06.9	about a DEA agent investigated by the FBI.
0:11.4	Chad Scott was the DEA's golden boy, but his right-hand men were a little too interested
0:15.7	in the product.
0:16.7	You're a drug cop who occasionally uses drugs.
0:20.9	Right.
0:21.9	How do you work that out in your mind?
0:23.6	It'll end in your mind a couple times.
0:25.6	It didn't really with the egg sort of Molly.
0:28.6	You would.
0:29.6	When they're caught dealing drugs, they flip on Chad and confess everything to the FBI.
0:34.0	But what the feds find is a lot more complicated than drug dealing.
0:37.5	Listen to smoke screen, portrayal on the buy you wherever you get your podcast.
0:45.6	Welcome to episode 294 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:55.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
1:02.1	my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
1:07.1	Today we get to speak to retired agent Darren Workmeister, who served in the FBI for 21
1:14.5	years.
1:15.5	In this episode, Darren reviews his adoption fraud case, where subject Sonia Furlow solicited
1:23.1	unsuspecting hope to be parents via the internet.
1:27.6	She led them to believe she could facilitate adoption arrangements with pregnant young
1:33.0	women seeking to find homes for their babies.
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