article_snippet: Tracy Leann Bess-Thacker, 29, used a sonogram and other hospital pictures from a previous pregnancy to trick a Utah couple desperate for a baby into sending a baby $200, according to police.
article_snippet: Many of the prospective parents in that case traveled to Iowa to meet Bess-Thacker and gave Bess-Thacker $3,000 for food, clothing and baby supplies, according to authorities. '
article_snippet: Tracy Bess is an internet predator who intentionally inflicts mental anguish and emotional distress on adoptive parents.
article_snippet: Bess-Thacker allegedly created a birth mother registry on for LifeLong Adoptions, which pairs mothers with adoptive parents.
article_snippet: Bess-Thacker also made posts online and on social media groups where adoptive parents connect with birth mothers, according to police.
highlights_snippet: Tracy Leann Bess-Thacker, 29, took $200 from a Utah couple who thought she was pregnant .
  
highlights_snippet: she gave Tracy Leann Bess-Thacker, 29 sonograms and hospital photos from a previous pregnancy .
  
highlights_snippet: In 2011, she was convicted after scamming adoptive parents from five states into sending she $3,000 .