Episode 99: UNEXPECTED: The Longest Crime In U.S. History

America is facing an immigration crisis—but how did we get here?

This episode opens with Emma Lazarus’s iconic welcome, etched beneath the Statue of Liberty. But Beth has a hard truth to unpack: that light beside the golden door only shined because our ancestors made themselves at home in someone else’s house.

To understand the longest-running crime in U.S. history—committed against Native Americans—we go back to 1492, when Christopher Columbus set sail on a misguided voyage to “India.” And if you didn’t know those crimes continued until 1978... you’re not alone.

We are a nation of immigrants.

And every one of us stands on stolen land.

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Welcome to True Crime BnB. I’m Beth, your host. This podcast began with my daughter as a space to honor victims and celebrate survivors.

Now in Season 4, I’m continuing solo—ushering in a new chapter I call True Crime BnB: UNEXPECTED.

These episodes are history with a side of crime. This is the sound of whitewashing being undone. I’m reaching into the past to find silenced voices—letting them speak, exposing the systems that buried them, and telling the stories no one ever taught me.

Because I wasn’t supposed to know any of this. And that’s exactly why it matters.

This podcast is for the victims, the survivors, and the histories they were written out of.

This is the True Crime BnB.

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