The Hi and welcome to Criminal Broads a podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. I'm Tori Telfer and I am coming to you from 95 degree Chicago

where I am recording in a room with the window closed and the fan off for the purposes of sound so don't say I never did anything for you.

Today this episode is very very very dark.

Wild women on the wrong side of the law feels a little glib even. This is a story about

evil and horror and hatred. It's so dark in fact that a part of me is like,'s the point of telling this why am I even

trying to tell you about this and I don't really have a clear-cut answer

although I guess if you forced me to answer, my answer would be that good comes from knowledge and it's

important to know what is happening to our fellow citizens of this planet, what has happened to them. And I know that for me

researching this episode has made me feel more personally responsible for

using my voice, doing what I can to make sure that my country is treating the vulnerable

right, treating the immigrant and the refugee right.

And so that's good.

That sense of responsibility is good.

Listen to the end if you can, if you dare,

because I call out a couple of awesome organizations at the end

who are working to stop the types of horrors I'm about to tell you about and I have a little

activity in mind for us. But additionally I mean you should know I don't want to traumatize

anyone so this episode has a lot of violence in it and it has several

mentions of rape. So keep that in mind if you decide to listen. All right, without further ado,

let's travel back to the 1990s, where we will be hopping from continent to

continent. We will be hopping from Africa to North America and back again. The year was 1998 and the friendly working class mostly white citizens of Manchester, New Hampshire were pleased to welcome a newcomer into their midst.

Her name was Beatrice Munienze and she had come a long way to be there.

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