164: Episode 164 - "Command Rape": Vanessa Guillen & LaVena Johnson

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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The US military has a rape problem; 20% of women who enlist are sexually assaulted or harrassed.

The US military also appears to have a murder problem, because a distrubing number of women who have been victims of 'command rape' are dying in mysterious circumstances.

Vanessa Guillen was a 20 year old solider stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and on 22 April 2020 she vanished. 6 weeks later her burned, dismembered and concrete encased remains were found. Vanessa, just like LaVena Johnson and so many other women in the miliatary, appears to have been planning to report a fellow solider before she was murdered...

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0:00.0	I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Red Handed. Oh, I said that weird today. I said that different.
0:15.4	We need to change it up. We can't be getting stale up in this bit. We've got to keep changing the business sometimes.
0:21.6	You're right. Try new. Should we just start saying a different podcast name and see if anybody notices?
0:27.2	There was one episode where we didn't say I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. This is Red Handed. And we were like,
0:32.0	we'll just wait for them to all explode with rage because something went wrong with that bit.
0:35.3	They're recording so we just cut it. No, we're even fucking noticed.
0:38.3	No, didn't even bother. So, apparently no ones even listening to this bit. Maybe you're skipping
0:43.3	past this bit. I don't know. Can I say another thank you to another person who is just giving us
0:48.9	content names for stuff we haven't even created, but probably should because I just love you guys
0:53.6	and the way you name things. They said we should start another side hustle side show podcast called
1:00.0	empty handed where we talk about our dating experiences. Guys, it's just too much. Do you know what I've
1:08.6	got my first in real life? I R L hinge date tonight since COVID stop it. I can't I won't I shan't
1:20.4	oh my god I know it's fucking crazy. What's he like? I don't know. I know nothing about him. We've
1:25.6	barely spoken any words to each other by a text. We're just going I'm like whatever let's go find
1:30.9	fuck it. Basically, you know you were saying about the whole prompts and you were like struggling
1:34.8	with a good prompt. Yeah. I don't know if his prompt was great, but it really spoke to me. He said
1:39.8	you know the one where it's like I know the best spot in town for and he put dim sum and martinis
1:45.0	and are they not my two favorite things? They are they are can confirm and I was like oh my god
1:50.6	maybe you are my dream man and I was like I like my dim sum soupy and I like my martinis full of
1:55.7	espresso can you deliver and he was like yes I can let's meet on Dean Street at 7 p.m. on Thursday
2:01.3	and I was like all right whoa I don't don't get murdered please we've only just sorted out. I know
2:08.4	I'll try not to but no in other big news I agreed to Thursday mainly because I do have to go
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