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Outlore with Eleanor Neale

70: The "Rough Sex Defence” For MURDER: Grace Millane’s Tinder Date From Hell

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today’s case is about Grace Millane, who was strangled to death by her Tinder date in Auckland, New Zealand in 2018. Grace’s case shocked the country and held a mirror up to a society with a problem of violence towards women. Trigger Warning: rape, sexual assault, domestic violence Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Please take the time to visit Love Grace - the handbag appeal set up by Grace’s family and friends as a legacy in Grace Millane’s name, to help women that have been affected by domestic violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Grace Mullane was just 21 years old when she graduated university and went travelling the world.

0:06.0

While spending time in New Zealand, she went on a Tinder date with one of the locals, an older man, but she trusted him.

0:13.0

The two could be seen kissing in bars, cuddling and giggling into the night, but after that date, nobody ever heard from Grace Millane ever again.

0:24.0

CCTV followed the couple as he took her back to his hotel room, but the next day when he leaves

0:30.3

again, it's not with Grace, it's with a suitcase. Today we're talking about the case that

0:36.7

shocked the world, the cruel and tragic

0:40.0

murder of Grace Millane.

0:45.8

Quickly before we get into the case, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I'm in

0:49.8

absolutely no disrespect to anyone that we talk about in this episode. Everything that I'm about to say is publicly available information that myself and my team

0:57.9

have found online and compiled into this piece.

1:01.1

And we are about to cover a lot of sensitive topics, including discussions of rape, sexual

1:05.7

assault and domestic violence.

1:08.0

So if that sounds too triggering or intense for you, I would click out of this episode now.

1:12.6

Hopefully I'll get to see you another time with a different episode, but look after yourself in the meantime.

1:17.6

While we make every effort to fact-check our sources and make sure that all of our information is correct,

1:22.6

no action should be taken in reliance upon the information in this episode.

1:27.6

All opinions stated are mine and mine alone, and with that being said, let's get into

1:32.4

the case of Grace Mullane.

1:34.0

This case actually takes place in December 2018 in New Zealand, but it actually starts out

1:40.8

in Essex in the southeast of England when local girl Grace Millane decides she wants to go travel in the world.

1:47.0

Grace was 21 at the time of this case, but she was born on December 2nd, 1996 to mum Jillian and dad David.

1:55.0

She had two older brothers named Declan and Michael and all five of them were a super happy family.

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