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Episode 140 - "Rough Sex" - The Murder of Grace Millane

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In December 2018, 21 year old Grace Millane was backpacking around New Zealand. One evening she agreed to a date with a man, tragically by the following morning Grace would be dead. The man claimed it was all just an accident, a result of consensual “rough sex” - but the evidence suggested otherwise...

We Can't Consent To This: https://wecantconsenttothis.uk/


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https://www.businessinsider.com/grace-millane-murder-killer-wont-look-mom-court-statement-2020-2?r=US&IR=T

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https://www.vox.com/2019/11/21/20976064/grace-millane-death-new-zealand

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/uk-backpacker-strangled-to-death-during-tinder-date-nz-court-told-1.4074106

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

I'm Hannah. I'm Suruji.

0:20.0

And welcome to Redhanded.

0:22.0

A lot of you have been asking us whether we are still going to keep releasing amid the coronavirus.

0:28.0

The answer is yes. As most of you know, we actually don't record together. We record separately in our own homes.

0:34.0

So it's kind of pandemic proof.

0:36.0

By accident.

0:38.0

By accident.

0:40.0

By sheer force of our laziness.

0:42.0

We accidentally...

0:44.0

I think we worked very hard to engineer this.

0:46.0

No, obviously to engineer this.

0:48.0

But it was because we didn't want to get together whenever we had to record and logistically figure that out.

0:54.0

So we put our efforts into something else, which was this. So that in the long term, we would never have to leave our houses.

0:59.0

And now that might become a reality.

1:01.0

Exactly.

1:02.0

Do not worry. Redhanded is not going anywhere.

1:05.0

We will be coming to you weekly as planned.

1:08.0

So roll in it for the long haul.

1:11.0

And we've got a hell of a case for you guys today. That's for sure.

1:14.0

How's your tattoo getting on, by the way? Mine's getting a bit itchy.

1:16.0

Mine is itchy, but it's okay. It's holding up. It's all right.

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