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Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

Lucie Blackman

Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

Gruesome Podcast

True Crime

4.6932 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Lucie Blackman was 21 when she disappeared after moving to Tokyo, Japan from Kent, England. Women like Lucie, who were a part of the Tokyo nightlife and hostess community, had been going to police for years to report being drugged and assaulted. They were largely ignored. Meg details how several cases, including Lucie's, finally came together and allowed the perpetrator, Japanese millionaire, Joji Obara, to be put behind bars forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I'm Connie along with professional finals taker, Meg.

0:27.0

Tonight she is going to tell us about Lucy Blackman.

0:32.1

Yay, finals are kicking my ass, and so anybody out there who's also in final season,

0:40.0

I feel for you. I feel for you in my bones. I'm very tired. I know at least a couple of people I go to school

0:48.9

with Listen so maybe I'm just talking directly to them, but if I could whistle I would whistle like the mocking

0:56.8

Jay.

0:57.8

Do you do do you do. Yeah salute to you.

1:04.0

Okay, so, happy past Mother's Day weekend.

1:08.0

That was last weekend, so happy Mother's Day if you had that.

1:11.0

It's my mother's birthday today.

1:12.8

Oh she's not my faves.

1:15.8

She is.

1:16.8

I did this episode I was going to have her come on and I was going to do one of her favorite true crimes, but there's just too much.

1:26.0

There's too much info. I didn't have time to do it. The way that...

1:30.0

Well, because I brought it up to her and she was like, oh, that would be cool.

1:33.3

And then she was talking about listening to true crime podcast and true crime YouTube channels,

1:37.8

and she said, the second that they say something that's not even kind of right, I turn it off. And I'm like, that's fair, but maybe I'm not the, maybe I'm not ready to have this episode with you yet.

1:58.0

Trigger warnings tonight we have murder. It's date rape is I think that's the only way to say it. Date rape, drugging kind of a thing.

2:06.0

Un it's not kidnapping, but it's, where do they hold them? I can't think of the word. Oh my gosh. Holding a person and not letting them go?

2:16.4

Like, a hostage? Yeah, hostage situation. Oh my gosh, I couldn't think of the word hostage.

2:22.3

So sorry. Normally I write them out and I didn't write them out today.

2:27.6

I was just winging it, didn't work for me.

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