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The Given Grace Cebanico Story

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This is how an ordinary night at university turned into tragedy for one 19-year-old student.

Host of Lagim true crime podcast contextualizes campus sexual violence as global crisis (13% of US students, 62% of UK students) before presenting the Given Grace Cebanico case. On October 10, 2020, the 19-year-old UPLB computer science student was abducted at 3 AM while returning from a group project. Her body was found in a Los Banos canal on October 11 with evidence of brutal assault, stabbing, gunshot, and sexual violence. Police arrested suspects within 24 hours based on a 16-year-old witness's testimony. The case became the highest-profile Philippine incident highlighting invisible dangers in supposedly safe university spaces.

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A campus-safety question leads into a careful account of witness identification, recovered belongings, and a shifting murder investigation.

The Given Grace Cebanico Story frames the case through a wider question: how safe students, particularly female and femme-presenting students, are in and around higher education.

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You get a campus-safety question that opens into the murder of Grace Cebanico and the first breaks in the case.

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