I just thought I had passed out somewhere and that there was a suspicious man at the party who had behaving in an odd way. Swedish grad students Peter Jonsson and Carl Arndt were riding their bikes to the party that night when they saw something disturbing behind the dumpster outside the frat house.īill Whitaker: Did it sink in? The gravity of your situation?Ĭhanel Miller: Absolutely not. They also didn't tell her there were witnesses, two of them, who not only saw the attack, they stopped it. What they didn't tell her was that her underwear and cell phone were found on the ground by her body. Miller with Swedish grad students who saved her, Peter Jonsson and Carl Arndt "Hinky" was the word the detective used.īill Whitaker: Did they tell you where you were found?Ĭhanel Miller: Behind a dumpster. And that he had been chased down because he had been acting hinky. Her hair was tangled with pine needles.Ĭhanel Miller: I had no idea how to put those pieces together.īill Whitaker: How did they tell you what they thought had happened?Ĭhanel Miller: All they said was that I had been found and that somebody had been arrested. She came to about four hours later in a hospital surrounded by nurses and a police deputy. Chanel Miller speaks with "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitakerīill Whitaker: Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't your top choice to write a book about this. She decided to relive the most painful experience of her life because she believes her story, filtered through the glare of the media and restrictive lens of the courtroom, remains untold. The 27-year-old majored in literature at UC Santa Barbara and has wanted to be a writer since she was a child. 60 Minutes Overtime: More from Chanel Millerįor the last three years, Chanel Miller has been writing her own story.Chanel Miller reads her entire victim impact statement.
As you'll see, she chooses her words carefully when she speaks, just as she did when she put them to paper for her bestselling book, "Know My Name." Chanel Miller reclaimed her identity as the author of that statement and shared her story for the first time with 60 Minutes last September.
It instantly went viral, becoming a kind of manifesto for assault survivors all over the world. Before his sentencing, Emily Doe stood in the courtroom and delivered a powerful victim impact statement detailing the emotional trauma the assault and the legal process had put her through. She was sexually assaulted in 2015 by a Stanford University athlete named Brock Turner, who was found guilty of three felonies, including assault with intent to rape. For years, Chanel Miller was known to the world simply as "Emily Doe," the name used in a court case to protect her identity.
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