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Woman Doesn't Realize Her Tinder Date Is A Killer · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: It's December one, twenty eighteen. CCTV records twenty two year
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Speaker 1: old Grace and her tinder date Jesse, getting ready to
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Speaker 1: leave a bar. They had just met a few hours ago,
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Speaker 1: but already they're about to head back to his place.
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Speaker 1: On the outside, everything seemed to be going perfectly well,
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Speaker 1: so well in fact, that soon after they could be
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Speaker 1: seen heading to a nearby hotel and up to Jesse's
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Speaker 1: hotel room. Shortly after, nobody could have expected that this
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Speaker 1: was the last time Grace would ever be seen alive.
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Speaker 1: The next day happened to be her birthday, and nobody
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Speaker 1: was able to reach her all day, and the same
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Speaker 1: was true even days after. It was like she disappeared
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Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. Her friends and family
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Speaker 1: quickly reported her missing, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Jesse
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Speaker 1: was recorded on CCTV out and about going up and
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Speaker 1: down the elevator carrying cleaning supplies and what appeared to
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Speaker 1: be a suitcase, suitcase with contents that would shock everyone
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Speaker 1: to the core. And what's even worse, the killer had
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Speaker 1: another date lined up and if the cops don't intervene
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Speaker 1: and arrest him quickly, this girl, as well as countless
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Speaker 1: others could fall victim to this very sane man, tell
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Speaker 1: me what happened, was, sir, and from the beginning. At
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Speaker 1: five thirty seven pm on December one, twenty eighteen, Grace,
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Speaker 1: who just finished a backpacking journey from England to New Zealand,
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Speaker 1: leaves her hostile to meet Jesse. Meanwhile, Jesse is having
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Speaker 1: pre date drinks at a local bar, downing several beers
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Speaker 1: before the date begins. In fact, as he leaves the bar,
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Speaker 1: you can still see at least four empty bottles sitting
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Speaker 1: on the table. They meet in a popular spot where
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Speaker 1: there's plenty of people, making Grace feel safe while she
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Speaker 1: meets her date for the first time. But this will
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Speaker 1: be a false sense of security, as Jesse has no
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Speaker 1: plans to try anything on toward in public. He's going
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Speaker 1: to wait until they're alone. Suspecting nothing, Grace accompanies Jesse
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Speaker 1: to a bar where they drink together for over an
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Speaker 1: hour before they head for a Mexican bar at sevenot
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Speaker 1: fifteen for more drinks and yet another bar named Bluestone
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Speaker 1: Room around eight thirty pm. This will be where Jesse
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Speaker 1: tries his luck and sees if he can get a
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Speaker 1: little closer to Grace at eight fifty four, they share
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Speaker 1: their first kids. This is when Jesse takes a trip
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom and where Grace sends her very last
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Speaker 1: message to anyone, telling her friends that it's going amazingly
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Speaker 1: well and that she just clicks with him so well.
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Speaker 1: She's probably excited to spend the night with a man
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Speaker 1: that she genuinely likes. She could have had no idea
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Speaker 1: that instead he was about to end her life in
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Speaker 1: one of the most horrific ways possible. The next morning,
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Speaker 1: Grace's phone starts to receive a ton of messages. It's
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Speaker 1: her birthday and there are plenty of friends who want
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Speaker 1: to send her their best wishes. Each and every one
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Speaker 1: of these messages goes unanswered. The first sign that something
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Speaker 1: is wrong is at eight a m. When Jesse enters
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Speaker 1: the very same elevator, this time on his own, throwing
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Speaker 1: the camera a suspicious glance. If you think he's just
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Speaker 1: getting the birthday girl a morning coffee, then think again.
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Speaker 1: During that night, Jesse killed Grace by strangulation, and now
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Speaker 1: he's going to try and do everything he can to
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Speaker 1: cover up his crime, and he needs to do it
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Speaker 1: quickly because he's already got another potential victim lined up.
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Speaker 1: By eight o seven am, Jesse is in town and
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Speaker 1: about to start the most eerie shopping trip possible. He
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Speaker 1: starts at the warehouse on Elliott Street, where he buys
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Speaker 1: a suitcase that he plans to hide Grace's body in.
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Speaker 1: He checks out the width and depth of the suitcase
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Speaker 1: to make sure it'll fit her so he can dispose
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Speaker 1: of her body before anyone can catch him. Then, twenty
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Speaker 1: five minutes later, he makes his way to another store
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Speaker 1: where he buys a number of cleaning products that will
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Speaker 1: be used to clean up the murder scene. Then he
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Speaker 1: returns to his apartment for a number of hours, reappearing
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Speaker 1: at ten forty two am before he jumps in a
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Speaker 1: taxi and apex car Rental where he rents a car.
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Speaker 1: But it's what he does next that's truly shocking and
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Speaker 1: puts pressure on the cops to discover and solve his
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Speaker 1: murder as quickly as possible. As Grace's body lies in
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Speaker 1: the apartment, Jesse goes on a date with another girl
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Speaker 1: he'd met on Tinder. Given that he has all the
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Speaker 1: equipment ready to hide one body, it's speculated that he
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Speaker 1: planned this to be his second victim of the day.
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Speaker 1: As he arrives at the bar, Jesse is wearing exactly
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Speaker 1: the same clothing that he wore the night before, possibly
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Speaker 1: the same clothes that he wore when he killed Grace.
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Speaker 1: We are not sure whether Kempson was as pushy in
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Speaker 1: his initial messages to this girl, but what we do
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Speaker 1: know is that the conversation he struck up with her
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Speaker 1: during the date not only brought up some major red flags,
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Speaker 1: it downright terrified her. Allegedly, he wanted to talk to
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Speaker 1: her about where to hide a dead body from the
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Speaker 1: police right away. The date is over, and this girl's
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Speaker 1: instincts may have just saved her life. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: imagine the horror that she would have felt when she
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Speaker 1: learned the truth about the man she just walked away from,
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Speaker 1: certain that he likely had the same fate lined up
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Speaker 1: for her as he did with Grace. At eight fifty
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Speaker 1: six pm, we can see Jesse carrying a piece of
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Speaker 1: equipment back to his apartment. More precisely, it's a carpet cleaner,
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Speaker 1: and he's going to try and use that carpet cleaner
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Speaker 1: to try and remove any trace of Grace's presence at
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Speaker 1: his apartment. He's even got two bottles of cleaner in
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Speaker 1: his hand, making sure he's got enough to get the
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Speaker 1: job done. Thirty minutes later and where greeted with the
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Speaker 1: product of all his hard work. He's about to try
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Speaker 1: and hide the body. He reappears in the elevator with
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Speaker 1: a trolley carrying several luggage bags, one of which is
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Speaker 1: the suitcase that he'd bought earlier that morning. It's way
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Speaker 1: too heavy to carry as inside is Grace's dead body.
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Speaker 1: Of course, he can't walk through the streets with this
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Speaker 1: amount of baggage, which is exactly why he hired the
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Speaker 1: rental car. Minutes later, he's loading the rental car with
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Speaker 1: all of the baggage, ready to make the next move
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Speaker 1: in his attempt to cover up this murder, hiding the
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Speaker 1: body in a place he thinks no one will find it.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, at seven a m. Jesse buys a
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Speaker 1: shovel and heads back to his apartment, where he collects
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Speaker 1: some clothing to take to the dry cleaners, destroying more
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Speaker 1: potential evidence of his crime. But he's not done there,
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Speaker 1: as he stops off at a random trash can, tossing
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Speaker 1: a large trash bag inside, then Jesse takes his rental
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Speaker 1: car for a deep clean, paying particular attention to the
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Speaker 1: rear of the vehicle where he had stashed the suitcase
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Speaker 1: containing Grace's body, and with that his work was done.
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Speaker 1: For the next two days, Grace's family and friends go
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Speaker 1: through turmoil. Nobody has heard from her, she hasn't posted
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Speaker 1: on any social media, and she isn't answering either of
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Speaker 1: her two phones. Her family report her missing to Auckland
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Speaker 1: Police on December fifth. Grace's father, David Even, flies to
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Speaker 1: Auckland and makes a heartfelt appeal for his daughter's safe
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Speaker 1: return christ to.
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Speaker 2: Such buds and as a family with extreme missions for
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Speaker 2: her welfare to anybody the same spike and turn or
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Speaker 2: come into contact with Grids, come forward and contact Investiguize.
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Speaker 1: With so much media coverage at the time, Jesse likely
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Speaker 1: saw her father's appeal, and yet the family's pleas went unanswered.
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Speaker 1: But Auckland Police are about to use various methods to
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Speaker 1: track Grace's last movements and find their main suspect in
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Speaker 1: her disappearance. They're able to find out she was on
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Speaker 1: a date with a mystery man, and after pouring over
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Speaker 1: hours of surveillance footage, they find the last person she
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Speaker 1: was with and track him back to his apartment. At
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Speaker 1: three pm on December fifth, the cops turn up at
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Speaker 1: the City Life hotel, but they almost miss their man
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Speaker 1: as he eyes them in the lobby. When he approaches
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Speaker 1: the front door. Jesse thinks if he casually strolls away,
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Speaker 1: he won't be noticed, but these eagle eyed cops don't
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Speaker 1: miss a trick and quickly apprehend him before he can
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Speaker 1: make an escape. At this point, the smartest thing for
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Speaker 1: Jesse to do is to own up to his crime,
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Speaker 1: maybe try to play it all off as an accident
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Speaker 1: and face the consequences, but he's not going to do
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Speaker 1: any such thing. In the interrogation room, he plans to
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Speaker 1: lie his way out of theirs, but he's completely unaware
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Speaker 1: that the cops have already seen every move from the
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Speaker 1: night of the murder and have about as much evidence
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Speaker 1: as they could possibly ask for. At the start of
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Speaker 1: the interview, he has no reason to lie, as he's
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Speaker 1: just recalling the events before the murder.
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Speaker 3: Talks about christ So, I was talking to Grace on Tinda.
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Speaker 3: We'd matched on Friday. I saw that we'd matched the
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Speaker 3: next day on the Saddler, and then we met at
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Speaker 3: scar City, and then we decided that we're going up
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Speaker 3: to Andysberger Bart, which is on the first floor.
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Speaker 1: Not long into this interview, Jesse becomes entangled in his
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Speaker 1: first lie, as he claims Grace was the one pushing
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Speaker 1: for a date, when we already know he was the
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Speaker 1: one trying hard to meet Grace in their initial messages.
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Speaker 4: Whose ideal was it to go to that particular burger place?
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Speaker 5: Me?
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Speaker 6: Because I knew I didn't initially know that she was real?
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Speaker 3: What do you well, there's a lot of so have
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Speaker 3: you heard of catfish? So catfishing is where someone uses
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Speaker 3: your profile, uses your photos and pretends to you in
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Speaker 3: the mets and you're a completely different person, right, And
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Speaker 3: it's on Tinder. It's all about the way you look,
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Speaker 3: and so if they use more endearing photos, you're more
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Speaker 3: likely to swipe for them.
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Speaker 7: Okay, how does meeting in a public place sort of
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Speaker 7: protective from meeting someone who's not as good looking as all?
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Speaker 3: There's security there, So if she wasn't who she said
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Speaker 3: she was, at least.
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Speaker 6: In my mind, I'd feel safe.
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Speaker 1: When Jesse is confronted with evidence from surveillance cameras. He
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Speaker 1: continues to lie, digging a whole himself that he's going
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Speaker 1: to struggle to escape from.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: I go down Victoria Street, straight down to the bottom,
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Speaker 3: and then hang a left and I head towards the Vida.
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Speaker 3: You go to the viaduct a bit Yeah, yeah, yep,
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Speaker 3: you've kind.
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Speaker 4: Of walked in a bit of a funny direction. If
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Speaker 4: you were planning to.
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Speaker 3: Go to the viaduct, what's the direction I normally go, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's I mean, I'm just sort of saying, like, if
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Speaker 3: you if you were planning to go to the viaduct,
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Speaker 3: I normally go down Queen Street and then cross at
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Speaker 3: the bottom of Queen Street, go through the the containers,
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Speaker 3: and then walk along the wharf.
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Speaker 4: Is there a particular reason you were kind to do that?
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Speaker 6: I feel safer down that way.
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Speaker 1: The cop obviously suspects something strange here. Jesse's behavior and
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Speaker 1: responses don't seem to line up or make sense at all,
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Speaker 1: and if Jesse is liken saying, it'll only take a
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Speaker 1: good few questions to throw them off completely. So the
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Speaker 1: cop starts to apply the pressure, sending Jesse into panic.
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Speaker 4: If you don't know if she's been murdered or not.
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Speaker 8: She may be a lot well, but she might also
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Speaker 8: be deep okay, and it could be that you've done question.
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Speaker 6: H.
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Speaker 1: He's not being arrested just yet, but Aukland police are
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Speaker 1: convinced Jesse is either behind Grace's disappearance or is at
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Speaker 1: least involved, and the more they investigate this case, the
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Speaker 1: more evidence they find to suggest Jesse is the one responsible.
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Speaker 1: It's not just the surveillance footage that helps solve this case.
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Speaker 1: Remember the new suitcase and cleaning products Jesse bought the
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Speaker 1: morning after well, believe it or not, they were all
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Speaker 1: bought on Greece's credit call, as well as an extra
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Speaker 1: night's stay at the City Life hotel. In fact, it's
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Speaker 1: very possible he paid for his second date on Grace's
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Speaker 1: credit card. An extra day at the hotel should give
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Speaker 1: Jesse time to clean up the mets, but it's going
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Speaker 1: to take more than a carpet cleaner to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the evidence. When police search his apartment, they find
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Speaker 1: traces of Grace's blood, the credit card payments, the witness testimony,
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Speaker 1: cell phone locations placing Grace and Jesse together, and the
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Speaker 1: staggering detail found in the surveillance footage backed their suspect
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Speaker 1: into a corner, and in his second interview on December seventh,
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Speaker 1: they left Jesse no choice but to confess, a confession
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Speaker 1: that would soon lead into one of the most interesting
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Speaker 1: but troubling defenses ever used in court.
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Speaker 3: Is talking to me about fifty Shots of Cry, which
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Speaker 3: is an ex fantasy movie that's out. We started having.
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Speaker 3: At first it was it was just normal, it was
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Speaker 3: very placid, and then she asked me if we could
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Speaker 3: get into bondage. And then all I remember is falling
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Speaker 3: asleep in the showers.
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Speaker 4: Would you like some fresh here? Yeah? Please?
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Speaker 3: I was in shop and I know what to do.
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Speaker 3: I went downstairs and I was just I was all
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Speaker 3: over the place. I didn't believe what had happened. I
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Speaker 3: was just terrified and scared. I thought that she had gone.
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Speaker 3: I thought she had left.
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Speaker 7: Thought just special doctor will performs be very skilled.
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Speaker 4: Established.
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Speaker 7: It was course understand that.
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Speaker 3: I went to the warehouse at the ah Rim and
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Speaker 3: brought a suitcase. I went back and I was just
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Speaker 3: in shock because it just didn't sing right. I left
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Speaker 3: to go and get cleaning products, and so I messaged
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Speaker 3: a friend and said, I met you revelry. After after
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Speaker 3: finishing drinks with with her, I got back to city
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Speaker 3: life A long time.
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Speaker 9: I just kept sat you, I'm sorry, and then I
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Speaker 9: went downstairs and I grabbed it the important thing and
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Speaker 9: I put the suitcase want top at the quarter thing
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Speaker 9: drove the higher character. Wilson's came back impacted. I woke
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Speaker 9: up the next day at about the five days and
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Speaker 9: drove the car.
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Speaker 5: Out to cue you.
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Speaker 9: At first I picked up a shovel from im at Cum.
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Speaker 6: I ended up driving towards the white tackeries.
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Speaker 5: I went into push I dug a hole.
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Speaker 6: I went and got the suit case and it covered
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Speaker 6: the hole. And then I drove.
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Speaker 7: Where's her positions?
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Speaker 4: And I threw them in the rubbish?
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Speaker 5: Whereabouts and Albert Park rubbish?
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Speaker 7: So what items of her property have been disposed of?
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Speaker 4: An Albert part.
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Speaker 3: Everything all ever, clothing, everything that was in the room.
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Speaker 7: Whereabouts did you clean the car? The outside of the car.
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Speaker 5: I think it was in Henderson Island. I don't know
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Speaker 5: west very well.
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Speaker 7: And what did you use to clean it out?
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Speaker 5: Water blasted thing from the car cleaning the place?
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Speaker 4: Did she have any injuries?
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Speaker 5: Not though I can remember. I was just panicking.
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Speaker 7: Did you inflict any injuries on caused her to die?
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Speaker 6: Uh not?
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Speaker 7: Did you kill christ Bline? Okay? And you're under arrest
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Speaker 7: for the murder of christ Bline?
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Speaker 6: On?
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Speaker 7: Or about the second recemer?
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Speaker 4: You understand? Did you intend to cause it?
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Speaker 9: Deaf?
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Speaker 4: Are you ready to take us to where she is?
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Speaker 1: The media called it the fifty shades of great defense.
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Speaker 1: The idea is that someone may consent to being harmed
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Speaker 1: during intimacy, knowing the dangers involved. If they made no
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Speaker 1: indication to stop, then it would be seen as an
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Speaker 1: accident and the person responsible shouldn't face a murder charge.
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Speaker 1: But this defense has always been seen as more of
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Speaker 1: a scapegoat used by lawyers to try and get their
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Speaker 1: defendant off with a lighter sentence, which in this case
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Speaker 1: would be manslaughter. This doesn't change what happened after Grace's
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Speaker 1: death and the disturbing series of events uncovered during the investigation.
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Speaker 1: From December first, the day before the date, all the
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Speaker 1: way to December seventh, cops found Google searches made by
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Speaker 1: Jesse looking for a place to hide a body. He'd
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Speaker 1: also taken photos of Grace's body before and after he
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Speaker 1: packed her into the suitcase. They found Grace's body on
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Speaker 1: December ninth, twenty eighteen, in the y Takara Ranges just
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Speaker 1: outside of Auckland. It was determined that she was strangled
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Speaker 1: and had bruises on her arms and chest consistent with
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Speaker 1: being pinned down. In New Zealand, there is no such
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Speaker 1: thing as first degree or second degree murder. All charges
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Speaker 1: are treated the same, carrying a life sentence. That meant
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Speaker 1: there was no investigation into the premeditation. All that mattered
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Speaker 1: was if Jesse killed her or not. It was that simple.
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Speaker 1: Jesse maintained his innocence, but was eventually found guilty and
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Speaker 1: on February twenty first, twenty twenty, he was sentenced to
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Speaker 1: life in prison with a minimum non parole period of
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Speaker 1: seventeen years. After his trial, two more waits him and
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Speaker 1: came forward and claimed Jesse had only assaulted them after
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Speaker 1: they met him on Tinder. He was found guilty on
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Speaker 1: those charges as well, adding another eleven years to life
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Speaker 1: added to his sentence