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The Tinder Date Killer The Harrowing Case Of Grace Millane - Coffeehouse Crime · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Hey, I just want to ask question.
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  Speaker 2: I never listen to someone you've been recent Oh suck?
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  Speaker 1: Oh s.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. When you hear of Tinder and online dating, you
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  Speaker 2: either think of that successful love story or that awkward moment.
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  Speaker 2: You never think of the impossible or the most dangerous murder.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to Grace Mulane and who did she meet?
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  Speaker 2: My name's Adrian and this story teaches that anything can
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  Speaker 2: happen to the best of us in online dating and
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  Speaker 2: So grab a coffee, sit back and relax. Let's investigate.
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  Speaker 2: Our story starts across the pond from our usual In Essex, England,
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  Speaker 2: there lived Grace Malane in a small town called Wickford.
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  Speaker 2: She was born on the second Recember nineteen ninety six
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  Speaker 2: to a loving parents, David and Gillian. Grace grew up
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  Speaker 2: as a happy child alongside her two brothers, Michael and Declan.
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  Speaker 2: Her father owned a successful construction business and the family
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  Speaker 2: lived a fruitful life supported by it. Grace attended Saint
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Moore High School before enrolling into university, and in
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  Speaker 2: September twenty eighteen, she successfully graduated from the University of Lincoln,
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  Speaker 2: successfully completing a bachelor's degree in marketing and advertising. While
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  Speaker 2: at university, Grace worked a part time job to save
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  Speaker 2: up so she could travel for a year after her graduation,
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  Speaker 2: and she would do just that. She was described by
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  Speaker 2: her family as a fun, loving free spirit. She was
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  Speaker 2: academic and creative painting in her spare time, as seen
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  Speaker 2: here in her home. With a caring family, a stronger degree,
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  Speaker 2: and a year of traveling planned ahead, Grace really did
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  Speaker 2: have the world at her feet. She had ambitions to
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  Speaker 2: create lifelong memories and then afterwards take on her marketing career.
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  Speaker 2: Before that, though, as a token of the kind of
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  Speaker 2: person that she really was, she cut off her long
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  Speaker 2: hair and donated it to a local charity that specialized
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  Speaker 2: in creating wigs for children undergoing cancer treatment. And after that,
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  Speaker 2: she packed her bags, waved her goodbyes, and boarded her
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  Speaker 2: flight to Peru. Grace visited South America for six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: She enjoyed a time, took in the scenery, and made
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  Speaker 2: some friends along the way, but in around the world,
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  Speaker 2: trip is only around the world if you'd keep on going.
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  Speaker 2: So on November twentieth, she flew to New Zealand. Her
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  Speaker 2: journey started in the Upper North Island, where she was
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  Speaker 2: for ten days before she traveled down to Auckland on
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth of November. Things were going fine for her. She
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  Speaker 2: took the city's sites and attractions in but she had
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  Speaker 2: no distinct agenda, and with her next flight booked in
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  Speaker 2: only five days time, she took each moment as it came.
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  Speaker 2: But it was now December first, the weekend had just started,
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  Speaker 2: and Grace's birthday was the next day. Being a sole traveler,
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  Speaker 2: Grace was looking outward for friends and making use of
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  Speaker 2: apps like Tinder to get to know new people. Along
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  Speaker 2: her journey. There, she connected with an Auckland raised man
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  Speaker 2: named Jesse Kempson. Jesse messaged Grace over Tinder and eventually
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  Speaker 2: asked her out for drinks. Her messages back seemed colder first,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesse remained persistent. Eventually, probably through lack of anything
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  Speaker 2: better to do, Grace accepted his offer and the two
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  Speaker 2: met up for drinks in the local city center. They
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  Speaker 2: found each other in Sky City, an entertainment complex in
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  Speaker 2: the heart of Auckland. There they shared a hug before
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  Speaker 2: diving over to Andysburger Bar for cocktails. Conversation at first
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  Speaker 2: seemed a little fragile, but the two warmed up to
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  Speaker 2: each other as time went on. After their first drinks,
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  Speaker 2: they visited a Mexican cafe for cocktails, two jugs of
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  Speaker 2: margarita and one of Sangria, both ordered and paid for
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  Speaker 2: by Jesse, and next up the Bluestone room. By now
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  Speaker 2: the two really were starting to enjoy each other's company.
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  Speaker 2: They ordered beers and were seen talking and laughing with
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  Speaker 2: each other before sharing a kiss. As Jesse took a
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  Speaker 2: bathroom break, Grace sent a message to a friend back
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  Speaker 2: home in England. She'd prove as he told a friend
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  Speaker 2: in the exact same day that Jesse was an oil
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  Speaker 2: company executive looking to move to London in the next
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  Speaker 2: few months. This brought Grace hope for building a long
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  Speaker 2: term friendship. So by now the evening was going very well.
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  Speaker 2: A few drinks in a new friendship made birthday tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to take this somewhere more private? The
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  Speaker 2: answer was yes, so they headed back to Jesse's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: CCTV captures the two, making their way to Jesse's motel room.
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  Speaker 2: He lived just around the corner, having an apartment in
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  Speaker 2: City Life. Jesse's arm around Grace as they walked into
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  Speaker 2: the foyer and then into the elevator up to his floor.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the last time CCTV saw Grace, and
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  Speaker 2: the text message that Grace had sent to a friend earlier,
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  Speaker 2: that was the last time we would ever hear from Grace.
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  Speaker 2: The next day was Grace's birthday, and as it dawned
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  Speaker 2: in England, text messages and tweets flurried Grace's phone, but
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  Speaker 2: no notifications were delivered. Her phone was switched off. Her
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  Speaker 2: family and friends started to worry, and then media did too.
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  Speaker 2: The world had no idea where Grace went, but those
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  Speaker 2: close to her knew something must have gone wrong for
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  Speaker 2: her to remain silent on her birthday. She was always
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  Speaker 2: in constant contact with her family and friends, but at
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  Speaker 2: this stage still undiscovered. The final clue to her disappearance
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  Speaker 2: would be that CCTV camera and that elevator and Jesse Kempson.
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  Speaker 2: Jesse was born in nineteen ninety two and grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Wellington, on New Zealand's North Island. His childhood was fragile.
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  Speaker 2: When he was nine years old, his parents divorced and
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  Speaker 2: his mother moved abroad shortly afterwards. The rest of his
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  Speaker 2: childhood wasn't special, but in twenty thirteen he moved out
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  Speaker 2: of his family home after prolonged arguments than accusing him
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  Speaker 2: of stealing and consistently lying. For the next few years,
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  Speaker 2: he moved to Australia and became a laborer, but that
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  Speaker 2: didn't work out for him either, and so in twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen he moved back to Auckland. At this stage, Jesse
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  Speaker 2: was on the brink. He moved into a small motel
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  Speaker 2: studio apartment in the center of the city, moving there
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  Speaker 2: after a fallout with his ex housemates, who were increasingly
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  Speaker 2: concerned about his mood swings, womanizing and threatening behavior. Because
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  Speaker 2: Jesse was indeed, in fact a pathological liar and a
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  Speaker 2: syrial fantasist, he would ritualistically lie to everyone around him.
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  Speaker 2: To name a few, he lied about being an All
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  Speaker 2: Blacks Rugby star, a playboy, an oil executive, and a
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  Speaker 2: gang member. He claimed he had cancer and that his
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  Speaker 2: parents were dead. He lied that he had a degree
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  Speaker 2: in law, and he boasted of plans to buy a
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  Speaker 2: waterfront restaurant, But Jesse was far from successful. Leading out
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  Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen, he had left a succession of failed
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  Speaker 2: jobs and shared flats behind him, being kicked out of
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  Speaker 2: previous responsibilities as a barman, a sales assistant, and losing
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  Speaker 2: his most recent job as a telephone salesman. On the
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  Speaker 2: very day that he'd met Grace, he was spinning out
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  Speaker 2: of control, and unfortunately for Grace, despite her achievements, her strength,
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  Speaker 2: and her dreams, and against her odds, she slipped into
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  Speaker 2: his grasp. Jesse had indeed killed Grace sometime late that
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  Speaker 2: night of December I in his Sky City motel room.
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  Speaker 2: Thieve of Grace's birthday. CCTV cameras captured Jesse leaving his
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  Speaker 2: apartment the next morning at a roundabout eight am, and
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  Speaker 2: just several minutes later, at eight o seven, he was
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  Speaker 2: seen entering a supplies store, the Warehouse on Elliott Street.
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  Speaker 2: There he bought a large suitcase before willing it back
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  Speaker 2: to his apartment nothing sus At age thirty two, he
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  Speaker 2: was seen again leaving his hotel room to visit a
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  Speaker 2: local supermarket and bought himself some bleach, rubber gloves and
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  Speaker 2: cleaning supplies. Then again at ten thirty three, he left
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  Speaker 2: his apartment once more, entering a taxi looking visibly distressed,
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  Speaker 2: to travel to a rental car company, where he picked
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  Speaker 2: up a red toa to Corolla before driving it back home.
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  Speaker 2: So suitcase check, cleaning, supplies check, rental car check. What's next,
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  Speaker 2: Logically speaking, dispose of the body? Nope, nine, Jesse's case
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  Speaker 2: here went out for a tender date. Bloody, ridiculous. Living
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of a busy city center really did
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  Speaker 2: not help Jesse with his crime. Surveillance cameras picked up
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  Speaker 2: a huge amount of his activities throughout the next few days.
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  Speaker 2: This included him parking the rented car at seven thirty pm,
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  Speaker 2: bringing a rented carpet cleaner to his apartment at eight
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight pm and returning it half an hour later,
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  Speaker 2: and then finally, at nine point thirty of the same day,
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  Speaker 2: surveillance cameras called Jesse wheeling two suitcases out of his
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  Speaker 2: apartment room, both of them appearing entirely full. Jesse transported
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  Speaker 2: Grace's body to the car, where he traveled to cuneu Auckland.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning, he walked to a building supplies store
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  Speaker 2: Western ninetm and bought a shovel. Once the body was
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  Speaker 2: disposed of, Jesse returned home. He went to the dry cleaners,
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up the car, returned it to the rental company,
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  Speaker 2: and on the fifth of December got rid of Grace's
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  Speaker 2: remaining items in one of the local park bins. By
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  Speaker 2: now it had been four days since Grace's disappearance and
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  Speaker 2: Auckland police were hot on her trail. On December sixth,
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  Speaker 2: They'd located a whereabouts down to Star City Hotel and
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  Speaker 2: there they were looking for a Jesse Kempson for questioning.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, though, Jesse was returning from a
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  Speaker 2: nearby shopping complex while police were in the lobby. They
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  Speaker 2: caught him by surprise, and after a failed attempt to
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  Speaker 2: walk away and noticed they chased after him. Oops. He
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  Speaker 2: was brought in for questioning, and his home, now a
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  Speaker 2: crime scene, was subject to evidence. Using a chemical compound
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  Speaker 2: called luminol, they found Grace's blood stained into the carpet.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the interrogation room, Jesse wasn't doing too well either.
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  Speaker 2: In his first interview with police, he lied when questioned
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  Speaker 2: on his whereabouts on the evening that Grace had disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: I headed the evening pay out.
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  Speaker 2: M yeah, pretty good. But when brought in two days
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  Speaker 2: later for further questioning, he changed his story to one
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  Speaker 2: that did not align to what detectors were constructing.
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  Speaker 1: He've indicated that you were willing to speak to us
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  Speaker 1: about the events of last seller it corc. Yes, tell
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  Speaker 1: me what happened last Sila from the beginning, Did you
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  Speaker 1: kill Grace Miline? Okay, Jesse Kimpson, you're under a wrist
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  Speaker 1: for the murder of Grace Miline.
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  Speaker 2: There, Jesse Campson was detained and arrested following Savannah's footage,
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  Speaker 2: tips from locals and Jesse's mobile data, Investigators eventually found
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  Speaker 2: Grace's body in a shallow grave fifty meters away from
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  Speaker 2: a country road in the way to Carry Ranger's Regional Park,
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  Speaker 2: about twenty one miles from Auckland. New Zealand as a
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  Speaker 2: nation was in shock. Thousands attended vigils for Grace. Law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement clearly distressed by the news, and even their Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister aim tribute, your daughter should have been safe here
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  Speaker 2: and she wasn't, and I'm sorry for it. While in custody,
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  Speaker 2: it was learned that Jesse already had previous convictions of
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  Speaker 2: sexually assaulting another British tourist just eight months before murdering Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Just as he would later do with Grace, Jesse took
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  Speaker 2: his victim on a tender date before he would take
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  Speaker 2: her back to his motel room apartment. She recalled her
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  Speaker 2: experience to the jury, lying frozen and crying in fear
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  Speaker 2: on the bed as she was assaulted by Jesse. She
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  Speaker 2: had kept the attack secret until recognizing Jesse's face on
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  Speaker 2: the news following grace death. He had also been previously
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  Speaker 2: convicted for a series of other offenses against his former partner.
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  Speaker 2: At the stand, Jesse claimed that Grace had died accidentally
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  Speaker 2: following their encounter and that it was simply rough sex
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  Speaker 2: that went too far. Yeah sure. Grace's father, who had
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  Speaker 2: flown from England to be present at court, looked directly
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  Speaker 2: at Jesse as the detective read out that Jesse had
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  Speaker 2: taken pictures of Grace's body and looked at pornography on
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  Speaker 2: his phone shortly after killing Grace. Phone data had also
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  Speaker 2: showed that Jesse made multiple searches that night following Grace's death.
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  Speaker 2: Those searches included Rigamortis way to carry rangers, the hottest fire,
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  Speaker 2: large bags near me, and flesh eating birds. On the
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  Speaker 2: twenty second of November twenty nineteen, Jesse Kempson was found
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  Speaker 2: guilty of murdering Grace Mulane. Grace's parents wept as they
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  Speaker 2: heard the verdict. Jesse Kempson showed no emotion. He was
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  Speaker 2: further convicted for nine total charges of rape, sexual violation,
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  Speaker 2: threatening to kill, and assault. And here didn't take too
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  Speaker 2: kindly to that. So fullish, you have no reason to
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  Speaker 2: convict them, You're fullish. Jesse now faces imprisonment for life,
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  Speaker 2: with a minimum term of seventeen years before parole. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the story of Grace Mulane. I say Grace and
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  Speaker 2: not Jesse, for we should remember the real tragedy here,
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  Speaker 2: the life of a young, strong, successful woman just starting
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  Speaker 2: her adulthood in what should have been one of the
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  Speaker 2: happiest years of hers, to come snubbed out by the
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  Speaker 2: hands of a nobody. I can't imagine how scared she
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  Speaker 2: must have been in her final moments, twelve thousand miles
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  Speaker 2: away from her friends and her family. One eery quirk
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  Speaker 2: to the tale. Grace's last piece of artwork that she
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  Speaker 2: uploaded to Instagram while alive, was of a watercolored skull.
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  Speaker 2: She captured it. Two can keep a secret if one
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  Speaker 2: of them is dead. Had Grace envisioned her fate? No,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a dark coincidence. Nevertheless, Grace's father later sheard
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  Speaker 2: to local and international media that he hopes Grace's death
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  Speaker 2: doesn't deter anyone from realizing their dreams and traveling the wild.
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  Speaker 2: And he's right, you know, we can't limit our lives
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  Speaker 2: to avoid incidents as unlikely and rare as this case.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't make Grace's death any easier for a family.
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  Speaker 2: What Jesse Kempsen did is unforgivable. Let's hope he stays
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  Speaker 2: in his cage for life. And if you're interested, Grace's
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  Speaker 2: family have since supported the White Ribbon, a charity dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to stopping male violence against women. I've left a link
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  Speaker 2: in the description if you'd like to donate. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for watching this video of mine. If you
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed this case, please like and subscribe to my channel
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  Speaker 2: and make cases like this on a weekly basis. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think of the Grace Maline case? Do you
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  Speaker 2: think that Jesse was punished enough? Do you think that
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  Speaker 2: apps like Tender hold enough security for women and men.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know in the comments below. I'd love to
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  Speaker 2: hear your thoughts and I'll see the next video. Take
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  Speaker 2: care of each other, Goodbye.