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The Swipe of Death · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Twenty two year old Grace Mullane had just graduated from the University of Lincoln in
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  England, and she decided she wanted to see more of the world and went
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  on a gap year. After traveling to South America for a month and a
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  half, she flew to New Zealand, where she planned on staying for two
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  weeks. On the first of December, which was the day before her birthday,
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  Grace was in Auckland, New Zealand, getting ready to go on a
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  date with a man that she'd been talking to on Tinder, twenty six year
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  old Jesse Kimpson. She got dressed in white shoes and a black dress,
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  carrying a small bag with her, and then went to go meet Jesse at
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  a local bar. It was their very first date, but Jesse greeted Grace
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  by pulling her into an awkward hug, which Grace halfheartedly returned with the one
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  arm hug. Jesse paid for Grace's drinks and the two of them went to
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  several more bars, drinking margharita's and shants of tequila. They seemed to be
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  getting along pretty well, and the more they talked, the more Grace relaxed.
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  Then Grace got up and went to the bathroom. As soon as she
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  was out of sight, Jesse grabbed her back and searched through its contents.
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  Meanwhile, Grace texted one of her friends from back home, telling her that
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  she was on a Tinder date which was going very well. And Grace's final
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  message to her friend she said, quote, He's coming to London next year.
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  I click with him so well. I'll let you know what happens tomorrow.
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  At nine forty one that evening, Grace and her Tender dates were once
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  again caught on CCTV taking an elevator up to Jesse's room in the City Life
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  Hotel. They were in the elevator for just moments and then Jesse got out
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  first, followed by Grace. The next day, CCTV caught Jesse leaving his
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  hotel room alone. There was no sign of Grace. He left a hotel
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  early in the morning and returned after purchasing a large suit case and cleaning supplies,
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  which he took up to his room. Shortly afterwards, he opened Tender
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  again sent a message to a different girl asking to meet up. He left
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  that suit case and cleaning supplies in the hotel and went off to meet his
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  tender date. According to the woman that Jesse met that evening, their date
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  did not go well. Actually, he made her extremely uncomfortable, telling her
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  about how it was supposedly impossible for police dogs to sniff out the scent of
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  a human body as long as it was buried at least four feet underground.
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  He mentioned that he had a lot of friends that were police officers and that
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  they told him about bodies being buried in the nearby way to Carry ranges and
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  I'm confident I'm saying that wrong, but Jess know that it's in New Zealand.
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  It's a mountain range. It's gorgeous if you've seen pictures of it,
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  and it's very heavily forested. Jesse also told his tender date a story about
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  an acquaintance that I'm using air quotes on that an acquaintance of his who had
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  accidentally killed a woman by strangling her to death after having two rough sex.
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  He told this date quote, it's crazy how guys can make one wrong move
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  and then go to jail for the rest of their lives. When the date
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  came to an end, Jesse's date realized that they had parked their cars in
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  the same parking lot, and she had this gut feeling that she should not
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  reveal this information, so she decided to lie to him and say that she
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  left her car in the opposite direction. As she walked away. She felt
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  relieved because something about Jesse didn't feel quite right. He messaged her later that
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  night, asking her on a second date. She declined. Later, Jesse
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  rented a carpet cleaning machine from a local store, which he took up to
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  his hotel room, as well as one of the large trolleys that carries the
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  suit cases when they're too heavy to carry by hand. He loaded his new
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  suit case, which was now very heavy, and the rest of his bags
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  onto the trolley, then wheeled them out to the red Toyota that he had
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  rented. He parked the car in a parking lot overnight, with the suit
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  case still inside. The next morning, Jesse drove out of the city center,
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  purchasing a new shovel on his way. He was headed to the way
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  to carry ranges, the same place he had mentioned on this date the previous
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  evening when he was talking about burying human remains. On December seconds, Grace's
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  friends and family from back home all wished her a happy birthday, but there
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  was no reply. After three days of radio silence from Grace, her worried
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  parents reported their daughter as missing. Initially, New Zealand police believed that Grace
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  had just been busy with her travels and didn't believe that there was any evidence
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  of foul play, but as time went on, it became clear that something
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  was terribly wrong. During their investigation into Grace's disappearance, they'd checked her social
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  media and noticed that somebody had left a comment on one of her Facebook photos
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  after her disappearance, calling her beautiful and very radiant. That account belonged to
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  a man named Jesse Kimpson, and with one Facebook comment, he was officially
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  a person of interest. On December sixth, two police officers located Jesse in
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  a food court and approached him to ask questions. Jesse told them that he
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  had last seen Grace on December first, after their date, but they'd gone
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  their separate ways. He gave the detectives a fake address and didn't mention City
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  Life Hotel where Grace had last been seen. However, they were still suspicious
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  and brought him to the Auckland Police station. There, Jesse continued to maintain
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  his innocence, but by now police knew something that Jesse had not shared with
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  them, the suit case. Jesse insisted that he hadn't used the suit case
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  for anything, but couldn't provide a clear answer as to why he purchased it.
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  Investigators descended on Jesse's apartment at CityLife Hotel. Despite all those cleaning supplies
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  he'd purchased, luminol testing revealed bloodstains next to the bed. Then magically,
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  Jesse's story changed. He finally admitted to police that he'd taken Grace back to
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  his hotel room for the purpose of having sex. Quote. We started having
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  sex. It was just normal. It was very placid. Then she asked
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  me if we could get into bondage. He told investigators that he was not
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  experienced with BDSM, but when Grace asked him to choke her, he agreed.
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  Apparently, he thought that nothing had gone wrong during the encounter until he
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  woke up the next morning and found Grace still in the same position with blood
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  running out of her nose. She was dead. Understandably, investigators found it
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  very hard to believe that Jesse had somehow accidentally strangled Grace to death during sex
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  and not realized that she was no longer alive until the next morning. Analysis
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  of Jesse's cell phone activity provided a different version of events. Hours after returning
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  to his hotel room with Grace, he made a series of Google searches about
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  how to dispose of a body. Then he viewed violent pornography took several photos
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  of Grace for his own gratification. At this stage, Grace was already dead.
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  He didn't call an ambulance or tried to resuscitate her. It seemed as
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  if he had been sexually aroused by her death, and possibly he had killed
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  her for his own sexual gratification. Then he bought the suitcase, stuffed Grace's
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  body inside, and buried it in the forest. The story he'd told to
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  his second tender date about a friend who had accidentally choked a woman to death
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  seemed to be a practice run for the story that he would eventually tell the
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  police. He made a series of Google searches about Grace over the next few
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  days, seeing if she had been reported missing. Strangely, he also made
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  a search if New Zealand had any native flesh eating birds, especially vultures.
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  Despite Jesse's belief that a body buried four feet underground, was impossible to discover.
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  Grace's remains were found buried in the ranges on the ninth of December twenty
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  eighteen. The autopsy confirmed at least part of Jesse's story Grace had been strangled
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  to death. Despite Jesse's defense team arguing that Grace's death had been an accidental
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  consequence of rough sex, the jury found him guilty of her murder, and
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  he was sentenced to spend life in prison. During the trial, multiple women
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  who had been on tender dates with Jesse came forward to testify, including the
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  woman who unknowingly went on a date with him while Grace's body was still in
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  his room. That woman's decision to lie to Jesse about where she had parked
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  her card that night might have been the only thing to save her from meeting
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