Woman Doesn't Realize Her Tinder Date Is A Killer | Forensic Files

it's December 1st 2018 CCTV records 22-year-old Grace and her Tinder date Jesse getting ready to
leave a bar they had just met a few hours ago but already they're about to head back
to his place from the outside everything seemed to be going perfectly well so well in fact that soon after they could
be seen heading to a nearby hotel and up to Jesse's hotel room shortly after nobody could have expected that this was
the last time Grace would ever be seen alive the next day happened to be her birthday and nobody was able to reach
her all day and the same was true even days after it was like she disappeared off the face of the Earth her friends
and family quickly reported her missing but to no avail meanwhile Jesse was recorded on CCTV out and about going up
and down the elevator carrying cleaning supplies and what appeared to be a suitcase a suitcase with contents that
would shock everyone to the core and what's even worse the killer had another date lined up and if the
cops don't intervene and arrest him quickly this girl as well as countless others could fall victim to this very
same man tell me what happened last Saturday um from the beginning yeah at 5 5:37 p.m. on December 1st 2018 Grace who
just finished a backpacking Journey from England to New Zealand leaves her hostile to meet Jesse meanwhile Jesse is
having pre-date drinks at a local bar Downing several beers before the date begins in fact as he leaves the bar you
can still see at least four empty bottles sitting on the table they meet in a popular spot where there's plenty
of people making Grace feel safe while she meets her date for the first time but this will be a false sense of
security as Jesse has no plans to try anything on to ward in public he's going to wait until they're
alone suspecting nothing Grace accompanies Jesse to a bar where they drink together for over an hour before
they head for a Mexican bar at 7:15 for more drinks and yet had another Bar Named Blue Stone room around 8:30 p.m.
this will be where Jesse tries his luck and sees if he can get a little closer to Grace at 8:54 they share their first
kiss this is when Jesse takes a trip to the bathroom and where Grace sends her very
last message to anyone telling her friends that it's going amazingly well and that she just clicks with him so
well she's probably excited to spend the night with a man that she genuinely likes she could have had no idea that
instead he was about to end her life in one of the most horrific ways possible the next morning Grace's phone
starts to receive a ton of messages it's her birthday and there are plenty of friends who want to send her their best
wishes each and every one of these messages goes unanswered the first sign that something is wrong is at 8: a.m.
when Jesse enters the very same elevator this time on his own throwing the camera
a suspicious glance if you think he's just getting the birthday girl a morning coffee then think again during that
night Jesse killed Grace by strangulation and now he's going to try and do everything he can to cover up his
crime and he needs to do it quickly because he's already got another potential victim lined up by 8:07 a.m.
Jesse is in town and about to start the most Eerie shopping trip possible he starts at the warehouse on Elliot Street
where he buys a suitcase that he plans to hide Grace's body in he checks out the width and depth of the suitcase to
make sure it'll fit her so he can dispose of her body before anyone can catch him then 25 minutes later he makes
his way to another store where he buys a number of cleaning products that will be
used to clean up the murder scene then he returns to his apartment for a number of hours reappearing at 10:42 a.m.
before he jumps in a taxi and Apex car rental where he rents a car but it's what he does next that's truly shocking
and puts pressure on the cops to discover and solve his murder as quickly as possible as Grace's body lies in the
apartment Jesse goes on a date with another girl he'd met on Tinder given that he has all the equipment ready to
hide one body it's speculated that he planned this to to be his second victim of the day as he arrives at the bar
Jesse is wearing exactly the same clothing that he wore the night before possibly the same clothes that he wore
when he killed Grace we are not sure whether kempson was as pushy in his initial messages to this girl but what
we do know is that the conversation he struck up with her during the date not only brought up some major red flags it
downright terrified her allegedly he wanted to talk to her about where to hide a dead body from the police right
away the date is over and this girl's instincts may have just saved her life it's hard to imagine the horror that she
would have felt when she learned the truth about the man she just walked away from certain that he likely had the same
fate lined up for her as he did with Grace at 856 p.m. we can see Jesse carrying a piece of equipment back to
his apartment more precisely it's a carpet cleaner and he's going to try and use that carpet cleaner to try and
remove any trace of Grace's Presence at his apartment he's even got two of cleaner in his hand making sure he's got
enough to get the job done 30 minutes later and we're greeted with the product of all his hard work he's about to try
and hide the body he reappears in the elevator with a trolley carrying several luggage bags one of which is the
suitcase that he' bought earlier that morning it's way too heavy to carry as inside is Grace's dead body of course he
can't walk through the streets with this amount of baggage which is exactly why he hired the rental car minutes later
he's loading the rental car with all of the baggage ready to make the next move in his attempt to cover up this murder
hiding the body in a place he thinks no one will find it the next morning at 7:00 a.m. Jesse buys a shovel and heads
back to his apartment where he collects some clothing to take to the dry cleaners destroying more potential
evidence of his crime but he's not done there as he stops off at a random trash can tossing a large trash bag inside
then Jesse takes his rental car for a deep clean paying particular attention to the rear of the vehicle where he had
stashed the suitcase containing Grace's body and with that his work was done for
the next 2 days Grace's family and friends go through turmoil nobody has heard from her she hasn't posted on any
social media and she isn't answering either of her two phones her family report her missing to Auckland police on
December 5th Grace's Father David even flies to Auckland and makes a heartfelt appeal for his daughter's safe return
Grace has been missing for several days and as a family we've been extremely concern for her welfare do anybody who
has seen spoken to or come into contact with Grace come forward and contact the investigation thing with so much media
coverage at the time Jesse likely saw her father's appeal and yet the family's please went unanswered but Auckland
police are about to use various methods to track Grace's last movements and find
their main suspect in her disappearance they're able to find out she was on a date with a mystery man and after
pouring over hours of surveillance footage they find the last person she was with and cheack him back to his
apartment at 3:00 p.m. on December 5th the cops turn up at the city life hotel but they almost miss their man as he
eyes them in the lobby when he approaches the front door Jesse thinks if he casually strolls away he won't be
noticed but these eagle-eyed cops don't miss a trick and quickly apprehend him before he can make an escape at this
point the smartest thing for Jesse to do is to own up to his crime Maybe try to play it off as an accident and face the
consequences but he's not going to do any such thing in the interrogation room he plans to lie his way out of this but
he's completely unaware that the cops have already seen every move from the night of the murder and have about as
much evidence as they could possibly ask for at the start of the interview he has
no reason to lie as he's just recalling the events before the murder tell us about Grace uh so I was talking to Grace
on on Tinder yeah um we had matched on Friday I saw that we had matched um the next day on Saturday and and then uh we
met at Sky City and then we decided that we're going up to Andy's Burger Bar um which is on the first
floor not long into this interview Jesse becomes entangled in his first lie as he
claims Grace was the one pushing for a date when we already know he was the one trying hard to meet Grace in their
initial messages whose a was it to go to that particular burger place me because
I knew I didn't initially know that she was real what do you mean well there's a lot
of so have you heard of catfish no so catfishing is where someone uses your profile or uses your
photos and pretends to be you and the mits and you're a completely different person right um and it's on Tinder it's
all about the way you look um and so if they use more endearing photos um you're
more likely to swipe for them okay yeah how does a how does meeting in a public place sort of protect you from meeting
someone who's not as good-looking as well there's security there so if she wasn't who she said she was um at
least in my mind I'd feel safe when Jesse is confronted with evidence from surveillance cameras he continues to lie
a hole for himself that he's going to struggle to escape from uh no I go down Victoria
Street uh straight down to the bottom and then hang a left and I head towards the Vu you go to the vict a bit
uh yeah yeah yep you you've kind of walked in a bit of a funny direction if you were planning to go to the the V
well it's the direction I normally go yeah it's um I mean I'm just saying like if you were if you were planning to go
to the vict I normally go down Queen Street and then cross at the bottom of Queen Street
go through the um the containers and then walk along the warf yeah is there a particular
reason you were going to do that uh I feel safer down that way the cop obviously suspect something strange here
Jesse's behavior and responses don't seem to line up or make sense at all and if Jesse is lying it'll only take a good
few questions to throw him off completely so the cop starts to apply the pressure sending Jesse into Panic
actually don't know if she's been murdered or not yet she may be alive and well okay but she might also be dead
okay okay and it could be that you've done it hey I just want to ask a question am
I being arrested for something I didn't do you been a Rec he's not being arrested just yet but
Auckland police are convinced Jesse is either behind Grace's disappearance or is at least involved and the more they
investigate this case the more evidence they find to suggest Jesse is the one responsible it's not just the
surveillance footage that helps solve this case remember the new suitcase and cleaning products Jesse bought the
morning after well believe it or not they were all bought on GRE credit card as well as an extra night's stay at the
city life hotel in fact it's very possible he paid for his second date on Grace's credit card an extra day at the
hotel should give Jesse time to clean up the mess but it's going to take more than a carpet cleaner to get rid of the
evidence when police search his apartment they find traces of Grace's blood the credit card payments the
witness testimony cell phone locations placing Grace and Jesse together and the Staggering detail found in the surv
Vance footage bashed their suspect into a corner and in his second interview on December 7th they left Jesse no choice
but to confess a confession that would soon lead into one of the most interesting but troubling defenses ever
used in court talking to me about uh 50 Shades of Gray which is a a SE fantasy movie that's out we started having at
first it was um it was just normal um it was very Placid um and then she asked me
if we could get into uh bondage and then all I remember is falling asleep in the
shower I I need I need stop go would you like some fres year yeah please I was in shock and I didn't
know what to do went downstairs and I was just I don't know I was all over the place um I didn't believe what it
happened I was just terrified and scared I I thought that she had gone I I thought she had L pathologist specialist
doctor will perform a postm be very skilled at establishing people's causes of death you understand
that um I went to the warehouse at the agrian um and bought a suitcase um I went back and I was just
in shock um because it just didn't seem right I left to go and get cleaning products um so I messaged a friend and
said I'll meet you at rivalry um after after finishing drinks with with her I got back to um
City Life and the whole time I just kept saying I'm sorry and then I went downstairs and I grabbed the the porter
thing and I put the suitcase on top of the pter thing I drove the high car into Wilson's Car
Park and parked it I woke up the next day at about 500 a.m. drove the car out to cumu at first I picked up a a shovel
from itm at kumia and I ended up driving towards the white tackies I went into the bush I dug a hole I went and got the
suitcase and I covered the hole and then I drove where where is her positions um I
thre them in the rubbish whereabouts um Albert P rubbish right so what items of your
property have been disposed of an Albert P um everything all of their clothing everything that was in the room
whereabouts did you clean the car the outside of the car um I think it was in Henderson I I don't know West very well
okay and what did you use to clean the c um a water blaster thing from C planing place did she have any
injuries not that I can remember I was just panicking did you inflict any injuries
on her that caused her to die uh no did you kill Grace main no okay and you're under arrest for the
murder of Grace mine on or about the second of DEC you understand y did you intend to cause her death no are you
ready to take us to wish she is the media called it the 50 Shades of Gray defense the idea is that someone may
consent to being harmed during intimacy knowing the dangers involved if they made no indication to stop then it would
be seen as an accident and the person responsible shouldn't face a murder charge but this defense has always been
seen as more of a scapegoat used by lawyers to try and get their defendant off with a lighter sentence which in
this case would be manslaughter this doesn't change what happened after Grace's death and the disturbing series
of events uncovered during the investigation from December 1st the day before the date all the way to December
7th cops found Google searches made by Jesse looking for a place to hide the body he'd also taken photos of Grace's
body before and after he packed her into the suitcase they found Grace's body on
December 9th 2018 in the Y takur ranges just outside of ockland it was determined that she was strangled and
had bruises on her arms and chest con consistent with being pinned down in New Zealand there is no such thing as first
degree or second degree murder all charges are treated the same carrying a life sentence that meant there was no
investigation into the premeditation all that mattered was if Jesse killed her or
not it was that simple Jesse maintained his innocence but was eventually found guilty and on February 21st 2020 he was
sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after his Tri while two more women came
forward and claimed Jesse had assaulted them after they met him on Tinder he was
found guilty on those charges as well adding another 11 years to life added to his sentence

Woman Doesn't Realize Her Tinder Date Is A Killer..

Grace Millane leaves her hostel to meet Jesse Kempson. They meet in a popular spot where there's plenty of people, making Grace feel safe while she meets her date for the first time. But this will be a false sense of security, as Jesse has no plans to try anything untoward in public, he's going to wait until they're alone..

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Brief Summary

Grace Millane was murdered by Jesse Kempson after a Tinder date, leading to his arrest and conviction for her murder.

Key points

Grace's Last Night. Grace meets Jesse for a date, unaware of the horror to come.
The Aftermath. Grace goes missing on her birthday, leading to a frantic search.
Jesse's Alarming Behavior. Jesse is seen carrying suspicious items after Grace's disappearance.
The Confession. Jesse's shocking defense in court raises questions about consent and responsibility.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This was the last time Grace would ever be seen alive.

Describing the moment before Grace's disappearance.

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