hey i just want to ask a question am i being arrested for something i didn't do you ever been arrested oh when you hear of tinder and online dating you either think of that successful love story or that awkward moment you never think of the impossible or the most dangerous murder what happened to grace mullane and who did she meet my name's adrian and this story teaches that anything can happen to the best of us in online dating and just a quick notice i post both solved and unsolved cases on a weekly basis on this
channel if that's your sort of thing please consider subscribing to coffeehouse crime so grab a coffee sit back and relax let's investigate [Music] our story starts across the pond from our usual in essex england there lived grace malane in a small town called wickford she was born on the 2nd december 1996 to her loving parents david and jillian grace grew up as a happy child alongside her two brothers michael and declan her father owned a successful construction business and the family lived a fruitful life supported by it grace attended senate thomas moore high school before
enrolling into university and in september 2018 she successfully graduated from the university of lincoln successfully completing a bachelor's degree in marketing and advertising while at university grace worked a part-time job to save up so she could travel for a year after her graduation and she would do just that she was described by her family as a fun-loving free spirit she was academic and creative painting in her spare time as seen here in her home [Music] with a caring family a strong degree and a year of travelling planned ahead grace really did have the world at
her feet she had ambitions to create lifelong memories and then afterwards take on her marketing career before that though as a token of the kind of person that she really was she cut off a long hair and donated it to a local charity that specialized in creating wigs for children undergoing cancer treatment and after that she packed her bags waved a goodbyes and boarded a flight to peru visited south america for six weeks she enjoyed a time took in the scenery and made some friends along the way but an around-the-world trip is only around the
world if you keep on going so on november 20th she flew to new zealand her journey started in the upper north island where she was for 10 days before she traveled down to auckland on 30th of november things were going fine for her she took the city's sites and attractions in but she had no distinct agenda and with her next flight booked in only five days time she took each moment as it came but it was now december the first the weekender just started and grace's birthday was the next day being a sole traveller grace
was looking outward for friends and making use of apps like tinder to get to know new people along her journey there she connected with an auckland raised man named jesse kempson [Music] jessie messaged grace over tinder and eventually asked her out for drinks her messages back seemed cold at first but jesse remained persistent eventually probably through lack of anything better to do grace accepted his offer and the two met up for drinks in the local city centre they found each other in sky city an entertainment complex in the heart of auckland there they shared a
hug before diving over to andy's burger bar for cocktails conversation at first seemed a little fragile but the two warmed up to each other as time went on [Music] after their first drinks they visited a mexican cafe for cocktails two jugs of margarita and one of sangria both ordered and paid for by jesse and next up the bluestone room by now the two really were starting to enjoy each other's company they ordered beers and were seen talking and laughing with each other before sharing a kiss [Music] as jesse took a bathroom break grace sent a
message to a friend back home in england [Music] she had privately told a friend in the exact same day that jesse was an oil company executive looking to move to london in the next few months this brought grace hope for building a long-term friendship so by now the evening was going very well a few drinks in new friendship made birthday tomorrow would you like to take this somewhere more private the answer was yes so they headed back to jesse's apartment cctv captures the two making their way to jesse's motel room he lived just around the
corner having an apartment in city life jesse's arm around grace as they walked into the foyer and then into the elevator up to his floor [Music] that would be the last time cctv saw grace and the text message that grace had sent to a friend earlier that was the last time we would ever hear from grace the next day was grace's birthday and as it dawned in england text messages and tweets flurried grace's phone but no notifications were delivered her phone was switched off her family and friends started to worry and then media did too
the world had no idea where grace went but those close to her knew something must have gone wrong for her to remain silent on her birthday she was always in constant contact with her family and friends but at this stage still undiscovered the final clue to a disappearance would be that cctv camera and that elevator and jesse kempson jesse was born in 1992 and grew up in wellington on new zealand's north island his childhood was fragile when he was nine years old his parents divorced and his mother moved abroad shortly afterwards the rest of his
childhood wasn't special but in 2013 he moved out of his family home after prolonged arguments them accusing him of stealing and consistently lying for the next few years he moved to australia and became a labourer but that didn't work out for him either and so in 2018 he moved back to auckland at this stage jesse was on the brink he moved into a small motel studio apartment in the centre of the city moving there after a fallout with his ex-housemates who were increasingly concerned about his mood swings womanizing and threatening behavior because jesse was indeed
in fact a pathological liar and a cyril fantasist he would ritualistically lie to everyone around him to name a few he lied about being an all blacks rugby star a playboy an oil executive and a gang member he claimed he had cancer and that his parents were dead he lied that he had a degree in law and he boasted of plans to buy a waterfront restaurant but jesse was far from successful leading out of 2018 he had left a succession of failed jobs and shared flats behind him being kicked out of previous responsibilities as a
barman a sales assistant and losing his most recent job as a telephone salesman on the very day that he had met grace he was spinning out of control and unfortunately for grace despite her achievements her strengths and her dreams and against her odds she slipped into his grasp jesse had indeed killed grace sometime late that night of december the first in his sky city motel room thieve of grace's birthday cctv cameras captured jesse leaving his apartment the next morning at around about 8 am and just several minutes later at 807 he was seen entering a
supply store the warehouse on elliott street [Music] there he bought a large suitcase before wheeling it back to his apartment nothing suss at 8 32 he was seen again leaving his hotel room to visit a local supermarket and bought himself some bleach rubber gloves and cleaning supplies then again at 10 33 he left his apartment once more entering a taxi looking visibly distressed to travel to a rental car company where he picked up a red toyota corolla before driving it back home so suitcase check cleaning supplies check rental car check what's next logically speaking dispose
of the body nope not in jesse's case he uh went out for a tinder date bloody ridiculous living in the middle of a busy city center really did not help jesse with his crime surveillance cameras picked up a huge amount of his activities throughout the next few days this included him parking the rented car at 7 30 pm bringing a rented carpet cleaner to his apartment at 8 28 pm and returning it half an hour later and then finally at 9 30 of the same day surveillance cameras caught jesse wheeling two suitcases out of his
apartment room both of them appearing entirely full jesse transported grace's body to the car where he traveled to kumu auckland in the morning he walked to a building supply store western itm and bought a shovel once the body was disposed of jesse returned home he went to the dry cleaners cleaned up the car returned it to the rental company and on the 5th of december got rid of grace's remaining items in one of the local park bins [Music] by now it had been four days since grace's disappearance and auckland police were hot on her trail
on december the 6th they'd located a whereabouts down to star city hotel and there they were looking for a jesse kempson for questioning at the same time though jesse was returning from a nearby shopping complex while police were in the lobby they caught him by surprise and after a failed attempt to walk away and noticed they chased after him oops he was brought in for questioning and his home now a crime scene was subject to evidence using a chemical compound called luminol they found grace's blood stained into the carpet back in the interrogation room jesse
wasn't doing so well either in his first interview with police he lied when questioned on his whereabouts on the evening that grace had disappeared the hell did the evening pan out and yeah pretty good but one brought in two days later for further questioning he changed his story to one that did not align to what detectives were constructing you've indicated that you're willing to speak to us about the events class center is that correct yes tell me what happened last saturday um from the beginning did you kill grace mullane okay jesse clemson you're under arrest
for the murder of grace wine there jessie kempston was detained and arrested following surveillance footage tips from locals and jesse's mobile data investigators eventually found grace's body in a shallow grave 50 meters away from a country road in the waiter kerry ranges regional park about 21 miles from auckland new zealand as a nation was in shock thousands attended vigils for grace law enforcement clearly distressed by the news and even their prime minister paying tribute your daughter should have been safe here and she wasn't and i'm sorry for that while in custody it was learned that
jesse already had previous convictions of sexually assaulting another british tourist just eight months before murdering grace just as he would later do with grace jesse took his victim on a tinder date before he would take her back to his motel room apartment she recalled her experience to the jury lying frozen and crying in fear on the bed as she was assaulted by jessie she had kept the attack secret until recognizing jesse's face on the news following grace's death he had also been previously convicted for a series of other offences against his former partner at the
stand jessie claimed that grace had died accidentally following their encounter and that it was simply rough sex that went too far yeah sure grace's father who had flown from england to be present at court looked directly at jesse as the detective read out that jesse had taken pictures of grace's body and looked at pornography on his phone shortly after killing grace phone data had also showed that jessie made multiple searches that night following grace's death those searches included rigor mortis way to carry ranges the hottest fire large bags near me and flesh-eating birds on the
22nd of november 2019 jessie kempson was found guilty of murdering grace mullane grace's parents wept as they heard the verdict jessie kempson showed no emotion he was further convicted for nine total charges of rape sexual violation threatening to kill and assault and here didn't take too kindly to that jesse now faces imprisonment for life with a minimum term of 17 years before parole [Music] and that's the story of grace mullane i say grace and not jesse for we should remember the real tragedy here the life of a young strong successful woman just starting her adulthood
in what should have been one of the happiest years of hers to come snubbed out by the hands of a nobody i can't imagine how scared she must have been in her final moments twelve thousand miles away from her friends and her family one eerie quirk to the tale grace's last piece of artwork that she uploaded to instagram while alive was of a watercolored skull she captioned it two can keep a secret if one of them is dead had grace envisioned her fate no but it's a dark coincidence nevertheless grace's father later said to local
and international media that he hopes grace's death doesn't deter anyone from realizing their dreams and traveling the world and his rights you know we can't limit our lives to avoid incidents as unlikely and rare as this case but that doesn't make grace's death any easier for a family what jesse kempson did is unforgivable let's hope he stays in his cage for life and if you're interested grace's family have since supported the white ribbon a charity dedicated to stopping male violence against women i've left a link in the description below if you'd like to donate thank
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