Woman Doesn't Realize Her Tinder Date Is A Killer

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.