The Swipe of Death

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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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the same fate as Grace Mulane.
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