Laura Kempton Part 1 of 2

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Episode 142 Laura Kempton Part 1 of 2

Vivacious, fun-loving, and popular twenty-three year old Laura Kempton was a fixture in the downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire social scene in 1981. On the night of Sunday, September 27 th , she was seen out late at a local club with a girlfriend. And then she went home,
alone. Sometime in the wee hours, someone broke a panel out of her front door, entered her apartment, and raped and killed Laura. Her vicious slaying shocked the small city, and police had their hands full with a complex investigation trying to ferret out the killer among all the
people Laura knew. And then, a year later, it happened again. Tammy Little’s murder bore undeniable similarities to Laura’s, and both remained unsolved for decades. Now, we have a resolution in Laura’s case, thanks to IGG. Whether Tammy was indeed killed by the same
person remains to be seen.

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0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The It was 1981.
1:24.9	Portsmouth, New Hampshire police officer wrong, grave voice, had what was supposed to be a routine assignment that Monday, September 28th. He had to track down delinquent residents of the small city and hand out court summonses. Next on his list was Laura Kempton, age 23 of 20 Chapel Street, who was being summoned to appear on multiple unpaid parking tickets.
1:47.5	Officer Gervois entered the large house at 20 Chapel Street that had been converted to apartments
1:52.1	and was situated just one block from the Portsmouth Police Station at the time.
1:56.9	Officer Gervoes walked the short hallway to number A2, the address he had for Ms. Kempton.
2:02.3	As he approached the apartment around 9.25 a.m., he could hear faint music coming from within the apartment.
2:08.4	But when he got to her door, he stopped short. The heavy wooden door was the classic type of residential door that has four insed panels, surrounded by wooden molding. On this door,
2:19.8	the upper left panel, the one closest to the doorknob, was broken out. There wasn't a large
2:25.5	gaping rectangular hole where the panel had been because something, a tin panel on the inside of the
2:31.0	door obscured the opening. But Officer Gavois could still see into the
2:35.1	living area of the apartment through a several-inch gap, and what he saw made him lean closer
2:39.6	to take another look. Inside the apartment, he could see what appeared to be an upturned mattress
2:46.0	and box spring, and sticking out from under those and partially under a blanket were bare, unmoving human legs.
2:53.3	The ankles were bound together with white electrical cord.
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