Tinder Date From Hell: The Horrific Murder of Grace Millane

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Grace Millane is in New Zealand when she meets Jesse Kempson on Tinder. Grace is on a Gap Year trip that has taken her to South America and now she is in Auckland, New Zealand where she is camping and hiking and meeting new people. Connecting on Tinder, Grace meets Kempson for dinner and drinks, most of their evening captured by CCTV. They arrive back at Kempson's hotel and we see them get on and off the elevator. It is the evening of December 1 and Grace turns 22-years-old on December 2nd. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe will breakdown what happened to Grace inside the hotel room and what Jesse Kempson did in the aftermath of the gruesome murder. And Dave Mack will try and make sense of the timeline when, even now, we don't know if Grace made it to her 22nd birthday.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:18 Introduction of Grace Millane, gap year vacation

00:04:27 Discussion of Tinder date timeline

00:09:15 Discussion murderer goes on another Tinder date

00:13:56 Talk about targeting victim, asphyxia

00:18:33 Discussion of Gap Year

00:23:46 Discussion of date captured on video

00:28:17 Talk about murderer covering up the crime

00:33:03 Discussion of destroying the victim

00:36:31 Discussion of killing someone with hands around neck

00:40:13 Talk about the sexual assault

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. The world is laid out before you.
0:20.0	When you start talking about things like for you.
0:23.2	start talking about things like gap years.
0:28.2	It's an exciting time for a college
0:35.0	to go into college to take that gap year.
0:40.0	And sometimes you'll have gap year,
0:42.0	sometimes people will start
0:44.8	college and then say after their sophomore year I'm gonna take a gap year and just
0:49.1	travel and look I got no problem with that, man.
0:52.8	You know, it's like, you get family, you get kids, those days are gone.
0:58.1	They're gone.
0:59.1	My wife and I have come to travel later in our lives, and we do love travel. We do. We've been to Great Britain several
1:06.7	times and matter of fact we visited the area where our subject of today's episode originated from, Essex.
1:20.0	But there's one place that I've always wanted to go, and that's New Zealand.
1:28.0	And today we're going to talk about a case that so captured the imagination of a country who is not
1:37.1	used to violent crime. This is one of those moments in times where it, event so shocked the conscience of a country
1:46.2	that you could not peel them away from the news. They wanted I think to try to understand it, because some things, particularly in those areas that we discuss,
2:00.0	there's really no answers most of the time.
2:05.0	Why goes out the door.
2:07.0	Today, we're going to talk about the homicide of Grace Mullane. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body backs.
2:19.1	Dave that it's hard to take the measure of this crime that took place in New Zealand back in 2018 now.
2:32.0	It's resonated over all of these years because of the level of brutality and I
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