Episode 468: The Tragic Murder of Grace Millane

<p>On December 2, 2018, the parents of twenty-one-year-old Grace Millane, a British tourist on vacation in New Zealand, became concerned when the birthday wishes they sent their daughter went unacknowledged. Having completed her degree at the University of Lincoln a few months earlier, Grace had spent several weeks traveling during her gap year but had been keeping in regular contact with her parents since leaving for her trip. When they still hadn’t heard from their daughter three days later, Grace’s parents called Auckland police and reported her missing. A week later, Grace Millane’s body was discovered in a suitcase near an access road in the Waitakere Ranges, a dense wooded area about twelve miles outside Auckland. A day later, investigators arrested twenty-six-year-old Jesse Kempson, who was the last person seen with Grace on the night of the murder when the two were captured together by a CCTV camera going up to Kempson’s room at the CityLife Hotel.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-let-s-end-the-rough-sex-defence-604fb426-47ae-4d92-ad5a-75135fd020ff?recruiter=1022327168&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;utm_campaign=share_petition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Please Consider Signing this Petition</a></p><p><br></p><p>Thank you to our favorite David White for research assistance</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p>BBC News. 2018. <em>Grace Millane: Man appears in court charged with backpacker's murder.</em> December 10. Accessed May 3, 2023. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-46502649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-46502649</a>.</p><p>Creed, Rebecca. 2021. "Former flatmate of Grace Millane's killer says he was." <em>The Echo</em>, November 15.</p><p>Critchell, Matthew. 2019. "Backpacker Grace spoke to men on bondage chat rooms,." <em>The Echo</em>, November 20.</p><p>Emes, Toby. 2019. "Accused killer admitted Grace was dead in second intervi