Grace Serial Killer
Rozella Dibley
During Kempson's trial, Crown solicitor Brian Dickey told the jury that the killer had strangled Grace for five to ten minutes during or after sex, and then "eroticised" her death by taking intimate photos of her body.
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1. When you get home from work and walk in the door, let the first words out of your mouth be ones of unconditional love. There will be plenty of time to find out how they did at school, if they did their homework, or if they did their chores. Kids remember the first things you say the most.
2. Allow kids the chance to fail. Let them try things that stretch them. When they fail you will have a very teachable moment. Show them grace. Reinforce that they are loved, not for what they do, but for who they are. Teach them that failure is not final.
Screenshots of Tinder messages exchanged between Grace and Kempson reveal how he lured her into meeting him for a date, before going back to his hotel room and strangling her to death. The disturbing conversation was released in 2019 and shown to jurors during the three-week trial, in which Kempson was found guilty of murder.
The killer sent the first message on the dating app, saying: 'Hey Grace how are you?? Much planned for the weekend?' She replied by telling him it was her birthday tomorrow and she did not have any plans. He then proposed they go for a drink, with Grace initially appearing reluctant to meet the local man during her travels. She repeatedly tells him 'maybe' in response.
The pair later had a boozy date in Auckland with Grace returning to her killer's room, where he fatally strangled her before proceeding to go on another Tinder date, while she lay dead in his apartment. On December 2, when Grace failed to contact her family and reply to birthday messages, alarm bells rang and the backpacker was reported missing. By December 8, police investigating Grace's disappearance had announced it was now a murder investigation.
The following day, Grace's body was found in a mountain range about 12 miles outside of Auckland. Shortly after, Kempson, then 26, was charged with murdering Grace. He was initially unnamed, as he had also been convicted of two further trials earlier that year. It included the rape of a woman he met on Tinder, and a series of offences against a former partner - including sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, threatening to kill and assault with a weapon.
In the ITV documentary, Millie Mason - Kempson's former flatmate - said her house had a "bad feeling" about him and avoided spending one-on-one time with him. Speaking to ITV, she said: "We eventually stopped wanting to be alone in the house with him, you just knew you shouldn't be near him alone. It does make you wonder, what else he was hiding, what else wasn't true."
Claiming to be born with an extra Y-chromosome, Grace believed the debunked theory that being born with that condition meant he was "born a killer". A narcissist and also a prodigy, his life fell into shambles when his brother William, a serial killer, was caught by David Rossi. Essentially becoming a pariah due to his relationship with William, Grace's beloved fiance wound up leaving him, sending her ring to him in the mail as she was too scared to meet him face to face. Over time, Grace's mind became overwhelmed by thoughts (consisting of the Fibonacci sequence 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 and phi) he was unable to banish and came to believe he was becoming like William, as they shared the same genetics. Inspired by a quote he found in one of Rossi's books ("Vengeance keeps us sane"), Grace began planning his revenge on Rossi, whom he blamed for ruining his life. Over five years, Grace worked on his plan, creating a vast underground chamber in his yard in Chester, Virginia, where he brought women he abducted (who fit the golden ratio) during that period of time and killed them.
Grace is met by the BAU team at Stayer University in Fredericksburg, Virginia, posing as a college professor named Paul Rothschild. He is the only person in the lecture hall who is able to understand Reid's joke about existentialists. Outside the campus, Grace confronts Reid and Rossi, showing them photographs of seven missing women he claimed to have killed. He explains there are five others, Kaylee Robinson, her daughter Chelsea, and three other children, named Jessica, Samantha, and Ricky, are currently missing and that the BAU will have to find them. He appears to assist them in their investigation; his underlying motive, however, is to exact revenge on Rossi, who he views as responsible for destroying his family. While in custody, he is undaunted by Morgan's intimidation tactics. He does, however, appear to be nervous around Prentiss. The team theorizes that they can break him by finding out the names of his original seven victims. Having no luck, Rossi interviews him. Grace tries to leave but is blocked by Prentiss, who appears to intimidate him. Grace explains "the rules" to him, stating that one of the captives would die every two hours. Each time, a life--saving apparatus would be denied to one person (for example, every captive but one would receive an oxygen mask as poison gas is pumped into their prison).
In the meeting room, the team analyzes the locations of the previous victims, and Reid discovers a pattern that can lead the team to the five captives. The pattern 11235 (the first five numerals in the Fibonacci sequence) and The Golden Ratio (both considered examples of perfect beauty) is repeated throughout the scenes of the murders. By figuring out the pattern, the team can find the five missing people. As the team closes in, Grace states that they will not make it out of the house alive and his knowledge that Rossi will send the team over to find the missing people and will himself stay behind. This will be Grace's revenge for his brother, whom Rossi had called "The Face of Pure Evil". His plan is foiled though, as the trap is discovered beforehand by Reid and the team has rescued the missing victims. Rossi decides to taunt Grace, feigning despair during the interview, leading Grace to believe that his plan is successful. Before Rossi reveals the truth, Grace confesses to the original murders. Unbeknownst to him, however, Garcia is on the other side of the one-way glass, recording the entire conversation. Enraged at being outsmarted, Grace attempts to attack Rossi as he turns to leave the interview room. Rossi overpowers him and asks, "Is that how you do it? You wait till they turn their back?" He goes on to state that at Grace's execution, "just before they hit the plunger, I'm going to lean in real close and tell you to say hello to your scumbag brother." Rossi then exits the room, leaving Grace in disbelief. It's likely Grace was later executed for his crimes.
Grace is an extreme narcissist, bordering on having a God complex, and a psychopath who craves attention. He is highly intelligent and was able to manipulate the system to gain professional credentials. He was also born with an extra Y chromosome and believes the old theory that the extra chromosome makes him a killer. This theory was debunked a decade ago, yet Grace still believes it. Rossi explains the reality to Grace, and tells him the double-Y theories are just "junk science". Grace showed signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder, his fixation on the Fibonacci sequence causing him to unintentionally repeat the sequence in hand gestures and the like. Grace believes that humanity is, itself, narcissistic; as we are called Homo sapiens sapiens: Man, twice wise. He believes we should be eradicated.
As stated before, Grace is a narcissist who believes he is intellectually superior to everyone else. His killings are a means by which he taunts and challenges the authorities. He gets the BAU involved because he believes the case will prove too much of a challenge for Rossi to solve; thus proving that he is "better" and justifying his actions (to him). It is his way of forcing Rossi to pay for killing his brother William Grace years earlier.
Grace targeted brunette Caucasian women in their thirties as surrogates for his ex-fianc. He stalked and abducted them while they were out performing one of their daily routines. During the actual abductions, he would blitz-attack them due to his general discomfort around women and to being, as Rossi put it, a complete coward; the victims were possibly kept in the same underground chamber as Kaylee Robinson and the abducted children. The cities where he abducted his victims connected together to form part of an upside-down logarithmic spiral (the geometric form of the Fibonacci sequence) on a map. The number of victims abducted from towns corresponded with the numbers found in the Fibonacci sequence (for example, the first two victims were both abducted in separate towns to represent the two 1's, the next two victims were abducted in Gloucester Point to represent the 2, the next three victims were abducted in Saluda to represent the 3, and Kaylee Robinson and the four children were abducted in Loretto to represent the 5).
Grace would take photos of his victims before killing them, which he would alter to obscure their facial features to prevent them from being easily identified, and then disposed of the bodies with hydrofluoric acid, which completely dissolves most organic compounds. Exactly how Grace killed his victims is never specified. He would later try to kill the BAU team by rigging the house he hid Kaylee Robinson and the children in with acid barrels.
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