Serial Killer “Happy Face” Confesses to Murders and Leaves Police Seeking Final Victim’s Identity
For five years in the early 1990s, Keith Jesperson, a B.C.-born long-haul trucker, crisscrossed the western United States in his truck, killing women he met along the way. From 1990 to 1995, he killed at least eight women, sending anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators, often signing them with a smiley face. Jesperson, known widely as the “Happy Face Killer” for his strange letter sign-off, has since confessed to the serial killings and is …