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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:01 pm
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Keith Hunter Jesperson
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Born Keith Hunter Jesperson
April 6, 1955 (age 61)
Chilliwack, British Columbia,Canada
Other names The Happy Face Killer, Igor, Ig
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Spouse(s) Rose Hucke (m 1975–s 1990)
Children 3
Killings
Victims 8 confirmed
Span of killings
23 January 1990–10 March 1995
Country United States, Canada
State(s) California, Florida, Nebraska,Oregon,
Washington,Wyoming
Date apprehended
30 March 1995
Keith Hunter Jesperson (born 6 April 1955) is a Canadian
Americanserial killer who murdered at least eight women in the
United States during the early 1990s. He was known as the "Happy
Face Killer" because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to
the media and prosecutors. Many of his victims were prostitutes
and transients who had no connection to him.
Strangulation was his preferred method of murdering, the same
method he often used to kill animals as a child.
After the body of his first victim, Taunja Bennett, was found,
media attention surrounded Laverne Pavlinac, a woman who falsely
confessed to having killed Bennett with the help of her abusive
boyfriend, John Sosnovske.
Jesperson was upset that he was not getting any media attention.
He first drew a smiley face on a bathroom wall (hundreds of
miles away from the scene of the crime), on which he anonymously
confessed to killing Bennett.
When that did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to
the media and prosecutors.
His last victim was his long-time girlfriend, a crime that
ultimately led to his capture. While Jesperson has claimed to
have killed as many as 160 people, only eight murders have been
confirmed.
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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:02 pm
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Daughter of 'Happy Face' serial killer reveals how she found
duct tape in his truck's sleeper cabin and how he hanged and
tortured her kittens when she was five
Melissa Moore, now 34, is the daughter of Keith Hunter Jesperson
who raped and strangled eight women in the U.S. in the 1990s
She revealed how at the age of 15, she found duct tape in her
truck-driving father's sleeper cabin
She said her father took pleasure in sharing graphic sexual
details with her growing up and how he once tortured kittens to
death in front of her
By LOUISE BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:16 EST, 6 November 2014 |
The daughter of the 'Happy Face' serial killer has revealed how
at the age of 15 she found a roll of duct tape in the bed of his
long-distance truck's sleeper cabin - a moment which she brushed
off but came back to haunt her, many times, years later.
Melissa Moore, now 34, has revealed in a new essay, published
this week, chilling details about her father Keith Hunter
Jesperson which had always left her with a lingering unease
while growing up in Washington.
When she was five she watched in horror when he hung her pet
kittens on a clothes line and tortured them to death, paying no
heed to his young daughter's screams
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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:04 pm
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OKALOOSA SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATOR WORK TO IDENTIFY A WOMAN WHOSE
BADLY DECOMPOSED REMAINS WERE FOUND SEPTEMBER 15TH 1994 OFF
INTERSTATE 10, NEAR EXIT 11 IN HOLT FLORIDA. THE VICTIM WAS
PICKED UP AT A TRUCK STOP NEAR TAMPA.
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Interstate 10 West at Exit 45: CR 189 - Holt (Photo taken
6/7/11).
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045) Exit 45 – CR 189, Holt, Blackwater River State Park
Camping: Blackwater River State Park, Eagle’s landing RV Park,
River’s Edge RV Park
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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:10 pm
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The Happy Face Murderer: The Life of Serial Killer Keith Hunter
Jesperson
by Jack Smith (Author)
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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:10 pm
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Re: HOLT JANE DOE: WF, 36-45, possible Happy Face Killer victim
found near Holt, FL - 15 September 1
By: Akoya Date: September 10, 2020, 12:13 pm
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Do you know Happy Face Killer's sixth victim? Police release new
3D composite image to help identify Jane Doe
Keith Hunter Jesperson, now 60, is serving multiple life
sentences for murdering a total of eight women between 1990 and
1995
Unidentified victim No 6 was found decomposed alongside Florida
highway more than 21 years ago
Jesperson told investigators she was from Miami, he picked her
up in Tampa and killed her at a rest stop in Pensacola
Victim possible named Suzanne or Susan was on her way to Reno,
Nevada
Jesperson collaborated with a forensic artist to help create new
3D reconstruction of victim using her skull
By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:10 EST, 30 July 2015 | UPDATED: 14:43 EST, 30 July
2015
Police in South Florida are asking for the public's help in
identifying the sixth victim of the so-called Happy Face serial
killer.
Keith Hunter Jesperson, now 60, is serving multiple life
sentences for murdering a total of eight women between 1990 and
1995.
The unidentified victim, whose decomposed remains were
discovered more than 21 years ago in Okaloosa County months
after her slaying, is believed to be the sixth.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said the deceased Jane
Doe was about 30 years old, was likely from Florida or Nevada
and named Suzy, Suzanne, Susan or Suzette.
Jesperson, who earned his notoriety by sending police and
reporters confession notes scribbled with smiley faces - hence
his nickname - claimed that he killed the mystery woman but was
scant on the details.
Last year, Jesperson, who is currently serving three consecutive
life terms at the Oregon State Penitentiary, agreed to team up
with Palm Beach County forensic imaging expert Paul Moody to
create a new sketch of the victim.
Moody then used the resulting drawing and the skull found more
than two decades ago to create a three-dimensional image of the
victim.
When police interviewed Jesperson about the sixth vicitm, he
told them he picked up the woman at a truck stop in Tampa, that
she was from Miami, that her name was Susan or Suzette, and that
she was on her way to Reno, Nevada. But she never made it to her
destination.
When they reached a rest stop on Interstate-10 near Pensacola,
investigators said Jesperson raped and strangled the hitchhiker
in the sleeper cab of his truck, and later dumped her body in
the woods along the highway.
No resemblance: When police showed the early sketch (left) to
Jesperson, he said it looked nothing like the woman he killed.
He took it upon himself to make another drawing of her last year
(right)
Back in 1995, police had a reconstruction done of the victim's
skull and entered the image into a national database hoping to
find out her name, but the woman went unidentified.
Police later learned from the woman's killer that the composite
sketch created by forensic artists did not resemble the victim.
Jesperson, who took up drawing behind bars, offered Paul Moody
to create a sketch of the woman he murdered two decades ago.
Moody went on to superimpose Jesperson's portrait over the
victim's skull to create a 3D reconstruction, which included a
full-length image of a blonde woman with a strong jaw and high
cheekbones, dressed in a floral frock that was recovered from
the crime scene.
Her accessories included a long leather sash with geometric
trinkets, a Native American-inspired bracelet and a deck of
Tarot cards, which Jesperson said the woman had in her
possession.
When Moody sent the completed reconstruction to Jesperson in
prison, the convicted serial killer told him in a letter that he
felt 'a rush of emotion' looking at the image because he 'saw
her again.'
'He maintains this is her, no two ways about it,' said Okaloosa
County Florida Special Agent Denis Haley.
esperson usually targeted prostitutes and homeless women -
raping them before strangling them with his bare hands.
Jesperson murdered his first known victim Taunja Bennett, 23, in
January 1990, after meeting her at a bar near Portland, Oregon.
He invited her back to a house he was renting, where they had
sex. Then he beat her and strangled her and went back out to a
bar to have more drinks and provide himself with an alibi.
He later returned to the house, strapped Taunja's body into the
front seat of his car and disposed of it before leaving town.
The serial killer said his victim was about 30 years old and
named Suzanne or Susan
The serial killer said his victim was about 30 years old and
named Suzanne or Susan
Three months later, Jesperson met Daun Richert-Slagle, a
21-year-old mother of three who became the only known victim to
survive an attack.
The truck driver waited for more than two years before he struck
again in 1992 - raping and strangling a woman near Blythe,
California. She has still not been identified but Jesperson said
her name was Claudia.
His killing spree then escalated - a month later he raped and
strangled a prostitute Cynthia Lyn Rose in Turlock, California.
The next month, he killed a fourth woman, also a prostitute,
named Laurie Ann Pentland from Salem, Oregon. He claimed to have
strangled her because she tried to double the amount of money
she wanted for sex and had threatened to call the police.
His fifth victim, an unidentified 'Jane Doe' living on the
streets in Santa Nella, California, was discovered in July of
1993. Police initially believed she had suffered a drug
overdose.
Another Jane Doe death, attributed to Jesperson, was found in
September 1994 in Crestview, Florida. He said her name was
Susanne.
In January 1995, Jesperson picked up a 21-year-old hitchhiker,
Angela Subrize, whom he offered to drive from Spokane,
Washington, to meet her boyfriend in Indiana.
On the journey, he raped and strangled her, then strapped her
body face-down to the undercarriage of his truck so her face and
prints would be ground off by the road while he drove.
The killer was finally caught in March 1995 after strangling his
long-time girlfriend Julia Ann Winningham, 41, who he claimed
did not love him but only wanted his money. She was the only
victim he could be connected to. The rest are believed to have
been strangers.
Jesperson initially refused to talk to police and attempted
suicide twice. He then turned himself in, hoping for leniency at
his trial.
He confessed details of his murderous history while in custody
but later recanted much of it. At one point he claimed to have
had as many as 160 victims. Only eight have been confirmed.
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