Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) was a Canadian-American serial killer who killed at least eight women in the United States during the early 1990s. He is known as the "Happy Face Killer " because he drew a smiling face on many of his letters to the media and prosecutors. Many of the victims were sex workers and transients who had nothing to do with it.
Strangulation is his most preferred method of killing, the same method he often uses to kill animals when he is young.
After the body of his first victim, Taunja Bennett, was discovered, media attention surrounded Laverne Pavlinac, a woman who confessed to having killed Bennett with the help of his rude boyfriend, John Sosnovske.
Jesperson was upset that he did not get any media attention. She first drew a smiling face on the bathroom wall and wrote a letter with proof of her first murder (hundreds of miles away from the crime scene), where she anonymously confessed to killing Bennett.
When it did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to the media and prosecutors.
His last victim was his old boyfriend, a crime that eventually led to his arrest. While Jesperson has claimed to have killed as many as 185 people, only eight murders have been confirmed.
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Keith Hunter Jesperson was born on April 6, 1955, to Leslie (Les) and Gladys Jesperson in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, middle child with two brothers and two sisters. His father was an alcoholic and Jesperson claimed that his paternal grandfather was also violent. Les Jesperson denies being a rude parent; However, while investigating his book on Jesperson, author Jack Olsen was able to confirm the many harassments claimed with other family members.
She had a violent and troubled childhood under an alcoholic and dominating father. Treated like an outcast by his own family and ridiculed by other children because of his great size at a young age, Jesperson was a lonely child who showed a tendency to torture and kill animals. Despite consistently getting into trouble in his youth, including twice trying to kill children who had crossed it, Jesperson graduated from high school, got a truck driver job in 1974, married a year later, and had three children. In 1990, after 15 years of marriage, Jesperson divorced and saw his dream of becoming a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman after an injury. After returning to the driving truck, that's the year Jesperson started killing.
At a younger age, Jesperson received less attention than his siblings and was treated differently by other members of his family. After moving to Selah, Washington, Jesperson had trouble adjusting and looking for friends because of their large size. His brothers did not help him, instead they nicknamed him "Igor" or "Ig", a name attached throughout his school years. Therefore, he is a shy child, happy to play alone in most of his time. She often gets into trouble because of bad behavior, sometimes hard, and will be severely punished by her father. This included beating (sometimes with a belt in front of others) and, in one case, he received an electric shock from his father.
At a very young age - as young as five years - Jesperson will catch and torture animals. He enjoys seeing animals killing each other as well as the feelings he gets from taking their lives. This continues with age. He will catch the birds and the cats and the stray dogs around the trailer park where he lives with his family, beat the animals and then strangle them to death, something he considers his father's pride. In later years, Jesperson said he often thought about what would do the same to humans.
That desire manifests in two attempted murders. The first happened when Jesperson was about 10 years old. He befriended a boy named Martin, and both often got into trouble together. Jesperson claimed he was punished repeatedly for the things Martin had done and was blamed on Jesperson. This caused Jesperson to attack Martin, beat him hard until his father pulled him away. He then claims his intention is to kill the boy. About a year later, Jesperson was swimming in the lake when another boy held him under water until he fainted. Sometime later, in the public pool, Jesperson tried to drown the boy, clutching his head until the coast guard pulled him.
Jesperson reported that she was raped at the age of 14. He graduated from high school in 1973, but did not attend college because his father did not believe he could do it. Although he was unsuccessful with girls in high school, having never attended his school dance or prom, he entered into a relationship after high school. In 1975, when Jesperson was 20 years old, he married Rose Hucke, and the couple had three children - two daughters and one son. Jesperson works as a truck driver to support the family.
A few years later, Hucke began to suspect that Jesperson was doing business when strange women would call. Tension in marriage increased and, after 14 years, when Jesperson was on the street Hucke packed up his things and his children and drove as far as 200 miles to live with his parents in Spokane, Washington. The oldest child, Melissa, is 10 years old. Jesperson continued to spend time with his children while he was in town. The couple divorced in 1990.
At the age of 35, standing 6'7,5 "and weighing about 240 pounds, Jesperson began working towards the goal of becoming a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, but the injuries sustained during the training ended his dreams.He then looked for another job as an interstate truck.After moving to Cheney , Washington, Jesperson soon realized that this work gave him the opportunity to kill without suspicion.
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His first known victim was Taunja Bennett on January 23, 1990, near Portland, Oregon, USA. He introduces himself to Bennett at a bar and invites him to his rented house. She takes him home with the idea of ​​having sex with him, and when Bennett refuses, he starts hitting and hitting him. He kept hitting her until he hit her to death. He formed an alibi by drinking back, making sure to talk to the others, before returning to retrieve Bennett's body and belongings for disposal. He was back on the road the next day. The corpse was found a few days later, but there were no suspects and no clues.
That was two and a half years after his first murder when Jesperson killed again. On August 30, 1992, the currently unknown female body that he raped and strangled was found near Blythe, California. She says Jane Doe's name is Claudia. A month later, in Turlock, California, the body of Cynthia Lyn Rose was discovered. He claims he is a prostitute who enters his truck at the truck stop when he sleeps. Her fourth victim was another prostitute, Laurie Ann Pentland from Salem, Oregon. His body was discovered in November of that year. According to Jesperson, he was trying to double the fees he wore for the sex he was doing with her. He threatened to call the police, and he choked him.
It was more than six months before the next victim was found in June 1993, another unidentified woman, a "street person", in Santa Nella, California, whom he claimed to be named "Carla" or "Cindy". Police initially regarded his death as a drug overdose. More than a year later, in September 1994, another Jane Doe was discovered in Crestview, Florida. Jesperson claims his name is Susanne.
In January 1995, Jesperson agreed to give a young woman, Angela Surbrize, a ride from Spokane, Washington, to Indiana. Approximately a week on the way, Surbrize becomes impatient and starts scolding Jesperson for hurrying, as he wants to see his girlfriend. In response, Jesperson raped and choked him. He then tied it to the bottom of his truck and dragged it, facing down, "to run over his face and mold." His body was not found for several months - and then only after Jesperson gave details to the police. Two months after killing Surbrize, Jesperson decided that his long-time girlfriend, Julie Ann Winningham, was attracted to him just for the money. On March 10, 1995, in Washougal, Washington, Jesperson strangled him. He is the only victim that has anything to do with him, which eventually makes the police in his path.
Jesperson was arrested on March 30, 1995, for the murder of Winningham. He had been questioned by the police a week before, but they had no reason to arrest him after he refused to speak. In the days that followed, Jesperson decided that he would be arrested, and after two failed attempts at suicide, he surrendered himself hoping it would result in leniency during his sentence. While in custody, Jesperson began to reveal details of his murder and made claims from many others, most of whom he later withdrew. Also, a few days before his arrest, he wrote a letter to his brother. In it, he claimed to have killed eight people for five years. This led to police agencies in several states across the country to reopen old cases, many of which were found to be likely victims of Jesperson.
Although Jesperson at one point claimed to have as many as 160 victims, only eight women killed in California, Florida, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming have been confirmed. He underwent three life sentences in a row at the Oregon Correctional Institution in Salem. In September 2009, he was charged with murder in Riverside County, California, and was extradited to California to face charges in December. Jesperson was found guilty of this murder and received the fourth life sentence in January 2010.
Laverne Pavlinac
At the start of the investigation into Taunja Bennett's murder, Laverne Pavlinac reads news reports about Taunja Bennett's death and sees it as an opportunity to end the long-term familial relationship he experiences with his girlfriend John Sosnovske. He arranges meetings with investigative detectives and gives false confessions, using the details he has read in the report to give a detailed account of how Sosnovske forced him to help him rape, kill, and throw Bennett's body. Pavlinac and Sosnovske were convicted of murder in February 1991. To avoid the possibility of facing the death penalty, Sosnovske pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison, while Pavlinac was sentenced not less than 10 years, far more than anticipated.
He immediately acknowledged it, but his claim was ignored.
On November 30, 1995, more than four years after their conviction, Pavlinac and Sosnovske were released from prison after Jesperson and his lawyer offered his confession with convincing evidence of his guilt. He has given the police officer the location of the victim's wallet. The wallet has not been found, and its location is considered to be information, only the killer knows.
"The Happy Face Killer"
After the killing of Taunja Bennett, because of all the attention going to Pavlinac and Sosnovske, Jesperson wrote a confession on the bathroom wall of a truck stop and signed it with a smiling face. When it did not create the attention it wanted, he wrote a letter to a media outlet and police department that recognized his assassination, beginning with a six-page letter to The Oregonian where he revealed details of his murder.. He signed each letter with a smiling face. This caused Phil Stanford, the journalist who worked on his story for The Oregonian, to dub Jesperson "The Happy Face Killer".
Jesperson's Jesperson's daughter
In November 2008, Jesperson's daughter, Melissa G. Moore, appeared in Dr. Phil Show talked about his father. She also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 17, 2009, Lifetime Movie episode series Monster in My Family episode titled Happy Face Killer: Keith Hunter Jesperson , on July 1, 2015 and special 20/20 on August 20, 2010.
In 2009, Moore published a book entitled, Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serious Killer's Daughter . Moore lived with his father until his parents' divorce in 1990. Moore noticed his father differently when he was in elementary school. Their house is adjacent to an apple orchard, and his father kills wild cats and gofers that roam nearby. One day, she watched, horrified, as she hung a stray kitten from a family laundry. He ran to get his mother, and when they returned, the kittens lay on the ground. He had watched and laughed as the kittens clawed at each other to escape, then he killed them.
He wrote an article about his father for the BBC in November 2014.
In March 2018, she was featured in an episode, entitled "Incoming Happy Face", from the actual crime series, Evil Lives Here.
References
- "Killer's Princess" Happy Face Killer "Talking about Growing Up With a Serial Killer". ABC News 20/20 . Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- The King, Gary C. "Keith Hunter Jesperson". TruTV Crime Library. Retrieved on August 21, 2010.
- Kreuger, Peggy; Kendra Justice & amp; Amy Hunt (March 2006). "Keith Hunter Jesperson: Happy Face Killer" (PDF). Department of Psychology Radford University. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- Moore, Melissa G. & amp; M. Bridget Cook (2009). Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of the Princess of Serial Killer . Fort Cedar. ISBN 978-1-59955-238-5.
- Olsen, Jack (2002). I: the creation of a serial killer . St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-24198-8.
External links
- The serial killer princess confronts her past, Seattle Times
- My life as a serial killer daughter, BBC News
- Radio Interview with Melissa Moore (daughter)
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