Jesperson's father was a domineering alcoholic according to Jesperson, his paternal grandfather was prone to violence. Jesperson was born on 6 April 1955, to Leslie (Les) and Gladys Jesperson in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, the middle child with two brothers and two sisters.
Jesperson is currently serving a sentence of life without parole at the Oregon State Penitentiary. While he has claimed to have killed as many as 160 people, only eight murders have been confirmed. Jesperson's last victim was the crime that ultimately led to his capture.
When that did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to the media and authorities. Upset that he was not getting any media attention, Jesperson drew a smiley face on a bathroom wall hundreds of miles from the scene of the crime and wrote an anonymous letter confessing to Bennett's murder, providing proof. Strangulation was Jesperson's preferred method of murdering, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child.Īfter 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. Many of his victims were sex workers and transients who had no connection to him. He was known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to the media and authorities. Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian-American serial killer who murdered at least eight women in the United States during the early 1990s.
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