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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. He was known as the Happy Face Killer because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to the media and authorities.
The smiley face murder theory (also known as the smiley face murders, smiley face killings, and smiley face gang) is a theory advanced by retired New York City detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, as well as Dr. Lee Gilbertson, a criminal justice professor and gang expert at St. Cloud State University. [1]
He was dubbed the “Happy Face Killer” for the smiley faces in a letter to a newspaper boasting of his crimes, KABC said. In late 2023, Jesperson provided officials with more information on the ...
Keith Jesperson is currently serving seven life sentences on a series of murder charges from 1990 to 1995, Florida sheriff’s office says. Convicted ‘Happy Face’ serial killer’s eighth ...
Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice is an American television docuseries that originally aired from January 19 to February 23, 2019 on Oxygen. It examines possible victims of the smiley-face murder theory. Produced by Alison Dammann, the six episodes focus on cases of young men who have disappeared and whose bodies are found in a body of ...
A man known as the “Happy Face Killer” says he reached out to the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer and urged him to confess to his heinous crimes.. Keith Jesperson, now 68, has been ...
Smiley face killer may refer to: . Keith Hunter Jesperson (born 1955), serial killer who used the smiley face symbol on his letters to the police and prosecutors; Robert Lee Yates (born 1952), serial killer who used plastic bags with a smiley face printed on them to cover the heads of his victims
Officials say they need the public's help to solve a decadeslong mystery: the identity of a woman whose body was left on the side of a California road by a man known as the "Happy Face Killer."