The Happy Face Killer: Keith Jesperson’s Highway of Murder
A truck-stop bathroom wall. A confession signed with a smiley face. For five years, long-haul truck driver Keith Hunter Jesperson drove America’s highways, murdering at least eight women across six states—strangling them, dumping their bodies, and taunting police and newspapers with letters marked by cheerful little faces.
Hosted by Alexander Lawson, this episode follows the crimes of the Happy Face Killer: from the 1990 murder of Taunja Bennett that wrongly imprisoned two innocent people, to the cross-country killings that left several victims unidentified for decades, to the final murder of…
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