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Final ID of Happy Face Killer’s Victim | Portland News
After 32 years, the identity of the last victim of the “Happy Face Killer,” Keith Hunter Jesperson, has finally been revealed: Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter. Her remains were discovered near Blythe, California, in 1992. Jesperson, already serving multiple life sentences, admitted to killing her while driving a long-haul truck — even calling her “Claudia” during interrogations. A breakthrough came in 2024 when DNA technology helped identify her maternal relatives, confirming her identity after decades of mystery. Her sisters, unaware of her fate since she vanished from Texas in the ’90s, are now…
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