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Place of Birth: Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
About Keith Hunter Jesperson
- 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 prosecutors.
- Many of his victims were sex workers and transients who had no connection to him.
- Strangulation was his preferred method of murdering, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child. After 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. Jesperson was upset that he was not getting any media attention.
- On a bathroom wall hundreds of miles from the scene of the crime, he drew a smiley face and wrote an anonymous letter in which he confessed to killing Bennett and provided proof.
- When that did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to the media and prosecutors. His last victim was the crime that ultimately led to his capture.
- While Jesperson has claimed to have killed as many as 185 people, only eight murders have been confirmed.
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