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About Notorious: Happy Face Killer

Keith Hunter Jesperson - the Happy Face Killer - killed eight women across the US from 1990 to 1995; Jesperson preyed on vulnerable women including sex workers and hitchhikers.

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Keith Hunter Jesperson - also known as the Happy Face Killer - confessed in 1995 to murdering Julie Ann Winningham, one of eight women he killed across the US from 1990 to 1995. A long-haul trucker, Jesperson preyed on vulnerable women including sex workers, hitchhikers and a homeless woman; his killings began after his divorce with his first victim, Taunja Bennett, in 1990. Years later, when arrested after confessing, Jesperson detailed his crimes in prison interviews that would go on for nine years and reveal the mind of a boastful serial killer.

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