In the early ’90s, the Happy Face serial killer murdered women across the US, from Washington State to as far away as Florida. His first victim, Taunja Bennett, was from Portland, but Keith Hunter Jesperson’s work as a trucker gave him opportunities to murder people in California, Nebraska, and even Wyoming. If I don’t sound impressed it’s because I’m not. I’m not super interested in serial killers. They’re all one-trick ponies and that trick is murder. Lucky for me, the new podcast Happy Face by Jesperson’s daughter, Melissa Moore, isn’t really about Jesperson. It’s about Moore, who was 15 years old when her dad was arrested and people started knowing her only as the daughter of an infamous serial killer.
