Serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, aka ‘The Happy Face Killer’ sentenced to life in prison
On April 4, Keith Hunter Jesperson, aka, the “Happy Face Killer,” pled guilty to Second Degree Murder for the homicide of Suzanne Kjellenberg. The Honorable John Jay Gontarek imposed a life sentence. In addition to killing Kjellenberg, Jesperson also confessed to killing at least eight women he met while working as a large-haul truck driver as he traveled across the country in the 1990s, according to WKRG.
Jesperson admitted to strangling Ms. Kjellenberg in the summer of 1994 and dumping her body off an interstate exit in Okaloosa County. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the Medical Examiner worked together with Othram, Inc., to identify Ms. Kjellenberg and bring this cold case to a close.
Jesperson is a Canadian-born serial killer who confessed to brutally murdering his victims in multiple different US states while working as a truck driver.
He was arrested in 1995 on suspicion of killing a woman in Washington state.
He was dubbed the Happy Face Killer because he drew smiley faces on letters he sent to [taunt] the media and cops, prosecutors said.
Jesperson eventually confessed to killing eight women between 1990 and 1995 in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska, and Wyoming. ~ The U.S. Sun
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The case against Jesperson’s murder of Suzanne Kjellenberg was prosecuted on behalf of Florida’s State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden by Assistant State Attorney Michelle Sandler. Any questions can be directed to Ms. Sandler at 850-651-7260.
For more on the life and times and victims of Keith Hunter Jesperson, see the video accompanying this article. Excerpt: “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.”
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(Source: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office)
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