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Title: The Happy Face Murderer

Subtitle: The Life of Serial Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson

Author: Jack Smith

Narrator: Charles D. Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-16

Publisher: Jack Smith

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Stories about serial killers are incredibly popular. Tracking down a mass murderer is a constant plot line in films, television, and literature. But these stories are so often based on real life. In certain circumstances, however, real life goes a step beyond what we could imagine happening in fiction. Sometimes, the actions of a serial killer can seem so extreme and strange, their motivations so twisted and evil, that we struggle to comprehend exactly how they fit into the modern world.

In the case of Keith Hunter Jesperson, the truth behind his murder spree is more horrific than anything dreamt up by Hollywood's best screenwriters. After a disturbing childhood left the giant of a man riddled with emotional and psychological scars, Jesperson travelled across Canada and spent time strangling and killing women whom he met along the way. While he was only convicted of eight murders, his own boasts suggest that total could have reached as high as 160. As a truck driver, he had the perfect cover story for traveling from town to town without having to put down roots. Often leaving an unsuspecting family at home, he was out in the wilderness committing heinous acts without anyone from the authorities coming close to suspecting his guilt.

Jesperson, annoyed by the lack of attention he was receiving, began to leave messages to the public. Scrawled onto the walls of truck stop bathrooms, he signed each confession with a happy smiley face. This led the media to christening him the Happy Face Killer. It was decades before the investigators came close to catching the killer, so listen now to discover just how Keith Hunter Jesperson managed to get away with numerous horrific murders. This is the story of the Happy Face Killer.

Members Reviews:

More a Pamphlet Than a Book

This is a very slim, rather haphazardly self-published booklet. It outlines the early life and serial killing career of truck driver Keith Jesperson. It does give a little more information than you'd get by just reading Wikipedia's summary of Jesperson's crimes. But not much more. It omits most of the interesting details of how Jesperson did function as a husband and a somewhat loving father for many years.

All these dimensions of Jesperson are left out of this thumbnail account. There are also inconsistencies and gaps in the narrative. In one sentence, the author tells how Jesperson, finally breaking away from a previous âmoral code,â took on a girlfriend he met on the road, away from his family. He told the woman he wasn't married. But in the next sentence, author Smith has the woman urging Jesperson to get a divorce. We're left to wonder what happened in between these moments.

The end of this booklet is especially slapdash. The author takes the reader from Jesperson's last murder â through his capture and imprisonment â in just a few paragraphs.

The early years are fleshed out a bit more so that the reader learns how Jesperson grew up in circumstances that are in many instances predictive of someone's developing into a selectively uncaring, violent, dangerous, personality. So if you are just mildly interested in Jesperson's case â if you want to get a general idea of his life story, but if you don't have the time or inclination to delve into the details of the atrocities he committed â then this is the book for you.