Happy Face Serial Killer
A 40-year-old trucker, Keith Wayne Jesperson is presently in jail in Washington state awaiting sentencing for kidnapping and strangling a woman. Keith, bothered by his guilty conscience, confessed to killing eight women throughout five states. He was dubbed the “Happy Face Killer” by authorities after he started sending neatly printed letters to the media with happy faces drawn atop in which he boasted of his deeds.
After leading police to the hand bag from one of his presumed victims, police realized they had wrongfully convicted two people for the killing. In 1990, Laverne Pavlinac told police she held a rope around Taunja Bennett’s neck while her boyfriend John Sosnovske raped and killed her.
She then flipped over and said that she made up the story to get out of their abusive decade year old relationship. Nevertheless they were convicted and jailed for more than four years. !!! On November 27, 1995, the guys were released from prison by an Oregon judge. Jesperson, the real killer, actually had tears of joy in his eyes for the acquittal.
More than the killer, I think this women needs to be prosecuted for the torture the man had to undergo because of her lies.
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