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Pacific Northwest serial killer charged in California case PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:57 p.m. June 14, 2006
SAN JOSE – A serial killer who stalked the Pacific Northwest was charged with strangling a woman in California in 1993 and dumping her body near a highway overpass.
Keith Hunter Jesperson, 55, was known as the “Happy Face Killer” for drawing happy faces in letters to an Oregon newspaper in which he boasted of his crimes. He is serving two life terms for murders in Oregon and Wyoming.

Santa Clara County prosecutors said Jesperson boasted of the slaying in a 1997 letter, but they withheld filing charges as they tried to determine the victim's identity.

“We knew he wasn't going anywhere,” prosecutor David Tomkins said.

Prosecutors said Tuesday they haven't decided whether to pursue the death penalty, adding the decision partially depends on Jesperson's willingness to name the victim, who remains unidentified.

Jesperson claimed he met her at a truck stop, had sex with her and strangled her before driving off.

The body was so badly decomposed that authorities could only determine she was a white woman in her 20s or 30s.

“We're hoping someone out there knows her,” Tomkins said. “She deserves a name.”


 
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