“Happy Face,” which begins airing Thursday, is inspired by the true story of Melissa Moore, whose father was a prolific serial killer infamous for drawing smiley faces on letters to the media ...

The trucker got his moniker, the Happy Face Killer, after signing various confessions and letters to the media with a smiley face drawing ... confessed the following day. The serial killer's ...

Moore’s father, Keith Hunter Jesperson (Dennis Quaid), was the Happy Face Killer ... always signed off with a smiley face. After years of hiding the truth of her parentage, Moore revealed ...

The trucker got his moniker, the Happy Face Killer, after signing various confessions and letters to the media with a smiley face drawing ... and he confessed the following day. The serial killer's ...

Happy Face (2025) is a true-crime drama series that ... strangling them and leaving smiley-faced notes for police. Arrested in 1995 for killing Julie Winningham in Washougal, Washington, he ...

a prolific serial killer infamous for drawing smiley faces in letters to the media and prosecutors, was captured. The case is now the subject of a Paramount+ true-crime drama, "Happy Face ...

She apologizes about the ambush the day before. Maybe they can hang out today. He’s got to take a dresser to a friend’s house about 30 miles away. She’s happy to help. It was their ...

When Melissa G. Moore came home one afternoon in the spring of 1995, her mother Rose Hucke took her and her two younger siblings aside. The Shadle Park High School senior immediately knew ...

Years later, she discovered that day he’d taken her to the burial ... Signing off each letter with a smiley face, it was this which earned Jesperson the moniker of the ‘Happy Face Killer’. The duo’s ...

A brand new episode of the new crime drama series Happy Face premieres on Paramount+ Thursday, April 17. For those who have yet to see Happy Face, the series is based on the eponymous iHeartMedia ...

Dubbed the 'Happy Face Killer' by police, Jesperson – who shared three children, including Melissa, with his ex-wife Rose – had spawned the moniker after drawing smiley faces on his horrifying ...

Jesperson earned the nickname “Happy Face Killer” for sending confession letters to journalists and police departments across the country, each signed with a smiley face. According to The New ...