‘Happy Face Killer’ Admits To Killing Riverside County Woman
RIVERSIDE -A serial killer known for drawing smiley faces in his correspondence pleaded guilty today to the 1992 slaying of a woman whose body was found in a remote area on the eastern edge of Riverside County.
Keith Hunter Jesperson, dubbed “The Happy Face Killer,” is already serving a life sentence for the 1995 slaying of an Oregon woman and has admitted killing women all over the country.
Jesperson pleaded guilty this afternoon to first-degree murder in connection with the death of an unidentified woman near Blythe and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
