#129: Part Two: Insight and Analysis with Melissa Moore, Daughter Of a Serial Killer

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti continue their interview with Melissa Moore, the daughter of Keith Jespersen, whose terrible moniker was “The Happy Face Killer”.

He murdered at least 8 women during the early 1990s and at least one victim, Daun, survived.

Melissa talks about the difficult meeting with Michelle, Taunja Bennett’s sister, her discussions with her father about killing the victims and the impact it’s had on her life and family.

We ask the difficult questions about what was going on behind closed doors and whether were there any warning signs that he was a danger to women and girls?

We re-balance the narrative by talking about the victims, honouring their names and lives, remembering them and learning from their deaths:

#HerNameWasTaunjaBennett

#HerNameWasClaudia

#HerNameWasCynthiaLynRose

#HerNameWasLaurieAnnPentland

#HerNameWasJane

#HerNameWasSusanne

#HerNameWasAngelaSubrize

#HerNameWasJuliaAnnWinningham

#HerNameISDaunRichert-Slagle

@MelissaGMoore

Melissa’s show “Monster in my Family”

https://youtu.be/7ugV8zPHgH8

Melissa’s book “Shattered Silence”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shattered-Silence-Untold-Killers-Daughter/dp/1599552388

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	She has beaten the death, strangled the death, he destroyed her.
0:13.0	The English of Tonya's family would soon spread to many others.
0:18.0	Through a bizarre twist of fate, my father would be free to kill for years to come.
0:31.0	He beat and raped and suffocated and he ducked my mother and threw off the side of the mountain.
0:39.0	When I learned of my mom's death, I felt hurt, angry, lost in the ocean and about with no paddles or a compass on which direction to go.
0:54.0	I felt like there was no life in me. I just collapsed.
1:01.0	Just the idea of my dad tossing her like she's garbage, having no remorse or any feelings for her.
1:10.0	Leaving her a location where she might never be found, it just gives a eerie sense of the lack of compassion he has for human life.
1:20.0	Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Real Crime Profile.
1:23.0	I'm Laura Richards, former New Scotland Yard Criminal Behavioral Analyst and co-creator and executive producer of the case of Haley Antony,
1:32.0	which is currently airing on oxygen. And with me today is...
1:36.0	Lisa Zimbetti, I'm the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds, which has just gotten picked up for its 14th season.
1:42.0	I'm very relieved to say. I have a real interest in Real Crime and the minds that solve those crimes and the victims of those crimes.
1:50.0	Congratulations Lisa, I was really pleased and excited to see that as well.
1:53.0	Me too Jim and I are like, but anyway, yeah, thank you.
1:56.0	Another season.
1:58.0	Fantastic. And you know, unfortunately Jim can't be with us today.
2:02.0	He's on his travels and taking a well earned break, whether he's really taking a true break and enjoying the wonderful beauty of the place that he's in.
2:10.0	Well, I'm going to quiz him on that when he comes back.
2:13.0	So today we are really lucky to be joined by very special guests who we're bringing back from our first episode with text we had so much more to talk about.
2:22.0	And we're joined in the booth by Melissa Moore.
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