166 - The Happy Face Killer: Keith Hunter Jesperson

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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The Happy Face Killer. Wow. What a dirtbag! What an especially hate-able dude, even for a serial killer. Keith Hunter Jesperson raped and strangled at least eight women in the early 90s. His crimes were hard to link together because of the spread out location of the bodies - women's remained dumped off the side of various roads as he traveled around the United States, working as a long-haul trucker. Keith wrote to the press during his murders and signed his letters with a smiley face, why he was dubbed the "Happy Face Killer" by a journalist for the Oregonian. And we unravel his life and crimes on today's true crime edition of Timesuck! Aiden's Heroes. A Portland-based, beautiful charity: https://www.facebook.com/aidensheros/ Check out Lynze and I's new horror podcast Scared to Death. Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Youtube, and more! Here's the iTunes link: https://apple.co/2MRMgai Donating $3500 this month to the Patriot Guard Riders nonprofit! - https://www.patriotguard.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) November 21-23 Grand Rapids, MI Dr. Grins (at the B.O.B) CLICK HERE for tix! ** November 23 Grand Rapids, MI LIVE TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! ** December 5-7 Tacoma, WA Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE TIMESUCK Tacoma, WA Tacoma Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! December 26-28 Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK - use the promo code TIMESUCK For Hims! Start with a FREE online visit. Go to ForHims.com/timesuckED Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/t1nFjwqdf14 Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 6000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Over the course of five years from January 23rd, 1990 to March 16th, 1995, a sadistic monster
0:06.9	disguised as a human being named Keith Hunter Jesperson, murdered eight women.
0:11.6	And at one time took credit for up to 160 others as he traveled to mostly western United States,
0:17.4	working as a long haul truck driver. He dumped the bodies of his victims in multiple states to
0:22.3	confuse law enforcement and Jesperson was years into his murders before anyone even realized
0:27.2	a pseudo killer was responsible for the rapes and strangulations of multiple women.
0:32.4	And it would have taken even longer for anyone to figure out what the hell was going on if Jesperson
0:36.5	who just couldn't tolerate someone else getting credit for one of his heinous crimes hadn't
0:41.2	scrawled confessions on bathroom stall walls and sent in poorly written cocky letters detailing
0:46.8	his crimes to the media. Jesperson signed his anonymous admissions with smiley faces, which is how he
0:52.1	got the nickname the happy face killer. There was nothing actually happy about this large,
0:57.2	roughly ed-campersized homicidal maniac. Finally, knowing authorities would soon be
1:02.6	charging him with murders and hoping to avoid the death penalty, Jesperson confessed and his sick
1:07.4	rampage was over. Today's tale is one of a man who due to an unfortunate combination of possessing
1:13.2	violent and sadistic tendencies, perhaps since birth and then being raised in a violent home where
1:17.4	murders warning signs were not only ignored but actually encouraged a troubled cruel and violent
1:22.8	boy grew up to become a troubled cruel and murderous man in another true crime serial killer edition
1:29.0	of Time Suck.
1:30.9	This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck.
1:45.4	Happy Monday, Meat Sucks. Ha ha ha!
1:48.4	Hail, Nimrod Lucifina, Praise Bojangles. Glory be to Triple M. I'm Dan Cummins, the Suck Sniper,
1:53.7	the Suck Tater, the Master Sucker, and you are listening to Time Suck.
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