S16 Ep17: "Happy Face" w/ Melissa Moore

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bob is joined by the daughter of serial killer Keith Jesperson, known as the Happy Face Killer. Melissa discusses her journey through life after discovering at the age of 15 that her father was a monster. We discuss her book, podcast, and her involvement in the new Paramount+ series "Happy Face".

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:19.4	I'm Bob Roth.
0:37.8	Back to Truth and justice.
0:39.3	I am joined today.
0:40.5	I have a very special guest.
0:41.9	Her name is Melissa Moore.
0:43.9	A lot of you have probably already heard of her.
0:53.7	She is known for a lot of her work in the media and her advocacy work, but you may know her as the daughter of Keith Jesperson, who was known as the happy face killer.
0:58.5	He was convicted for murdering at least eight women.
1:03.5	And you were, Melissa, you were a teenager at the time when you found all this out?
1:04.7	Yeah, in 1995.
1:08.2	So we're at the 30-year anniversary right now of his arrest. I was, I think, 15, yeah, 15 years old.
1:12.6	Yeah, so we got to be right about the exact same age then.
1:15.8	I was, I'm going to be 47, sorry.
1:18.6	I'm aging, I'm making myself a year older.
1:21.6	I'm 46.
1:22.6	I'm going on 47.
1:23.5	Yeah, so we would say, did you graduate in 1997?
1:26.1	98.
1:27.1	98, so you're one year behind me.
1:29.8	Yeah. So this, I want to talk about, I don't want to spend any time talking about your dad, but more, I'm more interested in your, and your, anybody can look up anything about him.
1:40.5	But like your experience living through this because you had, from my understanding,
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