California authorities trying to identify victim of ‘Happy Face Killer’
Officials say they need the public's help to solve a decadeslong mystery: the identity of a woman whose body was left on the side of a California road by a man known as the "Happy Face Killer."
Officials say they need the public's help to solve a decadeslong mystery: the identity of a woman whose body was left on the side of a California road by a man known as the "Happy Face Killer."
Long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson, who is serving multiple life sentences for killing eight women across the country, pleaded guilty in 2010 to murdering the woman in 1992, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said Monday in a video posted on YouTube.
"This woman is the last of all his victims to remain unidentified," Hestrin said.
Jesperson referred to the woman as "Claudia," but that may not be her real name, according to the video.
Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer" for drawings he left on anonymous letters, he targeted women, torturing and killing them in the cab of his truck, according to an account from journalist Jack Olsen.
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