This unknown woman was a victim of the ‘Happy Face Killer.’ Authorities need help in identifying her
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1990s, long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women in his travels across the United States. To gain notoriety, he sent anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators, many of them signed with smiley faces.
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1990s, long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women in his travels across the United States. To gain notoriety, he sent anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators, many of them signed with smiley faces.
Authorities in California are looking for help in identifying a young woman in a motorcycle T-shirt whose body was found in 1992 in the desert near the Arizona border. Her confessed murderer is Keith Hunter Jesperson, the notorious “Happy Face Killer,” who killed at least 8 women across six states.
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