'You're fat': Happy Face Killer's daughter reveals troubling letter she received from her dad in prison
PORTLAND, OREGON: The oldest of the Happy Face Killer's three children, Melissa Moore, is forced to live with the legacy of the atrocious crimes committed by her serial killer father. Moore was only 15 when her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was arrested.
Jesperson killed eight women and is reportedly said to have killed 185 people during his murderous rampage between 1990 and 1995. A native of Canada and a truck driver, his victims were from five states - California, Wyoming, Washington, Florida and Oregon. He drew cheerful faces on insulting letters he sent to the media and authorities, earning him the moniker of the "Happy Face Killer." Jesperson is presently incarcerated tt the Oregon State Penitentiary for life without the possibility of release.
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Moore joined TikTok to provide a perspective on living with the knowledge of her father's actions and in order to process the pain of her father's double life. She posted about letters her father had sent from prison on her account @lifeafterhappyface.
In one of the videos, Moore reveals that her father sent her a letter to her home address following her wedding day which included a picture of her and her husband on their wedding day. The video can be found here. Moore says," In the letter, he says that I am fat and my husband is fat, and we don't run. He then tells me maybe this marriage will work."
Moore went on to say that he also demanded to know why he was not invited to the wedding and finished the letter stating that he never stopped loving her. The video has gone viral since receiving eight million views and thousands of comments from users offering their sympathies to Moore.
In an interview with Newsweek, Moore says that she found the letter "funny." "Mind you, it's probably not funny to other people," she said, adding, "but this has been years of narcissistic ramblings, and so they don't hurt my feelings at all because it's not personal to me; it's just the ramblings of a psychopath."
She also mentioned that she received a Christmas gift from her father in 2021, but she was "terrified to open it." She also shpowed a brown handbag that her father's friend from prison made for her. Despite not replying to her father's letters, Moore told the outlet that she did respond to one that she got soon after her mother's death in 2021.
"Why I wrote to him was because as my mom was passing away in hospice she said, 'I'm your dad's last victim, it just took him longer to kill me,'" Moore recalled. "I get a letter from my dad and he says, 'Oh you weren't going to tell me that your mom passed away on my birthday?'" She did not reveal the contents of her response to her father.