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Happy Face Killer

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Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.

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Happy Face Killer

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Emma Stefansky The Daily Beast 06/10/2025
Maybe if Happy Face was anything other than Very Serious about its subject matter, these moral lessons wouldn’t seem so confused, but, as it is, the show doesn’t have a whole lot else to offer -- more interested in having its cake and stabbing it, too. Go to Full Review
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Tanis J @RT42775775 04/07/2025 Miranda C. Happy Face Killer IS a very real serial killer by the name of Keith Jesperson. Research it. See more Jeffrey M @marshwj49 04/01/2025 A somewhat formulaic but well-crafted tale about a serial killer, a truck driver who commits a series of strangulations of young women over a series of years, including his fiancee. David Arquette does a nice turn as the killer, who passes as normal in most situations but descends into a killing rage when he imagines woman are "causing trouble." Gloria Reuben is fine as the FBI agent who dismisses a false confession and tracks him down, and the gloom and dank of the Pacific Northwest casts an appropriate mood over the proceedings. See more Miranda C @RT90056761 03/29/2025 This movie is way off. The family and killer are not even close, missing one daughter, how things went with the murders were not acurate...this movie was just a joke. Good thing it wasn't based on a real killer.... See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
Director
Rick Bota
Producer
Harvey Kahn
Screenwriter
Richard Christian Matheson
Production Co
Front Street Pictures
Rating
TV-14 (S|L|V)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (TV)
Mar 1, 2014
Runtime
1h 30m