TikTok has become a platform where even the children of serial killers can reach out to the larger world as Melissa Moore shows. Moore is the daughter of Keith Jesperson, also known as the “Happy Face Killer.”
Melissa Moore the Daughter of the Happy Face Killer Shares Letters She Received from Him on TikTok — Shares Letter Jesperson Sent After Her Wedding
Starting in May 2021, Melissa Moore has drawn roughly 160,000 followers and is going viral for reading letters from her father and sharing things he sent her. This is the newest avenue for Moore who has shared her experiences of growing up with Jesperson over the years.
While true crime buffs like yours truly will read the books, watch the docs, and listen to the podcasts on this stuff, all of those require a time investment. TikTok takes all of that and makes it digestible in a couple of minutes across multiple videos if needed.
That allows Moore’s experiences to reach an interested base that shotguns content. The other purpose is as promotion and supplemental content for her podcast Life After Happy Face.
One video that went viral with over 8 million views was posted on September 29, 2022 and is about a letter she got from Jesperson after her wedding. The letter involved some shade where he said that both she and her husband were fat.
After that warm commentary about a picture on Instagram, he ended the letter with “Why wasn’t I invited? Remember most of all daughter, I never stopped loving you.” She also shared a Christmas gift he’d sent: a purse that his fellow inmate made for her.
Commenters were supportive and annoyed that Jesperson had the audacity to shade his daughter. It seems as though she has dealt with her father long enough that in some videos she just seems exasperated when going into prison mail from him.
A career truck driver and at one time, an aspiring mountie, Keith Jesperson (67) targeted sex workers in Florida, the Midwest, and all along the west coast of the U.S starting in January 1990.
He was given the moniker “Happy Face Killer” after putting smiley faces on letters to the police and media. He was captured in 1995 after killing his girlfriend.
Jesperson is currently imprisoned in the Oregon State Penitentiary with four life sentences. While eight victims were tied to him, he takes credit for 185 murders.
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