Happy Face' is inspired by the notorious Happy Face killer, Keith Jesperson, and the 2009 biography of his daughter.

a prolific serial killer infamous for drawing smiley faces in letters to the media and prosecutors, was captured. The case is now the subject of a Paramount+ true-crime drama, "Happy Face ...

Jesperson earned the nickname “Happy Face Killer” for sending confession letters to journalists and police departments across the country, each signed with a smiley face. According to The New ...

The notorious "Happy Face Killer" has swapped his infamous smiley face drawings for penning letters from his prison cell. Keith Hunter Jesperson, the 67 year old Canadian known as the "Happy Face ...

As depicted in the series, Keith earned his nickname as the Happy Face Killer by anonymously confessing to his crimes in messages signed with a smiley face symbol. Eager to claim credit ...

The trucker got his moniker, the Happy Face Killer, after signing various confessions and letters to the media with a smiley face drawing. As Moore got older, she reckoned with all of these ...

Jesperson became known as the Happy Face Killer because he drew smiley faces on the anonymous letters he wrote to media outlets and police departments confessing to his crimes. He murdered at ...

signing letters to the media with a smiley face. This, in turn, led him to be dubbed the "Happy Face Killer," a label that proved convenient in true crime circles, where names like "The Golden ...

While the show’s present-day plot is fictional, Moore, an executive producer on Happy Face, says the project accurately captures aspects of her past, including her “toxic entanglement” with ...