‘Happy Face’ Creators Dish on the True Story of the Serial Killer & His Daughter

Melissa Jesperson-Moore (with showrunner Jennifer Cacicio) discusses her story and her father, the Happy Face Killer, and the new TV series based on it, starring Dennis Quaid. ‘Happy Face’ streams new episodes each Thursday on Paramount+.
‘Happy Face’ is adapted from the 2018 podcast Happy Face by Melissa Moore, and her 2009 autobiography Shattered Silence, co-written with M. Bridget Cook. The series tells the story of Melissa Jesperson-Moore, who at age 15 discovered that her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was the serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer.