This next story was taken a little out of context, so I edited it a bit to make it less confusing. I hope you get the gist of it though.
"It was here that the tale of the Happy Face Killer would take a strange turn and end up giving Jesperson the moniker (or nickname). A couple named Laverne Pavlinac and John Sosnovske lived in the area at the time, and Pavlinac made a surprise false confession to the murder of Taunja Bennett, saying that she and Sosnovske had raped and murdered Bennett together. The police and courts believed her, and she received ten years in prison, while Sosnovske was sentenced to life. Laverne Pavlinac later admitted that she made up the story entirely to get out of her relationship with Sosnovske, who was abusive.
Pavlinac and Sosnovske’s arrests for the murder thoroughly angered Keith Jesperson. He then wrote a confession on the wall of a truck stop he was passing through, but to no avail. No one really paid attention to this, even though he’d signed the confession with a hand-drawn happy face. Jesperson decided to take it up a notch and wrote more confessionsto the police, the prosecutor in the Pavlinac and Sosnovske cases, and the media, signing each of them with a personalized happy face. And thus, the Happy Face Killer was born."
(Listverse)
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