Melissa J. Moore eats breakfast with her father, Keith Gibson, at a dinner when he almost revealed his double life.
She was a high school student, who was preparing for her driver's license, was flowing to her freedom. She was also excited to spend time with her father, a truck driver, at that point, divorced from Moore's mother.
“I was about to reach the age of sixteen,” More remembers Fox News Digital. “He made an unannounced visit and asked me and my brothers if we wanted to go to break breakfast with him before the school started. My brothers had other obligations, so they could not join us … We talked about what would be my first car.
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Melissa J. Moore is the daughter of Keith Hunter Giberson, known as “Happy Face”. (Storm Santos)
“Then the topic began to turn the next time I see,” Moore shared. “He was looking forward to seeing us during the summer vacation. But the way he spoke, it seemed as if thinking about wishing. … Then he started saying:” I need to tell you something, but you will say to the authorities. “Stop me.
Melissa J. said. Moore has been signs early that something was not true with her father, Keith Jasson. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
“In the beginning, I thought,” “The rumors that my mother told me should be that he was expelled to steal from the employer.” Have I stolen?
“If we look back in that conversation, I feel that he knows that his crimes were joining him.”
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“Happy Face” is inspired by the story of Melissa C. Moore. The biography was written “Silence Silence”. (Paramount+)
Moore was fifteen years old when Jespson, a prolific serial killer, was arrested for drawing smiling faces in letters to the media and public prosecutors. The case is now the subject of Paramount+ True-CRIME, “Happy Face”, starring Ashford and Dennis Quid.
Moore shared her story previously Selling notes, “crushing silence” Podcast 2018 “Happy Face”.
Dennis Cuue and Melissa J. Moore “Happy Face” in New York in Metrogge 18, 2025, in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Earth)
“I am proud of this series because I believe that the family members of the victims will feel watching, as well as the family members of the perpetrators,” she explained. “I haven't seen anything like this exactly. When you see an offer about a serial killer, they do not show the complex nature of the relationships they have with their families.”
This is the image of the Clark Sharif County County Office for the series, Keith Jiberson, around 1995. (AP image)
Moore described her childhood as “very natural” In the countryside Washington. Her father, who stood on 6 feet, 6 feet and 300 pounds, worked as a long -term truck driver. Her mother remained at home with the children of the three couple.
“I grew up in the countryside, where we had the freedom to wander,” More said. “When my father was returning home from his long truck engines, he was very dropped. He was very loving.”
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“He loved to ride his bike, and he always wanted us to children with him,” she participated. “He was a very practical father. He was reading sleep stories for us. He was playing games with us. He would have shouted with us as possible.”
Dennis Cuue in the role of Keith Jassson in “Happy Face”. (Katie Yu/Paramount+)
But there were signs that her home life was not very perfect. Moore said that when she was 5 years old, she witnessed “abuse of animals on our property.”
“My father kills animals for sports,” she said. “He was killing cats. He was killing dogs. This was something, like a young man … You just felt not true. But this was not really discussed. Keith was just Keith. I didn't like it, but no one really wanted to recognize it.”
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Jesperson was arrested in 1995 On suspicion of killing his girlfriend in Washington State. He finally admitted the killing of eight women between 1990 and 1995 in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska and Woyelg. The victims, who included his girlfriend, acquaintances and sex workers, were exposed to sexual assault and strangulation.
Keith Hunter Jesperson, 40, listens to his lawyer, Tom Villan moments before he was approved for killing on October 18, 1995, at the Clark County Court in Vancouver, Wash. (AP Photo/The Columban, Toy Wayrynen)
He was arrested before Moore's birthday.
Moore said: “I discovered through my mother.” “In this series, she was accurately filmed. I went home from school, and my mother called us our brothers together. She had something you needed to tell us. It all informed us that our father was in prison and that he was charged with killing. No other details were provided.
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“As an adult, he looks back, I imagine that she … may not feel comfortable discussing these details with us.”
Melissa J. Moore has no relationship with her father, Keith Jasson. (Jesse Grant/Variety through Getty Earth)
The news spread quickly in Moore's birthplace. Her friends described JSSDSon on TV while watching the news and wearing an orange suit and chains. he It was called the “Faculty of Happy Facial”.
Moore said, “I have been going to go to school and be ashamed very much,” Moore said. “Whenever I operated the TV, there was my father's face, flashing. My friends told me that their parents have seen the news, and that they do not want to hang with me.
For the series, Melissa J. Moore is not readable from her father. (Amy E. PRICE/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)
“I absorbed it,” Moore admitted. “I took it like, perhaps there was a mistake with me. Maybe the apples do not fall away from the tree. It was the beginning of this deep decline in fighting my own identity. I absorbed his crimes in a way that concluded with my identity.
Don Vendley (the far right), son of the victim of killing Julie Ann Winingham, and Keith Jasson (Orange Car) before the ruling on December 19, 1995, in the Clark County Court, Vancouver, Wash. (AP Photo/The Columban, Jeremiah Coughlan)
“It took years to reconcile,” added the 47 -year -old.
Today, Jesperson, 69, spends several lifelong sentences without the possibility of conditional release.
Moore said: “He never explained the reason.” “I am still curious why he chose the life he did and chose to commit these crimes. I think he felt deeply safe within himself and wanted to control. I would like to say that it is about power and control … He made this perfect monster.”
Kate Mary in the role of Melissa J. Moore and Dinis Cuuee in the role of Keith Jiberson in “Happy Face”. (Ed Araquel/Paramount+)
At the exhibition, viewers will see a message from Jesperson that has been sent by mail to Moore. She said the scene is accurate.
She said: “He wrote to me from the first day since he entered the prison, and (those messages) are not answered.” “I don't write it again. I collected it, and I have given all the messages to (CEO) Jennifer Cascio. I used the messages of dialogue in the series.
Unfortunately, her house was among these It was lost in California fires. These messages were burned. They went. “
Keith Jesperson, the “Happy Face”, was called because he sent messages to the media that separated his crimes, which he committed via state lines as a long -term truck man, with a smiling face signed at the bottom of each note. (OKALOSA SHERIFF Office)
Today, Moore has its own family. When she shares her story, Moore managed to create a network of more than 300 people associated with the killers, talking to them on the phone and personally for support, People Magazine I mentioned. I was previously told BBC News This project gave it “the meaning of life and direction.”
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Over the years, Melissa J. Moore is connected to others who are associated with murderers and struggle to overcome them. (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)
Moore said: “I am not proud of my father, but I no longer feel the need to hide.” “I no longer attribute his crimes to who I am as a person. I am not alone in dealing with these unique issues … There is no support group for family members from the perpetrators. There is no really support for the families of the victims. We left ourselves to find other people like us. … they do not need to move in this.”
More has also helped to reach her painful past.
Melissa J. said. Moore is no longer afraid to share her story in the hope that she will help others. (Jesse Grant/Variety through Getty Earth)
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She said: “My father gave me the greatest sorrow, and it is a shock of growth with him as a father.” “I would like to say that the series is doing a really good job to show this deep desire within me that the father who no longer exists, my childhood's father.
New episodes of “Happy Face” will decrease on Thursday on Paramount+. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
