The Lost and the Found

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Investigators use Happy Face Killer's painting to recreate Jane Doe's face with decomposed body found in 1994



A Palm County, Fla., investigator gleaned a prison painting by the so-called Happy Face Killer to illustrate what his sixth victim looked like.

Keith Jesperson’s colorful picture painted from behind bars at the Oregon State Penitentiary helped the Florida Division of Law Enforcement put an accurate face to the badly decomposed body found beside Interstate 10 in 1994, authorities said.

At the peak of Jesperson’s notoriety in the mid-90s, Jesperson claimed to have killed eight women in letters to members of the media.

In those letters, he earned his moniker by drawing happy faces.

One of those victims was a woman whose name was either Suzy or Suzette, but he couldn’t remember. The 60-year-old did recall Jane Doe’s frizzled sandy-blond hair depicted in his painting recently shipped to Paul Moody, a Palm County Sheriff’s Office forensics specialist.

That was enough to reconstruct the victim’s face and send it back to Jesperson for confirmation, the Sheriff's Office said.

“When I opened up the package,” Jesperson reportedly wrote to Moody, “it was like a rush of emotion running through me. I saw her again in your picture.”

Her body was found in Okaloosa County alongside a tattered floral dress also depicted in the reconstruction. She had been wearing a bracelet with Native American-styled beads.

Jesperson pleaded guilty to the strangling death of 23-year-old Taunja Bennett in 1995 and another woman, but bragged about killing more.

Detectives went as far to dub Jesperson a “blatant liar” in 1997, but Moody feels confident in his latest reconstruction of the victim.

The image is a far cry from a reconstruction done in 1995 that produced a short-haired brunette with prominent cheeks.

Jesperson said he picked the woman up at a Tampa, Fla., truck stop more than 400 miles away from the swampy forest he dumped her body.

She wanted a ride to Reno leading investigators to believe she may have been from either Florida or Nevada.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2309215


This is about the same woman described in the 1st post.