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‘Happy Face Killer’: I’d never commit another crime

  • 'Happy Face Killer' continues to write to Ashleigh Banfield
  • Keith Jesperson: Prison has 'cured me'
  • Jesperson advised Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann to confess

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(NewsNation) — Keith Jesperson, the convict known as the “Happy Face Killer,” wrote another letter to NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield, saying time behind bars has cured him and that he’d “never commit another crime.”

“Freedom feels so special to me,” Jesperson said. “Most (inmates) are angry and want some kind of payback. … Time behind bars has cured me, I am no longer that person that put me in here.”

Jesperson was convicted of killing eight women, earning his nickname by drawing “happy faces” on many of his letters to the media and authorities before being arrested in 1995.

His latest round of letters comes after he penned Banfield describing his prison routine. Jesperson has also spoken with NewsNation’s Laura Ingle, who received five double-sided, handwritten letters from Oregon State Penitentiary

During an interview with Ingle, Jesperson continued urging Rex Heuermann, who is accused in the Gilgo Beach killings, to confess.

Jesperson advised Heuermann to admit the kills so that he could bargain to get a better prison, such as the one Jesperson himself is in.

NewsNation’s Devan Markham contributed to this report.

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