WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:08.080 In March nineteen ninety five, the body of forty one 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.880 year old Julie Winningham was found just off Highway fourteen 3 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.359 in Washington in the USA Spacific Northwest. 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.359 She'd been strangled to death. 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.320 He's a monster, six plus feet, two hundred and eighty pounds. 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.519 My mom was five pounds one hundred pounds soaken wet. 7 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:26.320 So it was like a toothpick. 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:26.839 You know. 9 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:27.760 He's a big man. 10 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.879 Julie had become the eighth victim of an active serial 11 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.719 killer named Keith Jesperson. The thirty nine year old truck 12 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.640 driver had been murdering innocent women across America for the 13 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:41.039 previous five years. 14 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:44.880 In a sense, they were falling into the hands of 15 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.359 a wolf. Their hens in the hen coop, and Jesperson 16 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:50.320 is the wolf at the door. 17 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.560 Jesperson captured the intrigue of the nation when he confessed 18 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.920 to five murders in an anonymous letter he sent to 19 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.280 a newspaper, which he signed with a smile. 20 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.799 Ash brawler, that I killed Tanya Bennett in January nineteen ninety. 21 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:09.239 And put down a. 22 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.760 Circle with two eyes and a happy face. 23 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.959 Keith Jefperson, labeled a happy face killer, had made his 24 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:39.799 mark as one of the world's most evil killers. When 25 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:43.959 thirty nine year old trucker Keith Jefperson confessed all to 26 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.400 detectives in March nineteen ninety five, the media finally got 27 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.640 a chance to put a name to the notorious Happy 28 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:52.480 Face Killer. 29 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.200 Over a five year period. 30 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:58.120 Jefperson squeezed the life out of at least eight women 31 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:02.680 across five states. Detective Monte Bututne was part of the 32 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.560 investigative team that finally brought an end to the Happy 33 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.560 Face Killer's reign of terror. 34 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:15.599 Jefferson targeted typically prostitutes, homeless women, women that he felt 35 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.800 that would not have anybody that would report them missing 36 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.199 anytime soon, to give him a chance to escape. 37 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:22.080 To get out of the area. 38 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.120 Driving his truck six foot seven inch, Jefperson, a divorced 39 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.919 father of three, towered over his diminutive victims. 40 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.400 For Keith Jefferson, his big thing was control. He wanted 41 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.280 to control women. He wanted to abuse them in the 42 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.280 way that he was aroused by, so he focused on 43 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.240 finding victims that he thought would meet that need for him. 44 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.120 Despite his size and destructive power, Jefferson was mild mannered 45 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.039 and softly spoken during his confessions. 46 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.919 To detectives he. 47 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.159 Purposes of voice certification. Would you please state your full. 48 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.400 Amplas mynors Keith Hunter, just person, and. 49 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:04.479 You understand this conversation is being recorded. 50 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.000 Yes, I your permission, Yes it is. 51 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:10.960 Every time I talked to him, he was my best friend, 52 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.479 and when you looked at him, the last thing you 53 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.599 would ever suspected this guy was a serial killer. I mean, 54 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:21.039 he didn't hang around with bad people. I never heard 55 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.120 him swear wall if you met Jasperson, the last thing 56 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.120 you would suspect that he was a criminal. He doesn't 57 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.159 come across as a criminal. At one point he said 58 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.400 to me, you know, you and I could go on 59 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.120 a tour teaching people how not to get murdered. And 60 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.000 that was kind of the mindset of this particular guy 61 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.120 that he really enjoyed people looking at him and saying, 62 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.960 oh my god, this is our serial killer and he 63 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.319 must be really an important and powerful person to be 64 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.199 involved in that sort of a lifestyle. So I don't 65 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.240 think there was ever any remorse. It was it was 66 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.400 all about I want people to look at me. 67 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:02.240 This killer's story begins just outside of Vancouver, Canada. Keith 68 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.680 Hunter Jesperson was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, on the 69 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.080 sixth of April nineteen fifty five. He grew up in 70 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.400 a large family in a rural home. 71 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.639 Jefperson had two brothers and two sisters. He was the 72 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.439 so called runt I think of the litter. The boy 73 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.279 I think sought to get his father's attention from quite 74 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:26.040 an early age. 75 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:31.160 His father was incredibly domineering. His father really looked down 76 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.759 on women. So from a very early age he develops 77 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.199 this view that a misogynistic view of women, a view 78 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.720 of women that is quite demeaning, is one that's normal. 79 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:47.360 Jefferson's assertive father appeared to bring out a violent side 80 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:48.439 in the young men. 81 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:53.560 One of Jesperson's earliest memories is apparently of throwing a 82 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.040 rock down a slide as a children's playground that hit 83 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.720 his brother in the head. And I think what he 84 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.199 was trying to do here was essentially get his father's attention. 85 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:08.120 His father was somebody who valued aggression, who valued this 86 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.079 kind of behavior, and I think this really was a 87 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.759 cry for that kind of validation from him. 88 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:20.279 The ugly truths must be that he had no normality 89 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.600 in his life. There was no convention in that family life, 90 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.759 from that upbringing, which meant that in a sense, there 91 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.680 was no moral compass, there was no right and wrong. 92 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:37.240 Before he'd even turn seven, Jefperson displayed traits that had 93 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:39.759 become synonymous with serial killers. 94 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.959 Jefferson liked to kill and torture animals, so he harmed 95 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:49.480 cats and dogs and gophers and crows. That gave him 96 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.920 a sense of power, a sense of control that he 97 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.360 couldn't get in any other way. But he's also realizing 98 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:01.079 that he quite enjoys having control over an living creature, 99 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.319 of holding its life in your hands. 100 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.160 The family moves south across the border into the US, 101 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.800 and Jefferson would eventually find work in a job that 102 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.319 would assist him in his murderous career. 103 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.399 He's become a truck driver for company in Washington State, 104 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.959 which gives him access to freedom, drive around, can sleep 105 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.680 in the cab, he can pull up whatever truck stop 106 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.279 he fancies, where that almost always a collection of young women, 107 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:37.160 knowing that drivers want company. It's the perfect fit for 108 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:38.680 Jesperson's character. 109 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:41.879 So he's got a lot of time on his hands 110 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.879 to ruminate, to fantasize, to start to plan things. So 111 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.199 this is quite a dangerous situation to be in because 112 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.879 nobody's there to put the brakes on his behavior. 113 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.720 By early nineteen ninety, Keith Jefferson was separated from his 114 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.439 life and spending much of his time driving his truck 115 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:08.439 up and down the seemingly endless highways of America. On 116 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.839 the twenty second of January nineteen ninety, in Portland, Oregon, 117 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.879 a twenty three year old woman was found dead. 118 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.399 Kanye Bennett was reported missing by her mother, and some 119 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.360 young man stopped along that highway one day then discovered 120 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.439 her body, which had been drug off the road down 121 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.399 into a little bit of a rouffine off of the 122 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.839 scenic Highway out in the Columbia Gorge. 123 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.160 Detectives presumed they'd solve the case quickly when a local woman, 124 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.240 Laverne pavilion Neck, told the police that her boyfriend was 125 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.800 responsible for the death of Tanya Bennett. 126 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:51.680 Well, Laverne was several years older than John Sisnovsky, and 127 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.480 John was an alcoholic, and I think John was probably 128 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:03.079 a very abusive to Laverne, and I think she was 129 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.839 just trying to get John Sosnowski out of her life 130 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.199 and decided she would frame him for murder as a 131 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.360 way to get John out of her life. 132 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.720 In the beginning, she just tries to pin it completely 133 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.920 on him, but then she kind of inserts herself into 134 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.720 this narrative, and I think there's almost a sense in 135 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.240 which she's enjoying the drama of the story and she 136 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:25.879 wants to play a larger part in it. 137 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:31.240 LaVerne's story was alive. The police didn't know it yet, 138 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.480 but Tanya had in fact been killed by a thirty 139 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.279 four year old trucker named Keith Jefferson. 140 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.000 He had met Tanya playing pool out to be an 141 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.879 i tavern, which was an Esmolam canyon. They had decided 142 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.559 we'll get something to eat at a nearby restaurant, and 143 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:54.080 when they left the tavern, he realized he didn't have 144 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.679 enough money with him to buy dinner, so he said, 145 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.399 let's go to my house. I'll get some money. He 146 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.960 gets involved in a sexual act with Tanya, and at 147 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.320 that point Tanya said something that offended him and he 148 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:14.399 murdered her. He choked her with his fist, and he 149 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.960 was a big man, Tanya was a little woman, and 150 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.440 so that wasn't a big challenge to kill Tanya. 151 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:25.240 And I don't think he cared very much. I mean 152 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.480 he left her in the house and to cover his tracks, 153 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.080 went back to the bar and had another series of 154 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.919 drinks and then went back to the house and decided 155 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.200 he's going to dump the body. What he's got plenty 156 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.480 of opportunities to dump the body. All he needs to 157 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:38.000 do is to load her into the truck and he 158 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:39.320 can drop her where he wants. 159 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:45.000 Chanya Bennett had become Jefferson's first victim, and despite the 160 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.279 fact that two other people were in court charge with 161 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.960 the twenty three year old's murder, Jefferson had an urge 162 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.639 to tell the world that he was her killer. 163 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.080 While the trial's taking place, he stops off and I 164 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:04.720 rest room and writes a message on the wall which 165 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:07.559 is ibter I raped her, I Kilda. I liked it. 166 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.200 You may think I'm sick, but I enjoyed it. And 167 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.000 two other people are taking the form and he signs 168 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:16.159 it with a smiley face. 169 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.639 And at first this would appear to be quite compelling, 170 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:25.360 but it wasn't new information. It was information that anybody 171 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.840 could have heard and just repeated onto the wall. So 172 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.320 I think this was a desire for recognition on Jafferson's part. 173 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.279 It was a desire to be noticed and to actually 174 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.320 take the credit for these murders. 175 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:43.039 As news of the truck stop confession reached Laverne Pavilink 176 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:47.919 and John Sarsnowsky's lawyers, they were intrigued, but the jury 177 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.279 would never get to hear about the revelations. Signed with 178 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:52.399 a smiley face. 179 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:58.840 The defense of Laverne and John try to get these 180 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:04.799 confessions brought in as evidence in the trial, but the 181 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:10.879 judge forbids it's hearsay. It could be anybody. It's not convincing, 182 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:15.720 there's no forensic proof. Sorry, we're not allowing it into evidence. 183 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:23.399 And both are duly convicted of the murder. And Keith 184 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:27.240 Jefferson is free to kill again. After all, he's already 185 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.080 boasted it he can, so why shouldn't he. 186 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.279 As two innocent people were sentenced to life in prison 187 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.559 for the murder of Tylia Bennett, Keith Jefferson remained free. 188 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:45.519 In nineteen ninety two, two years after killing for the 189 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:50.480 first time, Jefferson struck again, this time in California. 190 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:55.600 Jefferson's second victim, Claudia, was a woman who he kept 191 00:11:55.639 --> 00:12:00.000 alive in his truck for four days. He quite enjoyed 192 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.159 void torturing her. He quite enjoyed the fact that she 193 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.879 would have been fearful for her life and probably pleading 194 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.080 for her life. So this really highlights that it's the 195 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:14.759 process that Jessperson enjoys. It's that feeling of power, that 196 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.000 feeling of complete control and domination he gets when he 197 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.159 has got somebody who's completely subservient to him. 198 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.080 He eventually, after a few days, gets bored, kills her 199 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.440 by punishing her literally to death, and then chucks her 200 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:32.799 out of the truck. Now, how do you identify the 201 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.559 body of a young woman found miles away from where 202 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.440 she may have been last seen. We remember we're in 203 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.440 the early nineties here, we don't have the kind of 204 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:47.120 elaborate databases that the police authorities have. Now is simply 205 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:56.039 a body, and again that confirms to Jesperson his ability 206 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.320 to get away with it, his ability to do what 207 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:05.240 he wants. It's a very powerful, addictive substance for a 208 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.440 man who's already got a warped mind and has no 209 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.320 moral compass. This is powerful medicine. 210 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:17.720 Indeed, by April nineteen ninety four, Jefferson had killed another 211 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.360 three women, taking his crusome tally to five. 212 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:23.519 But the thirty nine year old. 213 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.759 Was growing frustrated with the lack of credit he felt 214 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.639 he deserved for his ongoing killing spree. He began to 215 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:34.519 write that wrong by sending letters to an Oregon courthouse 216 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:39.240 and a local newspaper reiterating his claims that he was 217 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.080 the person responsible for the death of Tania Bennett back 218 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:44.919 in January nineteen ninety. 219 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:47.559 Keith loves the media attention. 220 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.919 He was doing anything he could to obtain that attention, 221 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.240 and when somebody else was getting it, Keith wasn't comfortable 222 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.159 with that. So when that occurred was the first time 223 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:02.159 Keith came out of hiding speak contacted. The newspaper took 224 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:05.600 credit for the homicide of Tiny Bennett, but would not 225 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.600 devult who he was. With all of the letters, he 226 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:10.799 signed them with a happy face at the bottom, and 227 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.240 the Oregonian newspaper deemed him the happy Facekiller. 228 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.840 At this point, he's really really frustrated. He's written on 229 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.799 the walls, truck stops, he's written to the county court, 230 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.720 and yet still he's not getting the recognition that he 231 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:29.200 feels he deserves, especially around that smiley face monika that 232 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:30.159 he's crafted. 233 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:31.600 He probably thought that. 234 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.360 Was a brilliant kind of brand identity, and nobody's picking 235 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.200 it up. So at this point he's really really angry. 236 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:42.120 He's screaming out, now I've done this. I'm proud of this. 237 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:44.000 I deserve recognition for it. 238 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:49.519 The letters detailed all five of the murders that Jessperson 239 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:54.039 had committed, allowing authorities to link these separate cases together. 240 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.159 But the truck you continued on regardless. He killed a 241 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:03.240 six victim known only as Suzanne, in September nineteen ninety four, 242 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.639 and in January nineteen ninety five, he claimed a seventh 243 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.039 is most inhumane so far. 244 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:17.639 Angela's sabrese is one that always sticks in my mind 245 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.000 because it doesn't start out at a truck stop in 246 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.960 the same way as the many of the other killings have. 247 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.000 This time, he offers Angela a lift. She's twenty one. 248 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.759 She wants to lift to see her father. In the end, 249 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:36.919 she phones her father and her father says, oh, don't 250 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.200 come now, so she decides to go and see her 251 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:40.320 boyfriend in Indiana. 252 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.279 According to Jasperson, he got irritated with her because she 253 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.120 was telling him to hurry up. He says how much 254 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.039 she was nagging at him and how much she was 255 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.840 bitching at him, And what he's doing. 256 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.559 Here is victim blaming. 257 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:59.279 He's drawing on these stereotypical notions of women as annoying 258 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.279 as nagging, because that has often been used in. 259 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.360 The past to justify murders. 260 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.639 It's this kind of crime of passion type of argument, 261 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.480 and he really is quite in tune with that. 262 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:16.000 After spending a week together on the road, Jesperson strangled 263 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.600 Angela to death, but he was far from finished with her. 264 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:23.639 You have a man who is now quite literally out 265 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:31.240 of control. But what makes Angela's killing so horrible is 266 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:36.440 that he decides to cover his tracks, and he ties 267 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:43.960 the poor dead young woman's body under his truck and 268 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.559 toes it, and the objective is to obliterate her face 269 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.799 and her fingerprints. He's sufficiently aware that he knows that 270 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.720 this one could be traced. After all, one or two 271 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.919 people may well have known that he had offered her 272 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:06.200 a lift. Wants to make sure that she's unidentifiable. This 273 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.200 is a killing of the supreme wickedness. I mean, one 274 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:16.839 feels desperately that she couldn't possibly have deserved that horrific fate, 275 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:23.559 and yet Jefferson meted it out to her without a 276 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:25.279 twinge of conscience. 277 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.880 As far as we can see, the pace of Jefferson's 278 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.720 killing spree was accelerating, and just two months after the 279 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:37.240 murder of Angela's surprise, in March nineteen ninety five, a 280 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:41.359 body was discovered in Washington, just off Highway fourteen. 281 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.079 I'm at the washing Over Police Department and I need 282 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.599 to see an officer. How I think I've found a 283 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:48.799 body longside thrown? 284 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:50.839 So why didn't think it's the body? 285 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:54.599 Well, because I was decided the row and I was furinating, 286 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:56.799 and I thought down on the hillside looked like a female. 287 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:58.559 I could see a hand and singer of Polish. 288 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.599 I was actually on days off and it was I 289 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.480 believe March eleventh, nineteen ninety five, when I received a 290 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.720 call at home stating that they had received a report 291 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.079 of a body that was found near the county line 292 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.400 just into Scamania County. The patrol officers were responding at 293 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.240 that time, and they asked that I respond as well. 294 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.000 I went off the bushes there and I looked down 295 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.000 the hill and it looked like I thought it was 296 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.519 a manneku At a first night, I saw the puno pause. 297 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.000 I went down and got kind of close to then 298 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:26.359 I got kind of sick. 299 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:29.880 The only thing really in that area between the highway 300 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.240 and the river is a set of railroad tracks. It 301 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.599 was all the way at the lower edge of that, 302 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.759 but just over the bank, probably twenty feet down over 303 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.519 the edge from the highway, is where the body was located. 304 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.440 This latest case bared all the hallmarks of the notorious 305 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:46.920 happy Face killer. 306 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:49.960 When we look at the locations in which Jefperson dumped 307 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.759 the bodies and you look at the other types of 308 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.400 item that you find in that location, it's trash, it's rubbish, 309 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.400 it's discarded things that people no longer won. And that 310 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.960 is exactly how jesperson sees his victims. He's had his 311 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:05.839 fun with them, they've served the purpose, and now he's 312 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.079 just going to dispose of them. 313 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.119 It appeared to me that she had not been there 314 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.240 very long, between possibly twenty four and thirty six hours. 315 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.319 She was laying on her right side and her face 316 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.400 was facing the ground. I could see evidence it's either 317 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:28.599 consistent with strangulation or lividity, because she was basically inverted. 318 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.559 Her head was lower than the rest of her body. 319 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:32.000 Once the heart. 320 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.119 Stops, blood woll Pool at its lowest point, and in 321 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.039 this case it would have been her upper torso, neck 322 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:38.519 and face. 323 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:44.279 One of the things that became a hallmark of Jesperson's 324 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:49.759 killing was the punched his victims repeatedly in the neck 325 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.319 and face and in the throat, thereby eventually killing them. 326 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.359 He was a puncher, beat them literally to death. 327 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:04.079 The first ask for the investigating team was identifying the body. 328 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.440 We had no clothing, we had no personal wallet, no 329 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.839 way to identify her. So one of the things that 330 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:15.119 we do at the Medical Examiner's offices we take fingerprints. 331 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:15.359 From the victim. 332 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.039 We then run those through the automated fingerprint identification system 333 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:22.559 known as ape's and in this case the victim, Julie Winningham, 334 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.720 her fingerprints were in ape's system. 335 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:29.119 Forty one year old Julie Winningham had become the latest 336 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:31.880 woman to be killed at the hands of the Happy 337 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:32.759 Face killer. 338 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.960 Jefferson is a man who feels completely entitled to treat 339 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.319 women in this way. He picks up women in his truck. 340 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:42.519 He thinks, I have a right to do with these 341 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:44.160 women whatever I want. 342 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:44.680 Now. 343 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:47.400 He knows that what he's doing is wrong, but that 344 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.359 that doesn't stop it because he feels that he has 345 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.720 some God given right. 346 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:52.240 To do this. 347 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:56.440 In a sense, they were falling into the hands of 348 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:01.359 a wolf. Their hens in the hen coop, and Jefferson 349 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:02.359 is the wolf of the door. 350 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.799 But Jefferson's world was about to come crashing down around him. 351 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.319 The thirty nine year old serial killer had made a 352 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.640 mistake that would lead the police to his door. Julie 353 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.799 Winningham had become Keith Jefferson's eighth victim, but she would 354 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:24.839 also be his last. Julie's son, Don Finley, was twenty 355 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:25.880 four at the time. 356 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:36.119 My mom she was a cheerful, free spirit, caring and loving. 357 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:39.920 She was just a traveler and an adventurer, and was 358 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.319 a free soul. And didn't understand that when I was young, 359 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.839 but as I grew up, I grasped what it was 360 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.480 all and why she chose her life the way she did. 361 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.799 Julie and Don did not have a traditional mother son relationship. 362 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:01.160 Don was working in California while Julie moved between the 363 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:02.519 Pacific Northwest. 364 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:06.559 There was a time when I came up here in 365 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.440 ninety one, the last time I physically saw my mom. 366 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.640 We drove around, we talked, we got caught up and 367 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.319 in ninety five. My mom had called me February twelfth, 368 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.039 which was her birthday, and my birthday was February twentieth. 369 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.640 She told me she was up in Idaho with a 370 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:31.960 friend and planning on coming down to Washington. 371 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.039 By March nineteen ninety five, Julie was spending a lot 372 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.359 of time with some friends in the Portland area, just 373 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:43.079 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River. 374 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.000 She started hanging out at some of the truck stops. 375 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:51.559 Burns Brothers over in Troutdale had a dance floor and 376 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:52.640 quite the nightlife. 377 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:53.759 A lot of people would go over. 378 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.000 There, whether they drove trucks or not, and I believe 379 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.279 it was a country in western bar and they would 380 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:00.920 just hang out and have with friends over there. 381 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.000 So she got into that circle over there as well. 382 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:08.240 After Julie's body was found just across the river in Washington, 383 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:12.000 her son Don was given the devastating news. 384 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.359 I was at work and I received a phone call 385 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:20.119 from my aunt telling me that they had found my 386 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:27.039 mom dead on the side of Highway fourteen, murdered and raided. 387 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:29.839 I lost it. 388 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:42.440 I punched fences, I pulled off paper towells, walked down 389 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:44.839 the street and just collapsed in the middle of the street. 390 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:45.759 No one around. 391 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.279 Friends, the people I knew as friends didn't know what 392 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:49.759 to think. 393 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:55.920 Detectives interviewed Julie's friends and they immediately had a lead. 394 00:23:57.079 --> 00:23:59.440 She had a boyfriend who was a truck driver. 395 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.279 Speaking with Julie's friends, we were very interested in who 396 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.079 this truck driver was that she was with. Unfortunately, her 397 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:10.279 friends really didn't pay much attention to him. They noticed 398 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.559 that he drove a big blue truck, a semi truck 399 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:15.519 with a sleeper cab, but they weren't sure of his name. 400 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.319 Some of them said his name maybe was Keith, some 401 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:20.599