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‘Happy Face Killer’ says he’s pen pals with Gilgo Beach murders suspect

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A man known as the “Happy Face Killer” says he reached out to the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer and urged him to confess to his heinous crimes.

Keith Jesperson, now 68, has been incarcerated at the Oregon State Prison since 1995, where he is serving a life sentence for the murders of at least eight women. His nickname comes from the smiley faces he drew on the many letters he has sent to the media and to the authorities over the years.

He recently told podcaster Keith Rovere, who specialises in interviewing serial killers, that he has a new pen pal – , a 59-year-old Long Island man who is

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