Authors: Jack Olsen
Last Man Standing
Hastened to the Grave
The Climb Up to Hell
Salt of the Earth
Charmer
The Misbegotten Son
“Doc”: The Rape of the Town of Lovell
“Son”: A Psychopath and His Victims
The Bridge at Chappaquiddick
Night of the Grizzlies
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Beausoleil, Bobby
Bellamy, Marjorie (maternal grandmother)
Bellamy, Roy (maternal grandfather)
Bennett, Loretta (mother)
Bennett, Taunja
body, disposal of
murder of
Birnbaum, H. Jean
Brudos, Jerome
Buckner, Rick
Buss, Arnold
Butch (friend)
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Chilliwack (B.C.)
Cindy (murder victim)
Clarice (pseudonym)
Clark, Marcia
Claudia (murder victim)
Claux, Nicolas (“Vampire of Paris”)
“Coast to Coast Killer” (Tommy Lynn Sells)
Copeland, Carol
Corson, Alan
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Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dahmer, Lionel
Davis, R.
DeFrates, Charles
Detre, Thomas P.
Disorders of PersonalityâDSM-IV and Beyond
(Millon/Davis)
Dodd, Westly Allan
Duke (Keith's pet dog)
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Faria, Joanie
Father's Story, A
(Dahmer)
Flowers, Nancy
Fox Network
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Gacy, John Wayne
“Gainesville Slasher” (Danny Rolling)
“Garbage Bag Killer” (Patrick Kearney)
Geringer, Jim
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
(Karr-Morse/Wiley)
Groth, A. Nicholas
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Haggar, Tom
Hare, Robert D.
Harris, Robert
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Iqbal, Javed
Ironside, Robert
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Jesperson, Arthur (grandfather)
Jesperson, Betty (step-mother)
Jesperson, Brad (brother)
Keith's confession letter to
Jesperson, Bruce (brother)
Jesperson, Carrie Marie (daughter)
Jesperson, Charles Edward (great-uncle)
Jesperson, Gladys Bellamy (mother)
appearance
Jesperson, Jason Roy (son)
Jesperson, Jill (sister)
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (home life)
and athletics
childhood and education
in Chilliwack (B.C.)
cribbage
Duke (pet dog), relations with
as a fisherman
motorcycles and cars
in Selah (WA)
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (family relations)
brothers
children
father
father, blaming
mother
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (employment)
backhoe operator
construction
fish-processing
lumber company
pumping gas
Silver Spur Mobile Home Park
truck driver
working for father
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (psychology and appearance)
abuse of
adolescent sexual problems
animals, murder and torture of
antisocial personality
arson and vandalism
cats, hatred of
and corporal punishment
delinquency, shoplifting and poaching
ego and exhibitionism
emotional remorse, lack of
friendships
intellect, slowness, gullibility and lack of coordination
as the I-5 firecracker bandit
personality and appearance
responsibility, refusal to accept
serial killers, interest in and correspondence with
and suicide
temperament, bullying and recklessness
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (women, relations with)
Clarice (pseudonym)
Dee Dee
Nancy Flowers
Peggy Jones (girlfriend) (pseudonym)
prostitutes and truck stop girls
Rose (wife)
Rose, divorce from
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (rape, assaults, and murders)
arrests and suspicions
bodies, disposing of
confessions, graffiti and Happy Face mail
police, dealings with
“Serial Killer” Web site
sexual assault and rape
sexuality, fantasies and necrophilia
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (victims and potential victims)
Taunja Bennett
Cindy
Claudia
Nancy Flowers
Karen
Laurie Pentland
Cynthia Lynn Rose
Sue Shannon
Angela May Subrize
Julie Winningham
woman with baby
Jesperson, Keith Hunter (arrests, trial and imprisonment)
arrests and suspicions
confessions, graffiti and Happy Face mail
emotional remorse, lack of
extraditions
letter writing
letters to father
and the media
poems and literary works
police, dealings with
polygraph tests
prison life
prison visitors
responsibility, refusal to accept
sentences
serial killers, interest in and correspondence with
trial strategies
Jesperson, Leslie Samuel (father)
alcoholism of
cats, hatred of
children, relations with
and corporal punishment
cruelty of
drugs, reaction to
Jesperson, Leslie Samuel (and Keith)
confession letter to Brad
Keith's blaming
and Keith's crimes
on Keith's gullibility
prison letters
prison visits
relations with
Silver Spur Mobile Home Park
working with
Jesperson, Melissa (daughter)
Jesperson, Rose Pernick (wife)
divorce
Jesperson, Sharon (sister)
Jones, Peggy (girlfriend) (pseudonym)
Keith's confession to
as Keith's truck driving partner
Justice Files
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Kallinger, Joseph
Karen (potential victim)
Karr-Morse, Robin
Kearney, Patrick (“Garbage Bag Killer”)
Kennedy, John F.
Knievel, Evel
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Lindner, Robert
Lucas, Henry Lee
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Manson, Charles
Mead, Bob
Men Who Rape
(Groth/Birnbaum)
Millon, T.
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Navelot, Pierre
“Night Stalker” (Richard Ramirez)
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Pavlinac, Laverne
Pentland, Laurie
Pepsi (pet dog)
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“Railway Killer” (Angel Maturino Resendez)
Ramirez, Richard (“Night Stalker”)
Resendez, Angel Maturino (“Railway Killer”)
Rhodes, Richard
Rolling, Danny (“the Gainesville Slasher”)
Rose, Cynthia Lynn
Routley, Reg
Russell (Keith's uncle)
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Schreiber, Flora Rheta
Selah (WA)
Selah Optimist
Sells, Tommy Lynn (“Coast to Coast Killer”)
Shannon, Sue
Shapiro, Jeff
Shawcross, Arthur
Simpson, O. J.
Smith, Billy (pseudonym)
Smith, Ginny (pseudonym)
Smith, Sandra
Smoker, Joe
Sosnovske, John
Spence, Gerry
Stanford, Phil
Subrize, Angela May
disposing of body
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“Vampire of Paris” (Nicolas Claux)
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Wall Street Journal
Warren, Janet
Webster (neighbor)
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
(Rhodes)
Wiley, Meredith S.
Williams, Frankie
Winningham, Julie
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
(Hare)
Woodfield, Randy
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Yakima Herald
I: THE CREATION OF A SERIAL KILLER
Copyright © 2002 by Jack Olsen.
Cover photograph courtesy of Les Jesperson.
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Les Jesperson emphatically denied that the incident took place.
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Les Jesperson emphatically denied that any such incident took place. His daughter Sharon declined comment on her father or her childhood.
3
Les Jesperson denied that the incident happened.
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Les Jesperson emphatically denied that he ever hit any of his children with a fist. He commented, “My son seems to have a photographic memory of things that never happened.”
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Les Jesperson said he had no memory of the incident. “I certainly never swung at any of my sons.”
6
The so-called homicidal triad, believed by some behaviorists to be a childhood indicator of future violent criminal behavior, consists of arson, bed-wetting and cruelty to animals.
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Hanged after pleading guilty to the 1989 murders of three young boys.
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Eventually the legal fandango was transformed into a cable TV presentation titled
Happy Face Murders,
described by a newspaper critic as “a repellent little documentary.” The Showtime movie featured Ann-Margret as the aging Pavlinac and opened with a written disclaimer: “Most of what you are about to see is true. The stuff that isn't true is the stuff that's most believable. Go figure.” To insiders the glib wording was almost understatement.