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Index

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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)

 

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

 

Dahmer, Jeffrey

Dahmer, Lionel

Davis, R.

DeFrates, Charles

Detre, Thomas P.

Disorders of Personality—DSM-IV and Beyond
(Millon/Davis)

Dodd, Westly Allan

Duke (Keith's pet dog)

 

Faria, Joanie

Father's Story, A
(Dahmer)

Flowers, Nancy

Fox Network

 

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

 

Haggar, Tom

Hare, Robert D.

Harris, Robert

 

Iqbal, Javed

Ironside, Robert

 

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

 

Kallinger, Joseph

Karen (potential victim)

Karr-Morse, Robin

Kearney, Patrick (“Garbage Bag Killer”)

Kennedy, John F.

Knievel, Evel

 

Lindner, Robert

Lucas, Henry Lee

 

Manson, Charles

Mead, Bob

Men Who Rape
(Groth/Birnbaum)

Millon, T.

 

Navelot, Pierre

“Night Stalker” (Richard Ramirez)

 

Pavlinac, Laverne

Pentland, Laurie

Pepsi (pet dog)

 

“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)

 

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

 

“Vampire of Paris” (Nicolas Claux)

 

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

 

Yakima Herald

I: THE CREATION OF A SERIAL KILLER

Copyright © 2002 by Jack Olsen.

Cover photograph courtesy of Les Jesperson.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001058892

ISBN: 978-1-4299-7907-8

St. Martin's Paperbacks are published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

1
Les Jesperson emphatically denied that the incident took place.

2
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.

4
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.”

5
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.

7
Hanged after pleading guilty to the 1989 murders of three young boys.

8
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.

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