She said of her father, “I can forgive my dad for being arrested. However, he continues to send letters that she doesn't read. Moore and her husband have decided to keep their distance from Jesperson and haven't seen him in about a decade. She wrote a book entitled, “Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter" and became an advocate for the relatives of murderers-people like herself who are searching for understanding and comfort from someone who has been through the same experience. Since then, Moore has decided to share her story with the world. When she was 21, she met future husband Sam Moore and finally revealed to him who her father was. She kept his horrible past a secret for years and hid her identity. Moore was a high school student when her mother told her that her father was in jail for murder. The long-haul truck driver carried out the murders over the course of five years and went undetected until he turned himself in. Moore, now 36, is the daughter of the man who became known in the ‘90s as the “Happy Face Killer.” Jesperson earned that moniker for the smiley face drawings he included on his confession letters, in which he bragged about killing eight women in a spree that began in 1990, the same year his divorce from Moore's mother was finalized. His daughter Melissa Moore, who now has children of her own, still struggles with navigating the traumatic aftermath of her father's sadistic past. In 1995, serial killer Keith Jesperson was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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