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The serial killer podcast that Happy Face Killer calls into for a chat

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When Keith Jesperson, infamously known as the “Happy Face Killer,” gets yard time at the maximum security prison in Oregon where he’s spent nearly 30 years after ruthlessly slaughtering multiple women, he uses it to make a phone call – to a true crime podcast.

Sometimes the former long-haul trucker nonchalantly recounts what went through his mind as he strangled his victims, all women, during his killing spree in the 1990s. Other times he talks about the secret club for killers inside his prison or brags about swapping stories with his new pen pal, suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann.

But most of the time he rambles on about his mundane day-day activities within the prison walls. As do the countless other prisoners who call into The Lighter Side of Serial Killers, a podcast that offers listeners a chance to hear some of the country’s most notorious serial killers chat about whatever topics they please.

“I don’t want anything from them,” host Keith Rovere told The Independent. “I’m not trying to get them to recant their crimes and every gruesome detail. I let them just talk.”

offers listeners the chance to hear firsthand accounts from some of the most terrifying and

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