The Paramount+ series “Happy Face” changes a number of key details in the real-life story about serial killer Keith Jesperson and how his daughter, Melissa G. Moore, decides to go public with ...

Put on a happy face. Dennis Quaid, best known for playing friendly patriarch roles in movies like “The Parent Trap,” takes a darker turn as a serial killer dad in “Happy Face,” premiering ...

In the new Paramount+ series “Happy Face,” Dennis Quaid plays real-life serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson. Jesperson became known as the Happy Face Killer because he drew smiley faces on ...

Dennis Quaid as Keith Jesperson in 'Happy Face' ; Convicted murderer Keith Jesperson at a court appearance on November 2, 1995 in Portland, Oregon.

Moore, which is terrifyingly upended when she discovers that her truck driver father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, is the serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer. Jesperson is spending his life ...

Keith Jesperson, nicknamed “the Happy Face Killer,” is completely real and is played by a movie star whom the series gets to feature in posters. He killed at least eight people and none of ...

Happy Face, Peacock’s crime series that is “based on a true life story,” follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer as she ... Keith Jesperson is real, as is Melissa Moore, whose ...

This, in turn, led him to be dubbed the "Happy Face Killer ... "The Golden State Killer," "The Night Stalker," and "B.T.K." often have more currency than serial killers' real names.

The big draw is Dennis Quaid. He is quietly chilling as Keith Hunter Jesperson – a real-life American-Canadian serial murderer dubbed the “Happy Face killer” in the 1990s because of the ...

Perhaps as a result, “Happy Face” lacks the nimble ... hours watching a show that features both — and uses a real-life killer as a hook to get us in the door. Hazel, who’s now the same ...