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Synopsis: Follow the hunt and ultimate capture of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson. An aspiring cop turned long-haul truck driver after a failed marriage, Jesperson strangled his first victim following an argument and was back on the road again the very next day, killing at least eight women over a five-year span as he crisscrossed the country. Upset after a woman falsely confesses that she and her boyfriend are responsible for one of his murders, Jesperson begins to taunt the authorities by sending a series of disturbing letters to newspaper editors, even scribbling confessions on the walls of highway rest stops admitting that he loved killing his victims. By signing his morbid notes with a happy face, he earned himself the notorious nickname, "Happy Face Killer" and forever left his mark of fear.
 
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5.5
TV-14
Year:
2014
83 min
101 Views


Ooh, the forest bear is sad.

I just had a really... bad day.

Don't touch that.

Ooh...

Giddyup.

I said, don't touch that.

I said, put that down.

Faster, faster,

they're getting away.

You know what, Sissy?

You talk too much.

Giddyup.

Greetings.

How are you today?

I hope I'm in focus.

That would be a first.

Okay, so let's get started.

Why am I videotaping myself?

Simple.

I'm protecting my reputation.

I want

a permanent record of me,

and I don't want

some cheesy reporter

getting it all wrong.

To begin with,

I've been misunderstood

my whole life.

And I live with that pain,

I try to not let it

get me down.

But let me tell you,

every now and then,

I get urges,

and I finally acted on them.

And it was...

What's the word I'm looking for?

Exciting.

Agent Gand,

the Bureau appreciates

the recent work you did

on the prostitution ring

in Spokane.

Thank you, sir.

You made

all the difference.

I need you

to do that again.

A female body was

discovered in Washington,

in a gorge

near the Oregon border.

A happy face...

Drawn in blood?

It appears the murder

was committed in Oregon

but the body

dumped in Washington.

With a state line

crossed,

that makes it

an FBI matter.

Local police?

Under-staffed,

over-confident.

I need you to get up

to Ruskin County,

Washington,

Meet with Sheriff J.D. Cotton.

Yes, sir.

Just remember,

we're playing chess,

they're playing checkers.

Try to make them feel included.

Solve this thing for us, Gand.

Yes, sir.

Are you sure you wanna

pack up all this stuff

so soon?

Cora will probably

change her mind.

Cora won't even

return my phone calls,

and I can't keep living here

with all her stuff.

Aw...

Please tell me

this isn't yours.

I didn't have the heart

to get rid of it.

The kids just loved it

when they were younger.

Yeah.

Hey...

What's this?

It's really pretty.

It's Cora's.

Hey, sweetheart.

Where are you headed?

Look, agent Gand,

these jurisdiction cases

are usually just too many folks

at the same party.

It's an interstate matter.

The law is the law.

Yeah, I've heard that.

Felicia,

can we get

some coffee?

With all due respect,

agent Gand,

I actually have

done this before,

so you being here,

it may be overkill.

The government prefers

to be thorough.

Well, good for them.

Uh, how do you take

your coffee,

special agent Gand?

That's okay, hon,

I can take it from here.

I think we can

figure out coffee,

we've got an FBI agent

on the premises.

How long you been an FBI agent?

11 years.

Ah, is that right?

Well, I've been

sheriff of this county 17.

Every time

there's a murder,

six in the last nine years,

I've caught 'em

and got convictions.

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Richard Christian Matheson

Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia and Zoopraxis. He is the author of the suspense novel Created By and Hollywood novella of magic realism The Ritual of Illusion, and was the editor of the commemorative book Stephen King's Emmy Winning BATTLEGROUND Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" and won two Emmys. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Three O'Clock High, Full Eclipse, It Takes Two, Loose Cannons Shifter, Midvale The Nature of Evil(co-written with his father Richard Matheson, Paradise, It Waits, Happy Face Killer, Voices of Midway, "Red Sleep", "Hooky", Dean Koontz's Soul Survivor as a 4-hour mini series, three Masters of Horror episodes, Stephen King's Big Driver, and 'NIGHTMARE CINEMA". He wrote for Amazing Stories, the miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes and adapted as four-hour miniseries HG Well's "THE TIME MACHINE", Roger Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber" and Whitley Strieber's "Majestic". Matheson also wrote twenty comedy and drama pilots for major studios and networks. He co-created, co-executive produced and co-wrote all thirteen episodes of the highly-rated HBO/Cinemax half-hour comedy series CHEMISTRY. He has been executive story consultant, supervising producer and executive producer for network television series. He is also the co-executive producer of the films Cub, It Waits, Paradise, Full Eclipse and Big Driver. more…

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