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| HAPPY FACE KILLER (LIFETIME)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
3/1/14
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STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Lifetime's press release, February 2014) David Arquette (Scream) and Gloria Reuben (Lincoln) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Happy Face Killer, premiering Saturday, March 1, at 8pm ET/PT. The movie follows the grisly true-crime story of a truck driver who, during his work travels across the country, kills numerous women and hauntingly leaves a confession of each murder with a scrawled happy face as cryptic evidence of his crime. Reuben portrays Melinda Gand, the FBI investigator leading the case. Inspired by real-life events, Happy Face Killer follows the hunt and ultimate capture of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson (Arquette). 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. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· David Arquette as Keith Hunter Jesperson
· Gloria Reuben as Melinda Gand
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Harvey Kahn as PROD
· Richard Christian Matheson as WRTR
· Rick Bota as DIR
· Tom Patricia as EP
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GENRE(S):
· mow
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Front Street Pictures
· Happy Face Productions
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