Investigators from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office used genetic genealogy to identify Patricia 'Patsy' Skiple as the victim
Investigators from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office used genetic genealogy to identify Patricia"Patsy" Skiple as a victim of California's"Happy Face Killer."
have identified a victim of the West Coast’s notorious "Happy Face Killer" nearly 30 years after her body was discovered near a highway in 1993, officials recently announced.used genealogy to identify Patricia "Patsy" Skiple as the victim dubbed "Blue Pacheco" for the color of her clothing at the time her remains were discovered., was a mother and was around 45 years old when she was killed.
Skiple's body was found on June 3, 1993, on the side of California State Route 152 in the Gilroy area near the San Francisco Bay Area.In 2006, Keith Hunter Jesperson wrote to the county district attorney's office and said he had sexually assaulted and killed a woman near the highway. Jesperson, who was arrested in 1995 on suspicion of killing a woman in Washington state, was dubbed the Happy Face Killer because he drew smiley faces on letters he sent to the media and police, prosecutors said.
He eventually confessed to killing eight women between 1990 and 1995 in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska, and Wyoming. He currently is serving four life sentences without possibility of parole in Oregon.
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