Happy Face
Melissa, you can't hide forever.
Created by Jennifer Cacicio
On Paramount+
A deeply interior true-crime drama centered on a daughter's reckoning with her serial-killer father's forced re-entry into her life, grappling with complicity, identity, and the possibility of an innocent man's execution.
The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.
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