Podcast Episode
She Had No Name for 34 Years… The Happy Face Killer Knew Who She Was

About this episode
For nearly 34 years, she was known only as “Claudia”—an unidentified woman found murdered beside a California highway in 1992. Police eventually learned she was a victim of notorious serial killer Keith Jesperson, the Happy Face Killer. They knew who killed her, but they still didn’t know who she was.Now, after more than three decades, DNA and genetic genealogy have finally given the woman without a name her identity back.In this episode of Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III examines the Happy Face Killer, the mystery surrounding the remarkable investigation that finally gave a family the answer they had waited decades to receive.A killer was caught. A murder was solved. But one mystery remained for 34 years: Who was she?