California identifies final victim of 'Happy Face Killer' after 34 years using DNA

Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter was murdered by serial killer Keith Jesperson in 1992; her family spent 34 years without knowing her fate or ability to lay her to rest.

For thirty-four years, a woman found along a California highway existed only as a placeholder name in a cold case file — a ghost in the official record while her family lived in the particular anguish of not knowing. This week, genetic genealogy gave her back her name: Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter, a Texas native murdered in 1992 by Keith Hunter Jesperson, the long-haul trucker who signed his confessions with smiley faces. Science, patience, and the quiet persistence of those who loved her have finally closed the distance between the lost and the found, allowing a family to grieve fully and lay h

California identifies final victim of 'Happy Face Killer' after 34 years using DNA

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