Le TUEUR en SÉRIE qui NARGUAIT la POLICE : Keith Jesperson, TUEUR au SMILEY (1/2) | #HVI

In 1990, the body without life of a young woman is found on the side of a road in Oregon. The police are about to start an investigation into the murder and are waiting for the investigation to be long and difficult. But against all odds, they quickly receive a call that will be decisive for the resolution of this murder. The culprits will be arrested and imprisoned, only here. Once the culprits are under the covers, the editors of several newspapers and even

The authorities receive letters from a person who claims to be not only the real murderer of the young woman, but also, he claims, to be a serial killer. Who is this mysterious person? Is it a staging orchestrated from the prison where the culprits are? Or is he telling the truth? This is what I propose to you to discover in this new episode of HVI. But before starting, I would like to thank you.

Because today, it's been a year, day by day, since the first video was published on the channel. And it was an extraordinary year. You brought me a lot of things, from your likes, your comments, your messages on Instagram, your presence during the live, well, in short, I could never have hoped to manage to regroup such a nice community. And so, to thank you and to strengthen the community even more, I set up a Discord server.

When I say "game", I didn't do anything at all. So, a big thanks to Hugo and Yoliwood, they did a crazy job. And I really hope you'll like the server. I leave you the server link in description. And in two words, for those who don't know what is Gliscord, well, I'm not an expert either, and I'm learning as I go, but basically, it's a community tool that will allow me to share updates on video-treated affairs, to make announcements, to set up events, and

and now, generic.

Tonya Bennett is a 23-year-old young woman, very smiling, who likes to make new encounters. She is also described as a young woman a little simple, naive, and even a little late, according to Michelle White, her sister. But she loves to learn and read, and she is the only one in her family who has pursued her studies after high school. She likes to meet new people, as I said earlier,

and it would seem that he often goes out to party and have evening adventures with men he meets in the bars she frequents. But on January 21, 1990,

Tonya, unlike usual, did not give any news to her family. Her mother and sister, worried, decide to declare her disappearance to the authorities. Meanwhile, a cyclist makes a macabre discovery on the road leading to Vista House, a monument and a point of view east of Portland. The lifeless body of a young woman is found in the ravine that borders the winding road. The officers of the Sheriff's Office of Multnomah arrive on site and make the first observations. It is a young woman who has apparently been raped.

then killed without a doubt by strangulation. She was also hit in the face, making her identification complicated, especially since there is no bag or identity paper nearby to identify her. The investigators begin by drawing a robot portrait and broadcast it on TV and in newspapers for about a week.

After the discovery and from the broadcast, Sergeant John Ingram from the Homicide Section of Multnomah receives a call. It is Michel, Tonya's sister, who saw the robot portrait broadcast on TV. She first refused to believe that it could be her sister, but when the photos of the victim's clothes were broadcast,

She had to show up, the young woman found lifeless, and probably her sister, Tonya Bennett. The family is summoned to the coroner's office for identification and they confirm. From the first days, the sheriff's office collects testimonies. Tonya would have been seen the night of her disappearance in a bar with a billiard. She would have played billiards with two men that bar habitus don't know.

but she would then leave the place alone. It only took a few days for the investigation to start, but she already promises to be very complicated. Except that on February 5, 1990, Sergeant John Ingram receives an anonymous call, during which a woman tells him that she knows who the murderer is. During this call, a woman claims that the murderer of poor Tonya is named Sosnovsky, John Sosnovsky. Sergeant Ingram passes the name to the file and after several attempts with different spelling,

He ends up finding a man with that name and this man is in surveillance. He then calls his judicial controller and he makes a funny revelation to him: he himself received a call from the Pavelynak tavern, John Sosnovsky's companion, telling him that she had surprised, despite her, a conversation with John in a bar during which he had entrusted another man to have met Tonya Bennett.

Then he had followed her, pretending that he had taken her with him in a car and had killed her before getting rid of her body at the Vista House. But the investigators decide to visit the famous Pavelynak tavern. It is a 58-year-old lady, very cordial and very polite. Sergeant Ingram begins by asking her why she took several days before protesting,

She replies that her alcoholic partner can sometimes be violent and that she is simply afraid of him. Then she tells how, on the evening of January 21, she took him to a bar, the JB's Lounge, in Portland.

When he came back between 1 and 2 am, he immediately went to the bathroom and took a shower. Unusual thing, not to take a shower, but to take one so late and going back to the bathroom. And then he went to bed immediately. The next morning, she saw bruises on her hip and he was full of pain in his wrists and hands. Decided to know more, the investigators summoned John Sosnovsky to ask him questions.

Do you know Tanya Ann Bennett? Not to my recollection, sir. We have been to your apartment and retrieved one of them being a piece of paper with the name T. Bennett. Is that your printing? I cannot answer that.

But even if the investigators don't really believe it, the evidence is insufficient and the man is released. On the other hand, the Pavelynak tavern accepts to be equipped with a microphone and he is asked to try to get a confession at night, once they have returned to their home.

But there too, the man confessed nothing. A few days pass and the Verne Pavlinak calls the investigators, asking them to come to her. When they arrive, she puts a paper bag containing evidence that she said she found in her house. A handbag that could very well be that of Tonya Bennett and

and above all, a jean jacket. And this jacket, it turns out, was indeed missing from the victim's jeans too, but this detail had never been communicated to the press. John Sosnowski is therefore again summoned and questioned, and this time he recognizes having met Tonya at the bar the night of her murder. "I've seen T-Bannered at JB's truck stop on several occasions."

This is where it gets interesting. It's not a confession yet, but it's in good voice. And in parallel, the lab results come back. The rag given by Laverne does not correspond to the gin found on the victim, and Tonya never had a similar bag, at least according to her family. The investigators turn to see it and ask her what it means.

The old lady cracks up and explains to them that she has made evidence to facilitate the work of the police and to make her partner John Sosnovski stop. They take it all back to zero and ask her to tell the whole story once again,

The old lady then delivers a different version. In fact, John called her panicked to tell her to come and get him at the bar. And he asked her to bring something large with her to wrap something voluminous. She then took a blue shower curtain. Upon arriving there, she found John hidden in the parking lot between two vehicles with, at her feet, an inanimate woman. The maid then asked her if she was sick or something like that and she answered: "Worse."

she is dead. He wrapped the woman in the shower curtain, loaded her into the car, then ordered the nurse to start. The nurse then suggested going to the hospital, but John Sosnowski answered her by threatening her: "If she says anything, he will pay her, not only will he kill her, but also he will take her to his little children." Terrorized, she then drove to Vista House, where he got rid of the body. The investigators are now convinced: John Sosnowski is their man. But to put all

All chances on their side to make him convicted in front of a court, they ask the Wern to accompany them on the Vista House road and to indicate to them the exact place where John Sosnowski got rid of the body. Because, again, it's information that has not been publicly communicated. They therefore take the winding road, pass Vista House, then descend east. They pass in front of the place of the discovery of the body and overtake it without the Wern saying anything when suddenly, she tells them to turn around.

and she ends up asking them to park before getting out of the vehicle and point to the exact place where the body was found. There is now no doubt, she tells the truth. Jan Sosnowski is therefore arrested and charged with murder. Yes, but here it is. Five days later, the Pavinak police station called Sergeant Ingram

and tells her she would like to come back to her deposition. He then turns to see the old lady and, once again, she gives a completely different version. When she arrived at the bar parking lot, she says now, the woman was actually alive and in the middle of a fight with John. Not meanly, rather like a game.

They both got in the car in the back, laughing, and John Sosnowski told the van to go to Vista House. On the way, the woman whistled at John, who replied by giving him a punch in the face, and the two continued to laugh. The van parked in the parking lot of Vista House, and she stayed in the car while John and the woman entered the structure to have a sexual relationship.

After a while, John came back to the car to take some rope to, he said, make things a little more exciting. And he asked the maid to accompany him. He then placed the rope around the woman's neck, which seemed rather amusing to the situation, and ordered the maid to keep the rope while he continued what he had started. What she had done, but by closing her eyes, so as not to see her partner making love to this other woman. And when she opened them, the woman was inanimate.

She had probably tightened too much

killing her. It was then that they both got rid of the body, a few kilometers from there. It's a blow to Ingram's face. The little coming, kind and cordial granny, could she actually be a murderer? They have trouble believing it and to convince themselves, they summon their daughter and ask the Verne to start over with her story from the beginning, but instead of telling them, to tell her daughter. They are convinced that she would never tell such horrors to her daughter if she were not true.

And the glass is executed in front of her daughter, stunned. They have her tell me this story. And I looked at her again and I said, Mom, are you sure? And she goes, well, they told me I had to tell you this.

She was then arrested and charged with murder. The trial began on January 24, 1991. During the trial, the Verne Pavlinak tried to come back to her statements by explaining that she actually lied in order to escape a alcoholic and violent little friend, that she started with a little lie and that she then felt obliged to go a little further each time,

fearing that it would not be enough to make the man who was so afraid stop him. But this did not convince the prosecutor or the jury. During the trial, a graffiti claiming the murder of Tonya Bennett was discovered on the public toilet wall. It is written: "On January 21, 1990, I killed Tanya Bennett in Portland. Two people were wearing the hat, so I can still kill. I cut the jeans buttons, proof.

But the message is ignored because, according to the accusation, it is very plausible that John Sosnowski or the Pavelynak's maid simply asked someone outside to write it to make them apologize.

The Pavlinak's tavern, despite its retribution, is considered guilty by the jury. She is sentenced to life in prison with a 10-year penalty of security. John Sosnowski, in order to avoid the death penalty, decides to plead no contestation by saying that he simply does not remember this evening and does not know if the words of the Pavlinak's tavern are true or not. Basically, no contestation, it's almost like pleading guilty, except that

that he's not really guilty. I don't know how to explain it, I'm not sure I understood it myself, so if there are any jurists who want to detail a little bit in the comments, don't hesitate. John Sosnovsky is also sentenced to life in prison. The story could end there, except that the message written on the wall of public toilets was indeed written by the real murderer of Tonya.

Keith Hunter Jesperson was born on April 6, 1955 in Chilliwack, Canada. Then the family moved and settled in the United States, and more precisely in Sella, in the state of Washington. Keith has always been tall for his age, very tall. And he deserves to be rejected and mocked not only by his family, but also by his classmates. In the end, his behavior at school deteriorates and he often has reprimands, as a result of which his father punishes him, by inflicting him with belt cuts.

His father, by the way, does not seem to have a great esteem for Keith and constantly humiliates them. The only times when he seems to prove a leap of pride is when the little boy infuriates animals with his vices. Keith Jesperson indeed seems to enjoy torturing and killing animals: cats, crows and little dogs found in the neighborhood. But quickly, the animals are no longer enough and the child is surprised to see

to want to do the same thing to human beings. One day, at the park, he voluntarily leaves a stone to roll a toboggan, and the stone ends his race in the head of his brother Brad. Another day, Keith is with one of his rare friends, Martin, with whom he is used to hanging out and doing stupid things. Except that Martin, when he is caught, systematically rejects Keith's fault. And that famous day, Keith decides to put an end to this friendship by attacking Martin and hitting him violently.

before being interrupted by his friend's father. He later admitted that if he hadn't been stopped, he had the intention to go all the way and give Martin life. Another time, when he was at the lake, a boy from his school falls on him and keeps his head under water, under the funny laughter of other children.

Keith doesn't like it that he decides to take revenge on the municipal pool. He runs after his attacker, he keeps his head under water but doesn't let go of the pressure. The other child loses consciousness and only owes his salvation to the intervention of the swimmer. Again, Keith will admit that his goal was once again to kill his schoolmate. At the same time, things don't work out at home.

Quite the opposite. Without being brilliant, Keith Jesperson ends up getting his degree in the end of his studies, but that's it. His father, anyway, tells him that he's too stupid to go to university and that it will be useless. It is therefore at the age of 19 that the young man leaves his parental home and becomes a road driver in 1974, before marrying Rose Huck, his high school friend, in 1975. They have three children together, two girls and a boy, and everything seems to be going wonderfully.

Keith works hard and travels the country in his truck, and when he comes back, he likes to spend time with his children, who love him. The only reminiscences of his past seem to be the abuse towards animals. Melissa, his daughter-in-law, remembers that one day, while the children had brought cats home, her father's face suddenly closed.

He had grabbed the cats and tied them up by the tail on a laundry rope, laughing out loud as he tortured the animals who were fighting each other with claw strikes. The children, horrified and in tears, had begged their father to stop them, but he had completely ignored them. They then rushed inside the house to look for their mother,

And when they came out, the cats were gizzing, lifeless, on the lawn, under Keith's funny gaze. The years pass, and Rose, Keith's wife, ends up understanding that he's cheating on her.

She receives more and more women's calls at home asking to talk to Keith. When she asks them who they are, some answer: "his little friend". And when one day Rose finally ends up taking her courage to two hands and puts Keith in front of the party, he just smiles and hoaxes his head

as if he was a little surprised that she had taken so long to realize it. After 15 years of marriage, Rose Huck finally decides to end this relationship and one day, while Keith is on the road, she packs her things and leaves with the children. Melissa is then 10 years old and Keith, her 35-year-old father. Keith goes to stay in Cheney, still in the state of Washington, and continues to see his children every time he has the opportunity. One day, while she is 13 years old,

Keith tells Melissa, confident, that he knows how to commit a murder without being caught. "It's easy," he says to the girl. "You just have to remove the bracelet. Like that, there is no imprint. And wear cycling shoes, so as not to leave any unidentifiable traces." Suddenly, the girl doesn't understand what her father is telling her, and she thinks he read it in a magazine or in a novel.

She doesn't know that he's actually talking about experience, about an odious act he committed three years earlier, and she is in the middle of imagining that her father is actually a serial killer who will be nicknamed by the press "the killer with a smiley". April 29, 1994. Phil Stanford, a Oregonian journalist, a Portland newspaper, receives a singular letter. The several-page letter is a confession

It starts like this:

I put an end to his life. The letter continues by giving details about the way he killed her and how he got rid of her body. And this letter was not only sent to the Oregonian, but also to the court where the Pavelynak and Sosnovsky case had been judged. As if its author did not support the fact that someone else stole the star from him. But the details contained in the letter are not convincing enough for the attorney general Jimmy McIntyre

Some details seem to be exact, but others do not correspond to the autopsy report. The attorney general continues to think that it may be a cannula or someone doing that to simply make the Verne and John sorry and free. Except that the letter does not stop there. In addition to the murder of Tonya and not Sonia as its author wrote it, four other murders are described.

The journalist then starts to call the various territorial competent services and all answer the same thing: yes, the murder of the Cree is one of their unresolved investigations, and yes, the author of the letter gives details that have never been revealed to the public. Phil Stanford therefore decides to visit La Verne and John,

to have the cornet, and Laverne repeats what she tried to say during her trial. She did that to escape her violent little friend, and then things went on and had a kind of snowball effect. John, he is furious and claims that Laverne trapped her.

He did not plead for any contestation, as we said earlier, only to escape the death penalty. Strong of these testimonies and certainties, that he now has that it is actually a judicial fiasco, Phil writes an article and decides to name the author of the letters: the killer O'Smiley. The case will make the headlines of all newspapers, but yet, not only does no one know who this mysterious serial killer is, but in addition, the justice only gives little credit to what they consider just a media cost to the journalist

just to make the buzz. Until the day when the killer Osmiley will finally be arrested. He took life to eight women between 1990 and 1995. His last victim, Julie Winningham, was his long-time friend and he killed her because, according to him, she was only interested in

He strangled her on March 10, 1995 in Washougal, in Washington state, only 10 km from where he had taken Tonya Bennett's life five years earlier. Two weeks later, the police, after questioning the victim's friends, learned that she was dating a man named Keith Jesperson. He is therefore summoned and questioned, but says nothing.

Despite the fact that he seems completely indifferent to the death of his little friend, the investigators have absolutely nothing on him, no evidence that allows him to accuse him. He is therefore released.

But Keith feels that the rope is tightening and in the following days, he commits two suicide attempts. After which, he calls the investigators and on the phone, he confesses the murder of Judy Winningham, asking what he must do, and his interlocutor, who is none other than John Ingram, tells him to wait in the café where he is, his hands clearly on the table, he will send a patrol to arrest him. As these interrogations go on, Keith Jesperson will confess the murder of 8 people,

and is recognized to be the author of the letters, the famous killer in the Smiley. His DNA will be compared to the DNA found on the back of a stamp and it will be confirmed that it is indeed him who wrote them and sent them. During his trial, he did not express any remorse at all. He looked the loved ones in the eyes, without a wink. Keith Hunter Jesperson was sentenced to 4 sentences of perpetuity. Not happy with the attention he had benefited, he would have claimed to have killed a total of 185 women.

but only 8 were confirmed by the investigators and they think that the over-investigation was simply to get more attention from the media. There is still a lot to say about this case and in particular talk about its victims, something that I will do during the next live, I will talk to you about it in more detail, not only about the victims but also about its operandi modus and many other details related to this case. Today Keith Jesperson is still in prison where he discovered a passion

For the drawing, a little bit like Samuel Little, the serial killer, the most prolific in the history of the United States. Remember to subscribe and a little blue thumb would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for watching until the end, take care of yourself and see you soon. Bye!