Happy Face Presents: Two Face

Melissa G. Moore: IG @melissag.moore; Tik Tok @melissa.g.moore

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was May nineteenth, nineteen eighty three, in Springfield, Oregon.
In the middle of an otherwise peaceful, cool spring night,
A car arrived at Mackenzie Wilhemette Hospital. Diane Downs and
her three children had been shot. Cheryl seven was dead,
and Danny three and Christy eight had life threatening injuries.
A year later, Diane herself was found guilty for the shootings.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
In the eighties, this was a shocking headline story of
fatal attraction. Authorities believed Diane's infatuation with a married man
who said he had no interest in being a father
to anyone's children was the possible motive behind her shooting
her three kids. One year later, at her trial, she

(00:46):
was pregnant. That child was Becky Babcock.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
So I was eleven and still needed a babysitter. It
was the same babysitter that I'd had since I was very,
very young. I can remember the moment like it was yesterday,
which is so weird. I can't remember exactly what was said,
but I remember standing at the top of the stairs.
I was in the doorway of my bedroom, she was
in the hallway, and I just thought, I'm going to

(01:13):
ask I'm going to find the answers that I want.
I'm just not going to stop. And I know who
my biological mother was. I talked to the babysitter and
made it sound like I already knew. She had said, oh,
so you know Diane Downs. And that was at that
point how I had a name.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
After Becky learned her mother's identity as a teen, it
began to affect her life. My name is Melissa Moore.
My father was Keith Jesperson, a serial murderer known as a.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Happy Face Killer.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
After reckoning with my father's past and my own struggles
of living in his dark legacy, I decided to reach
out to others like me.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
It's almost like I'm across the table from Diane Downs.
I mean it's a different age, it's a different demeanor,
but there are some similarities that are clearly there. And
so when I called and Rule in Seattle and I.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Just said, you know, I think I've met Diane Down's child,
the one she gave birth to during the trial, she says, Oh,
I will definitely get a DNA test because I've been
approached by all kinds of people who say they were
the baby of Diane Downs and I said, Oh, and
this is the right person.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I don't need a DNA test. I can see it.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I've talked to her for years.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Becky has tried to come to terms with who her
mother is, but one mystery has haunted her.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Who is her biological father?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
When I watched the twenty twenty piece where Becky meets
and she is and who is my father? And Anne says,
I can't tell you. She's what I call it Jack
cult match? Did you Findye's biological father? Join me as
we search for the answer and explore Becky's and her
mother's past on this season of Happy Face Presents two

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