Happy Face Presents: Two Face

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was May three in Springfield, Oregon, in the middle
of an otherwise peaceful, cool spring night. A car arrived
at Mackenzie william At Hospital. Diane Downs and her three
children had been shot. Cheryl seven was dead, and Danny
three and Christie eight had life threatening injuries. A year later,

(00:20):
Diane herself was found guilty for the shootings. 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.

(00:43):
One year later, at her trial, she was pregnant. That
child was Becky Babcock. So I was eleven and still
needed a babysitter. It was the same babysitter that I
had 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

(01:04):
standing at the top of the stairs. I was in
the door of my bedroom, she was in the hallway,
and I just thought, I am going to ask. I'm
going to find the answers that I want. I'm just
not going to stop until 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

(01:24):
you know Diane Downs. And that was at that point
how I had a name. 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 happy Face Killer. After
reckoning with my father's past and my own struggles of

(01:47):
living in its dark legacy, I decided to reach out
to others like me. 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 Ann Rule

(02:10):
in Seattle, I just said, you know, I think I've
met Diane Downs trild that once she gave birth to
during the trial, because oh, I will definitely get a
d n A test, because I've been approached by all
kinds of people who say they were the baby and
Diane Downs, and I said, oh, Anne, this is the

(02:32):
right person. I don't leave a Dana tests I could
see it. I've talked to her for years. Becky has
tried to come to terms with who her mother is,
but one mystery has haunted her. Who is a biological father?
When I watched the where Becky meets and she is
and who is my father? And Ant says, I can't

(02:54):
tell you. She's what I call it, Jack Colt match,
did you find Key'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 Phase Presents Tooth Pass