Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
While I understand the publisher's decision to let Keith tell his side of the story, the story itself wasn't well written. Events seem scattered. Tidbits that aren't relevant to the overall story were just filler. It's hard to know what is true and what is lies. It was interesting to read his telling of events though I think it could have used some analysis from a psychologist or criminologist to make it more interesting.

It is very rare that I DNF a book but at 32% I gave up. This book felt it was just one long run on sentence. It was all over the place, had no order to it that it just became too confusing to keep reading. While I would have liked to read more into this I couldn’t get past the layout that had no rhyme or reason.

The “Serial killer culture” has become a prominent phenomenon in our day and age. People are fascinated with the psychology, criminology, and everything in between for serial killers. Whether it is podcasts, tv shows, movies, or books, our civilization has become enamored with the culture of serial killers.
Keith Jesperson is what the media named “The Happy Face Killer”. He was arrested in 1995 over a homicide investigation involving his last victim and has been incarcerated for the last 30 years. There have been and will be no more convictions and/or trials, and so he feels he needs to set the record straight after all the propaganda, lies, tales, etc, that have come out about him over the last three decades. The overall impression that I received as a I read this biography is that Keith Jesperson is/was a pushover, slightly paranoid, highly distrustful of the legal system, and extremely calculating, which to some extent makes absolute sense.
Overall, I think Jesperson would truly choose a different path for himself if he could go back in time and make different decisions. I understand that he wants to right the records and undermine all those who try to lie about him to make a buck or two. At the same time, you must scrutinize what he is saying. You never know what is going on in someone else’s mind when they have nothing but time. It was an alright read and I can appreciate the motive behind it all.

Various nitpicky things that need to be pointed out:
1) The address of Roberta’s mother should not be listed in this book. I’m sure the woman is long deceased, but you do not want to cause damage to the neighborhood or otherwise.
2) Yes, the serial killer culture and murderabilia is very popular right now, however, it should not be encouraged to go find shoes that were thrown off from Keith Jesperson during one of the murders he committed.
3) Clean up the grammar, misspellings, etc. before final print.

While this is an interesting concept I am a little sick and tired of hearing from this absolute scumbag of a human and the story just keeps coming out lately being pushed more and more.

I think this could have benefited from being broken up with some analysis by the secondary author. Jesperson’ s personal account is just too boring and self indulgent to stand alone and without comment.