“Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter” is a book written by Melissa Moore. Melissa is the daughter of Keith Jesperson who was dubbed the Happy Face Killer in the early 90s. This was because of the smiley faces he drew as signature under his confession letters that wrote adfter murdering someone. Jesperson killed 8 people between 1990 and 1995. He also drew smiley faces at the site of the murders. Jesperson is now serving multiple life sentences for his murders.

Melissa Moore tells in her book how it felt to be raised as a daughter of a serial killer. Her book contains many disturbing things that Melissa saw her father do then she was a child. Her book is book is based on journals that she has been writing for more than a decade.

In her book Melissa tells about how her father Keith Jesperson tortured small innocent animals and got a kick out of it. She often saw her father grabbing a car from its tail and hanging it on a clothesline. Melissa would get frightened and run to fetch her mother, but by the time she would get there the animal would have already died. Many such incidences are written in Melissa’s book and others too.

Sometimes Keith would talk about grotesque things like killing someone in a certain way. He would also talk about how to kill someone and get away with it. All these things made Melissa, her siblings and her mother’s lives hell.