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Great show
These true stories told by those who love them Gave me hope.

So good
I have enjoyed both season one and two. I hope there will be a season three.

Cheryl
Your young, scared, brutally assaulted daughter named YOU as the shooter after having a stroke and going through months in the hospital. What is the question here? How can her brother literally think she is innocent????? Diane is mentally ill. Has nothing better to do in prison but come up with different versions of that night. She deserves to die in prison.

1 > 2
The first season was wonderful. I found the second season to be a little dull (so far). It seems too drawn out.

So Sad
Am I the only one who thinks Diane’s brother James is especially cruel to a woman whose biological background is both violent and mysterious? Becky is reaching for meaning, and this man meets her for the purpose of recruiting her as a mouthpiece for Diane’s innocence. He then relays that he is offended that Becky judges Diane based on her odd behavior and her guilty judgement (what else does she have to go on). He’s just as nuts as his sister. Prayers to Becky that she finds fulfillment, love, and a sense of belonging in her life.

Great ads!
This is a wonderful podcast of ads for various I Heart Radio podcasts. Also as a bonus, if you pay close enough attention, they also sneak some true crime story in each episode too!

Good
Good podcast. Season 2 is a little song/ad heavy but hey gotta make money. Diane's brother in season 2 is so sure of her innocence it’s troubling. She obviously tried to murder all her children. Guy needs to open his eyes.

Really good
Creatively recorded and spot on music but it’s too disruptive to keep playing it throughout. With the adds I just want to hear the story.

Loves his sister, but not her daughter?
It’s unusual that if James cares SO much for his sister as he says he does, he wouldn’t want a relationship with her flesh and blood daughter, the closest thing to her. I wish that was asked directly to him. Great, intriguing podcast.

Music
I love the podcast but there is too much music. I would have rated it a 5.

So much YES!
I absolutely loved this whole series. I have listened to it twice now and I recommend it to everyone who loves True Crime Podcasts! 10/10 would recommend it’s very informative while also giving a back story.

Intriguing but more attention to victims needed
My favorite parts are insights into how the killer’s daughter has managed living in the shadow of her father’s crimes. Good for her for being stronger, smarter, better at living, having more physical and mental endurance than her loser father. She is an amazing woman to make herself vulnerable as she has here. My least favorite part is very little attention being paid to the victims as humans, as the producers themselves talk about the trend in history of ignoring the victims. Most disturbing was simply hearing from the idiot narcissistic killer himself about how each women died—this was the most attention most of the murdered women got in the series. They are more than their most horrific moments— they are so much more interesting than the worthless, fragile little idiot killer. Each episode in part should be dedicated to our learning more about one of the victims in life, rather than in the killer’s version of their deaths.

Great & real
Please don’t be misled by all the complaints about ads! Just scroll over them instead of giving bad reviews! This podcast gets better and better. Great job -

It all works
Melissa is a brave person caught in a tough position. A victim twice, of her father and now the cruel words of strangers. People seem to need a scapegoat for their own anger, anger that has nothing to do with Keith or Melissa. These cruel people need to take a good hard look inside themselves, their response to a man and his daughter that they do not personally know. Music, writing, narrative / narrator, production come together and provided me with a world that is easy to imagine and relate to, or at least empathize with. Also, part of the team that produced Murder In Oregon are involved. Highly suggest that podcast, too.

Love it
Melissa is great.

So pumped!
Loved season one of this show. Season two is off to a great start! Read a lot of comments about commercials. They don’t bother me and if they did I could skip ahead 30 seconds. I actually find it really excited to see our host get some funding and still giving us great content for free! 👏support👏lady👏creators! You’re doing great work!

Season 2
Figured this was a one season and done podcast. JACKED to see season 2 pop into my feed.

Great podcast
I liked the music! I thought it added to the storytelling. For anyone else interested, the name of the singer/band is “A Hope for Agoldensummer”. As for the podcast, it was so interesting. Melissa voice and storytelling pull you in. It is both heartbreaking and uplifting.

Interesting
A very interesting podcast with a different spin. The music was strange and distracting. It would have been better with something different.

Great podcast
Thank you Melissa for your honesty.

Just WOW
This podcast is amazing, I love the the Don episode. It really resonates with the healing possibilities, no matter the traumas. The dissection of trauma in Melissa and Don ‘leroy’ was honestly very enlightening. To hear these people who have just gone through so much and we’re the psychological play things, but still were able to find their own peace. Amazing. Just absolutely amazing.

Great podcast
Loved this podcast. I read a lot of the reviews and think the point of the podcast was missed by many. My take is that this podcast was less about the Happy Face serial killer but more about his daughter. We get lots of info about him, hear him, details about the murders, etc but all of that is secondary to his daughter’s journey. I just loved it.

Distracting Music
Really interesting podcast. This is one serial killer I wasn’t familiar with. Melissa’s voice and memories are captivating and heartbreaking. Lost one star for the constant distracting music. The music is beautiful, just too much of it..

Great podcast
I’m deeply wowed.

Great podcast
I thought it was a great podcast overall. And I actually quite enjoyed the music it set the tone. Terribly sad story. Hopefully the victims can Rest In Peace.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Very interesting and love the first person account!!!

So good yet so wrong..
This is one of the most engaging and gripping true crime podcasts I’ve listened too and I’ve listened to a lot of them. I can typically handle some pretty brutal stuff but the things Keith Jesperson describes in this podcast are graphic and incredibly upsetting.. LISTEN WITH CAUTION! Not for sensitive ears!

Questions
I still question what in the world would make Melissa want to visit that non human in prison, and then allow your children to see IT. Next, are you profiting from any of Keith’s life stories and , if so, are you donating all the funds to a victims relief fund? theHoff

About so much more than true crime
This is beautiful. Melissa was so vulnerable and honest. Lauren and the full team handled everything about this story beautifully. The victims (including the family of the murderer) were front and center and it was so much less about the sensational and horrific crimes.

Fascinating but irritating music
Fascinating story. The music, however, is irritating, especially when it’s woven directly into someone’s talking.