Keith Jesperson, often referred to as the “Glad Face Killer” who not too long ago admitted to his 8th serial homicide, stated he has a brand new pen friend at the back of bars.
Suspected Gilgo Seaside serial killer Rex Heuermann purportedly complained about prison meals and workout prerequisites and fretted that guards may well be studying his mail, in keeping with a handwritten letter that Jesperson forwarded to the “Lighter Aspect of Serial Killers Podcast” host and creator Keith Rovere.
Jesperson discussed the letter remaining month when police in Florida visited him in an Oregon jail to document his confession within the cold-case homicide of Suzanne Kjellenberg. A picture that Rovere shared with Fox Information Virtual displays it used to be dated Aug. 31.
“You have been proper about letters — I’ve gotten a variety of them — requesting interviews, to be pals, pen friends, and one man who despatched me 3 letters asking me to jot down again and upload to his ‘choice of letters,'” the letter reads. “You’re the best one that I’ve written again to and plan to jot down to.”
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A photograph representation displays parts of a handwritten letter attributed to suspected Lengthy Island serial killer Rex Heuermann superimposed over {a photograph} of him in court docket. (James Carbone/Pool by way of REUTERS, Inset: Keith Rovere/The Lighter Aspect Of Serial Killers)
Heuermann’s attorney Michael Brown didn’t right away reply to a request for remark.
Rovere, who stated he has interviewed a lot of murderers over time, together with “Son of Sam” David Berkwotiz, went public with the letter previous this week after discussing it with Jesperson on the most recent episode of his true crime podcast.
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“Being just a month and a part into this, as you already know, I’ve had so much to take into consideration,” the letter reads.
At some other level, he warned that, “It’s not that i am certain if my mail isn’t being learn. I did have one officer make a remark to me that he knew you have been writing to me.”
Rovere stated he spoke with Jesperson over the telephone Tuesday night time they usually each picked up on a equivalent vibe within the letter.
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“It’s important to glance into it a bit bit, however it kind of feels like he’s already at peace in his middle that he is aware of that he’s busted,” he stated, noting the dialog used to be informal, speaking about jail meals and looking ahead to discovery.
“Keith used to be the similar method,” he stated of Jesperson. “He is already at peace in his middle, and the calmness within the letter, the way in which he is writing.”
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Jesperson, in his October jailhouse interview, stated he tries to advise suspects who’re accountable to fess up — but in addition stated at the podcast that Heuermann will have to stay quiet about his personal case till it performs out in court docket and discouraged him from exchanging letters with any person else.
“I all the time attempt to inform folks to possess it, simply admit to it, you are stuck,” Jesperson instructed Florida government. “In case you are arrested it method the prosecutor has sufficient proof to take you to court docket and end up you accountable. They do not have arrested you if they did not.”
He claimed that Heuermann wrote him again to mention, “I’m going to take it beneath advisement” — however that word does not seem within the letter.
Gilgo Seaside murders sufferers Amber Costello (most sensible left), Maureen Brainard-Barnes (most sensible proper), Melissa Barthelemy (backside left), and Megan Waterman (backside proper). (Suffolk County Police Division)
On Rovere’s podcast, he mentioned the correspondence in higher element. He stated that jail is extra comfy and extra secure than prison, mentioning the deaths of Jeffrey Dahmer and Jeffrey Epstein. And he bragged that after he used to be convicted himself of 3 murders in 90 days, it ended in the discharge of 2 wrongfully convicted suspects. (A girl made a false confession in a type of murders so as to escape from her abusive boyfriend, who she claimed killed and murdered the sufferer. Each have been despatched to jail.)
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Heuermann is accused of killing 3 girls and has been classified the high suspect within the homicide of a fourth girl whose stays have been discovered close to the others.
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Heuermann has been held on the Suffolk County prison in Yaphank, New York, since mid-July on six homicide fees within the cold-case deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Costello, 27, whose our bodies police present in 2010 whilst on the lookout for a unique lacking girl, Shannan Gilbert, 23.
Crime scene investigators use steel detectors to go looking a marsh for the stays of Shannan Gilbert, Dec. 12, 2011 in Oak Seaside, New York. A Lengthy Island architect has been charged, Friday, July 14, 2023, with homicide within the deaths of 3 of the 11 sufferers in a long-unsolved string of killings referred to as the Gilgo Seaside murders. (James Carbone/Newsday by way of AP, Pool, Report)
Police have stated Gilbert’s demise used to be an coincidence. However they’re additionally taking a look at Heuermann in reference to the demise of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose stays they discovered close to the others.
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Jesperson’s daughter is these days fundraising for Heuermann’s now-estranged spouse, Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce in a while after his arrest.
Rovere, who describes himself as a Christian who in the past labored with jail ministry, stated he believes in certain interactions with the worst of the worst prisoners.
“The general public I communicate to aren’t believers and aren’t non secular. I don’t push it on them, however that’s my private basis,” he stated. “It’s most commonly about making a favorable trade of their lives, as a result of nobody else is doing it.”
