Happy Face Presents: Two Face

Speaker 1 was May 19th, 1983 in Springfield, Oregon. In the middle of an otherwise peaceful cool spring night, a car arrived at Mackenzie Willamette Hospital.
Diane Downs and her three children had been shot.

Speaker 1 Cheryl 7 was dead, and Danny 3 and Christy 8 had life-threatening injuries. A year later, Diane herself was found guilty for the shootings.

Speaker 1 In the 80s, this was a shocking headline story of fatal fatal attraction.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 One year later, at her trial, she was pregnant. That child was Becky Babcock.

Speaker 1 So I was 11 and still needed a babysitter. It was the same babysitter that I'd had since I was very, very young.
I can remember the moment like it was yesterday, which is so weird.

Speaker 1 I can't remember exactly what was said but I remember standing at the top of the stairs. I was in the doorway of my bedroom.
She was in the hallway and I just thought I am going to ask.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 She had said, oh, so 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.

Speaker 1 My father was Keith Jesperson, a serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer.

Speaker 1 After reckoning with my father's past and my own struggles of living in his dark legacy, I decided to reach out to others like me.

Speaker 2 It's almost like I'm across the table from Diane Downs.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's a different age, it's a different demeanor, but there are some similarities that are clearly there.

Speaker 2 And so when I called Ann Rule in Seattle, I just said, you know, I think I've met Diane Downs' child, the one she gave birth to during the trial. She goes, oh, I will definitely get a DNA test.

Speaker 2 Because I've been approached by all kinds of people who say they were the baby of Diane Downs. And I said, oh, Anne,

Speaker 2 this is the right person. I don't need a DNA test.
I can see it. I've talked to her.

Speaker 1 For years, Becky has tried to come to terms with who her mother is, but one mystery has haunted her. Who is her biological father? When I watched the 2020 piece where Becky meets Ann, she asks Ann,

Speaker 1 who is my father? And Ann says, I can't tell you. She's what I call a jackpot match.
Did you find Becky's biological father?

Speaker 1 Join me as we search for the answer and explore Becky's and her mother's past on this season of Happy Face Presents To Face.