Portrays the correspondence between two convicted serial killers as morally repugnant and abnormal, reinforcing stigma around incarcerated individuals with shared criminal interests.
The inclusion of the 'Happy Face Killer' and the detail about fanatics reaching out frames the communication as taboo. The sheriff’s mention of it as a notable behavior suggests deviance, even though inmate correspondence is a common phenomenon.
“Rex Heuermann also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Hunter Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer” who confessed to killing eight women across the country in the 1990s...”
