Speaker 1: It was May nineteenth, nineteen eighty three, in Springfield, Oregon.
Speaker 1: In the middle of an otherwise peaceful, cool spring night,
Speaker 1: A car arrived at Mackenzie Wilhemette Hospital. Diane Downs and
Speaker 1: her three children had been shot. Cheryl seven was dead,
Speaker 1: and Danny three and Christy eight had life threatening injuries.
Speaker 1: A year later, Diane herself was found guilty for the shootings.
Speaker 2: In the eighties, this was a shocking headline story of
Speaker 2: fatal attraction. Authorities believed Diane's infatuation with a married man
Speaker 2: who said he had no interest in being a father
Speaker 2: to anyone's children was the possible motive behind her shooting
Speaker 2: her three kids. One year later, at her trial, she
Speaker 2: was pregnant. That child was Becky Babcock.
Speaker 3: So I was eleven and still needed a babysitter. It
Speaker 3: was the same babysitter that I'd had since I was very,
Speaker 3: very young. I can remember the moment like it was yesterday,
Speaker 3: which is so weird. I can't remember exactly what was said,
Speaker 3: but I remember standing at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 3: I was in the doorway of my bedroom, she was
Speaker 3: in the hallway, and I just thought, I'm going to
Speaker 3: ask I'm going to find the answers that I want.
Speaker 3: I'm just not going to stop. And I know who
Speaker 3: my biological mother was. I talked to the babysitter and
Speaker 3: made it sound like I already knew. She had said, oh,
Speaker 3: so you know Diane Downs. And that was at that
Speaker 3: point how I had a name.
Speaker 2: After Becky learned her mother's identity as a teen, it
Speaker 2: began to affect her life. My name is Melissa Moore.
Speaker 2: My father was Keith Jesperson, a serial murderer known as a.
Speaker 1: Happy Face Killer.
Speaker 2: After reckoning with my father's past and my own struggles
Speaker 2: of living in his dark legacy, I decided to reach
Speaker 2: out to others like me.
Speaker 4: It's almost like I'm across the table from Diane Downs.
Speaker 4: I mean it's a different age, it's a different demeanor,
Speaker 4: but there are some similarities that are clearly there. And
Speaker 4: so when I called and Rule in Seattle and I.
Speaker 5: Just said, you know, I think I've met Diane Down's child,
Speaker 5: the one she gave birth to during the trial, she says, Oh,
Speaker 5: I will definitely get a DNA test because I've been
Speaker 5: approached by all kinds of people who say they were
Speaker 5: the baby of Diane Downs and I said, Oh, and
Speaker 5: this is the right person.
Speaker 4: I don't need a DNA test. I can see it.
Speaker 1: I've talked to her for years.
Speaker 2: Becky has tried to come to terms with who her
Speaker 2: mother is, but one mystery has haunted her.
Speaker 1: Who is her biological father?
Speaker 2: When I watched the twenty twenty piece where Becky meets
Speaker 2: and she is and who is my father? And Anne says,
Speaker 2: I can't tell you. She's what I call it Jack
Speaker 2: cult match? Did you Findye's biological father? Join me as
Speaker 2: we search for the answer and explore Becky's and her
Speaker 2: mother's past on this season of Happy Face Presents two
Speaker 2: Phase