My Father Is a Serial Killer HOW I OVERCAME MY PAST

Melissa Moore was shattered when she found out her loving dad was a monster. How she dealt with her shame and moved on with her life

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He was, she remembers, “a really great dad.” When Melissa Moore thinks back to what life was like with her father, Keith Jesperson, growing up in Washington state in the ’80s, many of her memories are happy ones. “He was doting. He was hands-on. He would read bedtime stories to me and sometimes come up with [his own]. And he would tuck me in like a burrito,” she tells In Touch. “He wanted to instill good values and good character, which is ironic — the hypocrisy of it all.”