This week's guest for our crimeHQ CrimeConversation was Melissa Moore. Moore is a true crime author, TV personality, and podcaster. She is also the daughter of Keith Jesperson, a serial killer serving multiple life sentences for eight murders who is known as "The Happy Face Killer."

Moore and McLear started off on a friendly, chummy tone, both hefting their glasses of wine — Moore drinking white, and McLear drinking red. 

McLear started off by asking Moore about the most recent episodes of her podcast "Life After Happy Face." Moore shared that the podcast is based on the raw, uncut, private conversations that survivors of violent crime have with each other. On each episode forensic criminologist (and CrimeCruise guest!) Dr. Laura Pettler, who Moore made friends with when they were both on the "Dr. Oz" show, joins her to offer her professional take on each case. 

Somewhat ominously, Moore brought up that just in the past couple of weeks there have been some new developments regarding her father that have led to her having some concern for her privacy and protection. First, "20/20" will soon be revisiting the stories of his cases. Also, Moore explained that in the wake of her mother's recent passing, she was opening up to the idea of visiting her father in prison. In the brain fog of her grief after losing her mom, she sent a letter to her dad using her home return address — a "101" mistake. She was trying to plan a visit with the "20/20" crew tagging along. She felt it might be helpful to other relatives of killers and criminals who struggle with the dilemma of whether to visit their incarcerated family members. But when Jesperson heard a little bit about this idea, he envisioned it happening a different way than Moore did. He expected that she would play the role of loving daughter and teammate with him, and produce a true crime show featuring him. She had to break the news to him that she had no interest in maintaining any sort of friendly, family relationship with him, and had only wanted to meet with him out of curiosity, to find out, as she said, "What made you?"

This rejection of his fantasy angered Jesperson. Moore said, "As you know, serial killers, when they don't get their way, feel rejected, that's when they kill, or when bad things happen." Jesperson actually started writing to the offices of "20/20," saying that fellow inmates had been telling him that if she were their daughter, they would kill her. Next, Jesperson began writing Moore cryptic letters asking her about visiting him, and asking to tell her when she was going to visit him in gen pop. But Moore surmised that if and when she and "20/20" crews showed up to visit and film, that Moore would be attacked with the film crews documenting it. In one recent letter from her father, he wrote,

 "Be careful what you wish for, Melissa, because it just might happen."