Darker Dad Days

Some dad days are dark days. Alas, that's just the way it is.

Sometimes its the father's fault. Certainly that's true in the case of "Happy Face Killer" Keith Hunter Jesperson, who serially slay eight women in the northwestern United States during hte early '90s. Although still alive — serving two consecutive life sentences — his is a dark legacy shadowing his children every day.

Sometimes the darkness comes from below and even in what should be a happy story. A Wisconsin dad and daughter set up business together. However, the tale turns dour as one finds that while blood may be thicker than water, money is honey, particularly for bank robbers. And so daughter robber tried collecting a reward by turning in father robber, which had the unfortunate result of both being locked up.

Locked up, as well, is the fate of a woman with her own ex parte solution to the child custody battle she expected with the father of her child. Unfortunately (at least in her mind), you can't have someone kill a father and his new family just because you don't want him sharing in your child's life.

So the dad survives — and will probably get a better custody deal now than he would have been in for before — but serial murder, being ratted out by a loved one and being marked for assassination as possibilities for pops does cast its shadow on even the sunniest of daddy days.