The Importance of Smiley Faces

The smiley face is a very common, dare I say, ubiquitous icon. Harvey Ross Ball worked on the show Happy Face about the Happy Face serial killer. He was given that moniker because he signed his letters to the press with that very same icon. They're often kind of conflated because of the similarities in the monikers. These are as far as we know, not related. The majority of these cases were young white men who were at least 20 years old. And they did end up dying after going out drinking and doing drugs.