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On 12th September 1982 just outside Anchorage, Alaska state troopers approached a remote site near a river. Buried in the ground was the body of a young woman. She’d been shot with a hunting rifle. Police were soon tracking one of North America’s notorious serial killers. Crime Stories: Robert C Hansen, 2007
The story of the human hunter ... One of North America’s most predatory serial killers. ibid.
He confessed to a total of 17 murders and 30 rapes. ibid.
Robert Hansen was sentenced to 461 years. ibid.
During later questioning, Hansen claimed that starting in 1973, after finishing his rape sentence, he became a serial rapist, picking up prostitutes from Anchorage’s tenderloin district and taking them by his bush plane to the wilderness, where he would rape and torture them. He later claimed that the ones who complied, he would return to Anchorage alive, and those who didn’t, he would kill. From 1973 to 1983, he abducted and raped at least 30 women that way and let them go. At least 17 women picked up during the years 1980-1983 were less fortunate. After raping them, he released them in the woods and hunted them with a hunting rifle. His crimes first became known in 1982, when the body of exotic dancer Sherry Morrow was found near the Knik River by two off-duty police officers. It took two weeks to identify her. A spent .223 shell casing was found in the dirt near the body. Two years prior to that, two other women had been found in similar circumstances. The first was found by construction workers near Eklutna Road and has never been identified; the investigating officer nicknamed her ‘Eklutna Annie’. The second was topless dancer Joanne Messina. Criminal Minds Wiki article
Alaska: For Robert Hansen it was a place he could parlay his love for hunting into a more dangerous game where no-one could hear his victims scream. For more than a decade he hunted women for sport. True Crime Recaps: He Hunted Women for Sport! Robert Hansen Case, Youtube 16.11, 2022
Mild-mannered family-man Robert Hansen … The girls shunned him sparking his deep-seated hatred of women. His life at home wasn’t much better than at school. ibid.
He developed into a kleptomaniac. ibid.
Bob’s favourite sport was to lure working girls off the street corner and into his car with the promise of cash. ibid.
He had already hunted and killed at least 17 women; she [Cindy] was the only one who managed escape her deadly plight. Cindy was just another bad girl to Robert. ibid.
In the early 1980s in Anchorage, Alaska, young women were vanishing off the streets. Their kidnapper was an apparently friendly local baker named Robert Hansen. After abducting the women, Hansen would take them deep into the Alaskan wilderness. It was a landscape the prize-winning gamehunter knew well. But Hansen was on the prowl for even more scalps to add to his impressive collection, targeting Anchorage’s sex workers and exotic dancers. World’s Most Evil Killers s7e2: Robert Hansen, Sky Crime 2022
Hansen confessed to killing 17 women in total. ibid.
On the surface Robert C Hansen led a normal life. He ran a bakery downtown, a family man … but Robert Hansen had a darker side, abducting female prostitutes to take to a cabin in the wilderness. Mind of a Monster: Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker, DiscoveryPlus 2020
On March 24 1972 Hansen is sentenced to 5 years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon for the attack on Susan Heppeard. The charges brought against him for the Patricia Roberts case were dropped in return for a no-contest plea. ibid. captions
Robert Hansen is given a 3-year sentence for the arson in October 1961. ibid.
On October 27 1983 State Troopers begin to question Robert Hansen about the murders. ibid. caption
[Hansen]: I scared the hell out of them. That’s what I was trying to do. I did not want her to see where we were going. Very Scary People s3e3: The Butcher Baker I: Terror in the Wilderness, CI 2021
He was one of the most notorious murderers in Alaska’s history. A skilled hunter, Robert Hansen had a particular brand of terror. ibid.
In the early 1980s a steady stream of young dancers and sex workers were vanishing off the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. Soon bodies started turning up in the wilderness, buried in shallow graves. When investigators found matching bullet casings at two of the sites, the suspected that a serial killer was at work. Very Scary People s3e4: The Butcher Baker II: The Girls Who Got Away
Robert Hansen had a disturbing criminal history dating back to the 1970s. ibid.
1983: It’s like a mini-invasion. They have to hit the plane, they have to hit his house, they have to hit the bakery. ibid. comment
I found the plastic bag with the jewellery in it. ibid.