Robert Christian Hansen (February 15, 1939 - August 21, 2014), known in the media as "Butcher Baker ," is an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen kidnapped, raped, and killed at least 17, and probably more than 30 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska, hunting them in the forest with Ruger Mini-14 and knives. He was arrested and convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, in 1939. He was the son of a Danish immigrant and followed in his father's footsteps as a baker. In his youth, he was emaciated and very shy, suffering from stutter and a severe case of acne that left him permanently injured. (In subsequent years, he will remember his face as "one big pimple.") Shunned by the attractive girls at school, he grows to hate them and keep the cruel revenge fantasies. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen is described as a quiet and a loner and he has a dysfunctional relationship with his dominating father. He started hunting and often found refuge in this hobby.
In 1957, Hansen was registered with the United States Army Reserve and served for one year before dismissal. He later worked as an assistant drilling instructor at the police academy in Pocahontas, Iowa. There, he started a relationship with a younger woman. He married her in the summer of 1960.
On 7 December 1960, he was arrested for setting fire to a school bus garage in Pocahontas County Town Council, where he served 20 months of three years in prison at Anamosa Prison. His wife filed for divorce while he was imprisoned. Over the next few years, he was jailed several times for petty theft. In 1967, he moved to Anchorage, Alaska, with his second wife, whom he married in 1963 and with whom he had two children. In Anchorage, he is favored by his neighbors and organizes some local hunting records.
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Investigation
On June 13, 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson escaped from Hansen, when he tried to put it in his Piper Super Cub. He told police he had offered $ 200 to do oral sex, but when he got into the car, he pulled a gun and took it to his home in Muldoon. There, he held his prisoner, tortured, raped and attacked him sexually. He mentioned that, after he chained his neck to a post in the basement of the house, Hansen took a nap on the nearest sofa.
When he woke up, he put him in his car and took him to Merrill Field airport, where he told him that he intended to "take him to his cabin" (a meat hut in the Knik River area of ​​the Matanuska Valley only accessible by boat or bush plane ). Paulson, squatting in the backseat of the car with his wrists cuffed in front of him, waiting until Hansen was busy loading the cockpit of the plane, to escape. While Hansen's back turned, Paulson crawled out of the backseat, unlocked the driver's side door and drove to nearby Sixth Avenue.
He then told police he had left his blue sneakers on the passenger side of the backseat of the sedan, as evidence that he had been in the car. Hansen panicked and chased her but Paulson made it to Sixth Avenue and managed to pull down a passing truck. The driver, Robert Yount, worried about his messy appearance, stopped and picked him up. He drove her to Mush Inn, where she jumped out of the truck and ran in. While he begged the officer to call his girlfriend at the Big Timber Motel, the truck driver went on to work, where he called the police to report a barefoot woman, who was handcuffed.
When the Anchorage Police Department officer arrived at Mush Inn, they were told that the young lady had taken a taxi to the Big Timber Motel. The APD officer arrived at Room 110 of the Big Timber Motel and found Cindy Paulson, still handcuffed and alone. He was taken to the APD headquarters, where he described the perpetrator. Hansen, when asked by APD officers, denied the allegations, stating that Paulson was just trying to cause trouble because he would not pay for his extortion charges. Although Hansen had some previous offenses, his gentleness and humble work as a baker, along with a strong alibi from his friend John Henning, made him not considered a serious suspect and his case became cold.
Detective Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers has been part of a team that investigates the discovery of several corpses in and around Anchorage, Seward and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley area. The first of the corpses was discovered by construction workers near Eklutna Road. The body dubbed "Eklutna Annie" by the researchers, was never identified. Later that year, Joanna Messina's body was found in a stone hole near Seward and in 1982, the 23-year-old remains of Sherry Morrow were discovered, in a shallow grave near the Knik River. Flothe now has three bodies and what looks like a murderer.
He contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation Special, Roy Hazelwood and sought help with a criminal psychological profile, based on three bodies found. Hazelwood thinks the killer will be an experienced hunter with low self-esteem, has a history of being rejected by women and will feel the need to keep a "souvenir" of his murder, such as the victim's jewelry. He also suggested that the attacker might stutter. Using this profile, Flothe investigates the possibility of the suspect until he reaches Hansen, which corresponds to the profile and has the plane.
Backed by Paulson's testimony and Hazelwood's profile, Flothe and APD secured a warrant to search for Hansen's aircraft, cars and homes. On October 27, 1983, investigators found jewelry belonging to several missing women, as well as a number of firearms in a hidden corner in the attic of Hansen. The greatest finding was a flight map with a small "x" on it, hidden behind Hansen's head.
When confronted with evidence found in his home, Hansen denies it as long as he can but eventually he begins to blame the women and try to justify his motives. Eventually, confessing to every piece of evidence as presented to him, he admitted a number of attacks on Alaskan women beginning in 1971. Hansen's first victim was a young woman, usually between 16 and 19 and not the sex worker who caused his invention.
Known victim
Hansen is known to have raped and attacked more than 30 Alaskan women. He is also responsible for killing at least 17, ranging in age from 16 to 41. They are:
- Lisa Futrell, 41 (admittedly, the corpse was found with Hansen's help)
- Malai Larsen, 28 (admittedly, the corpse was found with the help of Hansen)
- Sue Luna, 23 (admittedly, the corpse was found with Hansen's help)
- Tami Pederson, 20 (admittedly, the corpse was found with the help of Hansen)
- Angela Feddern, 24 (admittedly, the corpse was found with the help of Hansen)
- Teresa Watson (admittedly, the corpse was found with the help of Hansen)
- DeLynn "Sugar" Frey (admittedly, a corpse was discovered on August 20, 1985 by a pilot testing a new tire on the Knik River sand dune)
- Paula Goulding (acknowledged, body found)
- Andrea "Fish" Altiery (confess, body not found)
- Sherry Morrow, 23 (admitted, his body was found)
- "Eklutna Annie" (confessed, corpse found, real identity has never been found)
- Joanna Messina (confessed, her body was found)
- "Horseshoe Harriet" (admittedly, the body was found with the help of Hansen, his true identity has never been found)
- Roxane Easland, 24 (admittedly, body not found)
- Ceilia "Beth" Van Zanten, 17 (rejected, but suspected because x on aviation map, corpse found)
- Megan Emerick, 17 (rejected, but suspected because x on aviation map, body not found)
- Mary Thill, 23 (rejected, but suspect because x on aviation map, body not found)
Of these 17 women, Hansen was only formally charged with four murders - Sherry Morrow, Joanna Messina, Eklutna Annie and Paula Goulding. He is also accused of kidnapping and rape of Cindy Paulson.
Prison
After being arrested, Hansen was accused of attacks, kidnappings, weapons offenses, and theft and insurance fraud. The latest allegations relate to claims submitted to the insurance company for alleged theft of some trophies, which he used to buy the Super Cub. In the trial, he claimed that he later rediscovered a trophy in his backyard but forgot to tell the insurer.
Only after the ballistic test returns a match between the bullets found at the crime scene and Hansen's rifle, does he get into a plea bargain. He pleaded guilty to four murders whose police had evidence (Morrow, Messina, Goulding and Eklutna Annie) and gave details about other victims, in return for serving his sentence in federal prison, along with no publicity in the media. Another condition of defense bargaining is its participation in interpreting the signs on its flight map and finding the body of the victim. He justified the police theory of how a woman was kidnapped, adding that she would sometimes let potential victims go if she assured him that she would not report it to the police. He indicated that he started killing in the early 1970s.
He showed investigators of 17 grave sites, in and around Southcentral Alaska, 12 of which were unknown to the researchers. There was still a sign on his map that he refused to surrender, including three in Resurrection Bay, near Seward (authorities suspect two of these signs belonged to the graves of Mary Thill and Megan Emrick, which Hansen rejected). The remains of 12 (out of 21 possible victims) were excavated by police and returned to their families. Hansen was sentenced by a jury for 461 years plus life in prison, without the possibility of parole. He was first imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1988 he was returned to Alaska and briefly imprisoned at the Lemon Creek Prison Center in Juneau. He was also imprisoned at the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward until May 2014, when he was transported to the Anchorage Destruction Complex for health reasons.
Death
Hansen died at the age of 75, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage on August 21, 2014, due to an undisclosed and protracted health condition.
Media customization
Movies
- John Cusack plays Hansen in the movie The Frozen Ground (2013), against Nicolas Cage as Sergeant Jack Halcombe (a character based on Glenn Flothe) and Vanessa Hudgens as a victim of Cindy Paulson. The Naked Fear (2007) directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Danielle De Luca is a loosely based characteristic seen in the real-life mode of Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen.
Television
Documentary:
- The FBI Files episode , "Hunter's Game" (1999), describes Hansen's murderous tantrums.
- The Story of Crime shows the full 2007 episode of the case.
- The Alaska: Ice Cold Killers "Hunting Humans" episode (January 25, 2012) at Investigation Discovery covers the Hansen case.
- Hidden City season 1, episode 12 ("Anchorage: The Hottest Games of Robert Hansen, Legend of Blackjack Sturges, Eskimo Hu"; aired February 21, 2012), on the Travel Channel, covered by Hansen's case.
TV series:
- "Mind Hunters" and "The Woods", two episodes of the CBS 2005 TV series Cold Case , were inspired by Hansen's crime.
- In Criminal Minds season 5, episode 21 ("Exit Wounds"; airdate May 12, 2010), Hansen is named by name.
- Hansen's crime also inspires Legal & amp; Order: Special Victims Unit, season 13, episode 15 ("Hunting Ground", airdate February 22, 2012), depicting a serial killer who hunts a woman like a wild game before killing them.
References
Further reading
- Du Clos, Bernard. Fair Games . ISBN 978-0-312-92905-3.
- Gilmour, Walter & amp; Hale, Leland E. Butcher, Baker: Correct Serial Killing Account . ISBN: 978-0-451-40276-9. CS1 maint: Using the author parameters (links)
- Martin, Reagan (July 9, 2013). Hunted for Ice: Alaska Serial Killer Search Robert Hansen . Mandiri CreateSpace Publishing Platform. pp.Ã, 116 pages. ISBN: 978-1490959061.
External links
- "Serial Killer Series: Article 7: Robert Hansen". Gather.com . August 7, 2007. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012.
- Lundburg, Murry. "Robert Hansen: Serial Killer in Alaska". ExploreNorth .
- "The municipality has a buyer for a beleaguered Big Timber Motel". Alaska Dispatch . March 19, 2014.
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