He was arrested and convicted in 1983, and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Robert Hansen, played by John Cusack in the movie The Frozen Ground, was a real serial killer based in Alaska. His parents were Christian, a Danish immigrant, and Edna Hansen. [9] The Alaska Supreme Court reduced his sentence, and he was released with time served. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. The Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska, where Robert Hansen was incarcerated. Do you know that there are still case's that Robert Hansen has not been convicted for but they know he did it,there's women that are still missing to this day that answered his adds in the Anchorage Daily New's and Anchorage Time's personal adds and never been seen since.To this day they still don't know the truth about Robert Hansen and what he really did.Do you know that he kept the women for 2 weeks in his … Rothschild’s office agreed to the terms, and Hansen was sentenced to life plus 461 years. So it was no surprise when he married a woman who matched his charm and compassion in every way: Sabrina Limon. While searching Hansen’s home, police found an aviation map of the area hidden in the headboard of the bed. Then, as they ran for their lives, he would track them down, taking his time, hunting them like wild animals. Although Hansen had several prior run-ins with the law, his meek demeanour and humble occupation as a baker, along with an alibi from his friend John Henning, kept him from being considered as a serious suspect, and the case went cold. He theorized that the killer was an experienced hunter with low self-esteem and a history of being rejected by women — and that he likely had a stutter. His wife divorced him, leaving him alone and incarcerated. There remained marks on his map that he refused to give up, including three in Resurrection Bay, near Seward (authorities suspect two of these marks belong to the graves of Mary Thill and Megan Emrick, whom Hansen has denied killing). At trial, he claimed he later recovered the trophies in his backyard but forgot to inform the insurer. He was also imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward until May 2014, when he was transported to the Anchorage Correctional Complex for health reasons. In Richard Connells 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game recounts the story an esteemed old war general, bored with trapping animals, lures If the women didn’t put up a fight, he would rape them and bring them back to town, threatening them into secrecy. In 1983, more than a decade after Hansen moved to Anchorage, a 17-year-old girl named Cindy Paulson was found running frantically down Sixth Avenue, barefoot and handcuffed. Had it not been for his arrest in 1983, Hansen would have continued to murder women. The police soon obtained a warrant to search Hansen’s plane, car, and homes. He drove her to the Mush Inn, where she jumped out of the truck and ran inside. Hansen confessed to killing her, but her body was never found. Though he had been cleared several times before, there was no doubt about it: Hansen fit the profile almost exactly. Her body was found just south of Old Knik Bridge. He was first imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Over time, he became an avid game hunter, channeling his rage and fantasies of vengeance into the sport of stalking animals. Eventually confessing to each item of evidence as it was presented to him, he admitted to a spree of attacks against Alaskan women starting in 1971. On December 7, 1960, Hansen was arrested for burning down a Pocahontas County Board of Education school bus garage, revenge for his unpopularity in high school. He pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon in the offense involving the housewife; the rape charge involving the sex worker was dropped as part of a plea bargain. [13] Flothe now had three bodies and what looked like one killer. Robert Hansen was an avid hunter who decorated his home with hunting trophies, but he didn’t just hunt game. The den in his home was decorated with hunting trophies and animals mounted on the walls, and he even set a few bowhunting records. Alaskan Police Department/WikimediaMugshot of Robert Hansen. It was marked with tiny “X’s” denoting the kill and burial sites of his victims. [3], Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as being quiet and a loner, and he had a difficult relationship with his domineering father. He tries to reverse a lifelong food addiction that has left him bed-bound, saddled with grotesque lymphedema, and nearly 900-lbs.” Robert, who was completely immobile due to his massive frame, was dependent on the people closest to him to take care of him, and although he appreciated all that they did, he didn’t like it. Out in the wilderness — his favorite location was along Knik River — Hansen would set the women free. Though Hansen maintained a wholesome reputation in town, he let his hidden dark side run wild in the woods of Alaska. Image Source: Everett Collection. Hansen's earliest victims were women, usually between 16 and 19 and not prostitutes, unlike the victims who led to his discovery.[15]. Hansen Died in Prison at the Age of 75. Criminal investigators sift for signs of bodies along the Knik River in Alaska in April 1984. She was found in a shallow grave on the bank of the Knik River. Douglas put together a psychological profile of the killer based on the details of the case and the injuries inflicted on the recovered bodies. He was … The first of the bodies was found by construction workers near Eklutna Road. Born on February 15, 1939, in Estherville, Iowa, his father was a Danish immigrant who owned a bakery. Lt. Pat Kasnick of the Alaska State Troopers and Leon Steele of Fish and Wildlife Protection Agency helped to conduct the search of the Knik Flats for bodies of missing prostitutes and topless dancers on Sept. 17, 1983. Robert Hansen: The Serial Killer Who Hunted His Victims Like Animals. Her body was found 1.5 miles from Old Knik Bridge. He married her in the summer of 1960. The story of Hansen’s horrific 12-year killing spree later became the subject of the 2013 movie Frozen Ground starring John Cusack as Robert Hansen and Nicolas Cage as the Alaskan State Trooper investigating the murders. (Alaska Department of Corrections) He claimed to be a victim of the hooker's attempted extortion. By all accounts, Robert Limon was a very outgoing and friendly person. Using this profile, Flothe investigated possible suspects until he reached Hansen, who fit the profile and owned a plane.[14]. The year of 1976 saw Hansen arrested again and sentenced to five years for shoplifting a chainsaw. When he told police about his strong alibi, provided by a friend, he was released. He pleaded guilty to the four homicides the police had evidence for (Morrow, Messina, Goulding, and "Eklutna Annie") and provided details about his other victims, in return for serving his sentence in a federal prison, along with no publicity in the press. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library/Wikimedia. Hansen would either bury his victims in the woods or would weigh down their bodies with gravel and throw them into a lake. Robert Hansen killed at least 17 women–and likely many more. The driver, Robert Yount, alarmed by Paulson's disheveled appearance, stopped and picked her up. There were 24 “X’s” in all. Unlike his fictional counterpart, Robert Hansen was no aristocratic nobleman. Many of these marks matched sites where prior bodies had been found (others were discovered later at those then unexplored). She later told police that she had left her blue sneakers on the passenger side floor of the sedan's backseat, as evidence that she had been in the car. In 1960, at age 21, he convinced a young bakery employee to help him burn down a school bus garage. Anchorage Daily News/MCT via Getty Images. Hansen admitted that he had met the girl but claimed she was setting him up because he had refused to pay her extortionate demands. Robert Hansen, Actor: Oldboys. While Hansen's back was turned, Paulson crawled out of the back seat, opened the driver's side door, and ran toward nearby Sixth Avenue.[12]. Ever since the story was published, the perverse idea of humans hunting humans has captivated people. [10], Hansen is believed to have begun killing around 1972. His father, with whom he had a difficult relationship, was very strict and often made him work long hours at the family-owned bakery. He was sentenced to five years in prison; after serving six months of his sentence, he was placed on a work release program and released to a halfway house. Convicted serial killer and hunter Robert Hansen in October 1971 with the horns from a record Dall sheep he killed. Hansen did not wish to be discovered. [2] During his incarceration, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (at that time called “manic depression”) with periodic schizophrenic episodes. As part of a plea bargain, the “Butcher Baker” was only ever charged with four of the 17 murders he confessed to — and some believe he actually killed more than 20 women. Faced with the evidence in 1984, Hansen confessed to murdering 17 women and raping another 30 women over a 12-year period. Throughout the ’70s and early ’80s, Hansen targeted sex workers and exotic dancers, abducting these women to turn them loose in the woods so he could hunt them like animals. Supported by Paulson's testimony and Douglas' profile, Flothe and the APD secured a warrant to search Hansen's plane, vehicles, and home. In 1967 he moved to Anchorage, Alaska, which was about as far from his life in Iowa as he could get. Anchorage Daily News/MCT via Getty ImagesLt. Hansen confessed to killing 17 women and raping 30 others. On February 18, 2001, Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union and its successors. He was also a strict disciplinarian. Paulson even described his stutter and identified his plane. [11] When he awoke, he put her in his car and took her to Merrill Field airport, where he told her that he intended to "take her out to his cabin" (a shack in the Knik River area of the Matanuska Valley accessible only by boat or bush plane). [2], For other people named Robert Hansen, see. The disturbing concept has appeared time and again in the plots of novels, TV shows, and movies, but for the most part, it has been relegated to the pages of fiction. But Hansen still felt mistreated by the community and sought retaliation. What’s more, in his psychological profile of the killer, Douglas had predicted that the murderer would keep souvenirs from his prey. What’s more, he owned a bush plane and a cabin in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Anchorage Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesRobert Hansen was an avid hunter who decorated his home with hunting trophies, but he didn’t just hunt game. Her body was found by a pilot testing new tires on the sandbar of the Knik River. Meanwhile, Alaska State Troopers were convinced a serial killer was on the loose. In Anchorage, he was well liked by his neighbors and set several local hunting records. In 1980, he shot the dog of a woman he had murdered, so that the dog wouldn't lead anybody to her shallow grave. Pat Kasnick of the Alaska State Troopers and Leon Steele of Fish and Wildlife Protection Agency helped to conduct the search of the Knik Flats for bodies of missing prostitutes and topless dancers on Sept. 17, 1983. Robert (Bob the Baker) Hansen died at age 75 on Aug. 21, after 30 years behind bars. While she pleaded with the clerk to phone her boyfriend at the Big Timber Motel, the truck driver continued on to work, where he called the police to report the barefoot, handcuffed woman. He led a secret, depraved existence that friends, neighbors, and family members didn’t know about, and that resulted in the deaths of many women. However, in the 1970s, Robert Hansen, known as the “Butcher Baker,” turned this premise into a horrifying, decade-long reality. In 1957, when he was 18 years old, Hansen joined the United States Army Reserve, hoping to leave behind his troubled youth and make something of himself. Hansen denied killing her, but is suspected because of an "x" on his aviation map. On October 27, 1983, investigators uncovered jewelry belonging to some of the missing women as well as an array of firearms in a corner hideaway of Hansen's attic. There, he held her captive, and proceeded to torture and rape her. Paulson, crouched in the back seat of the car with her wrists cuffed in front of her body, saw a chance to escape when Hansen was busy loading the airplane's cockpit. Hansen died at Alaska Regional Hospital after being in declining health for the past year, Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle said. By the time her body was discovered in a shallow grave off Eklutna Lake Rd., it had been partially eaten by wild animals. On his arrest, Hansen was charged with assault, kidnapping, several weapon offenses and theft. This is the terrifying true story of the Butcher Baker serial killer. [5] The psychiatrist who made the diagnosis noted that Hansen had an “infantile personality” and was obsessed with getting back at people he felt had wronged him. 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Unknown to authorities, his killing spree began in 1973, likely emboldened by his ability to walk free after those early rapes. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. For a while, he did. She had been shot in the back, but there were no bullet holes in her clothing, suggesting she had been shot while nude and then redressed before being buried. The remains of 12 (of a probable 21) victims were exhumed by the police and returned to their families. He was imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska, where he died in 2014. But the police needed proof. She was shot to death. But what no one knew is that for more than a decade, the hunter had also been collecting “trophies” from another kind of kill. When confronted with the evidence found in his home, Hansen denied it as long as he could, but he eventually began to blame the women and tried to justify his actions. The horror that Hansen’s victims had endured was almost too macabre to believe. He was arrested and convicted in 1983, and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In 1977, the courts blew a chance to get Hansen off the street for a few years. What they found shocked them. Not receiving the attention he wanted from the attractive girls in school, he grew up hating them and nursing fantasies of cruel revenge. Later that year, the body of Joanna Messina was discovered in a gravel pit near Seward, and in 1982, the remains of 23-year-old Sherry Morrow were discovered, in a shallow grave near the Knik River. Stood by him when he was arrested and convicted for an attempt to kidnap a young woman — at gunpoint — from her apartment in south Anchorage. Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, in 1939. Though he was released just 20 months into his three-year sentence for arson, he was jailed a few more times afterward for petty theft. Aftermath. Robert Christian Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), known in the media as the "Butcher Baker," was an American serial killer. Also Try. Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caught in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence. He was well-liked and opened up a small bakery. Her badly decomposed body was found in a gravel pit. "Mind Hunters" and "The Woods", two 2005 episodes of the, Hansen's crimes were also recounted on the May 16, 2020 episode of, "The Butcher Baker: Mind of a Monster" aired on September 2, 2020, on, This page was last edited on 7 May 2021, at 15:30. [16] As the man prepared the plane for takeoff, Paulson managed to escape, leaving her shoes behind as evidence. He worked long hours in the family bakery from a young age. When the boy later confessed, Hansen was arrested. For a moment they’d have hope that there was a chance to escape. She had been stabbed in the back. history." Unfortunately, five of the bodies have still not been found to this day, and Hansen took the secret of their locations to his grave. The so-called Butcher Baker hunted women after torturing them. Another condition of the plea bargain was his participation in deciphering the markings on his aviation map and locating his victims' bodies. Check spelling or type a new query. Hansen died Thursday at Alaska Regional Hospital after being in declining health for the past year, Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle said. Wherever he went, he became the life of the party. However, he appealed that sentence and was released — while he continued to prey on strippers and sex workers who he forced to act out his twisted fantasies. Only after ballistics tests returned a match between bullets found at the crime scenes and Hansen's rifle did he enter into a plea bargain. And while the Kardashian patriarch had been in the spotlight before his death, some fans wonder how and when he died. As a social outcast, he took refuge in time spent alone. He indicated that he began killing in the early 1970s. The grisly crimes of Robert Hansen who confessed to murdering 17 women over a 12-year period in the 70s and 80s in Alaska will be revealed in 'The Butcher Baker: The … Hansen was sentenced by jury to 461 years plus life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Though he was naturally left-handed, he was forced to use his right hand instead, a switch that resulted in a lifelong stutter. Robert Christian Hansen an American serial killer known as The Butcher Baker. He died in 2014 at the age of 75. She was stripped nude and forced to run through the forest while Hansen hunted her like an animal. YouTubeRobert Hansen with his bush plane in Anchorage, Alaska. In exchange for the reduced conviction, Hansen agreed to assist police in locating the remaining bodies plotted on his kill map. Robert Hansen would later admit that he had been abducting, raping, and killing women since 1971. Hansen’s childhood was not an easy one. Alaska didn’t have the death penalty, but Hansen requested that he be imprisoned out of state (to lessen the chance of running across people who knew him or his victims) and that his case be kept out of major media. EXCLUSIVE: Frank Rothschild can still vividly remember the first time he laid eyes on “the Butcher Baker.” The case of Robert Hansen, an Alaskan baker and … But while the townspeople mostly bought into the facade of the happy baker with a quiet family and a knack for hunting, some cracks showed through Hansen’s squeaky-clean exterior. Several sex workers and dancers had gone missing, and troopers were beginning to find bodies. Paul Brown/Anchorage Daily/MCT via Getty Images. They Told Deborah Sampson She Couldn't Fight In The Revolutionary War — So She Became A Man, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Anchorage Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images. How Did Robert Limon Die? big game hunter who was trampled by his prey. Robert Hansen, also called "The Butcher Baker" because he was a baker by profession, is known to have raped and assaulted over 30 Alaskan women, who he abducted and hunted down, and to have murdered at least 17 of them, ranging from ages 16 to 41. But those who did not cooperate suffered a truly nightmarish fate. Hansen was sentenced to 461 years plus life in prison without parole in 1984. Finally, Hansen decided he’d had enough of the contiguous United States. James Hansen's 1988 testimony after 30 years. He confirmed the police theory of how the women were abducted, adding that he would sometimes let a potential victim go if she convinced him that she would not report him to police. He moved into a small community, had two children with his wife, and settled into a quiet life. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. He was the son of a Danish immigrant and followed in his father's footsteps as a baker. David Wise, the nation’s leading espionage writer, has called on his unique Once arrested, Hansen was charged with assault, kidnapping, multiple weapons offenses, and theft and insurance fraud. Even though 4 of his victims were discovered, he did attempt to hide the bodies of his victims. [8], In 1976, Hansen pleaded guilty to larceny after he was caught stealing a chainsaw from Fred Meyer, an Anchorage department store; he was sentenced to five years in prison and required to receive psychiatric treatment for his bipolar disorder. Then, check out the big game hunter who was trampled by his prey. He was born on February 15, 1939 in Estherville, Iowa and … After learning about Robert Hansen, the Butcher Baker, read about Ed Gein, another horrifying murderer who got what was coming to him. The last charge was related to a claim filed with the insurance company over the alleged theft of some trophies; he used the proceeds to purchase the Super Cub. When two bodies were discovered in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, along with .223 shell casings nearby, Hansen was a prime suspect. [1], Hansen died on August 21, 2014, aged 75, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage, due to natural causes from lingering health conditions. She was kidnapped, tortured, and raped before she managed to escape. Of these 17 women, Hansen was only formally charged with the murders of four: Sherry Morrow, Joanna Messina, "Eklutna Annie", and Paula Goulding. During his childhood, he was often bullied for his stutter and She later told police that after Hansen chained her by the neck to a post in the house's basement, he took a nap on a nearby couch. [1], On June 13, 1983, Hansen offered 17-year-old prostitute Cindy Paulson $200 to perform oral sex; when she got into the car, he pulled a gun on her and drove her to his home in Muldoon. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library/WikimediaAerial view of Anchorage, Alaska, where Robert Hansen lived during his 12-year killing spree. Michael A. Haas/WikimediaThe Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska, where Robert Hansen was incarcerated. [4] He served 20 months of a three-year prison sentence in Anamosa State Penitentiary. Hansen panicked and chased her, but Paulson made it to Sixth Avenue first and managed to flag down a passing truck. Over the next few years, he was jailed several times for petty theft. I believe the number 17 is a combination of those he did admit to and three more he denied but police had solid evidence to believe he was guilty. He also suggested that the assailant might stutter. Some of the “X” marks matched up with where police had found bodies. The boys at school made fun of him, and the girls he liked rejected him. He was also charged with the kidnapping and rape of Cindy Paulson. [2] His modus operandi was to pick up a prostitute in his car, and force her at gunpoint to his cabin, where he would rape her; he would then fly her out to a secluded area and "hunt" her as if she were wild game before shooting or stabbing her. He is an actor, known for Oldboys (2009), Kærlighed ved første hik (1999) and Anja og Viktor 6. Still, he managed to remarry, to another local woman. When Anchorage Police Department (APD) officers arrived at the Mush Inn, they were told that the young woman had taken a cab to the Big Timber Motel. The Butcher Baker is Alaska’s most prolific serial killer and his real name is Robert Hansen. Aerial view of Anchorage, Alaska, where Robert Hansen lived during his 12-year killing spree. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. She described being held hostage by a man who’d handcuffed her to his car, held her at gunpoint, and took her to his house where he chained her by the neck. The body, dubbed "Eklutna Annie" by investigators, has never been identified. After being picked up by a driver and returned to safety, Paulson, a prostitute, told her story to police. Douglas thought the killer would be an experienced hunter with low self-esteem, have a history of being rejected by women, and would feel compelled to keep "souvenirs" of his murders, such as a victim's jewelry. Those with an * beside their "Date Found" were found with the help of Hansen after his arrest. [1][2], Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, in 1939. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. She was taken to APD headquarters, where she described the perpetrator. But police were still reluctant to bring him in. We did not find results for: how did robert hansen die cutting machine. 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