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 Robert
Hansen was a skinny little fucker as a kid. He also
stuttered and had shocking acne. This all combined to make
him less than attractive to the 'nice' girls at his school
in Iowa. And eventually this rejection led to him moving
away to Alaska.
It was because of this rejection also that Hansen developed
something of a hatred for many women. But he did say that he
respected some, particularly those that he felt were good.
But those that were bad, well he had something in mind for
those sluts.
Hansen liked to hunt, and sometimes liked to choose prey
that was not natural to the bush in Anchorage, Alaska. His
special prey was found in the Red light district of town. He
preferred whores and strippers, women he felt deserved to be
treated as animals. For ten years he hunted the area before
he was finally caught.
For Hansen the beginning of the end came with a 17 year old
whore. He gave her $200 for a blow-job, then changed the
rules. He took her back to his place, got her to strip, then
snapped some handcuffs on the bitch. He tortured and abused
her for the next few hours, stuttering more as his
excitement grew. One must laugh at the thought of "B B B
Bitch, y y y you t t t ake i i it..." Anyway, he tired of
this game and told her to get dressed. They were going to
his cabin in the woods, where he took women like her. He
told her that he usually kept them for a week or more before
killing them. He took her in his car to a private airport
where he kept his private plane. This is where Hansen fucked
right up. He undid on handcuff as he ordered he on the
plane, but she decided to make a run for it, and got away
after a short chase.
A few minutes later she ran in front of a cop car screaming
"He's going to kill me, he was going to kill me." Once she
had calmed down she led the cops to the house she had been
taken to. The police knew the house, it was that of the
local baker, Robert Hansen, a man they knew as a respectable
type of guy. They then took the girl out to the airport,
where she pointed out Hansen's airplane. It would seem they
had a suspect.
A few hours later Hansen was picked up at his house. Under
questioning he seemed to stutter very badly, but was able to
convince the cops that he had nothing to do with the girl.
He also had two of the most respected men in Anchorage as an
alibi. Compared with the testimony of a known prostitute
this was a lot, so police filed it away and forgot all about
it. Why would they believe a whore over a respectable man.
A few months later some hunters stumbled across a female
corpse in bush a few miles from Anchorage. It was Sherry
Morrow, a topless dancer who had been missing for about a
year. Once this discovery was made police started to worry.
A year earlier they had found a corpse in the same area.
They also had over a dozen missing women in similar
occupations in their files. And once ballistics had checked
the bullets from the two bodies they were both from a
.223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle. Both bodies were dressed,
with no bullet holes in the clothes, meaning they had been
dressed after death. It seemed they had a serial killer.
Police started looking through their files and came across
Hansen's brush with them. A quick check showed that he had a
cabin near the killers dumping site. Around this time they
also linked a few more corpses to the list. Construction
workers found parts of a woman that was unable to be
identified because the body had been mauled by bears. They
also found Joanna Messina who's body had also been chewed up
by bears. She was a topless dancer that had vanished without
a trace. Police also looked into five more missing topless
dancers, who's friends all gave similar stories of their
last known movements.
Police needed something, so they decided to lean on Hansen.
They threatened his previous alibi's, who eventually cracked
under extreme pressure from the police. Once they had this,
they issued a search warrant for his house. They found the
gun which, when tested, was the murder weapon. They also
found a map of the local forest which had twenty different
sites marked. Four of these marks matched the four known
dumping grounds, so police were not to happy about the
thought of sixteen marks.
As it was winter it was actually impossibly for anyone to
check the suspected ground for a few weeks. The ground was
frozen, and therefore impossible the dig up. Despite this
police railroaded Hansen, letting him believe they had
everything they needed to know about him. He was conned into
speaking to them without his lawyer. Hansen made a deal with
police. he would admit to the four known murders, and in
return could not be prosecuted for any other murder. He
would be sentenced to life, and seemed to be certain that he
wanted that.
Police taped his confession, which lasted over 12 hours,
during which he admitted to 17 murders. He also said that he
had taken over 40 more women hostage during the last ten
years which he had released because he believed they were
honestly attracted to him. The ones that died were the ones
that wouldn't totally submit to his demands.
The one murder that seemed to excite, and also made him
famous, was that of Paula Golding. After raping and
torturing her, Hansen opened the cabin door and let her run
away. After a few moments he took off after her with his
rifle. He was hunting her, and talked with great excitement
about how she had run across some rather sharp rocks and cut
her feet badly, forcing her to try and hide under a bush. He
spotted her and called out her name, this frightened her and
she jumped up and started running. Unfortunately she chose
open ground to run over, and Hansen raised his gun, and
BANG, all that was left was the burial.
"It was like going after a
trophy Dall sheep or a grizzly bear."
On February 28, 1984, Hansen
was sentenced to 461 years in prison with no chance of
parole. Police definitely suspect that he was involved in
more murders, but have no way of proving anything as Hansen
has never spoken of them.
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