Episode Summary
Robert Hansen owned and operated a successful bakery in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1970s and 80s, selling donuts and danishes to everyone in town. He was a well-known and well-respected member of the business community, living in a nice home in the suburbs with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he liked to fly his plane to the remote area around the Knik River and hunt for wolves and caribou and other large game. But sometimes the wild animals just weren’t enough. He needed something else to hunt, to chase along the river flats, to stalk and kill.
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Episode Source Material
- Butcher, Baker, by Walter Gilmour and Leland Hale
- Fair Game, by Bernard DuClos
- Murder at 40 Below – True Crime Stories from Alaska, by Tom Brennan
- Serial killer Hansen dies; ‘World is better without him,’ trooper says
- Hansen v. State 1978
- Slayer in Alaska was jailed in other cases, judge notes
- Robert Hansen – a Serial Killer in Alaska
- Kidnapped: The True Story of Cindy Paulson, Friends in High Places, Sgt. Glenn Flothe Takes on Nowhere
- Robert Hansen, the ‘Butcher Baker’ Serial Killer Who Hunted His Victims Like Animals in the Wild
- Radford University Department of Psychology: Robert Hansen