Robert Hansen
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Robert Christian Hansen (born on February 15, 1939) is an American
serial killer
. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women near Anchorage, Alaska
.
to Christian and Edna Hansen. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as being quiet and a loner, and had a dysfunction
al relationship with his domineering father. He was frequently bullied at school for his perpetual acne
and his severe stutter. In 1957, Hansen enlisted in the United States Army Reserve
and served for one year before being discharged. He later worked as an assistant drill instructor at a police academy in Pocahontas, Iowa
. In Pocahontas, Hansen began a relationship with a late adolescent girl and married in the summer of 1960.
On December 7 of that year, he was arrested for burning down a Pocahontas County
Board of Education school bus garage, for which he served 20 months of a three-year prison sentence. His wife filed for divorce against him while he was incarcerated. 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 had married in 1963. In Anchorage, he was well liked by his neighbors and was famed as a local hunting champion. He even broke several records, documented in the Pope & Young's book of world hunting records . However, these records were nullified after Hansen's conviction .
In 1977, he was imprisoned for theft of a chainsaw, diagnosed with bipolar disorder
and prescribed lithium
to control his mood swing
s. He was never officially ordered to take the medication, however, and was released from prison after serving a year. Father of two children by then, Hansen opened a bakery after his release.
airport where he told her that he intended to "take her out to his cabin" (although, he did not really have a cabin-- it was instead a meat shack in the Knik River
area of the Matanuska Valley accessible only by boat or bush plane
). Paulson (with her wrists cuffed in front of her body and crouching in the back seat of the car) waited until Hanson was busy loading the airplane's cockpit to make a run for it. While Hansen's back was turned, Paulson crawled out of the back seat and opened the driver's side door and took off running toward nearby 6th Avenue. She told police that she'd left her blue sneakers on the passenger side floor of the sedan's backseat as evidence that she'd in fact been in the car. Hanson panicked and ran after her, but Paulson made it to 6th Avenue first and managed to flag down a passing truck. The driver, alarmed by her disheveled appearance, stopped and picked her up. He drove her, upon request, to the Mush Inn where she jumped out of the truck and ran inside. While she pleaded with the clerk to phone her boyfriend at the Big Timber Motel, the truck driver continued on to work and where he called the police to report the barefoot handcuffed woman. When Anchorage Police Department
officers arrived at the Mush Inn they were told that the young woman had taken a cab to the Big Timber Motel. APD officers arrived at room 110 of the Big Timber Motel and found Cindy Paulson, still handcuffed, and alone. She was taken to APD headquarters
where she identified Hansen as the perpetrator. Hansen, when questioned by APD officers, denied the accusation stating that Paulson was just trying to cause some trouble because he wouldn't pay her extortion
demands. Although Hansen had had several prior run-ins with the law, his meek demeanor and humble occupation as a baker, along with a strong alibi from his friend John Henning kept him from being considered as a serious suspect, and the case fell cold.
Detective Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers
had been part of a team investigating the discovery of several bodies in and around Anchorage, Seward
and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley
area. The first of the bodies was found by construction workers near Eklutna Road. Dubbed by investigators as "Eklutna Annie", to this day the body has never been identified. Later that year, the body of Joanna Messina was discovered in a gravel pit near Seward, and in the year following (1982) the remains of 23 year old Sherry Morrow were discovered in a shallow grave near the Knik River
. Flothe now had 3 bodies and what looked like one killer. He contacted Federal Bureau of Investigation
agent Roy Hazelwood
and requested help with a criminal psychological profile based on the three recovered bodies. Hazelwood theorized that 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. He also suggested the assailant might stutter. All of these qualities, and the fact that he owned a plane, lead Flothe right to Cindy Paulson's attacker, Robert Hanson.
Supported by Paulson's testimony and Hazelwood's profile, Flothe and the APD secured a warrant
to search Hansen's plane, cars and home. On October 27, 1983 investigators uncovered jewelry belonging to some of the missing women as well as an array of firearms — including a semi-automatic .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle - in a corner hide-away of Hansen's attic, but the biggest find was an aviation map with little x marks on it hidden behind Hansen's headboard
.
When confronted with the overwhelming evidence found in his home Hansen became irate. He denied it as long as he could, but eventually, after starting to feel trapped, he began to blame the women and tried to justify his motives. Eventually, confessing to each item of evidence as it was presented to him, he admitted to a spree of attacks against Alaskan women starting as early as 1971. In a strange twist (and unlike his "justifications"), Hansen's earliest victims were young women, usually between 16 and 19, and not the prostitutes and strippers that lead to his discovery. Hanson's cravings for torture and power had landed him in jail many times before, but he continually slipped through the cracks of the justice system, allowing him the feeling of invincibility. It has never been confirmed that Hansen would "hunt" his victims although in the cases of Sherry Morrow and Sue Luna both women were shot in the back while running, leading some to suggest this. However, Hansen was clumsy and often under estimated the extent his victims would go to survive. When in doubt, he shot to kill, but didn't necessarily seem to hunt his human victims.
When arrested, Hansen was charged with assault
, kidnapping
, multiple weapons offenses, theft
and insurance fraud
; the last charge was related to his filing a claim with the insurance company over alleged theft of some trophies with the funds being used to purchase the Super Cub (at trial he claimed he later recovered the trophies in his backyard but forgot to inform the insurer). Only after ballistics tests
returned a match between bullets found at the crime scenes and Hansen's rifle, did he entered into a plea bargain
. He pled guilty to the four homicides the police had evidence for (Marrow, Messina, Altiery & 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. Another condition of the plea bargain included his full participation in deciphering the markings on his aviation map and locating his victim's bodies. He confirmed police theory of how the women were abducted, adding that he would sometimes let a potential victim go if she convinced him that she wouldn't report him to police, and indicated that he began killing in the early 1970s. He showed investigators a total of 17 grave sites, 12 of which were unknown to investigators, in and around Southcentral Alaska. However, there remained marks on his map that he refused to give up, including 3 in icey Resurrection Bay
(authorities suspect two of these marks belong to the graves of Mary Thill and Megan Emrick, women Hansen refused to admit to because they were not strippers or street girls, and admitting to their murders would compromise his magical thinking
). The 11 remains of a probable 21 victims were exhumed by the police and returned to their families. Hansen was sentenced, by jury
, to 461 years in prison.
Hansen was first imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
. In 1988, he was returned to Alaska and was briefly incarcerated at Lemon Creek
Correctional Center in Juneau. He is currently imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center
in Seward
.
is set to portray Hansen in the upcoming film The Frozen Ground
. He will work opposite Nicolas Cage
as Alaska State Troopers
Sergeant
Jack Halcombe and Vanessa Hudgens as Cindy Paulson.
An episode of the Discovery Channel
TV series, The FBI Files
, depicted his murderous rampage, entitled Hunter's Game.
Two episodes of the CBS
TV series, Cold Case, entitled "Mindhunters" and "The Woods", depicted a serial killer with a very similar Modus Operandi to Hansen's, called George Marks.
The Hansen case served as inspiration for the action thriller Naked Fear
(2007) starring Danielle De Luca as a dancer stalked by a maniacal hunter in the uninhabited regions of New Mexico
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women near Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
.
Early life
Hansen was born in Estherville, IowaEstherville, Iowa
Estherville is a city in Emmet County, Iowa, United States. The population was 6,360 in the 2010 census, a decline from 6,656 in the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Emmet County. Estherville is home to the main campus of Iowa Lakes Community College...
to Christian and Edna Hansen. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as being quiet and a loner, and had a dysfunction
Dysfunction
Dysfunction can refer to:* Abnormality * Dysfunctional family* Sexual dysfunction* Dysfunction , an album by the rock band Staind...
al relationship with his domineering father. He was frequently bullied at school for his perpetual acne
Acne vulgaris
Acne vulgaris is a common human skin disease, characterized by areas of skin with seborrhea , comedones , papules , pustules , Nodules and possibly scarring...
and his severe stutter. In 1957, Hansen enlisted in the United States Army Reserve
United States Army Reserve
The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the reserve components of the United States Army....
and served for one year before being discharged. He later worked as an assistant drill instructor at a police academy in Pocahontas, Iowa
Pocahontas, Iowa
Pocahontas is a city in and the county seat of Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,789 in the 2010 census, a decline from the 1,970 population in the 2000 census.-History:...
. In Pocahontas, Hansen began a relationship with a late adolescent girl and married in the summer of 1960.
On December 7 of that year, he was arrested for burning down a Pocahontas County
Pocahontas County, Iowa
-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 7,310 in the county, with a population density of . There were 3,794 housing units, of which 3,233 were occupied.-2000 census:...
Board of Education school bus garage, for which he served 20 months of a three-year prison sentence. His wife filed for divorce against him while he was incarcerated. Over the next few years, he was jailed several times for petty theft. In 1967, he moved to Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
with his second wife, whom he had married in 1963. In Anchorage, he was well liked by his neighbors and was famed as a local hunting champion. He even broke several records, documented in the Pope & Young's book of world hunting records . However, these records were nullified after Hansen's conviction .
In 1977, he was imprisoned for theft of a chainsaw, diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
and prescribed lithium
Lithium pharmacology
Lithium pharmacology refers to use of the lithium ion, Li+, as a drug. A number of chemical salts of lithium are used medically as a mood stabilizing drug, primarily in the treatment of bipolar disorder, where they have a role in the treatment of depression and particularly of mania, both acutely...
to control his mood swing
Mood swing
-Associated disorders:Mood swings are commonly associated with mood disorders including bipolar disorder and depression. In patients with cases of bipolar disorder, the patient experiences serious mood swings that last for days or even weeks...
s. He was never officially ordered to take the medication, however, and was released from prison after serving a year. Father of two children by then, Hansen opened a bakery after his release.
Discovery
On June 13, 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson escaped from Robert Hansen while he was trying to load her into his Piper Super Cub. She told police that she had been offered $200 to preform oral sex, but when she got into the car Hanson pulled a gun on her and drove her to his home in Muldoon where he held her captive torturing, raping and sexually assaulting her. She mentioned that, after being chained by the neck to a post in the house's basement, Hansen took a nap on a nearby couch. When he awoke he put her in his car and took her to Merrill FieldMerrill Field
Merrill Field is a public-use general aviation airport located one mile east of downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by Municipality of Anchorage....
airport where he told her that he intended to "take her out to his cabin" (although, he did not really have a cabin-- it was instead a meat shack in the Knik River
Knik River
The Knik River is a 25-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its source is at Knik Glacier, from which it flows northwest and west and empties into the head of Cook Inlet's Knik Arm, near the mouth of the Matanuska River....
area of the Matanuska Valley accessible only by boat or bush plane
Bush plane
A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft serving remote, undeveloped areas of a country, usually the African bush, Alaskan and Canadian tundra or the Australian Outback...
). Paulson (with her wrists cuffed in front of her body and crouching in the back seat of the car) waited until Hanson was busy loading the airplane's cockpit to make a run for it. While Hansen's back was turned, Paulson crawled out of the back seat and opened the driver's side door and took off running toward nearby 6th Avenue. She told police that she'd left her blue sneakers on the passenger side floor of the sedan's backseat as evidence that she'd in fact been in the car. Hanson panicked and ran after her, but Paulson made it to 6th Avenue first and managed to flag down a passing truck. The driver, alarmed by her disheveled appearance, stopped and picked her up. He drove her, upon request, to the Mush Inn where she jumped out of the truck and ran inside. While she pleaded with the clerk to phone her boyfriend at the Big Timber Motel, the truck driver continued on to work and where he called the police to report the barefoot handcuffed woman. When Anchorage Police Department
Anchorage Police Department
The Anchorage Police Department is the police department of the Municipality of Anchorage in Alaska. It is the largest police force in Alaska.-History:...
officers arrived at the Mush Inn they were told that the young woman had taken a cab to the Big Timber Motel. APD officers arrived at room 110 of the Big Timber Motel and found Cindy Paulson, still handcuffed, and alone. She was taken to APD headquarters
Headquarters
Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities...
where she identified Hansen as the perpetrator. Hansen, when questioned by APD officers, denied the accusation stating that Paulson was just trying to cause some trouble because he wouldn't pay her extortion
Extortion
Extortion is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime...
demands. Although Hansen had had several prior run-ins with the law, his meek demeanor and humble occupation as a baker, along with a strong alibi from his friend John Henning kept him from being considered as a serious suspect, and the case fell cold.
Detective Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers
Alaska State Troopers
The Division of Alaska State Troopers is the state police agency of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety . The Alaska State Troopers are a full service law enforcement agency and handle both traffic and criminal law enforcement...
had been part of a team investigating the discovery of several bodies in and around Anchorage, Seward
Seward
-Family name:* Bronwyn Seward , San Joaquin League Female athlete of the year * Madelyn Seward , Warriors CIF Basketball all league forward* Adam Seward , National Football League player...
and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley
Matanuska-Susitna Valley
Matanuska-Susitna Valley is an area in Southcentral Alaska south of the Alaska Range about 35 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska....
area. The first of the bodies was found by construction workers near Eklutna Road. Dubbed by investigators as "Eklutna Annie", to this day the body has never been identified. Later that year, the body of Joanna Messina was discovered in a gravel pit near Seward, and in the year following (1982) the remains of 23 year old Sherry Morrow were discovered in a shallow grave near the Knik River
Knik River
The Knik River is a 25-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its source is at Knik Glacier, from which it flows northwest and west and empties into the head of Cook Inlet's Knik Arm, near the mouth of the Matanuska River....
. Flothe now had 3 bodies and what looked like one killer. He contacted Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
agent Roy Hazelwood
Roy Hazelwood
Robert Roy Hazelwood is a former FBI profiler of sex crimes and is generally regarded as the pioneer of profiling sexual predators. He worked for much of his career for the FBI, retiring in the mid-1990s.-Early life:...
and requested help with a criminal psychological profile based on the three recovered bodies. Hazelwood theorized that the killer would be an experienced hunter with low self-esteem
Self-esteem
Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame: some would distinguish how 'the self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, the...
, have a history of being rejected by women, and would feel compelled to keep "souvenirs" of his murders, such as a victim's jewelry. He also suggested the assailant might stutter. All of these qualities, and the fact that he owned a plane, lead Flothe right to Cindy Paulson's attacker, Robert Hanson.
Supported by Paulson's testimony and Hazelwood's profile, Flothe and the APD secured a warrant
Warrant (law)
Most often, the term warrant refers to a specific type of authorization; a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, which permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is...
to search Hansen's plane, cars and home. On October 27, 1983 investigators uncovered jewelry belonging to some of the missing women as well as an array of firearms — including a semi-automatic .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle - in a corner hide-away of Hansen's attic, but the biggest find was an aviation map with little x marks on it hidden behind Hansen's headboard
Headboard
Headboard may refer to:* Headboard * Headboard , a board attached to the front of trains, especially named trains* a plastic or wooden reinforcement for the head of a sail, providing the halyard cringle...
.
When confronted with the overwhelming evidence found in his home Hansen became irate. He denied it as long as he could, but eventually, after starting to feel trapped, he began to blame the women and tried to justify his motives. Eventually, confessing to each item of evidence as it was presented to him, he admitted to a spree of attacks against Alaskan women starting as early as 1971. In a strange twist (and unlike his "justifications"), Hansen's earliest victims were young women, usually between 16 and 19, and not the prostitutes and strippers that lead to his discovery. Hanson's cravings for torture and power had landed him in jail many times before, but he continually slipped through the cracks of the justice system, allowing him the feeling of invincibility. It has never been confirmed that Hansen would "hunt" his victims although in the cases of Sherry Morrow and Sue Luna both women were shot in the back while running, leading some to suggest this. However, Hansen was clumsy and often under estimated the extent his victims would go to survive. When in doubt, he shot to kill, but didn't necessarily seem to hunt his human victims.
Imprisonment
Robert C. Hansen raped and assaulted over 30 Alaskan women. He is responsible for the murder of at least 17, ranging in age from 16 to 41 they were: 17-year-old Ceilia "Beth" Van Zanten (denies, but suspected because of x on aviation map, body found), 17-year-old Megan Emerick (denies, but suspected because of x on aviation map, body not found), 23-year-old Mary Thill (denies, but suspected because of x on aviation map, body not found), "Eklutna Annie" (admitted, body found), Joanna Messina (admitted, body found), 24- year-old Roxanne Eastland (acknowledged, body not found), 41-year-old Lisa Futrell (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), 28-year-old Malai Larsen (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), Unknown Jane Doe (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), 23-year-old Sherry Morrow (admitted, body found), Andrea "Fish" Altiery (admitted, body found with Hansen's help), 23-year-old Sue Luna (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), 19-year-old Tami Pederson (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), 24-year-old Angela Feddern (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), Teresa Watson (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help), Paula Goulding (acknowledged, body found) and DeLynn "Sugar" Frey (acknowledged, body found with Hansen's help). Of these 17 women, Hansen has only formerly been charged with the murder of 4; Sherry Morrow, Joanna Messina, Eklutna Annie and Andrea Altiery, as well as the kiddnapping and rape of Cindy Paulson.When arrested, Hansen was charged with assault
Assault
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...
, kidnapping
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
, multiple weapons offenses, theft
Theft
In common usage, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting and fraud...
and insurance fraud
Insurance fraud
Insurance fraud is any act committed with the intent to fraudulently obtain payment from an insurer.Insurance fraud has existed ever since the beginning of insurance as a commercial enterprise. Fraudulent claims account for a significant portion of all claims received by insurers, and cost billions...
; the last charge was related to his filing a claim with the insurance company over alleged theft of some trophies with the funds being used to purchase the Super Cub (at trial he claimed he later recovered the trophies in his backyard but forgot to inform the insurer). Only after ballistics tests
Ballistics
Ballistics is the science of mechanics that deals with the flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, gravity bombs, rockets, or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.A ballistic body is a body which is...
returned a match between bullets found at the crime scenes and Hansen's rifle, did he entered into a plea bargain
Plea bargain
A plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case whereby the prosecutor offers the defendant the opportunity to plead guilty, usually to a lesser charge or to the original criminal charge with a recommendation of a lighter than the maximum sentence.A plea bargain allows criminal defendants to...
. He pled guilty to the four homicides the police had evidence for (Marrow, Messina, Altiery & 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. Another condition of the plea bargain included his full participation in deciphering the markings on his aviation map and locating his victim's bodies. He confirmed police theory of how the women were abducted, adding that he would sometimes let a potential victim go if she convinced him that she wouldn't report him to police, and indicated that he began killing in the early 1970s. He showed investigators a total of 17 grave sites, 12 of which were unknown to investigators, in and around Southcentral Alaska. However, there remained marks on his map that he refused to give up, including 3 in icey Resurrection Bay
Resurrection Bay
Resurrection Bay is a bay on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States. Its main settlement is Seward, located at the head of the bay. It received its name from Alexandr Baranov, who was forced to retreat into the bay during a bad storm in the Gulf of Alaska...
(authorities suspect two of these marks belong to the graves of Mary Thill and Megan Emrick, women Hansen refused to admit to because they were not strippers or street girls, and admitting to their murders would compromise his magical thinking
Magical thinking
Magical thinking is causal reasoning that looks for correlation between acts or utterances and certain events. In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious ritual, such as prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or...
). The 11 remains of a probable 21 victims were exhumed by the police and returned to their families. Hansen was sentenced, by jury
Jury
A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment. Modern juries tend to be found in courts to ascertain the guilt, or lack thereof, in a crime. In Anglophone jurisdictions, the verdict may be guilty,...
, to 461 years in prison.
Hansen was first imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Lewisburg is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States, south by southeast of Williamsport and north of Harrisburg. In the past, it was the commercial center for a fertile grain and general farming region. The population was 5,620 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Union...
. In 1988, he was returned to Alaska and was briefly incarcerated at Lemon Creek
Lemon Creek, Alaska
Lemon Creek is a populated place in Juneau, Alaska, United States. The name was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on January 1, 2000. It is northwest of the city of Juneau. It is the site of the Lemon Creek Correctional Center....
Correctional Center in Juneau. He is currently imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center
Spring Creek Correctional Center
Spring Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in Seward, Alaska, United States. The prison is located approximately south of Anchorage. The prison is located on about of land surrounded by national parks. The prison capacity...
in Seward
Seward, Alaska
Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016....
.
In popular culture
Actor John CusackJohn Cusack
John Paul Cusack is an American film actor and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 50 films, including The Journey of Natty Gann, Say Anything..., Grosse Point Blank, The Thin Red Line, Stand by Me, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Serendipity, Runaway Jury, The Ice Harvest,...
is set to portray Hansen in the upcoming film The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground is an upcoming thriller film written and directed by Scott Walker based on the real-life 1980s Alaskan hunt for serial killer Robert Hansen who stalked and murdered between 17 and 21 young women, kidnapping them and taking them out to the Alaskan wilderness to turn them loose and...
. He will work opposite Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage is an American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona , The Rock , Face/Off , Gone in 60 Seconds , Adaptation , National Treasure , Ghost Rider , Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , and...
as Alaska State Troopers
Alaska State Troopers
The Division of Alaska State Troopers is the state police agency of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety . The Alaska State Troopers are a full service law enforcement agency and handle both traffic and criminal law enforcement...
Sergeant
Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
Jack Halcombe and Vanessa Hudgens as Cindy Paulson.
An episode of the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
TV series, The FBI Files
The FBI Files
The FBI Files is an American television docudrama series that originally ran from 1998 to 2006. It was carried by the Discovery Channel cable network and produced by New Dominion Pictures of Suffolk, Virginia...
, depicted his murderous rampage, entitled Hunter's Game.
Two episodes of the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
TV series, Cold Case, entitled "Mindhunters" and "The Woods", depicted a serial killer with a very similar Modus Operandi to Hansen's, called George Marks.
The Hansen case served as inspiration for the action thriller Naked Fear
Naked Fear
Naked Fear is a 2007 thriller film film directed by Thom Eberhardt. The plot revolves around a dancer who is lured to a strange town and thrown into a deadly game after being kidnapped by a serial killer...
(2007) starring Danielle De Luca as a dancer stalked by a maniacal hunter in the uninhabited regions of New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
.
External links
- Gather.com Serial Killer Series: Article 7: Robert Hansen August 7 2007
- ExploreNorth Robert Hansen A Serial Killer in Alaska by Murry Lundburg