SERIAL KILLER VICTIMS PICTURES MOVIE
The 2013 movie “Frozen Ground,” starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, chronicled the troopers’ investigation and capture of Hansen. Retired trooper Glenn Flothe, who helped put Hansen behind bars, told the Anchorage Daily News in 2008 that Hansen’s victims initially included any woman who caught his eye, but he quickly learned that strippers and prostitutes were harder to track and less likely to be missed. Many of those people looking for fast money left as quickly as they came, and exotic dancers traveled a circuit along West Coast cities, making sudden disappearances commonplace. Hansen, who owned a bakery, gained the nickname “Butcher Baker” for abducting and hunting down women - many of them sex workers - in the wilderness just north of Anchorage through the early 1980s, when the state’s largest city was booming because of construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline.Ĭonstruction of the 800-mile (nearly 1,288-kilometer) pipeline offered good paying jobs for workers, but it also attracted those who wished to make money off of them, everyone from sex workers to drug dealers. Pelkey may have never been known,” Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell said in a statement. Without their hard work and tenacity, the identity of Ms. “I would like to thank all of the troopers, investigators, and analysts that have diligently worked on this case over the last 37 years. The victim was identified Friday as Robin Pelkey, who was 19 and living on the streets of Anchorage when she was killed by Robert Hansen in the early 1980s, the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Cold Case Investigation Unit said.
SERIAL KILLER VICTIMS PICTURES SERIAL
(Alaska State Department of Public Safety via AP)ĪNCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of dozen or so victims of a notorious Alaska serial killer, has been identified through genetic genealogy and a DNA match, authorities said Friday. The remains of a woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of 17 victims of a notorious Alaska serial killer, have been identified through DNA profiling as Robin Pelkey, authorities said Friday, Oct. Hansen had confessed to authorities that he had killed 17 women and raped another 30 women over more than a decade.CORRECTS NAME TO ROBIN PELKEY, INSTEAD OF HARRIET ROBIN PELKEY - This undated photo released by the Alaska State Department of Public Safety shows Robin Pelkey just before her 18th birthday. Hansen had received a 461-year sentence in February 1984, pleading guilty to the murders of four women. Anchorage's jail is one of the state's only correctional facilities with a medical unit. Hansen, 75, had been placed in medical segregation in Anchorage, which is akin to being in the hospital, Daigle said then.
Hansen had been moved from the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward to the Anchorage Correctional Complex on May 11, Alaska Dispatch reported at the time. He had been in declining health for the past year, according to a press release. Cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, but it appears he died of natural causes, she said. He had been transferred to the hospital on Wednesday.
at Alaska Regional Hospital, Sherrie Daigle, deputy director of the Department of Corrections, said. Infamous Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen died Thursday morning at an Anchorage hospital, according to the Department of Corrections. She had been killed by mass murderer Robert Hansen. The body of exotic dancer Paula Goulding was found in a shallow grave near the Knik River in 1983.
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