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Brief Analysis Of Robert Hansen's Butcher Baker

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Robert Hansen the infamous “Butcher Baker” was born in Estherville, Iowa in 1939 to Danish parents. Strenuous and abusive, Hansen’s childhood was very complicated and difficult(BE2). He had a stutter and terrible acne that he had a very hard time treating, Leading him to try to find peace away from the bullying and abuse at home, he found his piece in the woods - hunting(SC7) (Pizzichi). At home, his father owned a bakery where Hansen spent a good amount of time helping his father keep the business up and running. But during this time was when his father would strictly discipline him and also force him to use his right hand when he was naturally a lefty causing his stutter to become worse. At school boys would mock and make fun of him for his stutter while the girls he liked would reject him in the worse ways and …show more content…

After he got out of high school he looked for somewhere he could go he wouldn’t be made fun of and where he could make something of himself, this is where he found the Army. He enrolled in 1957 and was in the reserves for a while where he was a drill instructor for Pocahontas County, and he found his first wife but soon things would go wrong (Serena). Hansen was arrested in 1960 for burning down a bus garage in Pocahontas County where he was sentenced to 3 years in prison for arson (Rosewood and Lo). This act was a revenge act as Hansen thought his community did him wrong and he wanted payback. So at the age of 21, he convinced a younger boy that worked at his father’s bakery to help him with his plan. Hansen only spent 20 months in jail for his 3-year sentence but in that time his wife divorced him and moved away. After his release, he continued to rob small shops in the area and was jailed a few more times. During this period is when he found another woman somehow through all his petty thefts and married

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