Robert Hansen Research Papers

Robert Hansen was convicted in 1984, to 461 years in prison without possible of parole for arson, theft, weapons offenses, assault, insurance fraud, kidnapping, rape, and murder. Hansen was born in Iowa in 1939. While growing up, Hansen didn’t really fit in. He was awkwardly skinny, extremely shy, lonely, had a stutter, and had severe acne. He would get bullied at school for mostly his stutter and acne, but also the attractive girl shunned him out. He grew up hating these girls and had having fantasies about revenge on them. To cope, he would go hunting, and he found a strong liking for this hobby. After he was done with school, he attended the United States Army Reserve for a year, in 1957. He later worked as an assistant drill instructor,

While in prison his wife filed for divorce. For the next three years, Hansen was jailed seven times for theft. And before moving to Anchorage, Alaska in 1967, he met his second wife, and had to kids. When they settled down in Anchorage, Hansen opened up a bakery shop to follow in his father footsteps. He also set seven local records for hunting, and was well like by all his neighbors. Four years later Hansen was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That year he was sent to prison for theft. In 1982, a detective named, Glenn Folthe, was in an investigating team where they discovered seven bodies. The area they found these bodies were around the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Seward, and Anchorage. All these young women were killed in the same way, so detectives thought it had to be the same person who killed all these bodies with experienced hunting

Her story was she managed to escape from Hansen as he was loading his private two-seater aircraft. It first started when he offered to give her 200 dollars to perform oral sex, but when she got into his car he pulled a gun on her and took her to his house. There she was raped and held captive by her neck being chained to a post in the house. After a couple of days he took her handcuffed to his private aircraft to fly to his cabin but that’s when she escaped. Since the police didn’t believe her the case went cold. Detective Folthe was still investing who had killed these bodies is also when he heard about Cindy Paulson’s case. After Folthe did some research, Hansen fit the profile of the killer and also had a plane. After that Folthe was given a search warrant to search his car, house, and his aircraft. They searching through his properties, they found guns, jewelry form the missing girls, and a map with little “x’s” on them. At first Hansen didn’t confess that he did it but very soon after he did confess it was