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Robert Christian Boes Hansen[2] (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), popularly known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983. Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least seventeen women.
- Who Was Robert Hansen, The “Butcher Baker” of Alaska?
- An Insatiable Thirst For Revenge
- Cindy Paulson’s Lucky Escape
- The FBI Tracks Down The Butcher Baker
- How Robert Hansen Hunted Humans Like Prey
- “X” Marks The Spot
Unlike his fictional counterpart, Robert Hansen was no aristocratic nobleman. Born Robert Christian Hansen on February 15, 1939, in Estherville, Iowa, his father was a Danish immigrant who owned a bakery. He was also a strict disciplinarian. Hansen’s childhood was not an easy one. He worked long hours in the family bakery from a young age. Though h...
In 1957, when he was 18 years old, Robert Hansen joined the United States Army Reserve, hoping to leave behind his troubled youth and make something of himself. For a while, he did. After serving a year in the reserves, he became an assistant drill instructor in Pocahontas, Iowa, and even married a young woman he met there. But Hansen still felt mi...
In 1983, more than a decade after Hansen moved to Anchorage, a 17-year-old girl named Cindy Paulson was found running frantically down Sixth Avenue, barefoot and handcuffed. After being picked up by a driver and returned to safety, Paulson, a prostitute, told her storyto police. She described being held hostage by a man who’d handcuffed her to his ...
Meanwhile, Alaska State Troopers were convinced a serial killer was on the loose. Several sex workers and dancers had gone missing, and troopers were beginning to find bodies. When two bodies were discovered in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, along with .223 shell casings nearby, Hansen was a prime suspect. But the police needed proof. This led to th...
In Anchorage, Hansen was a respected business owner known for his skill as a bowhunter. The den in his home was decorated with hunting trophies and animals mounted on the walls, and he even set a few bowhunting records. But what no one knew is that for more than a decade, the hunter had also been collecting “trophies” from another kind of kill. Han...
While searching the Butcher Baker’s home, police found an aviation map of the area hidden in the headboard of the bed. It was marked withtiny “X’s” denoting the kill and burial sites of his victims. Some of the “X” marks matched up with where police had found bodies. There were 24 “X’s” in all. What’s more, in his psychological profile of the kille...
Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Aug 23, 2014 · Robert Hansen, a convicted serial killer who abducted women and hunted them down in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s, died on Thursday in Anchorage. He was 75 and serving a 461-year...
Oct 23, 2021 · The Alaska State Troopers have used genetic genealogy to identify one of serial killer Robert Hansen’s unidentified victims 37 years after she was discovered. Through the work of the Cold Case...
Aug 22, 2014 · ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Convicted Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen, who gained the nickname of “the Butcher Baker” for abducting and hunting down women in the wilderness during the state’s oil pipeline construction boom in the 1970s, has died at age 75.
Aug 22, 2014 · Hansen, a convicted Alaska serial killer who hunted down women in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s (AP) "He will not be missed. Good riddance to him,” the...
