Hunted on Ice: The Search for Alaskan Serial Killer Robert Hansen by Martin Reagan

Author:Martin, Reagan [Martin, Reagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Although Trooper Flothe was willing to concede that there were some shady spots in Bob Hansen’s background, he still wasn’t convinced that the baker was the killer he hunted. It seemed unbelievable that a successful married man, the father of two small children, could be a sadistic serial killer. And yet, there were several things about Bob Hansen that fit.

For one thing, he was an avid hunter and an expert shot. The .223 caliber bullets found with the dead girls had been fired from a high-powered rifle, just the sort of weapon Hansen was bound to own. Even more intriguing was the fact that Hansen was familiar with the area where the bodies were discovered.

While interviewing a neighbor of Bob’s, the man told police that he and Bob often hunted out near the Knik River, adding that it was ‘one of Bob’s favorite spots.’ Hansen was a trophy hunter, the man explained, and always looking for the next bigger, better, more challenging kill. ‘That’s what trophy hunters do’, the man said.

This conversation led Flothe and others to wonder if the missing women were ‘trophies’ to Bob Hansen. As truly frightening as the thought might be, did the killer, after having flown his victims out to the Knik River, strip them, blindfold them, and then turn them loose in the wilderness? Did he then stalk them like wild game, hunting them down and killing them like he would a deer or a bear? As insane a thought as it was, law enforcement had to admit that the scenario tallied perfectly with the evidence.

Serial killers were a relatively new breed at the time, and even though Anchorage police and the Alaska state troopers kept returning to Bob Hansen as the most likely suspect in their case, they were still uncertain. Could such a brutal killer really function so well in society, they wondered? And although they believed that the four recovered bodies were linked, did that mean that all the missing women would be linked to them too?

Using a chart, law enforcement decided to assess what they knew so far. The city of Anchorage had a total of 17 missing girls, four of whom were found dead. All of the women had disappeared from Anchorage, with the exception of Mary Thill and Megan Emerick, who had both vanished from Seward. They were two of the thirteen women still unaccounted for. The others still missing were:

Roxanne Easlund, Lisa Futrell, Andrea Altiery, Sue Luna, Malai Larsen, DeLynn Frey, Teresa Watson, Angela Feddern, Tamara Pederson, Kathy Disher, and Karen Baumsgaurd.

Most of these 17 girls had similar backgrounds. One worked in a massage parlor, one had been arrested for prostitution in the past, and the majority of the others worked as topless dancers in the bars and clubs on 4th Avenue.

This was true for all the girls, with the exception of Megan Emerick, Mary Thill, and Joanne Messina. Curiously, none of these early victims appeared to have ties to prostitution or the bars and clubs on 4th Avenue.

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