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Bob Hansen showed authorities 17 grave sites on the map and confessed to 17 murders in total. Only 12 bodies were ever found. Many believe he killed more with 24 'x' marks on the map discovered in his home.
The victims of Hansen are believed to include:
Lisa Futrell (44) - Disappeared Sep. 6, 1980, body found May 9, 1984 just south of Old Knik Bridge.
Malai Larsen (28) - Disappeared between 1980 – 1983, Body found April 24, 1984.
Sue Luna (23) - Disappeared May 26, 1982, Body Found April 24, 1984. She was stripped nude and forced to run through the forest while Hansen hunted and she was eventually shot to death.
Tamera “Tami” Pederson (20) - Disappeared between 1980 – 1983, Body found Apr. 29, 1984, 1.5 miles from Old Knik Bridge.
Angela Feddern (24) - Disappeared between 1980 – 1983, Body found April 26, 1984, Figure Eight Lake.
Teresa Watson - Disappeared between 1980 – 1983, Body found April 26, 1984.
DeLynn “Sugar” Frey (20) - Disappeared April 1983, Body Found August 20, 1985, by a pilot testing new tires on the sandbar of the Knik River.
Paula Goulding (17) - Disappeared April 25, 1983, Body Found September 2, 1983 in a shallow grave on the bank of the Knik River. She had been shot in the back, but there were no bullet holes in her clothing, suggesting she had been shot while nude and then redressed before being buried.
Andrea 'Fish' Altiery (22) - Disappearred December 2, 1981. Hansen confessed to killing Fish, but her body was never found.
Sherry Morrow (23) - Disappeared November 17, 1981, Body Found September 12, 1982, in a shallow grave on the bank of the Knik River. She had been shot in the back, but there were no bullet holes in her clothing, indicating she had been shot while nude and then redressed before being buried.
Eklutna Annie (true identity unknown) (16–25) - Disappeared between November 1979 – June 1980. Body found, July 21, 1980, in a shallow grave off Eklutna Lake Rd, it had been partially eaten by wild animals and the body had been stabbed in the back.
Joanna Messina (24) - Disappeared Early July 1980. Body Found, late July 1980, a badly decomposed body was found in a gravel pit.
Horseshoe Harriet (19-20) - Disappeared Late 1970s or early 1980s. Body found April 1984.
Roxanne Eastland (24) - Disappeared June 28, 1980. Hansen confessed to killing her, but her body was never found.
Ceilia “Beth” Van Zanten (17) - Disappeared December 22, 1971. Body found December 25, 1971. Hansen denied killing her, but is suspected because of an "x" on his aviation map.
Megan Emerick (17) - Disappeared July 7, 1973. Hansen denied killing her, but is suspected because of an "x" on his aviation map.
Mary Thill (22) - Disappeared July 5, 1975. Hansen denied killing her, but is suspected because of an "x" on his aviation map.
Born at Pocahontas, Idaho, in 1940, Hansen was the son of a Danish immigrant who followed in his father's footsteps as a baker. In his youth, Hansen was skinny and painfully shy, afflicted with a stammer and a severe case of acne that left him permanently scarred. (In later years, he would recall his face as "one big pimple.") Shunned by the attractive girls in school, he grew up hating them and nursing fantasies of cruel revenge.
Hansen was married in 1961 and divorced within the year, following his first arrest, on charges of arson. Six years later, he wed another Pocahontas native and she followed him to Anchorage, Alaska, where he opened his own bakery and prospered in a new land, safely removed from the painful memories of childhood and adolescence. Hansen took flying lessons and purchased his own private plane, earning a reputation as an outdoors man and hunter who stalked Dahl sheep, wolves, and bear with a rifle or bow and arrow.
Unknown to local authorities, Hansen's visible activities were only the tip of a very lethal iceberg. According to his subsequent confession, Hansen preyed consistently on women in the decade between 1973 and 1983, murdering 17 and raping another 30 who survived.
The first indication of a killer at large came in 1980, when construction workers unearthed a woman's remains near Eklutna Road. Stabbed to death in 1979, she was never identified, dubbed "Eklutna Annie" by police assigned to work the case. Later that year, the corpse of Joanna Messina was found in a gravel pit near Seward, and a special task force was organized to probe the killings. Topless dancer Sherry Morrow had been dead ten months when hunters found her body in a shallow grave beside the Knik River, but the discovery brought authorities no closer to a solution in their case.
Source: Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers - Hunting Humans
Alaska serial killer dies at 75, decades after confessing to killing prostitutes and dancers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Convicted Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen, who hunted down women in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s as Anchorage boomed with construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, died Thursday. He was 75.
Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle said Hansen died at Alaska Regional Hospital after being in declining health for the past year.
Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women, mostly dancers and prostitutes, during a 12-year span. He was convicted of four of the murders in a deal that spared him having to go to trial 17 times.
The Anchorage baker also confessed to raping another 30 women in that time.
Hansen was the subject of a 2013 film titled, "The Frozen Ground," which starred Nicolas Cage as an Alaska State Trooper investigating the slayings. Actor John Cusack portrayed Hansen.
Hansen was serving a 461-year sentence in Alaska.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/21...g-prostitutes/
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