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late in the evening of December nineteenth nineteen. Seventy one thirty two year old, Robert Hansen pulled into the parking lot of it, twenty four hour cafe he peered out of the Hosty windshield of his blue Pontiac, watching some of grudges, most sordid characters scurry in and out of the late night hot dancers on a break from the club sex workers getting started for the night and the men who like to all of them were frequent patrons of the diner. It was the perfect place for Robert to find his neck. The victim. He watched as a beautiful young woman dashed out o the cafe to warm up her car. He glanced around the parking lot for the fur. Time all night it was empty. This was his moment: Roberts lit out of his potty action, made his way toward the front door. The cafe he tucked himself out of sight making sure the woman wouldn't see him ass. She walked back inside from his management

he watched your fiddling with the knobs on her dashboard. He stood patiently waiting for the right moment to strike It was only a matter of time before she would be his hi, I'm Gregg pulsing this. is serial killers. Us bonafide original from park asked every episode. dive into the minds and madness of serial killers today were taking a look at raw. Handsome other. is known ass, the butcher Baker of Alaska, I'm here with my co host ass, a Richardson high everyone you can find besides of serial killers and all other originals from par cast for free on spot. I or wherever you listened upon gas, today will explore Roberts difficult adolescence

telling how the rejection he, based as a young man, caused a deep resentment towards the world and of women living in it. Next I will discuss Roberts career as the butcher Baker of Alaska. A serial killer known for hunting is victims in the wild. We ve got all that in more coming up stay with us before this episode take a moment to think about those that go rogue like the rogues in your family who play by different rules, their law, abiding citizens, of course, but they are not afraid to go off script. That's the all new twenty twenty one Nissan world was made for this Slavery imagined with five DR moods, the only rogue spilt to help you go rogue where ever the road takes. You learn more at Nissan USA, dot com fan has supposedly gray rates for your help.

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to conjure an image of a monster, a twisted evil creature who belongs in the dark corners of a horror movie not working the sweets table at churches, bake sale but in real life, that's often where they are, because some soup You'll killers are husbands and fathers, they contribute their communities and spend their days at the office just like the rest of us at night. However, this out of their homes to degrade defile and murder No one would ever know it, because all anyone seizes the friendly face in the daylight. Someone who looks just like everyone else there beginnings are often unremarkable with little to India. The horror to come. Robert Hansen had just such a beginning. born in February of nineteen, thirty, nine in S Norville Iowa, his parents, Chris and Edna, owned and operated a small, successful bakery Chris was so kind

that in its operation that he decided to move as family out to California, where he felt his business would flourish, when nineteen forty two Chris Edna and Robert travelled to the West Coast with dreams of wealth and prosperity, Unfortunately, the bakery didn't take off, like the Hansen's hoped. After seven years of trying to get their business off the ground. Chris and Edna accepted that it was I'm to throw in the towel. So when nineteen forty nine, when Robert was ten May turned Iowa settling in Poker it is a small town about one hundred. Twenty five miles north West of De Mining there opened another bakery and enjoy the fruits of their modest. But system business. While his pair, suggested well to the move Robert founded rather difficult. He was a shy child. And the big moves during his formative years only incur

urged to retreat further into its shell. To make matters worse. He developed acne at an early age and spoke with a terrible stutter. His classmates were particularly cruel and haunted him constantly about his speech disorder. Robert wanted desperately to defend himself, but stutter made it almost impossible for him to speak, especially when he was worked up. For years he was forced to swallow his anger and remained silent, which The isolated him more Roberts, father, certainly didn't make things any better. He referred who's to acknowledge that his son needed help. Chris was a devout Christian who believed that any hard could be overcome with enough faith discipline. Determination, rather sending Robert to speech therapy, he put him to work at the bakery Chris was, confident that Robert would conquer his stutter through a healthy combination of sheer will and daily interaction with customers, thus too

Did she was a colossal failure? Robert simply didn't have the tools to address his speech disorder on his own now, In addition to feeling like an outcast at school, he felt like a disappointment to his father he's going to take over the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note that It is not a licence. Psychologists dress, I kite tryst, but she has done a lot of research for this show thanks Greg relationship between stuttering and mental health has been widely studied by professionals across the world. Statistically, people who study are at a higher risk of developing social anxiety disorder than people who speak without an impediment, the dsl Five notes that social anxiety disorder is a persistent and excessive fear of being humiliated, scrutinised or negatively evaluated in social situations Only around seven percent of the general population experience this disorder, but among adults who stutter

number jumps to sixty percent Doktor Kiley Smith, a speech without, just and behavioral therapist asserts that young people who stutter develop pessimistic attitudes toward communication because of consistently negative social interactions. The bullying Robert experienced at school, combined with his father's belief that he could simply will his stutter away created the perfect storm overtime, Robert self esteem diminished. His social anxiety disorder, grew and his anger at the world, festered high school proved to be especially difficult for Robert as other kids started to date. Robert was acutely aware of his own romantic prospects or lack thereof. The girls at school were typically Kalis towards him, always rejecting any. This attempt at romance he graduated in nineteen fifty seven Robert was dead spread to get out of Iowa. He me

ITALY enlisted in the army reserve and reported to basic training in Fort Dicks New Jersey When Robert and the rest of the recruitment training they ventured out to explore the nearby cities, it was Roberts first Taste The more cosmopolitan life it was also where he had his first sexual experience with a sex worker. Robert found it easier to approach, sex workers, not only where they nicer to him than girls, his own age. He likely felt a sense superiority while being with them. As a result, social anxiety seem to disappear while he was with sex workers and Stutter may have even improved. He felt in bold into ass sex workers to do things in bed that he would never ask of a girlfriend or wife. The war embrace of these women bolstered Roberts confidence and his first eighteen months in the reserves flew by Early nineteen, fifty nine twenty year old Robert Return,

Home to Pocahontas Iowa unreserved status. He got it parliament of his own and resumed work at his father's bakery during his spare time here does a drill instructor for the poker hottest junior police, the Jew Your police was a group of aid through eleventh great boys, who are trained in first aid, fire prevention and law enforcement, Robert loved being in charge at the boys, and relish teaching them all. He knew especially when it came to weaponry here so managed to find a girlfriend Phoebe path it was a year younger than Robert and the daughter of the town chiropractor Phoebe wasn't. Can it had conventionally attractive and often spent mode over time alone, just like Robert, the coupling made sense to everyone, but even though Robert had his own place, steady work and a stable relationship, he still harboured resent been for the trauma experienced growing up. He began

spending more time with the older kids from the Pocahontas Junior police, because he was in a position of power. He found it easy to talk to the boys who didn't intimidate him like people, his own age, Robert frequently invited the scenes over to his apartment, to talk about guns, hunting and how much He hated both the school and the town, Robert a particular shine to one teen, whose parents onto jewellers near the bakery dude his association with Robert. This boy's taken strides to conceal his identity from the public so call him MAX when Robert Father realised that his son was overworked. He decided to release of some hours so that he could spend more time with the junior police in turn. Chris hired six in your old max to take over some of Roberts duties whenever acts. Man. The Register Robert, would visit the bakery to vent about his life and childhood MAX thought. Robert was a bit too

but he enjoyed having the company one Robert surprised MAX by telling him that he wanted to burn down the barn where all the school buses were kept just to see if he could get way with it MAX who looked up to older friend and mentor, agreed to help On December seventh, nineteen sixty the pair set out Robert arranged for acts to meet him at the bakery that night, where they carried out some shores to establish an alibi, then they hopped into Roberts. Our and drove over to the barn. Well meant, sopor, aided as a lookout Robert I'm the latter inside the barn poured several gallon gasolene everywhere and ignited the fire. Then they hurried back the bakery as soon as tough people notice the smoke, they called the fire department, although your fighters arrived in record time. The barn burn down completely taking all three school buses with it.

They doubts the last of the flames and allowed the charred remains of the barn to cool. The fire department began to a cop and leave the men shook his head at the destruction as he wrapped a hose onto the site of a fire truck, it was robbed Hansen as a vote your fire fighter. He had dutifully reported to the scene and attempted to put out the fire. that he himself had started in the aftermath the clear arson attack authorities opened. An investigation, however, Robert felt untouchable thanks to his carefully craft the alibi and his work with the fire department, perhaps feeling like he was free to carry on with life as normal. He proposed to his girlfriend Phoebe dull, Did she said? Yes, so as a priority searched for lead. The happy couple started planning for their big day, Robert

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now back to the story. In March of nineteen sixty one twenty two year old Robert Hansen was busy planning his wedding to Phoebe. Patchett three its earlier, he burned down the barn housing, the town school buses as a way of getting back at the town of Pocahontas Iowa, and while he was confident, he'd gone no way but the arson his sixteen old accomplice MAX couldn't handle the guilt In March. Twenty ninth max please to call to the police and told them everything, relieved to finally unburden himself. He told the cops that the whole thing was Roberts idea. Who'd convinced him to participate the police him idiot charge, Robert with arson, the news out aged Roberts parents. They were convinced that MAX was trying to frame their son and hired the best attorney they could. To represent him Phoebe was also sure of Robert Citizens, but just in case the upcoming

child didn't go his way but pair decide. to get married sooner. three days after Roberts arrest he and Phoebe married at the local lutheran church before ceremony, Phoebe made Robert swear to her that he didn't set the fire. She warned him that she would divorce him if she ever learned. He was guilty looking his bride. In the eye rob lied and professed his innocence. In spite of his insistence that he was being set up, Robert Pledge guilty in order avoided trial where he might base a harsher punishment in exchange and she was sentenced to three years in the animal s estate. Penitentiary. Even after the deal is They still believed that he didn't commit the crime scene, after he arrived at the penitentiary. Robert began meeting regularly with the prison psychiatrist run, enjoyed the sessions and relish the chance to confess his crimes under the protection of doktor pay,

and confidentiality, he said I guess, burn down the bus barn because I hated the school with a divine passion. I would do whatever. I could think of to get back at that monster school that did Bob Hansen a personal wrong. It didn't take the site I trust long to see that Robert was obsessed with getting back at every one who had ever hurt him because of this. He proclaimed that Robert suffered from an infant tile personality according to a two thousand. six article by Doktor Louis Hill, those who have an infant Personality or people who have failed to mature in their attitudes, manners, techniques and aspirations. It's not that they regressive with child like frame of mind as they get older. It's that they never progressed from when they grew up like children. Adults with infantile personalities, have little tolerance for frustration and a desperate need to be loved

they also display a tendency to lean on visceral reactions instead of verbal communication to indicate when their upset doktor Hill asserts that particular disorder flares up when the infantile person feels they have lost control over an individual or a circumstance. This loss of control forces to reconcile with his or her own interpersonal inadequacies, control, something Robert relished. So what happened next was an unpleasant surprise after six months, but the since I kite tryst, he was done too or in that their sessions were not in fact protected by doctor patient confidentiality. When Phoebe heard about her husband's confession, she promptly filed for divorce and as rob Belt is carefully cultivated life slipping through his hands. He was alive. It he immediately climbed up and refuse to speak to the psychiatrist. Again, then, he got to

becoming a model prisoner, he filed records for the prison staff, wrote letters for inmates who couldn't read or write and even offered will the just counselling. He also arranged for a speech therapy treatment through the nearby University of Iowa, which greatly improved visibility to speak confidently after next psychiatric work up in late nineteen sixty two. He was good glowing report, the authorities were confident that had been rehabilitated, while Robert certainly displayed symptoms of an infantile personality, his effort to regained power over his reputation was calculated and executed with the intelligence of a very capable adult. His careful, planning paid off a few later in May of nineteen. Sixty three twenty four year old Robert was paroled for good behaviour. He had served Joe over half of his three year sentence Robert outdated

his parole in Minnesota. Were his parents now lived when We got around Pocahontas that Robert had admitted to his crimes. Chris and Edna were humiliated. They sold there bakery and left for a fresh start in a new town. Although they were devastated by Roberts criminal activity. His early really to convince them that their son had turned over a new leaf. They hired him too form odd jobs around the resort they just purchased and he spent the summer painting both building docks and guiding fishing parties around the lake that same summer, Robert Method, twenty year old woman named Darla Henrichson, who worked cleaning cabin, the resort the to spend all of them. free time, roaming, the grounds together and fell quickly in love. Robert rig old Darla, with stories of his traumatic adolescence, playing on her sympathies and drawing her closer to him at the end of the summer, heap post and she gave him a tentative. Yes, she was

the student at the University of IRA, and she wanted have been should degree before they tied the not so at the end of the summer, Darla back to college, to study education and Robert move down to Chicago, to take a course in cake decorating. But after a couple of months of long distance, the to realise that they couldn't be apart for much longer the fall of nineteen sixty three Robert and Darla got married and moved into a trailer park, blooming tin, Minnesota darlin Trance to the University of Minnesota. To finish her decree and Robert, not a job as the foreman of a bakery. At First Robert seemed like it excellent employee, but at some point he started Height items around the back of the shop. The stuff disco radios, small appliances and sporting goods touch behind shelves stashed under boxes. At first, they figure

that these were items Robert couldn't keep at home, because the trailer he in Darla shared was too small. Eventually, Roberts big suspected that he was actually stealing the items and stashing them at work. one day, a fellow employees drank their boss to wear Roberts car was part and pointed out to study, bicycles lying on his back seat with the lock. still on the wheels Roberts, boss, decided to bother him about it. They seem to believe that rob was a great worker with a lovely wife and a solid reputation if he stole radio or a couple of bikes. He must have had good reason for it. However, a couple of my later. That good opinion shifted in the spring. nineteen sixty five, the bakery owner, got to work early and caught Robert Red handed as he rifled through Dusk drawer, where the cash was usually kept. He fired. Robert on the spot. But Robert couldn't care less

He already had a new job lined up at another bakery, which was likely why he felt bowl to try and steal that day unfortunately but didn't last long it as new job either he had a hard time, country is apparent, clubbed, Romania and it made feel ashamed possible. taking a cue from his parents. He decided the best way forward, to move cities and start over completely as an avid outdoorsman and an amateur Hunter Robert felt do to Alaska, so in nineteen sixty seven when Doc, a finished her degree Robert can Instead, a move to anchorage. He promise that they could escape his troubled asked and begin a new life together with that twenty eight years Robert and twenty four year old, Darla packed up and moved West hoping a better future lay ahead, although its traditionally difficult to find work in Alaska robber.

Darla came equipped with very useful trades. Robert worked as a baker and cake greater for the local Safeway Bakery and darling, a job teaching, several years the handsomest were picture of domestic bliss. Darla was a fixture, The central Lutheran church and Robert made some of his first real friends after joining the Alaska State, Archery Association in nineteen seventy one. When Robert was thirty two, he and Darla welcomed their first child, a baby girl as their family, expanded with the second child. They bought a house and Robert got a second job, while Darla was overwhelmed, balancing motherhood and teaching Robert seem care free. When nodded either of his two jobs. He spent most of his time, hunting with friends or out on the town. If Darla fell any inkling of resentment, she never showed it. She was more dedicated to her face

than anything else to her, a good Lutheran wife was supposed to respect and obey her husband, no matter what her trust him. Robert was so absolute that darlin never question where he went after work on weak nights Even if she had asked Robert, would have lied to her about his whereabouts, most nights. He drove two anchorages red light district and watched sex work and dancers as they head to and from work it wasn't long before he wrote Thirdly, started picking up women and paying them to perform oral sex on him in his car, something he would never ask Darla to do but November fifteenth nineteen, seventy one, it wasn't a dance or a sex worker that caught Robert Sigh Susi hampered an eighteen year old reception as to drove through the red Light District on our way home from work while stopped at a traffic light. She looked over impolitely smiled at

operates sitting in the car next to her, but Robert didn't take Susie's smell while as a casual friendly hello, he saw it as an invitation when the signal changed, he lets Susie pull in front and followed her home. He watched the team let herself in and waited a few minutes since he had only been home for a few minutes when she heard the knock at her front door when she opened it, she thought She recognized the man at her doorstep, but she couldn't quite figure out from where Robert pretend to be looking for someone. He knew then made a clumsy attempt start a conversation with Susie? He told her was new to Anchorage and haven't met many people. Yet then he asked her out on a date creep doubt and flush. Susie told him no and gently LI the door in his face. Robert stood up side, Susie's apartment for a moment seething. She had rejected him just like all the

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It was five in the morning about the time that Susie left for the day and Robert waited with Bated breath keeping an eye on her door. Fifteen minutes when before Robert saw Susie's car pull into the lot. She had driven her room to work and was coming home to change rubber Watch Susie walk through the lot and before she could make it to her door. He confronted her pointing a gun in her face. She screamed and he ordered her to shut up. She screamed again and he shook the revolver. hissing that he would blow her brains out if she made another sound luck, p, a neighbor had heard Susie's screams and poked her head out the window to ask if Susie was ok, When the woman got no response, she could the police. Then she yelled out her window again letting Susie and her assailant know that the authorities were on their way before Robert could figure out what to do

a siren sounded near by and at sea his decision was made for him. He slid the gun back into his pocket and walked into the near forest leaving, Susie and his car in the lot to our later the police spotted Robert walking through the snow on the side of the road Robert try. did tell the officers that he had been driving and felt woozy. So he pulled over and took a walk to get some fresh air. They didn't believe him and threw him into the back of their squad car when they got back to Susie's apartment complex she confirmed that Robert was the man who threatened her Robert was taken to the Anchorage police headquarters. answer questions about the incident. During the interview, Robert deployed a strategy. He had cocktail. During his nineteen sixty two stint in prison. It was a simple tactic: Robert tended he didn't, remember a thing claiming that he often had memory blackouts. Then he had

did a mask of full concern and said. If I were involved. I need help a premium Mary hearing for the charge occurred shortly after his arrest, the press cuter wanted Robert to be held with bail, but his the attorney managed to get him released on his own recognised since part of the rest for this was Roberts ability to make himself into what he believed others at him to be because Robert proceed as an upstanding member of the Anchorage community. The it loud. His release under this stipulation that he begins sessions with Doktor Re Langdon a psychiatrist, a trial was scheduled for the Following January Robert immediately started, seeing Doktor Langton and at first he convinced the doctor that he did indeed far from random memory loss episodes, Doktor Langdon, believed that Roberts criminal activity stemmed from his amnesia and that he may be completely souci aiding during these events,

unclear whether robber was ever diagnosed with any mental or personality disorders, but his behavior manipulation tactics, suggests psychopathic tendencies in the past psychopaths been known to manipulate their therapists and psychiatry same way to manipulate everyone else. Psychologist said Doha, Z University discovered that these professionals within the mental health in prison systems, are no es immune to being fooled by psychopaths than the rest of us because cycle, house or show skilled a deception. It's extremely d, go to know when they're telling the truth they adopt masks of sanity. convince everyone around them that, despite ample evidence to the contrary. There actually perfectly fine cycle. Just Perpetua NEO takes this one step further and asserts that psychopaths are particularly good at manipulating their therapists because they only partaken therapy for selfish reasons.

they have no desire to actually examined their defects. They only want to make themselves look stable. Raw but it had already tricked his entire community of anchorage into believing. He was a stand up, gentlemen, and he made his psychiatrist think that any time he behaved otherwise was due to circumstances beyond his control, but in truth Robert was me control of his life than ever. His strategy to avoid consequences for his actions had worked particularly well. The best part about the tactical Four was that it allowed him to keep his freedom. Robert wasn't stuck in a jail cell, reflecting on what he done to Susie Instead, he was out in the red light district every night looking for his next victim. And in the early hours of December nineteenth nineteen. Seventy one he found her Laura as will call her.

was an eighteen year old sex worker who stopped by a twenty four hour cafe for something to drink. She ordered a cup of tea than told her waitress. He was going to warm up her car in the parking lot before her drive home outside Laura braced herself against the wind started her car made her way back across the mud to the cafe before she, to the door, Robert stopped her and- I d start a conversation. Laura was used to being hosted by strange men and brushed him off not once but twice for the second time Robert got angry. He pulled a gun out pocket and shoved into her back, forcing her in was Pontiac once they made it out of the city. Robert pulled over unused leather shoelaces to bind Laura's risk behind her back satisfied that He wasn't going anywhere. He drew for a while longer as he did, he frequently

glanced at Laura's brass. Through her shirt, then pulled out, again to ask if he could rip off her bra. Considering the abduction. Laura was surprised by his politeness She answered him honestly telling him didn't want him to, because the problem was expensive. Camper. by saying he told her to take it off herself and to remove her their clothes along with it. He figured she was likely to run away if she was naked theory, for her life, Laura complied robber drove. on for another eighty miles with his nude captive, laying on the back seat when he reached the connive peninsula, he pulled into a motel through a code over Laura and forced her out of the car and into a room once inside he tied her to the bedpost and raped her after. Robert slept for an hour or so then took Laura back out to the car and started driving back toward anchorage at first

I thought he would let her go once they got home, but suddenly Robert made a? U turn steering his car into the wilderness. after a while. The snow was so thick that the roads became impassable Robert stopped on edge of a large snowbank got out of the car and and her door. Then he pointed his gun at Laura told her to run terrified. Laura rob to her knees and pleaded with her kidnapper if he spared her life she promised to now four tell a soul what he did during Laura's, impassioned plea, Robert wasn't looking at her. He stared great ahead into the trees alongside the road, after a minute teeth dropped by the arm and shoved your back in the car. He told her that he'd seen some through the trees and was worried that were being watched. He drove back to act. bridge dwelling on what he was going to do with Laura when they got back to the city.

Laura reiterated her promise to never tell anyone what had happened. She said she hated cops and she didn't trust them enough to and Robert anyway. Fine Lee. She suggested that he looked at her licence and take down her name and address as insurance Robert like this idea, but rather than you being Laura's information, he wrote down her parents names. Instead, he told her that The ever spoke up about him. He would kill her family, then he let her Laura stay true to her word, sort of as soon as Robert dropped. Her off. She called her father and her brothers and hold them portions of what happened to her, but she so made them swear that they wouldn't tell anyone about the incident they agreed, which was particularly difficult for Laura's, Father who was an anchorage police officer. He wanted but behind bars, but he also feared for the safety of his family plus. He was

it into reveal his daughters occupation to his coworkers for fear that they would judge him or even arrest her, even though right were displayed a good deal of trust that Laura would stay quiet. It seems like he still feared she would turn on him and he will ready for that three days after it now Laura he allegedly abducted an eighteen year old woman will call melody. Robert was never can victims of melodies murder, but similarities between her case and Laura's make a strong argument for his involvement for our purposes will tell the story. as we believe it most likely happened. melody was last seen about nine p m on December twenty second nineteen, seventy one when she left her house to buy a soda. Her others assume, she had gone from the store to a baby sitting shop. So they didn't. We port melody missing until the next day. But melody was baby sitting that night. Instead, she was

did by Robert who drove her sixteen miles south to make Q Creek Enshiu Gach State Park, just like He did to Laura Robert I'd melodies hands behind her back stricter from the waist down and sexually assaulted. Her there and he slashed your chest with a knife whether this was part of the thrill for Robert or an attempt he'd melody from escaping is unclear in event melody, managed to break free and started running across the frozen parkland. But the snow was about three feet deep and her feet were bare her hands were also bound together, making it very deep it called for her to move? She me about fifty feet before she fell to her knees, desperate to live pretty scrambled into the woods and took cover beneath a bush. Her heart raced, listen De Roberts. Car circling through the park has he tried to find her, but eventually he gave up. Unfortunately, the temper

Europe plummeted, as melody remained crouched in her hiding place too terrified to move to two days later, hunters covered her body in the snow she had frozen to death. When the news got out about melodies death, Robert wasn't worried no one seen and pick her up, and he was certain that the park was completely deserted. That night in his and it was probably better than he hadn't caught her the way. he died, left more questions than answers, so Bert went about his day to day life as normal playing the role of doting, father and husband, working at the I agree and attending church on Christmas. It was easy for him to tabby throughout the holidays, he'd, essentially God no way with murder Laura, however, was not having a merry Christmas. She read about

with death in the papers and felt sure that the man who had abducted her was also responsible for death overcome with guilt. She went her father for help and hold him. She wanted to tell the authorities everything so on December, twenty seventh nineteen, seventy one Laura marched bravely into the Anchorage police headquarters to discuss what had happened to her even it meant revealing her job as a sex worker which she knew brought shame upon her family. She believed that being honest was the right thing to do after TAT: the police, about her kidnapping at assault, Laura identified, Robert Hansen from his mug shot. Then she looked directly at the officers and said I am here because that guy is probably a premeditated cold blooded killer and if you ve got a young girl who killed around the same time and in the same area then I believe it was Hansen who killed her

Given that Robert was still awaiting trial for the assault of Sissy hampered, Laura accusation was more than enough to charge him. So as Laura work to give the detectives the evidence they needed a squad car head to Robert Hansen's house. They were ready to arrest the monster, hiding in plain sight, thanks again for turning into serial killers, will be done. Soon with part two of Robert Hansen story: where will floor, the sadistic cat and mouse games played by the butcher Baker of Alaska from information on Robert Hansen amongst the many sources we used. We found fair game fibre, Nardoo, Cloe and Butcher Baker, Walter Gilmore and Leland E Hale. Extremely helpful to our research, you can find out

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