Over a 12-year period from the 1970s through to the 1980s, multiple women would go missing in Anchorage Alaska. Alaska State Troopers thought they could have a serial killer on their hands and even brought in the FBI to do a profile on who the killer could be. 

In 1983 a young, 17-year-old Cindy Paulsen would come forward and tell police about her harrowing escape from Robert Hansen, who was the local baker in town. But could it really be the friendly, local baker who was responsible for all these women going missing? 

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Andrea Reiher, “Prosecutor: Serial Killer’s Plea Deal was a ‘Grave Mistake’”, Heavy.com, September 2, 2020, https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/09/serial-killer-robert-hansen-victims/, accessed April 8, 2024. 

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