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hanssen references tonight
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ah the book butcher biker
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the true account of an alaskan serial
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killer by wolves a gilmore
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and leland he io
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a , website as well leland
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higher dot com the des moines
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register the winnipeg son seattle
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times zillow dot com
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where you can find a lot of these killers houses
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and sometimes i have photos inside inside
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grande on youtube check out
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he's a youtube channel
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it is great he does a lot of the cases
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that are i've done already he analyzes
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the psychology behind the perpetrators
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and also we've got some court records that
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, my part of this story will be set in alaska
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mid seventies to meet ideas
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and back in the die alaska was a bit of
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a wild frontier in fact
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i'm pretty sure it's a wash his hands he
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now now was lots of mining oil
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drilling pot line building scene
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and logging going on now these
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industries they can attract a lot
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of blowing from other from
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at the services employees this also
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a huge demand for sex workers
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who also mind blowing and and of and
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area along with that there's
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a huge demand demand for
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drugs and alcohol so
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when people go missing it can be hard
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to tell if they just left town they've
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got lost in the wilderness or in the keiser
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ladies working the streets in clubs
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it's hard to tell if they just left
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town or something more sinister happen
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to most walk
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worked on a false names and with for
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me to stay making the search for them
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even more difficult now
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predators nineties and nineties will use
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this to prey on the victims like
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i said alaska was the modern
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day the frozen wild
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west robin
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hanson he knew it any
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will use it to his advantage in
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the end so who is who
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is or bob hanson it
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was born february the assistant nine thirty
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nine in as seville i was
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with the family briefly moving to california
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for settling in pocahontas
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in iowa he nine forty
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nine his father and a bakery in tandem
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while still at school bob
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was required to get up and help his father prefer
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to prepare the daily bread at
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about two o'clock in the morning then he left
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him falling asleep lighter in the day
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at class following ,
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his father's footsteps hansen was
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trained as a bike and he had a bit
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of a love hate relationship
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with his father describing him
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as very demanding and never
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satisfied with his work and
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this was despite the great effort
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put into place now
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bob wasn't a great look at he was a bit shy
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any had a stuff it's , combination
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of things that would have the girls he asked
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out rejected leading
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to be a bit of alone the
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really got into hunting and with sub
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proficiency answer now these
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things he could do on his own to help with
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this rejection and ,
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domineering saw us as him but the loneliness
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i read go out and just get
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out in the wilderness by himself there's
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a bow and arrow and i
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can sign up for the army reserve for a year
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and then moved into an assistant a drill
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instructor role at a police academy
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now , grand eye on you tube he
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reckons the but they sorted jobs
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a typical of serial killers so again
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sixty men on to you tube he not only
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analyzes criminals on his
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show he also does things like
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analyzing the soda things like
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dip an amber of it's it's really
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worth a listen anyway handsome
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would made his first wife c b patchett
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and get married in nineteen sixty
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on december seventh nineteen sixty three
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years after leaving school handsome
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leaving school have friends which was a young
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friend burned down the boss said
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at the school he went to he would get
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busted city see not and sixty one and
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gets three years in the men's reform
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and see risk of the maturities at
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animal he was paroled on
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my the first non and sixty three now
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his first wife the for steam
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as soon as he was convicted but
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when when released he marry again
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in nineteen sixty three to darla
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murray henriksen he would get
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busted several times that says before
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moving to anchorage alaska with darla
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in nineteen sixty seven and i'd
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end up having a couple of kids in
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alaska he was seen as a really nice guy
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by the community and he's hunting skills
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with a bow and arrow brought him a lot
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of respect on the walls of
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these house these had mounted heads
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of the animals the killed this
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collection was reasonably valuable and
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it because was ensure now
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i had a master's degree in education would
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become a teacher who was also
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an avid church go they
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are growing hansen didn't
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have any money or very very
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little money even though he was working for his
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father was still at school he
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would get a few cents in our free time even
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when even when all dot and had money in
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his pocket the would end up shoplifting
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this getting into trouble he
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just couldn't bring himself to spend
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what money he did have any
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in one instance he saw a chain
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saw her in the department store and wanted
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to get get it free spada now
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the saturday nov the third nodding
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seventy six while handsome was shopping in
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an anchorage department store a
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, security guard observed hansen
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acting suspiciously in
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the stores sporting goods six then
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we watch hansen place an old sales
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receipt and a chainsaw box and
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laid the store with it the god
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apprehended hansen in the store parking
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lot hansen said after he
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got busted i looked at them
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and remembered about five weeks previous
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my father and i'd been cutting wood for
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a fireplace and he's remarking three
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or four times how much you would like to have once
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my sides live in oregon and were visiting
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us before wastes so he
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wanted to have one to you when
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he and my mother go camping along
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the coast all my father that he
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would be more than welcome to take mine
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but he refused i thought of this
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and all the presence most parents to give me
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through the years and how wonderful it would be
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if i go to be muscle for christmas
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also thought of course that my wife
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and i just bought this summer a new
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home and put everything we'd side
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for more than nine knees into it i
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guess many guess many went through my
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mind as i looked at the source i
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wanted almost more than anything
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the place my father and could just
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imagine expression on his face on christmas
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day if i could given that saw
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a walked around the store some more and out the
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front door outside and
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ninety man had just had a heart attack
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the police fire department of paramedics
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with a given treatment my father
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sixty nine as had one heart
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attack and is very i've a white again
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i thought of this time so and how place
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he would be to receive it at christmas
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or whoop back into the store a guy
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the source i thought there was a young
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man watching me but then he seemed to disappear
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on the one box or picked up there was a
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sales receipts i guess this is when
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we first really seriously thought
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about pragma saw seem like
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nobody would now if i tied for the sore
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or not if i saw sales receipt
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on the box so and
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walked out the door when i was apprehended
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in arrested on know what i did
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was wrong and i'm very sorry
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the doing so haha
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i call bullshit on that one anyway
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when he would get busted this will be in the
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future he had all these long stories
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on have not israelis fall
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nice as these explanation
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on all that sort of stop handsome
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was thirty seven years old at the time and he
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would end up going inside
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for that says the reason the
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would do time for some the good thing as miners
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shoplifting is because he'd already
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been done for the polling day the
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school bus garage you nine sixty
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destroying three the seven buses inside
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plus the garage also
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he was charged with the attempted kidnapping
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and rape of rape young real
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estate secretary in anchorage in
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anchorage in one now around
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the same time as that attempted right
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it would also be charged with abducting
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and right been a sex worker he
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, do a plea deal with charges
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for raping the six worth would drop city
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pleaded guilty to the abduction and and
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attempted rape of the
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secretary now he would get
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five
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the but he would be ass
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in six months yes
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six months
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he basically told investigators that
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after picking up the six worker at a club
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see asking for money and he realized
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then that she was a sex worker not
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some girl he just picked up at the club
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and so then he just decided to drive back the
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club and it's you is making this
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story up that he writes
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they're police
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the leave hansen over
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the sex worker know this will be the first
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on this happens and it wasn't just
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the him this it happens all the time
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and back then there with
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anybody's word against that six with
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any white hansen's house was at 7223
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old harbor, avenue in anchorage
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look at that on maps, because
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it was quite important if you see
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where that is compared to some other
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places around a 2600
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square feet, or 243 m2
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house on almost a
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cup block, this property
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had a basement so i guess you know,
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it would go home with that handsome
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devised an insurance scam where he
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reported all of this trophy collection that
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he had on these walls and rugs that
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died but install comprised
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above bedrock a shaved
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head, which apparently it's a dull shape
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which the magical shape
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in a i [unk] mountains
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must be hard to get anyway
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the shape had shape wolverine haunt wolverine haunt
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hot a beaver hide and walrus
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tusks the climb was paid out by
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state farm insurance to the tune of
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thirteen thousand dollars and is held pants
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and finance a bakery and even
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even piper cub blind
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he kept a piper cub climb which is a
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tiny little plane at merrill field
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airport so if you find out where
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he lives on google maps metal field
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airport is not far away now
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it's funny when you look at google maps of merrill
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fielded it has all these
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light aircraft parked there it's
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just like a shopping center compaq
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i guess people use the small
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planes in alaska lot we used
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cars in in normal
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voice if i were used
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the word know but they
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are guess it's all the wilderness people have little blinds
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is by them instead of four wheel drive
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this is get apply in it's easy to get some
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anyway it would fly this
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plane quite a bit a debate among we
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had no license and i guess
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that's another thing or spices is quite a slice
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you can just pick it up easy watches somebody else
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fly he's bakery
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now this is the third point to have a look on your google
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maps is located at eight hundred
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and twenty eight eight eighth ninth
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avenue all right so you got
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the google it's basically it's basically line
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it got his bakery in the middle
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is merrill airfield none the right hand side
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you'll see half the the
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seven star food mart is there now
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on the corner instead of his bike race as i
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six miles from his home
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right
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that a little bit of background get into the
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case a bit more ever said before
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people go missing in alaska to be for
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many reasons but , same
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sow from the encourage police the pump
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see now that in the very
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early eighties add of all these
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missing people and especially missing women
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the same to be some patent involved
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some patent disappearance
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but this one group in topless
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dancing
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that wasn't unusual for topless dancing to
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go missing and then turn up months later
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oh often guy to my be another city
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to work for a while and return
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or the just get outta town for a while
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some , the most it was still on this
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missing persons least they had
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one thing had one thy
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gone missing after telling their
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friends that were going out on a date
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with a guy that he know a
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pi day that was playing very
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good money maybe two or three
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hundred dollars and sometimes i
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told the friends with maybe for a photo shoot
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or just down to dinner with a guy or whatever
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but i went out they never came back
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now trying to get information is information
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out of their france was quite difficult after
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being reported missing by the boyfriend
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or pimp there working girlfriends
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that is working go friends with
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every reluctance cooperate with police
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even
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the cooperating
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with police
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would be helping them in the future i
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got so let's go over some of these
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missing that would eventually
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can update on ,
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the seventeenth nine ice workmen
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discovered the skeletal remains of a woman
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in a shallow grave of eq look
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know like road and
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that's about thirty miles as the crow
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flies north east of anchorage
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anchorage said eight and parts of the body but they
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were closing and juri at the same
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an autopsy was performed stated the cause
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of death with a stab wound to the back
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the woman was petite with blonde hair even
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with facial reconstruction and media
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relations showing her distinctive
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jewelry see still unknown
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to die and was given the nine it
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looked not and three
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of a long term missing women were
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ruled out to be excellent know any
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they were celia beth van zan
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seven said he made an issue of on
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emmerich seventeen and mary
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kathleen fill twenty two who
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all went missing between december
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nineteen seventy one and july
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nineteen seventy five says
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that's how long time nearly
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a decade to have five
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years ten years before
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this body was found them
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not long after her body was discovered another
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would be fan in the north of sewage
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around a hundred and ten kilometers
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or seventy four seventy miles
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south of anchorage twenty four year
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old joanna saner a topless dancer
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had been missing since my nine eighty
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her body was found wrapped in wrapped moldy
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sleeping bags and she had she had
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two two gunshot wound to
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her head the twenty four
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year old roxanne eighth when went missing
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like june and then forty one
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year old lace of for thrill went missing
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on the seventh of september nine id
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both walk the streets for money the
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making didn't stop it twenty
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five year all my lai lawson went
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missing on june nineteen eighty one
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twenty three year old sherry mara would
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go missing on the seventeenth of november
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eighty one twenty two year old
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andrea alter he missing on
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december the second eighty one twenty
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three year old sue luna [unk] missing may
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the twenty six eighty two twenty
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year old tomorrow or tammy pedersen
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missing august eighty two nineteen
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year old robin pelkie missing
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january eighty three twenty four
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year old angeles sedan missing
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february eighty three twenty year
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old dell lena fray missing
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april eighty three twenty one year
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old poll a golden missing april
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twenty fifth eighty three and twenty
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two year old teresa watson missing
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april twenty ninth ninety ninety three now
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added that last least a ten missing
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women sherry , body
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would be found in september nineteen eighty two
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and a shallow grave on the bank of the
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river north of anc encourage
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seed banks not in the bag that there were no
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bullet holes in her shit indicating
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she'd be naked when shot and then
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regret investigators found
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a two to three shell casing
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and she was missing her gold arrowhead
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pendant on her necklace on
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the simple september non a ninety three
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poll a goulding spotty would be fan
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and another two to three shell casing
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was fan knee her body will
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not so much man near body was buried
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within now they would be analyzed
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and sounds from the same sound the bay
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from the cia rifle linking
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these two cases together nance
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has before paul his body was found that
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been another incident and this involves
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hansen and that deserved that
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bit of a looker on
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june thirteen seventeen year old cindy
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paulson a working go with saying
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by passing motorists running half
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my good man gop dahn the right
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people live and drive and seventy by
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marsh in now he's yeah
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so reception god to be taken to a
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boyfriend supply said the big team by
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myself and that's just around the
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corner now which got they
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had they had ended up turning off the so cdc
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still handcuffed and freaking out
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i took off the cops and we're told
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and seed organized a date with these guys
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that as soon as she got a nice car
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he handcuffed are in pulled a gun on he
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then took a to his house right
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and tortured her there was a nice
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house well his basement she
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, that the walls were covered with these
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animal head se and he had
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animal skin that's also
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she saw clothes rack with my be seven
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also dresses on it now see
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started to wonder this guy
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it's not the first time you've done these these
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think i'm gonna die as she was wondering
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if these dresses on these clothes
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racks belong the other girls that other have
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adopted and right she
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felt and was gonna get murdered
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he didn't china by the nick to uphold
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and after
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while we went to sleep he
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woke up ended up putting are putting back
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in back car he drives to merrill
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field airport now
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it's he that she's either
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to escape she gets out
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of his car what least loading up
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his little piper cub arab side
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putting the gone in and actually now
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he chased acura but he gives
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up winning east say that
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she's being rescued by these passing motorist
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so on a wider taking it to the hospital
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cindy off if they could actually stop
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so she could show them the plane her
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attacker was lighting up like
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up the details of the plane and they sound
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was registered to robert hanssen
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now a security guard that not it also
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seen a guy running and then when he spotted
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in this got stopped and started to walk
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and he walked to the park com guardian
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and driver the description
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of her attacker also a matched
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hansen's and the description of the cost
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plus the registration plate taken
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from the security guard max
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hansen's com
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i crash so they bring
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in hansen phone interview
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hey tell police the she's
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why and then he'd been at a friend's
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house repairing a seat free playing online
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and then after that he went to another friend's
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house and then he went straight
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to the airport to install the seats they'd
21:23
been repairing satellites
21:25
, friends up and make them from he story
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he was with also nods when he wasn't
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with me was the other guy hansen
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had hansen pretty good alibi
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when police read guide always have
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to check his house that they did
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find some hidden gun
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that not no one that she described
21:42
there were no track chainsaw the nothing
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now cindy did pick hansen out
21:47
of a fight i line up and was able to describe
21:49
the inside of his south but this
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only meant that she'd previously
21:53
been a nice has a didn't mean to is this
21:56
that nine and also
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cindy cedric
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the lie detector test he can
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imagine why he that
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see the sex worker that i really
22:06
like police she's already in the station
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she's had this traumatic nights my want to put
22:10
on lie detector test so
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when it came to him the blaming the well known
22:15
met family man that had a business
22:17
and sold the best died out since and will
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the cops
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the as an alibi over believing
22:23
a sex worker
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well you know how that's gonna end up the
22:27
good cop greg biker food interviewed
22:30
cindy he actually did believe
22:32
this story but he would have to
22:34
let it go at least for the most
22:37
cindy then left him for a short walk
22:39
just probably let someone tried
22:41
murder me a just gonna just gonna go i
22:43
for a while the
22:45
women's bodies started turning up in the wilderness
22:48
he thought back about seen the and how
22:50
she was to be flown at hancock
22:53
the some way probably very remote and
22:55
inaccessible barbara
22:57
that's like
22:58
what seem to happens to these
23:01
the bodies of these women that have been found
23:03
earlier he
23:05
had died get the into the wilderness
23:08
you probably have to fly someone
23:11
though it's gonna tick tock tick tock he's
23:13
doing
23:15
now maybe
23:17
cindy was gonna be next and would
23:19
probably was gonna be next mit hansen's
23:22
with connected to these missing and murdered
23:24
dances the ones that were appearing
23:26
in the bush the task force
23:28
was being set up to investigate these missing
23:31
and murdered murdered dances that greg
23:33
pica with a local anchorage
23:35
cop and the cindy paulson place
23:37
was on hold so ,
23:40
guys everything he had all these evidence
23:42
the state troopers seats set up
23:44
this task force they'll rebel a check
23:46
out these robert hanssen guy a lot
23:48
closer my brought in f b
23:50
i profile was also to go over the
23:53
case now the f b i
23:55
said that the probable type
23:57
of person in this class was an outdoorsman
24:00
independent a business owner
24:02
had low self esteem because it was picking
24:05
up sex workers prose possibly
24:07
had a speech stay fit had a history
24:10
of our son was a bit of a misfit
24:12
like hunting and killing animals he
24:14
would also keep seventies of his victims
24:17
and when you look at it this describe
24:19
hansen right dance with say
24:22
acne
24:23
the why i said he had a speech impediment
24:25
that he started they needed more
24:28
to get a search warrant on his hands and go
24:30
subsequent interview is cindy paulson
24:33
brought to the investigate his attention
24:35
that the basement she was held in had
24:38
all these trophies and animal skin
24:40
rugs the description of days
24:42
match those that hansen and put
24:44
in an insurance crime previously
24:47
state farm insurance supplied fight as
24:49
before the theft and after
24:51
the theft at theft inside of his house
24:54
most important my they needed to get back
24:56
in he's half his time
24:58
he's car and also check out
25:00
these bakeries go the
25:03
new that little bit of this in a little bit of
25:05
that are able to get a search
25:07
warrant so they went to arresting
25:10
now robert hanssen sleeve was brought in
25:12
by state troopers they arrested
25:14
him at ease bakery on october twenty
25:16
seventh nineteen eighty three pants
25:19
and was taken down town for an interview
25:21
now the interview room and paul's files on
25:23
the desk which were labeled with nine
25:26
service friends and that was even one
25:28
for his wife darla with a fido of
25:30
around on the walls there was there was
25:32
with a red circle marked hansen
25:35
saying he then it is all set
25:37
up because too intimidating and hopefully
25:39
getting to realize he was pretty much
25:41
bastard and hopefully confess hansen
25:44
didn't even ask for a lawyer to be printed see
25:46
felt he could explain his way out of whatever
25:49
the investigators had to ask
25:52
the sort of people do they
25:54
think they're smarter than everyone else
25:57
now after going ivory lie for these criminal
26:00
my god does he know that several women
26:03
over the years that have gone to police
26:05
with similar story the stories
26:07
went along the lines of that he
26:10
picked up they sex workers and offer them
26:12
large sums of money but then things went
26:14
bad and he'd write them investigated
26:17
told him when my get a dozen
26:19
report cyber a dozen years from women
26:21
that have been with him reports have been pulling
26:23
guns on i'm being bound up that
26:26
doesn't look good that they with some
26:28
sort of pattern he they
26:30
them produce a photo of pull a goulding
26:33
and told him a two to three shell
26:35
have been found fired from his weapon
26:38
need the body he said it wasn't
26:40
a i told him that the
26:42
f b on arrival the match shell casing
26:44
the rifles and the bullet can be matched
26:46
as well now at this stage
26:48
this was this was and hansen
26:50
sort of seem to know how could
26:52
they have my rifle and have tested even
26:55
if i could find my rifle had
26:57
and i notice the we sort of like know
27:00
and i really believe his eyes
27:02
, investor guys asking about
27:04
bandages that he used read bad nice
27:07
pets and then told them that be had many
27:09
of these bandages the investigated
27:12
then showed pants and a photo of sherry
27:14
morrow and told him that she
27:16
was found shot dead another
27:18
two to three shell next to a
27:20
body will actually buried and
27:22
she had bandage around the rise just
27:25
like the bandages they use they
27:27
also said the showcasing mess the other one
27:29
from pull aside and it was barry
27:32
so justin foley hansen
27:34
still denied being involved now
27:37
at this time always get they investigated
27:40
police asserting his houses cars
27:42
plane and the bikers nothing was
27:44
found any cop like or the bakery
27:46
buddy's house ended up setting
27:49
up quite a lot items that would may looking
27:51
through there were guns were
27:54
guns if you listen to the book
27:56
of read the book
27:58
the man guns he had
27:59
the
27:59
absolutely incredible on a lot of them with stop
28:02
they also saw all these apparently
28:05
stolen fry fees and rugs that
28:07
was in the basin no initially
28:09
investigators spoke to him about these try
28:11
fees that he reported stolen but
28:14
with now back in his house hansen
28:16
tell them that i turned back up an easy on
28:19
one day but he forgot to tell the insurance company
28:22
hansen at this point any been interviewed
28:24
for couple hours at this stage ask
28:26
for an attorney the
28:28
cops by with fun i
28:30
ended up taking his blood saliva samples
28:33
spiders they process
28:35
him at the courthouse and they charged him with
28:37
the kidnapping and right as cindy
28:39
paulson for this i murder charges
28:42
at the moments i just haven't got enough
28:44
evidence to get paid but i don't want to let his god
28:47
back out in the spring many
28:49
investigators that hansen's have this is
28:51
light at nice paid yet to find any
28:53
of these weapons used in the shooting of sherry
28:56
and polling i finally
28:58
got upstairs the after
29:01
rummaging around riding one corner
29:03
dice and a remington for thought to rifle
29:06
twenty two caliber thompson
29:08
contender seven mil made a single
29:10
shop pissed an aviation
29:13
map with markets the
29:15
jury including a gold
29:17
arrowhead nicholas newspaper
29:20
clippings a winchester shotgun
29:22
and a mini fourteen ruger two to
29:24
three caliber rifle i
29:26
, found an eye the ice in map they
29:29
finally now thought they had enough evidence
29:32
to link hansen with these murders
29:35
the many fourteen would need to be analyzed
29:38
body fpr to come from he actually
29:40
was the weapon used to father two
29:42
to three shells founded the murder
29:44
saying
29:46
it's not funny i suppose that is funny they ended
29:48
up price seeing the rifle to the f b
29:51
i rather than someone personally
29:53
hiking it over to the if we i hate
29:55
quarters themselves by just
29:57
did this to say
29:59
money
30:00
well guess what i got lost in the mail for
30:02
nearly a week but then when
30:04
it was found luckily it was
30:06
found it was processed
30:08
and yet it matched the shelf
30:11
that were found john heading
30:13
that he'd given hansen an alibi the
30:16
not it's cindy was right he
30:18
ended up being approached by the investigators as
30:20
well well his
30:22
wife was surprised while he was away
30:24
and see got the phone or harper woods ghosts
30:27
said you better guy saw this thing out before
30:29
gets at a hands busy so the news
30:32
john a day sticking up for him washing
30:36
the the police for a snail when
30:38
john had given his alibi he was
30:40
under the impression it was some the
30:42
some minor sort of thing her hands in advance
30:45
maggie with a topless dance i got a traveler
30:47
some it's not as vicious attack
30:50
and that he was nabbing questions from other murders
30:52
he didn't figure was that bad
30:55
so is pretty quick that henning and these
30:57
other might retracted this statement
31:00
which now men handsome had no
31:02
alibi for the kidnapping unripe a cindy
31:05
paulson and cindy would be willing
31:07
to testify against answer also
31:10
the undies that cindy war the night she
31:12
was ripe plus a tampon she been wearing
31:15
of the science which tested and the results for
31:17
match to the blood type of hansen
31:19
that wasn't a day and i test what
31:22
we have now so isn't gonna be super
31:24
super accurate in determining
31:26
how it was but it was just another place
31:28
in the evidence towards convicting handsome
31:31
when the map by fanning hansen's addict was
31:33
looked at it was several x is
31:35
in fact twenty four x is marked elaborate
31:38
activities precisely match with polling
31:40
goulding and sherry mirage bodies were
31:42
found shop the more than
31:44
saying those two exes mom this
31:47
affected all over the man
31:49
what i say
31:50
this twenty four exes
31:53
investigators thought that he might be rude
31:55
now responsible for twenty four murders
31:58
and with these marty and
32:00
every different madison when
32:03
answer was why to presented with all this
32:05
new evidence he pretty much knew
32:07
he was done he could take climb
32:09
his innocence or try to get some control
32:11
back what suggesting a plea
32:13
deal now the deal he ended up
32:15
striking was for him to plead
32:18
guilty to the murders of sherry morrow
32:20
joanna messina the at
32:22
glue looting annie and
32:24
pull a goulding also he would plead
32:26
guilty to the kidnapping and right of sydney bulls
32:29
the also wanted as part of this deal
32:32
know media coverage or as
32:34
little as possible to protect
32:36
these family and in return
32:38
he would help investigators recover the
32:40
bodies of his victims now
32:42
he ended up confessing to murdering seventeen
32:45
women although it's thought he was responsible
32:48
for at least twenty one and this
32:50
was starting from the early seventies
32:53
the one april the twenty fourth sue
32:56
loon his body was recovered neither nick
32:58
river the same day much
33:00
my lai lawson's body was found
33:02
at the parking area by the old
33:04
nicht bridge on april
33:07
twenty fifth deleon fries
33:09
body was founded horseshoe like on
33:11
, twenty six teresa watson's
33:13
body was found the kenai peninsula peninsula
33:16
son homicide die angeles
33:19
sit ins body was found that figure eight
33:21
like on , twenty ninth
33:23
samira citizens body was found one
33:25
and a half miles from old nick bridge
33:28
and on my the ninth leases for trails
33:30
body was found south of
33:32
old nick bridge sadly
33:35
no other bodies were found hansen
33:38
ended up thing since the four hundred and sixty
33:40
one years without the possibility of parole
33:43
fans , dying august twenty first
33:45
twenty fourteen i'd seventy five
33:48
and alaska regional hospital in
33:50
anchorage anchorage pelkie
33:53
she was or on identified until twenty
33:55
twenty one she'd been named
33:57
horseshoe harriet now
33:59
at loon the any has yet to be identified
34:03
i can't spare you wondering how
34:05
did he get around his wife darla finding
34:07
out even half of what was
34:09
going on well she
34:11
knew he went out early as and he
34:13
needed to prepare for the day by to
34:16
you , he'd have to be there to i am so
34:19
you know if he's leaving at eleven o'clock at night she
34:21
knew that is probably a little bit early to guy six miles
34:23
down the right right sort
34:25
of thought he must be taking women
34:27
sussex she knew he was a
34:29
safe but the with see things had
34:31
stopped him from leaving one
34:33
she was a christian and thought maybe god
34:35
would sort this out but more importantly
34:38
she didn't want kids to go that far
34:41
he had no idea he was raping
34:43
and murdering women say is enough
34:45
understand sort of the side of also
34:48
it handsome would do a lot of this fall
34:51
on criminal activity where he
34:53
brought the women back home put him in
34:55
his basement when dollar in the
34:57
kids were visiting family so he used to
34:59
organize holidays for them
35:01
so that
35:02
p for awhile
35:04
hansen wouldn't tell investigators how
35:06
he'd picked up was dances or sex
35:08
workers aziz victims because he
35:10
was a respected businessman and
35:12
they were just prostitutes no
35:15
one would believe them over him if
35:17
i went to police after he writes them
35:20
and of course not all of them got
35:22
the chance he told investigators
35:24
some he would take on is financed of the
35:26
wilderness strict them tiny
35:29
hands and let them guys he would then
35:31
hunt them down or the stabbing or
35:33
shooting
35:34
this was more
35:36
the just for the thinks rights it was
35:39
more the thrill of the hunt and
35:41
by the way those dexter fans
35:43
as here since the character could cold
35:45
war was loosely based on robert
35:47
hanssen even though hansen
35:50
denied killing celia beth van
35:52
zan megan savant emery
35:55
mary kathleen kill he
35:57
went missing between december seventy one
35:59
and july seventy five it is
36:02
believed they were his first victim
36:05
i guy so handsome was rejected by
36:07
women in his youth this reject
36:09
incest a deep inside of to
36:11
the extent that he hide of women he
36:13
bet he wanted to love them but high the
36:16
day rejection in sex work
36:18
as he could find that he had the
36:20
power they wanted his money
36:22
he could pick and choose he could reject
36:25
he split women into two categories
36:28
sites and horse sites
36:31
were women like he his wife and
36:33
mother's the next door neighbor
36:36
his employees but sex
36:38
workers that would just totally the
36:40
front they were cause
36:42
less than human an easy target
36:45
three deviance see since and app
36:47
that attacking or raping non sex
36:49
workers would get a mean the trouble
36:51
it would get him in prison if
36:54
he turned his violence towards sex
36:56
workers he had a much better chance
36:58
of getting away with that which he did meeting
37:01
sex workers were a low priority for voice
37:03
as i would nine just skip town sterile
37:06
was using different nine and now
37:08
on had any ideas are missing at all
37:10
some song hansen didn't
37:12
kill all the women he attacked one
37:15
cindy paulson was obviously going to
37:17
be put on is fine taken
37:19
out that the middle and i were and hunted down
37:21
like an animal see was just
37:24
lucky to escape and old though initially
37:26
her story to police wasn't believed
37:29
his see some would be is the mental
37:32
in getting hands and charged and convicted
37:34
even though she didn't have to take the same
37:38
the neck about a for this way
37:41
you just gotta think about this guy
37:43
house he showed all
37:45
the signs of being a serial
37:47
killer why back then stitches
37:50
i'd that now
37:52
days maybe , teachers
37:54
scorsese's kid and starts
37:56
thinking maybe he's a serial killer
37:59
and the guys through life
38:01
and starts lighting fires killing animals
38:04
and cv and only sort of stuff
38:06
he gets picked up in the cold hopefully
38:09
this some why somebody
38:12
can either six this person or
38:14
that lock them up a good that i just let
38:16
them get out isn't
38:18
it i get out on a some of the small census
38:21
success escalate the refunding
38:24
it's it's it escalates that's right
38:26
and murder and we've seen it time and time
38:28
again i'm sure if you
38:30
out there in the true crime will know exactly
38:32
what i'm talking about i
38:34
say it's not yet for these wait what a crazy
38:37
tithe map for a real deep
38:39
dive yeah this is about a a i
38:41
i our read don't
38:44
forget to check out butcher baker the true
38:46
account of alaskan serial killer
38:48
by walter gilmore and leland
38:51
and how it's used to like got
38:53
the all audible version and this isn't an ad
38:55
if not paid me or anything or got
38:57
it from audible i ,
38:59
have listened to it ten times a full
39:02
slate sometimes i got to go back to where it was not
39:04
but it's so willing to write it
39:06
it got boring on a annoying voice
39:09
voice white mind mind just well
39:11
in the right it and it includes a lot of the other
39:13
crimes that handsome was handsome a
39:16
it goes into so much more get also
39:19
there's a lot more of that the victims in
39:21
the book that i just couldn't put here in
39:23
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39:25
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