She Ran Barefoot From His Plane. The Map Had 24 Graves.
Anchorage knew him as Bob the baker. Quiet. Married. A record-holding bowhunter who sold doughnuts to cops. In the bush along the Knik River, he was something else.
For twelve years Robert Hansen abducted women, flew them into the Alaska wilderness, and hunted them. He confessed to seventeen murders. Most of the city never looked twice, until a seventeen-year-old ran barefoot and handcuffed from his plane at Merrill Field.
This episode is the escape that broke the case, the aviation map marked with graves, and the names that took decades to come back. I’m Alexander Lawson. Press play.
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