1. Robert Hansen was captured in 1983 and sentenced to 461 years' imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
28 Facts About Robert Hansen
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Robert Hansen died in 2014 of natural causes at age 75.
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Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15,1939, the elder of two children to an American mother, Edna Margret Hansen and a Danish father, local baker Christian "Chris" Hansen.
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Robert Hansen took to practicing both hunting and archery, often finding refuge in those pastimes.
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Robert Hansen later worked as an assistant drill instructor at a police academy in Pocahontas.
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On December 7,1960, Robert Hansen was arrested for burning down a Pocahantas County school bus garage, as revenge for his mistreatment in high school.
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Robert Hansen served twenty months of a three-year prison sentence in Anamosa State Penitentiary, during which his first wife divorced him.
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Robert Hansen was sentenced to five years in prison; after serving six months of his sentence, he was placed on a work release program and released to a halfway house.
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In 1976, Robert Hansen pleaded guilty to larceny after he attempted to steal a chainsaw from an Anchorage Fred Meyer store.
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Robert Hansen was sentenced to five years in prison and required to receive psychiatric treatment for his manic depression.
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Robert Hansen later told police that after Hansen chained her by the neck to a post in his basement, he took a nap on a nearby couch.
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Robert Hansen panicked and chased her, but Paulson reached Sixth Avenue and managed to flag down a passing truck.
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The driver, Robert Hansen Yount, alarmed by Paulson's disheveled appearance, stopped and picked her up.
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Robert Hansen drove her to the Mush Inn, where she jumped out of the truck and ran inside.
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Robert Hansen was taken to APD headquarters, where she described her attacker.
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Robert Hansen, when questioned by APD officers, denied Paulson's accusation, stating that she was trying to cause trouble for him because he would not pay her extortion demands.
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When confronted with the evidence found in his home, Robert Hansen denied it as long as he could, but he eventually began to blame his victims and tried to justify his actions.
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Once arrested, Robert Hansen was charged with assault, kidnapping, multiple weapons offenses, theft and insurance fraud.
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Robert Hansen entered into a plea bargain after ballistics tests returned a match between bullets found at the crime scenes and Robert Hansen's rifle.
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Robert Hansen pleaded guilty to the four homicides the police had evidence for and provided details about his other victims in return for serving his sentence in a federal prison, along with no publicity in the press.
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Robert Hansen confirmed the police theory of how the women were abducted, adding that he would sometimes let a potential victim go if she convinced him that she would not report him to police.
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Robert Hansen indicated that he began killing in the early 1970s.
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Robert Hansen showed investigators seventeen grave sites in and around Southcentral Alaska, twelve of which were unknown to investigators.
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Authorities suspect two of these marks are the graves of Mary Thill and Megan Emrick, whom Robert Hansen has denied killing.
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Robert Hansen was sentenced to 461 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Robert Hansen was first imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Hansen was imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward until May 2014, when he was transported to the Anchorage Correctional Complex for health reasons.
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Robert Hansen died on August 21,2014, age 75, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage due to natural causes related to lingering health conditions.