There was no ID on the body that became known as Horseshoe Harriet. This undated photo released by the Alaska State Department of Public Safety shows Robin Pelkey just before her 18th birthday.
Randy McPherron, an Alaska State Troopers cold case investigator, said Hansen "confessed to her murder and claimed he was his first murder victim."Īmong the skeletal remains found in 1984, Pelsky was discovered lying on the ground near Horseshoe Lake, near the Little Susitna River just a few miles northwest of Anchorage, troopers said. Her body was found near Eklutna Lake just north of Anchorage. The only person not yet identified is known only as Eklutna Annie, McDaniel said. In total, 12 bodies have been found, and 11 of those have been identified, trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel said. In 1984, Alaska State Troopers returned to those areas, where the remains of eight women were discovered.
At one point, he flew with investigators over an area north of Anchorage, where he pointed out where 17 of his victims were buried. Hansen was convicted in the deaths of four women but confessed to killing several more, troopers said.
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The 2013 movie "The Frozen Ground," starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, chronicled the troopers' investigation and capture of Hansen. Retired trooper Glenn Flothe, who helped put Hansen behind bars, told the Anchorage Daily News in 2008 that Hansen's victims initially included any woman who caught his eye, but he quickly learned that strippers and prostitutes were harder to track and less likely to be missed. Many of those people looking for fast money left as quickly as they came, and exotic dancers traveled a circuit along West Coast cities, making sudden disappearances commonplace. Convicted serial killer Robert Hansen is seen in this undated file photo in Anchorage, Alaska.Ĭonstruction of the 800-mile pipeline offered good paying jobs for workers, but it also attracted those who wished to make money off of them, everyone from sex workers to drug dealers. Hansen, who owned a bakery, gained the nickname "Butcher Baker" for abducting and hunting down women - many of them sex workers - in the wilderness just north of Anchorage through the early 1980s, when the state's largest city was booming because of construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline.