The Most Dangerous Game - Robert Hansen

The Golden Age of Murder: A True Crime Podcast

Robert Hansen was a successful baker and prize winning hunter who murdered 17 women between 1971and 1983 and raped an additional estimated 30 in Anchorage, Alaska. He largely targeted sex workers who he would lure or abduct, hold in a room for several days then fly out on a private miniplane to the wilderness where they would be killed and dumped, sometimes after having been shot by a hunting rifle like game. Hansen was born in 1939 in Estherville, Iowa and grew up in the town of Pocahontas. His childhood was rife with hardship. His father was strict and demanding, making his left handed son train to be right handed. He had a pronounced stutter and developed pock marks which caused him to be bullied at school and mocked and rejected by the girls at his school, one of the antecedents it is believed of his later rapes and murders. It is possible that if he came around today he might have become a mass shooter rather than a serial killer.