Ice Cold Killers (2012–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Hunting Humans - full transcript

THE WILDS OF ALASKA

ARE A VAST AND UNTAMED FRONTIER.

ALASKA IS BEAUTIFUL AND
DANGEROUS ALL AT THE SAME TIME,

AND IT CAN TURN ON YOU
IN AN INSTANT.

AMID THE RUGGED WILDERNESS,

PEOPLE VANISH
AT AN EERILY HIGH RATE.

PEOPLE WHO COME TO ALASKA ARE
EITHER ESCAPISTS FOR ESCAPEES.

ONE BY ONE,

A MADMAN IS PREYING
ON THE WOMEN OF ANCHORAGE.

THERE WAS RUMBLINGS
ABOUT POSSIBLY A SERIAL KILLER

PREYING ON THE STREETS
OF ANCHORAGE.



IT WAS LIKE A GHOST STORY.

HE ENJOYS THE COMPLETE
HELPLESSNESS OF HIS VICTIMS.

HE WANTED TO HEAR
THE TERROR IN HER VOICE.

POLICE ARE PULLED
INTO A DEADLY GAME

TO TRY AND SOLVE ONE OF THE MOST
INFAMOUS CASES IN AMERICA.

25 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ANCHORAGE,

THE KNIK RIVER VALLEY
IS A PREMIER HUNTING GROUND.

ON A BRISK SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON
IN 1982,

TWO POLICE OFFICERS
ON THEIR DAY OFF

ARE HUNTING FOR WILD GAME ALONG
THE BANKS OF THE WINDING GORGE.

ALASKA'S DEFINITELY
A HUNTER'S PARADISE.

FOR A HUNTER FROM THE LOWER 48,

THIS IS REALLY THE PINNACLE
OF THEIR HUNTING CAREER.

AS DARKNESS FALLS
WITHOUT A KILL,



THE MEN DECIDE TO HEAD HOME.

BUT WHILE HIKING
BACK TO THEIR CAMPSITE...

...THEY MAKE
A CHILLING DISCOVERY.

THEY KNEW ENOUGH NOT TO
DISTURB THE SCENE OF THAT CRIME

AND BACKED AWAY AND GOT
THE TROOPERS UP THERE.

ALASKA STATE TROOPERS
ARRIVE IN FORCE.

THEY CORDON OFF THE AREA
AND BEGIN EXCAVATING THE SCENE.

THE OFFICERS UNEARTH
THE PARTIAL REMAINS OF A WOMAN

BURIED IN A SHALLOW GRAVE.

THEY ALSO FIND BONES SCATTERED
ACROSS THE SURROUNDING AREA.

WELL, IF YOU HAVE SOME KIND
OF AN ANIMAL OR A BEAR

THAT COMES INTO YOUR CRIME SCENE
PRIOR TO YOU GETTING THERE,

THEY'RE LIABLE TO DRAG OFF
MOST, IF NOT ALL,

OF YOUR EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME
YOU'RE INVESTIGATING.

THERE IS NO I.D. ON THE WOMAN.

WAS SHE A HIKER
WHO LOST HER WAY,

OR DID SHE UNKNOWINGLY WALK
INTO THE PATH

OF SOMETHING MORE OMINOUS?

A LOT CAN KILL YOU IN ALASKA.

THE WILDLIFE CAN KILL YOU.

THE CLIMATE CAN KILL YOU.

YOUR OWN INCOMPETENCE
CAN KILL YOU,

AND YOUR FELLOW MAN,
WITHOUT A DOUBT.

INVESTIGATORS SIFT
THROUGH THE SAND

LIKE ARCHEOLOGISTS,
HOPING TO DISCOVER EVIDENCE

THAT MIGHT SHED SOME LIGHT
ON THE CASE.

HOURS LATER, THEY FIND
THEIR FIRST CLUE...

...THE SHELL CASING
OF A SINGLE BULLET --

A.223 CALIBER
USED IN HIGH-POWERED RIFLES.

BUT THIS IS NO HUNTING ACCIDENT.

TO POLICE,
IT LOOKS LIKE AN EXECUTION.

HANDCUFFS AND ACE BANDAGES
FOUND AMONG THE REMAINS

LEAD INVESTIGATORS
TO SUSPECT

THE VICTIM HAD BEEN BOUND
AND BLINDFOLDED

AT THE TIME OF DEATH.

AT AUTOPSY,
THE CORONER DETERMINES

THE WOMAN DIED
OF THREE GUNSHOT WOUNDS.

USING DENTAL RECORDS,

SHE IS IDENTIFIED
AT 24-YEAR-OLD SHERRY MORROW,

A DANCER AT THE WILD CHERRY BAR

ON THE NOTORIOUSLY SEEDY SIDE
OF ANCHORAGE

KNOWN AS 4th AVENUE.

THERE'S ASSAULTS, ROBBERIES,

BURGLARIES, ALL KINDS OF STUFF.

THERE'S DRUGS.

IT'S A BIG DRUG AREA --

PROBABLY OUR BIGGEST HIGH-CRIME
AREA OF THE TOWN.

THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL HOMICIDES
SINCE I'VE BEEN ON

IN THE PAST 31/2 YEARS.

IT WAS JUST ONE LONG
SERIES OF BARS AND STRIP CLUBS,

SEEDY HOTELS
THAT YOU COULD RENT BY THE HOUR.

THERE WAS CARS
ALL OVER THE PLACE

STOPPING, PICKING GIRLS UP.

SHERRY WAS DRAWN
TO THE WILDS OF ALASKA

BY THE LUCRATIVE PROMISE
OF THE TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE.

IT WAS SORT OF A PERFECT STORM,

AND IT WAS JUST WILD AND WOOLY
WITH THE CONSTRUCTION GOING ON,

ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE MOVING IN.

WE HAD AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY
FLOWING AROUND,

BECAUSE THE OIL WAS FLOWING.

LURED BY EASY MONEY,
SHERRY WOULD UP ON 4th AVENUE,

A PART OF TOWN WHERE MEN
WHO WORKED THE PIPELINE

LIKED TO SPEND THEIR CASH
AND BLOW OFF STEAM.

IT WAS ROUGHNECKS, G.I.s,

PROSTITUTES, PIMPS,
AND THE SMELL OF MONEY.

AND THEY HAD
THE TRIANGLE TRADE GOING,

AND THAT WAS THE PIMPS
AND THE BAR OWNERS

RUNNING THE GIRLS FROM THE WEST
COAST TO ALASKA TO HAWAII.

SO YOU HAD
THIS CONSTANT TURNOVER

OF YOUNG GIRLS OUT THERE
ON THE STREET.

IT MADE IT EASY
TO DISAPPEAR IN THE CROWD.

POLICE PORE THROUGH THE STACKS

OF MISSING-PERSONS REPORTS
OF OTHER GIRLS

WHO WORKED 4th AVENUE
AND DISAPPEARED.

IT'S NO BIG DEAL
WHEN THEY DISAPPEAR.

THE POLICE GET
A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT IT,

BUT UNLESS THEY HAVE
SOME EVIDENCE

THAT A CRIME WAS COMMITTED,

THEY WOULD TEND, AT THAT TIME,

TO ASSUME THAT THE PERSON
JUST LEFT TOWN.

BEFORE THE DISCOVERY
OF SHERRY MORROW'S BODY,

NONE OF THE MISSING-PERSONS
REPORTS SEEMED TO BE LINKED,

NOR DID THEY SEEM
TO SUGGEST MURDER.

BUT MORROW'S DEATH IS ENOUGH
TO FORCE INVESTIGATORS

TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK
AT THE COLD CASE FILES.

TWO YEARS BEFORE MORROW'S BODY
WAS FOUND...

...CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
DIGGING NEAR EKLUTNA ROAD,

ALONG THE KNIK RIVER,
MAKE A STARTLING DISCOVERY.

EKLUTNA'S A PRETTY REMOTE AREA.

THERE WAS ONE ROAD
THAT WENT UP TOWARD THE VALLEY.

BUT YOU COULD WALK
200 YARDS OFF THE ROAD,

AND YOU WERE IN WILDERNESS --
REAL WILDERNESS.

HEY, GARY!
COME OVER HERE!

THERE, THE MEN
DISCOVER THE PARTIAL REMAINS

OF A WOMAN
BURIED IN A SHALLOW GRAVE.

THE SCENE HAS BEEN
SO DECIMATED BY ANIMALS

THAT POLICE CAN'T FIND
ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO MAKE AN I.D.

AND IF IT'S AN OLD SCENE,
IT'S BEEN THERE A WHILE,

THERE'S THE ELEMENTS,
THE CHANGING TEMPERATURES,

THE THAWING AND FREEZING,

POSSIBLE PREDATION
ON A GRAVE.

AND WITH THOSE THINGS IN MIND,

YOU'RE GONNA LOSE
A LOT OF EVIDENCE.

YOU JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.

YOU JUST HAVE
TO EXPAND YOUR SEARCH

AND FIND THE EVIDENCE
THAT'S GONE MISSING.

SOMETIMES THAT'S POSSIBLE.
SOMETIMES THAT'S NOT.

LOOKS LIKE AN EARRING.

THE VICTIM IS DUBBED
EKLUTNA ANNIE BY POLICE.

THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO SHE WAS.

THERE WAS NO WAY
TO TIE HER TO ANYBODY.

THERE WAS NO MISSING REPORT
THAT MATCHED HER.

SHE WAS AN UNKNOWN.

DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS,

POLICE TURN TO A FORENSIC ARTIST
FOR HELP.

USING ANNIE'S SKULL AS A GUIDE,

THE ARTIST SHAPES A CLAY MOLD

TO REVEAL
ANNIE'S FACIAL FEATURES.

POLICE THEN TAKE PHOTOS

AND DISTRIBUTE THE IMAGE
THROUGHOUT THE AREA.

A CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR
SCOURS THE SCENE FOR CLUES

AND TURNS UP A SINGLE PIECE
OF EVIDENCE

IDENTICAL TO THAT FOUND
IN THE MORROW CASE.

AFTER THEY PULLED
THE BODY OUT,

HE TOOK A SCREEN
AND WAS PANNING FOR BULLETS,

BASICALLY, JUST LIKE YOU PAN
FOR GOLD.

HE WAS SIFTING THROUGH
ALL THE SAND AND MUD AND RIVER

UNTIL HE CAME UP
WITH A BULLET FRAGMENT

AND AN EMPTY CARTRIDGE
FROM A.223 RIFLE.

BUT NO ONE EVER COMES FORWARD

WITH ANY INFORMATION ON
THE IDENTITY OF EKLUTNA ANNIE.

NOBODY CARED ABOUT HER,

AND THAT WOULD BE TYPICAL
IN A PROSTITUTION TRADE.

BUT NOW, WITH TWO
BODIES HIDDEN IN THE WILDERNESS,

MURDERED BY
A SIMILAR HUNTING RIFLE,

POLICE ARE FACED
WITH A TERRIBLE POSSIBILITY --

SOMEONE IS HUNTING WOMEN
IN THE WILDS OF ALASKA.

WHEN THE DECAYING
BODIES OF WOMEN

BEGIN APPEARING
IN THE WILDS OF ALASKA,

POLICE FEAR THEY ARE DEALING
WITH A BRUTAL KILLER

WHO HAS SET HIS SIGHTS
ON THE WOMEN OF ANCHORAGE.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER

OF SHERRY MORROW,
AN EXOTIC DANCER,

PROMPTS POLICE
TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

AT WHO MIGHT HAVE WANTED
THE YOUNG WOMAN DEAD.

HOW LONG
HAVE YOU WORKED HERE?

SHERRY'S COWORKERS REMEMBER

SHE WAS APPROACHED
BY A STRANGER THAT NIGHT...

...A MAN WHO OFFERED TO PAY HER
$300 TO POSE FOR PHOTOS.

THE DANCERS REMEMBER SHERRY
WAS BRIMMING WITH EXCITEMENT

ABOUT HER FIRST MODELING JOB.

BUT THEY CAN'T
PROVIDE POLICE A NAME

OR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION
ABOUT THE MYSTERY MAN.

SHERRY LEFT TO MEET THE MAN
THE FOLLOWING NIGHT AS PLANNED

AND WAS NEVER SEEN ALIVE AGAIN.

HER ROOMMATE
REPORTED HER MISSING.

AND THERE WAS AN INVESTIGATION,

BUT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE
THAT SHE HAD DONE ANYTHING.

IN FACT,
SHE MIGHT HAVE LEFT TOWN.

BUT SHERRY'S COWORKERS
FEAR THE WORST.

THERE WERE A LOT OF
GIRLS THAT WERE DISAPPEARING.

AND THE POLICE WERE
VERY NERVOUS ABOUT IT,

BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO GO ON.

THERE WERE NO WITNESSES.
NOBODY WOULD SAY ANYTHING.

MOST OF THESE WOMEN WERE
VERY MUCH LIVING ON THE FRINGE.

OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS,

FIVE OTHER MISSING-PERSONS CASES
HAD BEEN REPORTED.

ALL INVOLVED TOPLESS DANCERS
OR YOUNG PROSTITUTES.

AND EACH REMAINED UNSOLVED.

I MEAN, YOU'RE CHASING GHOSTS.

AND IN 90% OF THE CASES,
THE GIRLS WERE TRANSIENT.

AND IF SOMEBODY GOT
REPORTED MISSING, IT WAS LIKE,

"HEY, GO LOOK FOR THEM
DOWN IN PORTLAND,"

OR "THEY'RE OVER IN HONOLULU,"

OR "THEY'RE IN LOS ANGELES,
DANCING.

"THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE AT.
GO LOOK FOR THEM.

IT'S NOT OUR PROBLEM."

AS ANCHORAGE POLICE
BEGIN TO COMPARE NOTES,

THEY SUSPECT SHERRY MORROW
AND EKLUTNA ANNIE'S DEATHS

MAY NOT BE ISOLATED INCIDENTS.

OFFICERS REOPEN RECORDS
ON THE MISSING WOMEN.

THEY REPORT THE DISAPPEARANCES

TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS
IN THE LOWER 48

AND TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
AT THE NAMES

OF MORE THAN 30 SUSPECTS,
INCLUDING BOYFRIENDS,

BARTENDERS,
AND AGGRESSIVE JOHNS.

THEY WERE IN IT FOR THE MONEY,

AND THEY WERE VICTIMS
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

EVERYBODY PREYED
UPON THOSE GIRLS.

THE PIMPS, THE BAR OWNERS --
EVERYBODY PREYED ON THOSE GIRLS.

ALL POLICE HAVE TO GO
ON IS A SINGLE COMMON THREAD.

EACH OF THE VICTIMS
HAD LAST BEEN SEEN

AFTER A LATE-NIGHT SHIFT.

POLICE RE-QUESTION
THE MISSING WOMEN'S COWORKERS

AND GAIN THEIR FIRST SOLID LEAD.

SEVERAL DANCERS RECALL SEEING
THE SAME STRANGE MAN.

EACH DESCRIBES HIM
AS A RED-HAIRED MAN IN HIS 40s

WHO HAD BEEN FREQUENTING
THE CLUBS ALONG 4th AVENUE.

IT WAS FERTILE GROUND,

AND IT WAS JUST A PERFECT SETUP

FOR SOMEBODY THAT WAS
A PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER

THAT COULD PREY
ON AN INNOCENT, HELPLESS GIRL

THAT HAD NO OPTIONS.

POLICE INCREASE THEIR EFFORTS

TO QUESTION ANYONE WHO CAME IN
CONTACT WITH THE MISSING GIRLS.

SURPRISINGLY, ALL OF THE MEN
IN THE GIRLS' LIVES CHECK OUT,

AND NONE FIT THE DESCRIPTION
OF THE RED-HAIRED MAN.

THERE ARE ALSO NO REPORTED
SIGHTINGS OF THE WOMEN

ANYWHERE OUTSIDE OF ALASKA.

POLICE FEAR
THEY'RE ONE STEP BEHIND

A CUNNING AND SADISTIC KILLER,

AND THEY MAY NOT CATCH HIM

BEFORE HE SETS HIS SIGHTS
ON HIS NEXT VICTIM.

POLICE ALSO LEARN
OF A THIRD BODY

RECOVERED IN A GRAVEL PIT

IN THE SAME AREA
WHERE ANNIE'S BODY WAS FOUND.

WHAT YOU GOT DOWN THERE?

WE GOT A SLEEPING BAG
DOWN HERE.

WE GOT A BONE. I THINK WE MAY
BE ABLE TO I.D. HER.

THE VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED
AS JOANNA MESSINA,

A CANNERY WORKER
WHO WAS LAST SEEN

LEAVING THE DOCK
WITH HER DOG

AND A RED-HAIRED MAN
HER COWORKERS COULDN'T IDENTIFY.

BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE CASE
DOESN'T ADD UP.

INVESTIGATORS DETERMINE MESSINA
HAD BEEN SHOT AND KILLED

WITH A.22,
NOT A.223 HUNTING RIFLE.

BUT HER BODY HAD BEEN
BADLY RAVAGED BY BEARS

AND YIELDED NO FURTHER CLUES.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT
THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN HERE.

WILDLIFE CAN GET YOU,

AND WILDLIFE WILL GET RID
OF THE EVIDENCE.

IN ADDITION,
THREE OTHER DANCERS

HAD VANISHED
UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

NONE WERE EVER SEEN AGAIN,

AND THEIR BODIES
WERE NEVER FOUND.

THERE WAS RUMBLINGS
IN THE POLICE COMMUNITY

ABOUT POSSIBLY A SERIAL KILLER

ROAMING AND PREYING
ON THE STREETS OF ANCHORAGE.

AND THERE WAS NOTHING CONCRETE.
IT WAS MORE LIKE A GHOST STORY.

THEY'VE GOT BODIES
AND EVIDENCE...

AND A DEAD END.

THEY HAD NOWHERE TO GO.
THEY'RE STUMPED.

AND IF A SERIAL KILLER
IS ON THE PROWL,

HE COULD BE HIDING ANYWHERE
IN THE WILDS OF ALASKA.

ROY HAZELWOOD IS AN EXPERT
AT READING THE CRIMINAL MIND

BY EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE
THEY LEAVE BEHIND.

THE BLINDFOLDS FOUND
AT THE SCENES

TELL HIM A LOT
ABOUT THEIR KILLER.

HE ENJOYS THE COMPLETE
HELPLESSNESS OF HIS VICTIMS,

THAT THEY'RE
TOTALLY UNDER HIS CONTROL.

HE DIDN'T GAG THE VICTIM

BECAUSE HE WANTED TO HEAR
THE TERROR IN HER VOICE.

HE WANTED TO HEAR HER PLEADING.

THE KILLER WAS A SEXUAL SADIST.

A HUNTER WHO DERIVED
PLEASURE FROM HIS VICTIMS' PAIN

AND RELIED
ON THE REMOTE ALASKAN WILDERNESS

TO CONCEAL HIS DEADLY ACT.

WITHIN A VERY SHORT
DRIVING TIME,

AND EVEN SHORTER FLYING TIME,

A KILLER COULD TAKE A VICTIM

AND JUST CARRY OUT WHATEVER
FANTASIES HE HAD WITH THE VICTIM

WITHOUT BEING CONCERNED ABOUT
BEING INTERRUPTED OR OBSERVED.

WHEN HE DISPOSED OF THE BODY,

IT'S IN, AGAIN,
ISOLATED TERRITORY,

AND THAT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT
FOR A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR.

BUT THE KILLER LEFT A TRAIL.

THE LOCATION SUGGESTED
VERY STRONGLY

THAT AN OUTDOORSMAN WOULD HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CRIME

BECAUSE HE FELT COMFORTABLE
WITHIN THAT TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT.

NINE MONTHS AFTER THE DISCOVERY

OF SHERRY MORROW'S BODY,

A TRUCK DRIVER
IS ON HIS WAY TO WORK

WHEN, OUT OF NOWHERE,
HE'S SUDDENLY STARTLED

BY THE SIGHT OF A FRANTIC WOMAN
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.

STOP! PLEASE! PLEASE!

THE DRIVER SCREECHES
TO A STOP.

HE NOTICES A SHADOWY FIGURE
WITH A GUN DUCK OUT OF SIGHT

AS THE WOMAN RUSHES THE CAB
AND PLEADS WITH HIM FOR HELP.

HE WAS A CITIZEN
ON HIS WAY TO WORK,

AND HE SAW HER RUNNING OUT INTO
THE STREET WITH HANDCUFFS ON --

OBVIOUSLY NOT SOMETHING
YOU SEE VERY OFTEN

AT 5:00 IN THE MORNING
ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.

AND HE PICKED HER UP.

VISIBLY SHAKEN
AND TREMBLING FROM FEAR

AS MUCH AS THE FRIGID NIGHT AIR,

THE YOUNG WOMAN
TELLS THE TRUCKER

A TALE ALMOST TOO BIZARRE
TO BELIEVE.

AND SHE GOT IN
WAY OVER HER HEAD.

AND SHE WAS
ONE LUCKY YOUNG LADY.

SHE WAS JUST AN ENGINE START
AWAY FROM LOSING HER LIFE.

A TRUCKER ON HIS WAY TO WORK

STOPS TO HELP
A FRIGHTENED YOUNG WOMAN

AFTER SHE DARTS
INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD,

FRANTICALLY SUMMONING HELP.

THE TRUCKER TAKES HER
TO A NEARBY MOTEL

WHERE SHE'LL BE SAFE,
AND CALLS POLICE.

ANCHORAGE POLICE
RACE TO THE MOTEL.

THERE, THEY FIND
A 17-YEAR-OLD WOMAN

STILL IN HANDCUFFS
AND VERY MUCH IN SHOCK.

POLICE QUESTION HER,

AND SHE RECOUNTS THE SAME WILD
STORY SHE TOLD THE TRUCKER.

SHE TELLS THE OFFICERS

SHE'S A TOPLESS DANCER
DOWN ON 4th AVENUE

AND CLAIMS SHE'D BEEN
PROPOSITIONED THE NIGHT BEFORE

BY A RED-HAIRED MAN IN HIS 40s.

HEY.
HEY, HOW ARE YOU?

SHE'S, LIKE, 17,
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN,

GOT INTO THE TRADES
PROBABLY FOR THE SAME REASON

EVERYBODY ELSE DOES --
IT WAS EASY MONEY.

SHE FURTHER CONFESSES

THAT SHE ACCEPTED
THE STRANGER'S OFFER.

ALL RIGHT, THEN.
YEAH.

I'M NOT SURE
WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WITH HER,

IF IT WAS
A PHOTOGRAPHIC SESSION

OR IF HE WANTED TO HAVE SEX
WITH HER.

BUT IN ANY CASE,
THEY LEFT TOGETHER.

ONCE INSIDE THE MAN'S CAR,

SHE CLAIMS HE PULLED
A GUN ON HER.

AND SHE SAID
AT THAT POINT, HE KIDNAPPED HER.

HE HANDCUFFED HER...
NO!

...AND TOLD HER
THAT IF SHE COOPERATED

AND DID
WHAT HE WANTED HER TO DO,

THAT SHE WOULDN'T BE HURT.

HER ABDUCTOR
THEN TAKES HER TO A HOUSE

IN THE MIDDLE-CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD
OF MULDOON.

HE HOLDS HER HOSTAGE
IN A BASEMENT

FILLED WITH THE MOUNTED HEADS
OF ANIMALS...

...AND BRUTALIZES HER
FOR HOURS.

HOW DO YOU LIKE
THE DECOR?

SHE SAID HE CHAINED HER
IN THE BASEMENT TO A BEAM

AND SHE WAS THERE
FOR QUITE A WHILE

WHILE HE
REPEATEDLY ASSAULTED HER.

SHE TELLS THE POLICE
THE MAN THEN DECIDED

TO FLY HER TO HIS CABIN
IN THE WOODS,

PROMISING TO RELEASE HER
IF SHE COOPERATES.

ONCE THEY ARRIVE
AT THE AIRSTRIP,

THE KIDNAPPER SHOVES HER
INSIDE A SMALL PLANE

AND BEGINS LOADING SUPPLIES.

THE SECOND HE TURNS HIS BACK,
SHE MAKES HER ESCAPE.

HOPING TO CORROBORATE
HER ACCOUNT,

INVESTIGATORS TAKE HER
TO MERRILL FIELD,

THE AIRSTRIP FROM WHICH
SHE CLAIMED SHE'D ESCAPED.

WE WERE LOOKING AROUND
AT LOTS OF AIRPLANES THERE,

AND SHE FINALLY POINTED OUT
THE SUPER CUB

THAT SHE SAID THE GUY
WAS TRYING TO PUT HER INTO.

AUTHORITIES RUN
THE PLANE'S REGISTRATION

AND FIND IT BELONGS
TO ROBERT HANSEN,

A 40-YEAR-OLD AWARD-WINNING
HUNTER AND LOCAL BUSINESSMAN.

HE OWNED A BAKERY,

WELL-ESTABLISHED BUSINESS PERSON
WITH FRIENDS,

AND HE WAS A CHURCH-GOING MAN.

AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE
BELIEVED IN HIM.

WHEN QUESTIONED
BY POLICE, HANSEN IS OUTRAGED.

HE SAYS HE NEVER MET THE WOMAN

AND INSISTS SHE'S MAKING UP THE
STORY TO EXTORT MONEY FROM HIM.

AND HE QUESTIONS
THE WOMAN'S CREDIBILITY,

ASKING POLICE IF IT'S EVEN
POSSIBLE TO RAPE A PROSTITUTE.

HE WAS BEING TAKEN
ADVANTAGE OF BY THIS PROSTITUTE

WHO WAS IN THE BUSINESS

OF TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF PEOPLE, RIGHT?

SHE'S TRANSIENT.
HE'S A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY.

HE'S GOT HIS BUSINESS
HERE IN TOWN.

AND HE HAS AN ALIBI.

HE TELLS POLICE

THAT HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN
WERE ON VACATION IN EUROPE,

BUT THAT HE SPENT THE EVENING
WITH TWO FRIENDS.

WHEN QUESTIONED,

THE MEN SUBSTANTIATE HIS STORY.

THEY SWORE HANSEN WAS WITH THEM
PLAYING POKER THAT NIGHT.

HE WAS WITH ME.
WE WERE HANGING OUT AT MY HOUSE.

IF WE NEED ANYTHING ELSE,
WE'LL BE IN CONTACT.

THANK YOU, SIR.

HANSEN EVEN ALLOWS
POLICE TO SEARCH HIS HOME.

AUTHORITIES FIND NO EVIDENCE

TO CORROBORATE
THE WOMAN'S ALLEGATIONS.

THE THINGS THAT SHE SAID
WERE THERE WEREN'T THERE.

I DON'T SEE ANYTHING.

THE TROPHIES, THE ANIMAL
TROPHIES, WEREN'T THERE.

THE BASEMENT WAS
AS SHE DESCRIBED IT,

BUT NONE OF THE TROPHIES
WERE THERE,

AND THERE WAS NO SCRATCH MARKS,
I GUESS,

ON THE BEAMS OR NOTHING,

SO HER STORY
DIDN'T MAKE SENSE.

THE YOUNG GIRL REFUSES
TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH.

AND INVESTIGATORS
ARE LEFT TO WONDER

IF SHE MAY HAVE FABRICATED
THE BIZARRE TALE.

IT WAS A HE SAID, SHE SAID.

THERE WAS
NO SEXUAL-ASSAULT PROTOCOL,

WHERE EVERY VICTIM WENT
TO THE SEXUAL-ASSAULT UNIT

AND WAS EXAMINED.

THERE'S NO DNA.
THERE'S NO HAIRS AND FIBERS.

I HATE WHAT HE DID TO ME.

THERE WAS NOTHING THERE THAT YOU
COULD PUT YOUR FINGER ON

THAT WAS REALLY SOLID PROOF.

CITING A LACK OF EVIDENCE,

THE PROSECUTOR DROPS THE CASE.

THREE MONTHS LATER,
ALASKA STATE TROOPERS DISCOVER

THE PARTIALLY DECOMPOSED REMAINS
OF ANOTHER WOMAN

IN A SHALLOW GRAVE ALONG
THE BANK OF THE KNIK RIVER.

SHE IS IDENTIFIED
AS ANOTHER MISSING DANCER

WHO WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE
EARLIER THAT MONTH.

EVEN MORE DISTURBING,

POLICE FIND
A MAKESHIFT BLINDFOLD

BURIED AMONG THE REMAINS.

AN AUTOPSY REVEALS SOMETHING
MORE SINISTER.

LIKE THE OTHER VICTIMS,

PAULA GOULDING HAD ALSO BEEN
SHOT BY A.223-CALIBER BULLET.

IN MANY CASES, THE VICTIMS WERE
NOT EVEN KNOWN TO BE MISSING

BECAUSE THEY WERE NEVER REPORTED
TO THE POLICE.

THERE WERE MANY INSTANCES
THE VICTIMS WERE NEVER FOUND,

SO HOW DO YOU LINK A CASE WITH
A VICTIM WHO'S NEVER FOUND?

THE KILLER, IN THIS CASE,
KILLED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.

SO WHERE'S THE ABILITY
TO LINK THE CASES

UNTIL HE STARTED KILLING

CONSISTENTLY
WITH A.223 CALIBER?

POLICE ARE NOW FACED

WITH A TERRIFYING
AND UNTHINKABLE THOUGHT.

MIGHT THESE WOMEN HAVE BEEN
STALKED AND HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS

BY A LONE MADMAN?

AND MIGHT THE WOMAN WHO GOT AWAY
BE THE SOLE SURVIVOR,

THE ONE WHO MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPED
THE CLUTCHES OF A KILLER?

ALASKA STATE TROOPERS
ARE NOW COMPLETELY CONVINCED

A SERIAL KILLER IS ON THE LOOSE,

BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA
HOW MANY VICTIMS LAY DEAD

IN THE VAST
AND RUGGED WILDERNESS.

THERE'S PLENTY OF WAYS

TO GET RID OF PEOPLE
AND EVIDENCE IN THIS COUNTRY.

RIGHT BEHIND ME
IS THE MOUNTAINS,

AND OVER THE TOP
OF THAT MOUNTAIN,

IT'S 800 MILES
TO THE BERING SEA.

AND THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE.

THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE.

HARD TO FATHOM.

TROOPERS CONTACT

THE FEDERAL BUREAU
OF INVESTIGATION FOR ASSISTANCE.

IN RESPONSE,
THE FBI TURNS THE CASE OVER

TO ITS BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCE UNIT.

AGENTS BEGIN TO CREATE A PROFILE
OF THE POTENTIAL KILLER.

THEY ARE ABLE TO GLEAN VALUABLE
INSIGHT INTO THE KILLER'S MIND

BY STUDYING THE CLUES
HE REPEATEDLY LEFT BEHIND,

LIKE THE.223-CALIBER
SHELL CASINGS.

WAS HE CARELESS ON HIS PART?

IF SO, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
A TRAIT THAT WE WOULD EXPECT

IN AN ORGANIZED SERIAL KILLER.

I THINK IT HAPPENED
BECAUSE HE HAD

A SENSE
OF NARCISSISTIC INVINCIBILITY.

AND CONSEQUENTLY,
I THINK HE BEGAN TO BELIEVE

THAT HE WAS, IN FACT,
INVINCIBLE.

INVINCIBLE PERHAPS

BECAUSE HE CHOSE
THE PERFECT VICTIMS --

THE TRANSIENT GIRLS
OF 4th AVENUE

WHO HE THOUGHT
NO ONE WOULD MISS.

HE'S A LONER.
HE HAS NO ACCOMPLICES.

HE'S NOT TALKING TO ANYBODY.
IT'S A DEAD-END CASE.

IT'S ONE DEAD-END CASE
RIGHT AFTER DEAD-END CASE.

AT THE INSISTENCE
OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES,

THE PROFILERS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
AT ROBERT HANSEN.

THEY FIND HE WAS RAISED
BY VERY STRICT PARENTS

AND HAD
A RATHER DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD.

DO NOT WRITE
WITH YOUR LEFT HAND!

HE WAS NATURALLY LEFT-HANDED.

THEY FORCED HIM TO USE
HIS RIGHT HAND.

WRITE WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND!

THAT'S WHAT GOD'S WILL IS
FOR YOU!

DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!

HANSEN HAD
VERY LOW SELF-ESTEEM.

ANY TIME HE HAD FREE TIME
FROM SCHOOL,

HE WAS EXPECTED TO BE WORKING
IN THE FATHER'S BAKERY.

HIS WILL IS TO WRITE
WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND.

ADDING TO SUCH STRAIN,

HANSEN WAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED
SMALL FOR HIS AGE

AND HAD FEW FRIENDS.

HE WAS KNOWN AS A LONER.

HE ALSO HAD
A VERY BAD CASE OF ACNE,

WHICH RESULTED
IN A POCKMARKED FACE.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

HE STUTTERED BADLY.

I- I'M SORRY, DADDY.

ALL THOSE THINGS CONTRIBUTED

TO HIS BEING RIDICULED
BY HIS CLASSMATES.

AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL,

HE ENLISTED
IN THE ARMY RESERVE

AND UNDERWENT BASIC TRAINING
AT FORT DIX.

HE LATER RECEIVED
ADVANCED TRAINING

AS A MILITARY POLICE OFFICER
AT FORT KNOX.

SO, HERE'S THE MONEY.

WHILE ENLISTED, HE WAS KNOWN
TO FREQUENT PROSTITUTES,

BUT HE REPORTEDLY FOUND
THE GIRLS DISINTERESTED,

THE QUICK ROMPS UNSATISFYING,

AND TOLD FELLOW SOLDIERS
THAT HE YEARNED

TO TAKE CONTROL
OF THE SITUATION.

BYE.

DESPITE HIS STRICT UPBRINGING

AND DISCIPLINED
MILITARY STRUCTURE,

THE PROFILERS LEARNED HANSEN

HAD A NUMBER OF RUN-INS
WITH THE LAW.

HE SERVED TIME
FOR ARSON AND THEFT,

BUT APPEARED TO HAVE LONG SINCE
LEFT THAT LIFE BEHIND.

IN 1967,

HE MARRIED AND MOVED TO ALASKA.

NOW A FATHER OF TWO,
HANSEN WAS CONSIDERED

AN UPSTANDING MEMBER
OF THE COMMUNITY.

BACK IN THE DAY
IN 1983, 1984,

WE DIDN'T KNOW AS MUCH
ABOUT SERIAL KILLERS.

SO IF WE CAME ACROSS
SOMEBODY LIKE HANSEN,

WE MIGHT PUT HIM ASIDE

AND CONTINUE TO LOOK
FOR THE SERIAL KILLER.

WHY? BECAUSE HE'S A FUNCTIONING
MEMBER OF SOCIETY.

BUT THE PROFILERS TAKE NOTE
OF HANSEN'S SMALL STATURE,

HEAVILY POCKMARKED SKIN,
AND SEVERE SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.

THEY BELIEVE HIS LOW SELF-ESTEEM
WOULD LIKELY DRIVE HIM

TO LIVE IN A ISOLATED AREA
LIKE ALASKA.

THE PROFILERS ARE ALSO INTRIGUED

BY HANSEN'S REPUTATION
AS A PROFICIENT HUNTER.

EVERYONE IN TOWN KNEW

HE'D TAKEN OUT A DALL SHEEP
WITH A CROSSBOW,

INCLUDING HANSEN'S
FORMER NEIGHBOR,

LARRY BIVINS,
WHO OFTEN HUNTED WITH HIM.

I THINK HE LIKED
THE THRILL OF THE HUNT,

AND HE LIKED
THE SNEAKING UP ON THEM,

TO GET AS CLOSE AS HE COULD
WHERE HE COULD MAKE THAT SHOT,

WHICH IS
WHAT ALL BOW HUNTERS ENJOY,

BECAUSE THAT'S THE CHALLENGE.

THAT'S THE CHALLENGE OF
BOW HUNTING, IS GETTING CLOSE.

HANSEN EVEN HAD
FOUR ANIMALS ENTERED

INTO A RENOWNED WORLD-RECORD
TROPHY-HUNTING BOOK.

BOB WAS ALWAYS LOOKING
FOR THE CHALLENGE,

A TOUGHER HUNT, YOU KNOW,

A TOUGHER ANIMAL,
A BIGGER ANIMAL,

BECAUSE HE ALWAYS WANTED
TO DO BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE.

YOU KNOW, AND MOST BIG TROPHY
HUNTERS ARE LIKE THAT.

WHEN QUESTIONED BY POLICE,

HANSEN'S HUNTING BUDDY REVEALS

A DISTURBING EXCHANGE
WITH HIS NEIGHBOR.

I REMEMBER ONE TIME

WE STARTED TALKING
ABOUT WOMEN AND THINGS,

AND I STARTED GETTING

A LITTLE COARSE AND RISQUé
WITH HIM ABOUT IT.

HE SEEMS TO TAKE OFFENCE,

AND HE GOT
A LITTLE UPSET WITH ME

AND STUTTERED
AND SPIT A LITTLE BIT,

AND SALIVA CAME DOWN THE CORNER
OF HIS MOUTH.

BUT THAT WAS JUST BOB,
YOU KNOW?

SOMETIMES HE WAS OKAY,

AND SOMETIMES HE WAS
JUST A LITTLE BIT STRANGE.

EVERY PSYCHOPATH
HAS A WEAK POINT,

AND HANSEN'S WEAK POINT
WOULD HAVE BEEN WOMEN.

WHY? BECAUSE, NUMBER ONE,
HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL WITH THEM.

NUMBER TWO, THEY RIDICULED HIM.

NUMBER THREE,
THEY REPRESENTED SOMETHING

THAT HE WAS AFRAID OF --
LITERALLY AFRAID OF, FEARFUL OF.

BIVINS ALSO TELLS POLICE

HANSEN LIKED TO HUNT THE ISLAND
SANDBARS OF THE KNIK RIVER --

THE VERY PLACE WHERE MOST
OF THE VICTIMS HAD BEEN FOUND.

WHEN I TOLD THEM I HAD
BEEN ON THOSE ISLANDS WITH HIM,

THEN THEY GOT REAL EXCITED,
'CAUSE YOU CAN GET AWAY

WITH WHATEVER YOU WANT
TO DO ON THOSE ISLANDS,

AND NOBODY'S GONNA KNOW IT
BECAUSE THERE'S NOBODY THERE.

PERHAPS HANSEN
TIRED OF WILD GAME

AND TURNED HIS ATTENTION
TO MORE INTERESTING PREY --

HUMANS.

THEY WOULD HAVE PRESENTED
A GREATER CHALLENGE,

BECAUSE AN ANIMAL REACTS
INSTINCTIVELY TO DANGER,

WHEREAS HUMANS HAVE THE CAPACITY

TO EMPLOY REASON, LOGIC,
AND INTELLIGENCE.

HUMANS ARE VERY INDIVIDUALISTIC,

AND THEY'LL ENGAGE IN A VARIETY
OF WAYS TO EVADE DANGER.

SO THEY PRESENT A MUCH GREATER
CHALLENGE TO THE HUNTER.

IF HANSEN IS
THE KILLER, THE FBI CONCLUDES,

HE MAY BE HOARDING THE EVIDENCE
NEEDED FOR A CONVICTION --

SMALL SOUVENIRS
OR TROPHIES FROM HIS VICTIMS.

AND THEY'LL NEED THOSE
TO PUT HIM AWAY.

POLICE BEGIN TO FEAR

THAT MAYBE THE WOMAN WHO ESCAPED
WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.

INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
THEIR KILLER

IS A HUNTER, LIKE HANSEN,
WHO KNOWS ALASKA'S WILD COUNTRY.

BUT WITHOUT EVIDENCE LINKING HIM
TO THE MURDERS,

THEY ARE POWERLESS TO STOP HIM.

A SEXUAL SADIST

IS THE GREAT WHITE SHARK
AMONG SEXUAL OFFENDERS.

THEY'RE THE LEAST COMMON TYPE
OF SERIAL KILLER,

THEY'RE THE MOST PROFICIENT,

AND THEY'RE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.

AUTHORITIES IN
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, ARE DESPERATE

TO IDENTIFY A SERIAL KILLER
BEFORE ANOTHER MURDER OCCURS.

ROBERT HANSEN, A LOCAL BAKER,
IS THE PRIME SUSPECT.

HOPING TO CRACK THE CASE,

POLICE COME UP
WITH A DARING STRATEGY.

AUTHORITIES THREATEN TO PRESS
CHARGES AGAINST THE TWO MEN

WHO CLAIM THEY'D BEEN
PLAYING POKER WITH HANSEN

THE NIGHT THE DANCER
WAS ABDUCTED.

BOTH QUICKLY BREAK DOWN.

GONNA ASK YOU
ONE MORE TIME.

THEY SAID, "LOOK, WE WERE
TRYING TO COVER FOR THE GUY.

"WE THOUGHT
HE WAS A LEGITIMATE GUY.

"WE FIGURED THAT THESE WOMEN
WERE EXPLOITING HIM,

AND WE WERE JUST TRYING
TO HELP A FRIEND."

ARMED WITH THE NEW INFORMATION,

INVESTIGATORS
FOLLOW HANSEN TO WORK.

THEY ASK HIM TO COME TO THE
POLICE STATION FOR QUESTIONING.

HE WILLINGLY AGREES,

NEVER ASKING INVESTIGATORS
A SINGLE QUESTION.

AT THE SAME TIME,

INVESTIGATORS SERVE A SEARCH
WARRANT ON HANSEN'S HOUSE.

DESPITE AN EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH,
THEY COME UP EMPTY.

THEN, JUST AS AUTHORITIES
ARE ABOUT TO CALL IT A DAY,

AN OFFICER SEARCHING
THE ATTIC RAFTERS

STUMBLES
UPON SOMETHING SHOCKING.

HE COVERED HUNDREDS OF SQUARE
FEET UNTIL HE FINALLY HIT IT.

HIS FINGERS FELT
THIS LITTLE HOLLOWED-OUT CACHE.

AND HE OPENED IT UP,

AND IT WAS A BAG OF JEWELRY.

NESTLED ALONG
HANSEN'S STASH OF TROPHIES,

INVESTIGATORS MAKE
ANOTHER CHILLING DISCOVERY.

THEY UNCOVER IDENTIFICATION
CARDS BELONGING TO THE VICTIMS

AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS.

HANSEN DERIVED
THE SAME AMOUNT OF PLEASURE

FROM VIEWING THAT JEWELRY

OR LOOKING AT THOSE DRIVER'S
LICENSES OR IDENTIFICATION CARDS

AS HE DID FROM LOOKING
AT THE ANIMALS

HE HAD MOUNTED IN HIS DEN.

THEY REPRESENTED ACCOMPLISHMENT
IN HIS LIFE.

AUTHORITIES ALSO FIND A MAP

WITH SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
MARKED OFF.

IT'S WHAT I CALL
A TROPHY MAP --

A TREASURE MAP, IF YOU WILL.

HE DIDN'T TAKE TROPHIES
FROM EVERY SINGLE VICTIM,

BUT HE DID HAVE THIS MAP

WHERE HE COULD MARK HIS KILLS,
IF YOU WILL.

IT ALSO ALLOWED HIM
TO REFRESH HIS MEMORY

AS TO WHERE HE HAD DISPOSED
OF THE BODIES

IN CASE -- I THINK, IN CASE
HE WANTED TO GO BACK

TO SEE IF THEY'D BEEN FOUND

OR TO RELIVE THE EXPERIENCE
BY LOOKING AT OR TOUCHING

WHAT WAS REMAINING OF THE BODY.

BUT THE MOST CRITICAL FIND...

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.

...IS A.223-CALIBER
MINI-14 RIFLE.

YEAH, WE NEED TO GET
THIS THING PROCESSED.

THE RIFLE IS SENT TO THE CRIME
LAB FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS.

THERE, FORENSIC TECHNICIANS
EXAMINE THE GUN

AND STUDY THE STRIKE MARKS
ON THE SHELL CASINGS

FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE.

THE.223 THEY TOOK OUT OF THERE
MATCHED PERFECTLY

WITH A ROUND THEY RECOVERED
UP IN EKLUTNA.

ROBERT HANSEN IS CHARGED

WITH MURDER, ASSAULT,
AND KIDNAPPING.

ALL RIGHT, LISTEN, BOB.

DESPITE HIS PLEAS
OF INNOCENCE,

THE EVIDENCE MOUNTS
AGAINST HIM.

IN EXCHANGE
FOR A FULL CONFESSION,

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AGREES
TO CHARGE HANSEN

WITH ONLY FOUR MURDERS --

SHERRY MORROW, EKLUTNA ANNIE,

JOANNA MESSINA,
AND PAULA GOULDING.

HANSEN ACCEPTS A PLEA DEAL.

I'VE READ HE CHOSE THOSE WOMEN

BECAUSE HE, HIMSELF,
HAD LOW SELF-ESTEEM.

I'VE HEARD OTHER PEOPLE SAY

PROSTITUTES ARE CHOSEN
BECAUSE THEY SYMBOLIZE THE EVIL

THAT THE KILLER SEES
IN ALL WOMEN.

MY PERSONAL OPINION IS
THAT HANSEN CHOSE PROSTITUTES

FOR A VERY SIMPLE REASON.

A PROSTITUTE
WILL GO ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME,

ANY PLACE, FOR ANYTHING.

AND WHEN THEY DISAPPEAR,
NO ONE CARES.

SO NOBODY COULD SEE HER.

HANSEN ULTIMATELY
ADMITS HE HUNTED HUMANS,

OFFERING PROFILERS
ONE OF THE FIRST GLIMPSES

INTO THE SICK AND TWISTED MIND
OF A SEXUAL PREDATOR.

HE CONTROLLED THE GAME
FROM THE POINT OF ABDUCTION.

WHAT ARE YOU --

HE CERTAINLY HAD THE RULES.

HE CONTROLLED EVERYTHING.

THERE WAS NO FEAR FACTOR
ON HIS PART.

HE WAS DEFINITELY THE PREDATOR.
THEY WERE THE PREY.

HANSEN ADMITS

HE PICKED UP EKLUTNA ANNIE
FOR SEX...

...THEN DROVE HER TO A REMOTE
AREA WHERE HE HUNTED BEARS.

HE KILLED HER
AFTER SHE GOT SCARED

AND TRIED TO MAKE
A BREAK FOR IT.

EVEN HANSEN COULDN'T TELL POLICE
THE VICTIM'S REAL NAME.

AND THEN THERE WAS
SHERRY MORROW,

WHO AGREED TO MEET HANSEN

UNDER THE GUISE
OF A MODELING GIG.

OKAY, GREAT.
THANKS.

ONCE IN HIS CAR,

HE HANDCUFFED
AND BLINDFOLDED HER,

THEN HEADED
TO THE KNIK RIVER.

WHEN HE TRIED
TO REMOVE THE CUFFS,

SHERRY BEGAN KICKING
AND SCREAMING.

HANSEN TOOK A RIFLE
OUT OF THE TRUNK

AND WAITED FOR HER
TO COOL OFF.

WHEN SHERRY CHARGED HIM,

HE POINTED THE GUN
AND PULLED THE TRIGGER.

PROFILERS BELIEVE HANSEN BECAME
MORE BRAZEN WITH EACH KILL,

ULTIMATELY CHOOSING
TO TAKE HIS VICTIMS BY PLANE

TO HIS REMOTE CABIN.

THERE, HE WOULD CONTINUE
HIS BRUTAL ASSAULT.

SOME OF HIS VICTIMS WERE
WITH HIM FOR MANY HOURS.

HE KEPT THEM
VIRTUALLY OVERNIGHT.

AFTERWARD, HE WOULD
OFTEN STRIP THEM NAKED,

BLINDFOLD THEM...

AND RELEASE THEM
INTO THE WOODS.

NO. NO.

RUN.

NOW!

AND HE TURNED THEM LOOSE
TO HUNT THEM DOWN

IN SOME SICK FORM
OF TROPHY HUNTING,

AND THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WAS.

HE WAS A TROPHY HUNTER,
AND HE COLLECTED THINGS

OFF THE GIRLS
AFTER HE KILLED THEM.

NOW, HE WASN'T ABLE
TO VIEW THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY

LIKE HE WAS HIS ANIMAL HEADS,

SO HE OVERCAME THAT OBSTACLE

BY GIVING SOME OF THE JEWELRY
TO HIS WIFE

AND SOME TO HIS DAUGHTER.

ACCORDING TO HANSEN,

HE ALWAYS ALLOWED HIS VICTIM
A BRIEF HEAD START,

THEN STALKED HER
LIKE A WILD ANIMAL.

HE WAS AROUSED BY THEIR FEAR.

HE WAS AROUSED
BY THEIR SUFFERING.

AND THEN HE WAS AROUSED
BY THEIR TERROR

WHEN HE BEGAN TO HUNT THEM.

HANSEN FURTHER CONFESSED

HE EQUATED HIS HUMAN HUNTS

TO GOING AFTER A TROPHY
DALL SHEEP OR A GRIZZLY BEAR.

THE KILLING ITSELF
BECAME ANTICLIMACTIC,

AS EVEN HANSEN SAID.

IT WAS THE TORTURE,
IT WAS THE HUNT,

IT WAS THE STALK
THAT WAS EXCITING TO HANSEN.

IN THE VASTNESS OF ALASKA,

ROBERT HANSEN'S KILLING SPREE
CONTINUED FOR 12 YEARS.

ALASKA PRESENTS
AN IDEAL ENVIRONMENT

FOR THE TYPE OF KILLER
THAT ROBERT HANSEN WAS.

WHAT HE LIKED TO DO WAS HUNT.

IN ALL, HANSEN
CONFESSED TO 17 KILLINGS,

BUT IT'S BELIEVED HE HAD
MANY MORE VICTIMS.

HE EVENTUALLY IDENTIFIED
15 GRAVE SITES,

12 OF WHICH WERE UNKNOWN
TO INVESTIGATORS.

UNFORTUNATELY, AUTHORITIES
RECOVERED ONLY SEVEN BODIES,

LIKELY DUE
TO THE VORACIOUS ANIMAL ACTIVITY

IN THE ALASKAN WILDERNESS.

ROBERT HANSEN WAS SENTENCED
TO 461 YEARS

PLUS LIFE
WITH NO CHANCE OF PAROLE.

HIS NAME HAS SINCE BEEN REMOVED

FROM THE RENOWNED
TROPHY-HUNTING RECORD BOOKS.