Meet Your Maker: Butcher Baker

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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From 1971 to 1983, a madman roamed the remote wilderness outside of Anchorage, Alaska hunting attractive women as his prey. By the end of his reign of terror, Robert Christian Hansen, otherwise known as the Butcher Baker, would commit 30 rapes and at least 17 murders, attributing them to his intense hatred for the girls who rejected him in his youth. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological examination of his younger years in an effort to uncover what really went wrong, and how we can fix these issues moving into the future.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries.
0:09.0	I'm your host Ryan Kraus taking you on a journey to the darker side of humanity once again as we explore
0:14.6	the deranged mind of infamous serial killer Robert Christian Hansen, otherwise known as
0:21.0	the Butcher Baker. From 1971 to 1983 the trophy-winning hunter
0:26.6	unleashed his venomous rage on at least 17 women by kidnapping them and
0:31.4	flying the prospective victims
0:33.0	deep into the Alaskan wilderness
0:35.0	where he would release these terrified people with a head start
0:38.0	and then hunt them like wild game
0:41.0	with his favorite rifle and a large knife.
0:45.0	Given his skills, resources, and knowledge of the terrain, the result was inevitable.
0:51.0	After making the kill, he'd take the body back to the sandbar where he parked the plane, bury it in a shallow grave, and leave no other evidence in his wake, before leaving the scene. It was seemingly the perfect plan,
1:06.0	especially given that most of his victims were prostitutes and other transient types
1:10.6	that frequently disappeared without a trace from the Anchorage area where he lived during the 1970s.
1:16.0	This come and go lifestyle for sex workers in the region at the time was heavily spawned by the influx of people involved in construction of the 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline,
1:27.0	an $8 billion project that utilized 20,000 workers in an effort to keep a frenzied pace that would complete the project within three years.
1:37.4	They accomplished that goal.
1:39.8	So the project not only drew a lot of people toward the region in search of work, whether that profession was related specifically to the pipeline's construction, or even services for employees temporarily living in the region, whether we're talking about housing, restaurants, or even paid sex,
1:56.1	but also left many of them wandering the state like ghosts in the aftermath.
2:00.9	In addition to that, Alaska also experienced an influx of men during the Cold War,
2:06.0	many of whom were seeking to avoid the fallout of potential nuclear conflict.
2:10.0	So there was a boom in population during this era and crime rose with the influx of people looking to cash in on the deal,
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