Well, there have been a lot of horror flicks about killers who hunt their victims,

sort of like the classic most dangerous game and ready or not.

But in the real life case of Robert Hansen, this was his regular M.O.

So put yourself there.

Imagine running for your life through the Alaskan wilderness at night.

You're being chased by a guy who people in town

only know as a shy, polite, church-going family man. But to him, you are his prey. I'm Patty Steele,

Baker by day, hunting humans by night. That's next on the backstory.

This is an I-Heart podcast. We're back with the backstory. Robert Hansen is believed to have raped and murdered at least 17 women between

1972 and 1983. What's terrifying about his M.O.

Is that he'd kidnap his victims, frequently fly them in his small plane into the wilderness,

release them, and then hunt them down. Don't you get chills imagining what that must have felt

like for his victims? To understand how somebody evolves into a deranged killer, you've got to look at their past.

Robert Hanson, born in Iowa in 1939, is a quiet kid with a stutter and painful acne.

He's uncomfortable around people and prefers to spend his time in the woods. He learns to hunt

early on. But the woods aren't in answer to his growing disconnect and upset with other people,

particularly women. At 21, he does time after setting fire to a school bus garage. He gets involved

in other petty crime. He marries and

divorces, then gets married again. Now it's 1967. He's 28 years old, and Robert moves to Anchorage,

Alaska with his second wife. There, he opens a small bakery. The neighbors like him. He's shy,

but friendly and polite. Like the rest of

the married guys in town, he goes to church and spends a lot of his free time hunting. Now,

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