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Please do not suffer in silence.

April 1984.

On the remote shores of Horseshoe Lake, 200 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers,

guided by Robert Hansen's confession, stumbled upon a grave hidden in the wilderness.

There they found a shallow burial site where the body of a young woman had lain for over

a year.

There were no personal belongings, no clues to her identity, just scattered bones, fragments

of clothing, and the haunting reality of yet another victim of Robert Hansen's terror.

At first, she was just another nameless Jane Doe, buried under the grim nickname

Horseshoe Harriet, after the lake where her body was found. Despite the chilling details of

Hansen's confession and the precise location of her grave, no one knew who she was. Hansen had taken

her life, but refused to give her a name, leaving behind only the cold certainty

of murder.

For decades, this young woman remained a mystery.

Though authorities knew her killer, they could not identify the young woman.

There were no missing persons' reports that matched, and without a name, her story remained suspended in time.

Most of Hanson's other victims were buried, named, and given closure, but Horseshoe Harriet

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