The Butcher Baker (Part Two: Catch & Release)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

"Guys, I've got a map here... with a lot of X's."

Just after 5:00 AM on 13 June 1983, police in Anchorage, Alaska arrive at a seedy motor inn on Gambell Street. Inside room 110 is a young girl huddled on the bed, barefoot, shivering, and still wearing a pair of handcuffs. Her name is Cindy Paulson, and minutes earlier she had made a run for her life.

Through Cindy's extraordinary account, police link her case to a local resident, Robert Hansen. Hansen, a local baker and avid hunter, was well-known and liked by almost all who knew him, including members of the Anchorage P.D. Investigators bring him in for questioning but are ultimately forced to let him go. However, Cindy's report quickly ends up on the desk of Alaska State Trooper Glenn Flothe, who - along with some others - had been investigating the mysterious deaths of local sex workers and dancers...

Part two of four

Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal Whelan

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0:00.0	Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.
0:05.3	I knew it. They'd been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:07.8	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that?
0:14.2	For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deuton's got the lot. Like Terales, porcel and paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.
0:22.3	Love it.
0:23.1	All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:25.9	So now you can keep up with the Joneses.
0:28.0	And the Evanses.
0:29.2	And the Bertels.
0:33.5	This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages.
0:38.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:40.7	If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
0:45.4	Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 lifeline.org.
0:51.3	Those outside of the U.S.
0:53.1	Reach out to someone at your local crisis center or
0:55.4	hotline. Please do not suffer in silence.
1:06.4	December 1971, Anchorage, Alaska. A young housewife steps out of a grocery store into the dim
1:13.1	Anchorage afternoon. Snow crunches under her boots as she crosses a nearly empty parking lot,
1:18.7	arms full of shopping bags. She doesn't notice the man watching her from behind a pickup truck.
1:24.2	As she reaches her car, suddenly, a pistol digs into her ribs. Get in, a low voice
1:30.0	hisses. The housewife's heart leaps into her throat. Gunmetal presses against her coat. Trembling,
1:36.1	she fumbles with her keys. The stranger shoves her into the driver's seat and slides in behind her.
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