In June 1983, a 17-year-old girl ran barefoot down a road in Anchorage, Alaska. She was half-naked and still wearing handcuffs.
She had just escaped from a man who hunted women like animals.
Her name was Cindy Paulson. Hours earlier, she had been kidnapped by a man with a gun and chained up in his basement. Later, he drove her to an airfield. His plan was to fly her to his cabin in the wilderness.
While he loaded the plane, Cindy slipped out of the car and ran. She made it to the road and jumped into a passing truck just before he could catch her.
The man was Robert Hansen, a respected local baker, husband, and father of two. He was also an experienced hunter and pilot.
His friends gave him an alibi, and at first, police didn't take Cindy's story seriously.
But one investigator couldn't let it go. For years, women had been vanishing from Anchorage, and bodies kept turning up in shallow graves in the wilderness outside the city.
In October 1983, police searched Hansen's home. Hidden behind his bed, they found an aviation map covered in small "X" marks. Some of them matched the places where bodies had been found.
Hansen finally confessed. For 12 years, he had flown women into the Alaskan wilderness, set them free, and hunted them down with a rifle and a knife.
He admitted to killing 17 women and was sentenced to 461 years in prison, where he died in 2014.
Only 12 bodies were ever found. His map had 24 marks.
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