The Butcher Baker Minisode

In this week's minisode, we discuss Robert Hansen, the Butcher Baker of Anchorage, Nicholas Cage, and bad movies.

Show Intro:

This story begins and ends in Alaska. The trans alaska pipeline is an oil pipeline that spans 800 miles.

White it was being constructed, between 1974 and 1977, the city of Anchorage Alaska became a boom town, attracting men, money, commerce and crime.

With the rise in male construction workers came a notable community of sex workers.

The pipeline was completed in 1977, but the growth of Anchorage Alaska did not slow down. Today it is the biggest city in Alaska.

In 1983, Cindy Paulson was a 17 year old prostitute walking the street. A local man in a pick up truck approached her and offered her $200 for oral sex. He was soft-spoken, and small, It was cold and $200 was a lot of money, so gets into the car.

As soon as she closed the door behind her, the man reached across her and handcuffed her to the interior of the truck.

So this is really not good.

He has a gun and tells her that if she doesnt stay quiet, he'll kill her.

The man drives her to a house, that looks normal enough, except that once he has her inside, there is a fixture, in some places I saw it described as almost like a meat hook in the den that he chains her to, but then in other places, they say that he took her down to the basement and chained her to a support beam.

This is evidently the home that the man shared with his wife and children.

There he rapes, sodomizes and tortures her continuously throughout the night.

Then this horrifying monster decides he is tuckered out and takes a little nap, leaving cindy tied up. jesus christ.

When he wakes up, he calmly tells her to get dressed. but didn't let her put on all of her clothes. Then drags her back into his truck and drives cindy to Merrill Field, a small local airport in Anchorage.

There he tells her he is going to fly her out to his hunting cabin. He told her he had taken lots of girls out there, to have fun with them, it was his "summer project"

Cindy was like aaaaaawww hell no.

When he got out of truck to prepare the plane, he left her with her hands cuffed together, but not to the inside of the truck like he had the night before.

So half naked, barefoot, with her hands cuffed together, Cindy bolts! She runs out of the hanger and manages to flag down a car, she could still hear the man yelling for her to come back, yelling "stop, you bitch!"

Cindy managed to give the police detailed descriptions of her assailants house, car, plane and looks. It did not take the police long to identify the man who had taken her as 40 yr old Robert Hansen, a married man who owned a thriving bakery in Anchorage, the same bakery where many Anchorage detectives went for breakfast and coffee...

This is the story of the Butcher Baker.