Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15, 1939, the eldest of two children to an American mother, … See more

On December 7, 1960, Hansen was arrested for burning down a Pocahontas County school bus garage, as revenge for his unpopularity in high school. He served twenty months of a three-year prison sentence in … See more

Hansen is believed to have begun killing around 1972. His modus operandi is believed to have been to stalk a woman to learn her habits, eventually picking her up in his car and forcing her at gunpoint to his home, whe… See more

Hansen is known to have raped and assaulted over thirty Alaskan women and to have murdered at least seventeen, ranging in age from 16 to 41, although based on evidence law enforcement suspect that Hansen kill… See more

Once arrested, Hansen was charged with assault, kidnapping, multiple weapons offenses, theft and insurance fraud. The last charge was related to a claim filed with the insurance company over the alleged theft of some troph… See more

• Naked Fear (2007), about a serial killer who hunts and abducts women in the remote wilderness of New Mexico, is loosely based on Robert Hansen.
• In The Frozen Ground (2013), John Cusack portrayed … See more