Police arrested Robert Chris Hansen on October 27, 1983, only four days from Halloween. One of his bakery employees had…
Robert Chris Hansen was shipped to a federal prison in February 1984. His confession cleared up some (but not all)…
Update: One of the recent sub-plots surrounding Butcher, Baker concerns *facts* that are not in evidence. Things like the date…
Some stories of dancers gone missing in Anchorage had happier endings. One of them took a year to get there.…
By early 1982, Anchorage authorities were aware that something was wrong in their fair city. Something dreadfully wrong. Seven dancers…
The B-girl worked bars and clubs throughout the thirties, forties and into the fifties. She was not, officially, a sex-worker.…
All these years later, my heart still registers a skip and a bump when I think of the aftereffects of…
By June of 1983, several Anchorage strip joints were in jeopardy. One Fourth Avenue club had its license revoked. Another’s…
I cannot stop thinking about the persistent reports that Hansen released women in the Bush and hunted them down like…
Comedian Bob Hope called Anchorage’s Fourth Avenue “the longest bar in the world.” The 80’s saw those bars converted to…