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…
By early 1982, Anchorage authorities were aware that something was wrong in their fair city. Something dreadfully wrong. Seven dancers…
We’re inching deeper into 2022 and what a year it’s turning out to be. To kick off the year, Open Road…
As Anchorage historian David Reamer notes, the first big turn in the B-girl universe took place just after midnight on…
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…
Girls for hire. That was the watchword at Seattle’s Talents West. In Anchorage, among a small coterie of entrepreneurs, it…