{"id":11996,"date":"2017-12-31T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2023-02-11T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T00:03:22","slug":"witnesses-step-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/31\/witnesses-step-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Robert Hansen: Witnesses Step Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, slowly, slowly&#8230; The trooper&#8217;s investigation of Robert Hansen was reaching critical mass. For one, the witnesses were starting to fall into place. Other pieces would soon follow. Enough so that Flothe was ready for prosecutors to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>The call to D.A. Pat Doogan was a definite &#8220;tell,&#8221; although it also signaled Flothe&#8217;s frustration with the local D.A. &#8212; Doogan was in Fairbanks, not Anchorage &#8212; because the local D.A. kept expressing doubts about the case against Hansen and, in that spirit, seemed to demand a near-endless string of &#8220;more evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not an easy thing to live with when, as a cop, you know that Hansen can kill again at any minute.<\/p>\n<p>But if that&#8217;s what they wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bennet and Yount were witnesses to Cindy Paulson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/kidnapped-true-story-cindy-paulson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">miraculous escape<\/a> at Merrill Field, Bennet being the security guard who identified Hansen&#8217;s plane and Yount being the Good Samaritan who rescued Cindy in his truck as she raced away from her would-be killer. Ward Hulbert, on the other hand, was part of a group of cabin owners who were tired of being burglarized and decided to take action.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere were several cabins broken into,\u201d said the man. \u201cMine, the doc\u2019s, another guy\u2019s. And every single one of them was broken into by someone in an airplane. This was in the wintertime, see, and it left some ski marks out there, going right up to the cabins. Well, when the troopers shut down our cases, we decided we were going to find that airplane ourselves, \u2018cause to tell you the truth, we were pissed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men divvied up all the airports in and around the Anchorage area: Merrill Field, Lake Hood, Birchwood, Hillside, Inlet, Eagle River. They had one thing going for them: The ski on the suspect aircraft was quite unusual. The skegs looked like they were either homemade or some type of a conversion done for a Super Cub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we searched and searched,\u201d said the mountain of a man, \u201cand of all the planes we looked at, only one plane matched the description.\u201d<br \/>\nExcerpt From: Walter Gilmour &amp; Leland E. Hale. \u201cButcher, Baker.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>9-30-83:<\/strong> Sergeant Flothe consults with D.A. Pat Doogan reference probable cause for search warrants regarding PAULSEN, GOULDING and MORROW cases.<br \/>\nSergeant Flothe has reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/butcher-baker-the-early-years-pt-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HEPPEARD<\/a>, [<a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/butcher-baker-the-early-years-pt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TROOPER&#8217;S DAUGHTER<\/a>], <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/anonymous-victim-comes-forward-pt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1975 unidentified<\/a> victim, <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/christy-hayes-fight-her-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CHRISTI HAYES<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/robert-hansen-finding-sherry-morrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHERRY MORROW<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/paula-goulding-secret-rendezvous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PAULA GOULDING<\/a>, CINDY PAULSEN, and other missing person case reports and HANSEN background information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/sherry_morrow.jpg\" alt=\"Witnesses\"><br \/>\n<strong>Sherry Morrow&nbsp;<\/strong>(courtesy Alaska State Troopers)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/paula_goulding.jpg\" alt=\"Witnesses\"><br \/>\n<strong>Paula Goulding<\/strong> (courtesy Alaska State Troopers)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/cindy_paulson.png\" alt=\"Witnesses\"><br \/>\n<strong>Cindy Paulson <\/strong>(courtesy Alaska State Troopers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10-6-80 to 10-13-83<\/strong>: LOUIS BENNET, ROBERT YOUNT, and other witnesses reference PAULSEN case reinterviewed by A.S.T. on tape.<br \/>\n<strong>10-10-83<\/strong>: WARD HULBERT interviewed reference theft and airplane ski tracks traced to HANSEN&#8217;s Supercub airplane. A.S.T. subsequently learns of PACE and ROWLAND burglaries.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Purchase <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Butcher-Baker-Account-Alaskan-Serial-ebook\/dp\/B01M1P41GS\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479575511&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=butcher+baker+book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butcher, Baker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, slowly, slowly&#8230; The trooper&#8217;s investigation of Robert Hansen was reaching critical mass. 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