{"id":32413,"date":"2025-06-28T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/?p=32413"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:51:31","slug":"part-eight-an-arrogant-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/28\/part-eight-an-arrogant-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Part Eight: An Arrogant Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Four or Five Murders a Year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Glenn Flothe was deep into Robert Hansen’s “garbage” by the time the man confessed to seventeen murders. For many of us, that confession let him off easy, his arrogant air undiminished. That’s because Flothe himself estimates Hansen was responsible for as many as 32 murders. He based that number on a calculation the man had killed \u201cfour to five women a year since the mid 1970s.\u201d See: Anchorage Daily News, February 29, 1984<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting at 1975, that works out to eight years, with 8 x 4 = 32. So, yeah, there could be more. I’m staying with the low-side estimate, however, because — though it was Hansen’s obsession — he had other duties to balance. Hansen’s Bakery, for one, dominated his time, if only because the bakery was the facade for his respectable image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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His family? Yes, somewhat. Because that too was part of his front. And, then, there was time with his hunting buddies. You know, the ones who provided an alibi at his 1983 arrest. Each and every one of these time-sinks helped sustain his arrogant mien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Why 1975? Hansen was in either in jail and\/or on parole during the first half of the 70s. Not a perfect accounting, though. Megan Emerick went missing from Seward, AK on July 7, 1973. While Robert Hansen was there, on parole, for the Fourth of July weekend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Arrogant? Really? Hell Yes.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The human instinct is to posit that anyone capable of tens of cold-blooded murders must be, of necessity, an arrogant human being. Arrogant in his disregard for others. Arrogant in his heedless quest, no matter the consequences. What Sgt. Glenn Flothe observed, however, was a dramatic shift in Hansen’s arrogance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HALE: By the time you got him -- was he [still] arrogant about it?
FLOTHE: He was arrogant about it until he decided to \u2018clear the decks,\u2019 as he said\u2026 Then he truly started to become arrogant\u2026
I think the interview Darel [Galyan] and I did when we arrested him prior to making his confession \u2013 his arrogance was there, but it was more along the lines of \u2018you\u2019ve got the wrong guy. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about,\u2019 sort of \u2013 he was telling us the same story he told everybody else \u2013 except this time he\u2019s got a little problem because he doesn\u2019t even want \u2013 you see before he could say, \u2018Well, yeah, I was with that prostitute \u2013 but that fuckin\u2019 shit, she wanted more money and I threw her ass outta the camper.\u2019 Now what is she doing? She\u2019s putting some heat on me \u2013 that\u2019s bullshit \u2013 she got what she deserved - and the cops would buy that.
But how he\u2019s got a problem because we got a dead prostitute out there that\u2019s been shot and he can\u2019t simply say, \u2018yeah, I was with her that night and the last time I saw her I dropped her off and 4th and B \u2013 \u2018cause he\u2019s smart enough to realize that now he can\u2019t say that \u2013 \u2018cause now you\u2019re talking murder, you\u2019re talking heavy duty stuff. \u201cYou dropped her off at 4th and B? Bullshit. You killed her.\u201d So he\u2019s not gonna associate himself at all with any of the dead ones, not at all. He\u2019s smart enough to realize that.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Two-Headed Monster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Robert Hansen’s arrogance was like a faucet he could turn off and on, almost at will. He was, in most circumstances, cognizant of his audience. With his so-called “superiors” — the insurance execs, the lawyers, the doctors — he was the epitome of meek and mild. Ditto for his church acquaintances (especially when in tow with his wife, Darla). Here’s Glenn Flothe again on Hansen’s “other side.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FLOTHE: Talking to his employees, 18-19 year old guys, he was a gross motherfucker\u2026 Three or four o\u2019clock in the morning he\u2019s telling \u2018em lurid stories\u2026 He told one guy [while addressing the Missing Dancer murders], if I had done something like that, I would have taken \u2018em up in a plane and buried them where nobody would have ever found them\u2026 He was being himself to them, it was what he was. But around these other people he couldn\u2019t do that, because he would be revealing himself\u2026
He liked to talk about sex around the female employees\u2026 He\u2019d get carried away decorating cakes for special occasions\u2026 Get carried away with making the breasts\u2026 He\u2019d talk about the women he\u2019d seen in the bars\u2026 He\u2019d fantasize to these younger guys\u2026 He was the great lover.
But to all his other friends, he was Mr. Morality.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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