{"id":7165,"date":"2017-01-11T00:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2019-08-23T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:38:57","slug":"denied-by-hansen-pt-1-megan-emerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/11\/denied-by-hansen-pt-1-megan-emerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Denied by Hansen, Pt. 1: Megan Emerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hansen&#8217;s flight map was key to identifying his victims; State Troopers surmised &#8212; correctly &#8212; that the marks on his flight map corresponded to burial sites. But Hansen insisted that not <em>all<\/em> the marks on his flight map identified victims; while he admitted to 17 marked burial sites, another five &#8212; four of them in the Seward area &#8212; he denied.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women &#8220;denied by Hansen&#8221; was Megan Emerick, who was 17-years-old at the time of her disappearance. Here&#8217;s what we know about Megan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was last seen in Seward, Alaska, on July 7, 1973.<\/li>\n<li>She was a student at the Seward Skill Center (now called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avtec.edu\">Alaska Vocational Technical Center<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>She was last seen walking out of a dormitory laundry room.<\/li>\n<li>All of her personal belongings, including her identification, were left behind.<\/li>\n<li>Her roommate searched for three days before reporting her disappearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/Megan-Emerick-Poster.png\" alt=\"megan emerick missing poster\"><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s what we know about Robert Hansen (according to court records and his confession):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On parole for an Assault with a Deadly Weapon charge involving a real estate secretary, Hansen was required to tell his parole officer his whereabouts; his parole records show that he was in Seward on the July 1973 weekend that Megan disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>He had a &#8220;large boat&#8221; during the early &#8217;70&#8217;s, which he used for scuba diving and fishing in and around Seward.<\/li>\n<li>He learned to scuba dive by taking some divers he&#8217;d met on the Seward docks out on his boat to find sea cucumbers.<\/li>\n<li>In his confession to the 1980 murder of Joanna Messina, Hansen admitted that he met her while &#8220;walking up and down the [Seward] docks and talked to the fishermen about different things and so forth, and just bullshit and talk.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the spring I would take my boat and pickup and camper and drive to Seward and leave it, then just drive a car back and forth [from Anchorage].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The distance from the Seward Skill Center, where Megan was last seen, to the Seward docks where Hansen kept his boat, is about an 11-minute walk (one-half mile). In Hansen&#8217;s confession to the Messina murder, he said he tried to lure her onto his boat, but failed because she needed to be at a job call for the local cannery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I met her and I talked to her and&#8230; I had my boat down there and was talking [to] her that I was going to go out, out the next day fishing and so forth, would she like to go along, you know.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/Seward-AVTEC-Boat-Launch.png\" alt=\"megan emerick missing poster\"><br \/>\nFinally, there is the &#8220;problem&#8221; of Robert Hansen&#8217;s flight map. It shows not one, not two, but three marks in Seward&#8217;s Resurrection Bay. Marks which, in many other cases, showed where he&#8217;d left bodies.<br \/>\nDuring his confession, Hansen denied it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anchorage DA Vic Krumm: &#8220;Way back in the early \u201870\u2019s, there were a number of young women from Seward&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nRobert Hansen: &#8220;Ah&#8230; out of Seward gentlemen, I never had anything&#8230; anything to do with any girls out of Seward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe him. He visited Seward often, kept a boat there, had a way of talking up folks hanging out at the docks and, on at least one occasion, took those folks out on his vessel. You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Hansen Flight Map (Seward and Resurrection Bay detail)<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/images\/Hansen-Map-Detail-Seward.png\" alt=\"Robert Hansen flight map\"><br \/>\nREFERENCES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Butcher, Baker (Amazon <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\">Kindle<\/a>; Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/itun.es\/us\/fmlwfb.l\">iBooks; <\/a> Barnes &amp; Noble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/butcher-baker-walter-gilmour\/1124824203?ean=9781504041645\">NOOK<\/a>; Google <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Walter_Gilmour_Butcher_Baker?id=vGU4DQAAQBAJ\">Play<\/a>; Kobo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/butcher-baker-1\">eReader<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Statement of Robert C. Hansen, District Attorney&#8217;s Office Anchorage, February 22, 1984<\/li>\n<li>The Charley Project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleyproject.org\/cases\/e\/emerick_megan.html\">Megan Emerick<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alaska State Troopers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dps.alaska.gov\/ast\/abi\/docs\/bulletins\/emerick.pdf\">Missing Persons Bulletin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingkids.com\/poster\/NCMC\/1080580\/1\/screen\">Megan Emerick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Correction: Hansen was on parole for Assault with a Deadly Weapon, not attempted assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hansen&#8217;s flight map was key to identifying his victims; State Troopers surmised &#8212; correctly &#8212; that the marks on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butcher-baker","category-true-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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