{"id":8833,"date":"2017-09-07T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:00:05","slug":"thoughts-cindy-paulson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/07\/thoughts-cindy-paulson\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts… Cindy Paulson"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time the movie “The Frozen Ground<\/a>” was made, Cindy Paulson was married with three children. She worked with the filmmakers and, according to the credits, told her true-story for the first time. [Well, the first public<\/em> telling of her story, anyway.]<\/p>\n

She did not get to “straight” in one clean shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judging from the movie’s treatment, her life was a lurid mess in the immediate aftermath of her encounter with Robert Hansen (1),(2). So raw were her emotions that, when District Attorney Vic Krumm told a hushed courtroom Robert Hansen had confessed to the murders, Cindy ran from the room in tears. Not long after a small celebratory dinner, when Hansen’s conviction came in and it looked like she’d turned her life around, she was back on the streets. It was what she knew.<\/p>\n

It’s her emotional honesty and vulnerability that strikes me today, thirty years on. That and her “street smarts.” And her contradictions.<\/p>\n

Especially her contradictions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All smart and sassy one minute, leading with her streetwise self, then quickly turning into a wide-eyed teen, trying to capture the youth she’d been denied. Plotting bodily harm to Robert Hansen and then realizing she, too, might be harmed. Impetuous — wanting to run the minute he took her from his house to the car — yet patient — waiting till he was at his airplane and visible only from the waist down before attempting her escape.<\/p>\n

Those cracks in her life story were what let the pimps in. They were also what let Robert Hansen in. Someone could promise Cindy Paulson almost anything — and she’d run toward it. Disappoint her, however, and she was just as likely to run the other direction. It was what she knew.<\/p>\n

Run from her parents? Check. Run from her pimp? Check. Run from Robert Hansen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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(1) I will quibble with one “detail” of “The Frozen Ground<\/a>.” The film has Cindy move in with Sgt. Flothe and his family. In all my interviews with Sgt. Glenn Flothe — and<\/em> his wife — there was NOT ONE mention of Cindy coming to live with them. Befriend her, yes. House her, no.<\/p>\n

She was instead living at a safe-house (and, to repeat, the family who ran the safe-house attended Darla Hansen’s church). Before the safe-house, she was living in a “party house” on Anchorage’s Government Hill. It was there that Flothe effected the rescue that (temporarily) got her out of the pimps and ho’s<\/em> routine.<\/p>\n

I know, I know… it’s “the movies.” The filmmakers chose implied sex (living with Flothe) over irony (living with church folks who worshiped with the killer’s wife). It probably cost them a half-star in their rating.<\/p>\n

(2) Actually, I can quibble about several details<\/a> in the movie. But I’ll leave it at that. Quibbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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