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Butcher, Baker: The Untold Story, Part 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

February 27, 1984<\/strong> Cindy Paulson was determined to be in the courtroom for Robert Hansen’s sentencing. After her escape from this man’s basement, she was on a path to rehabilitation. Drug free, with fat on her bones. No longer a shadow of herself. She reasoned that seeing him get his punishment was part of that recovery. Her temporary guardian comforted Cindy as they drove to the downtown courthouse in her Chrysler New Yorker. It was the lap of luxury, something that Cindy craved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1983 Chrysler New Yorker<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The courthouse brought a stark reality. The Chrysler could no longer protect Cindy. And then the bright lights of the courtroom startled her, breached her boundaries. Her paranoia — driven by a then-undiagnosed PTSD — drove her to scan the room for a safe place. No easy feat. The room was packed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I glanced at the families of Robert Hansen\u2019s victims, sitting in the bleacher seats. They looked at me and I looked at them but, deep inside, their grieving isn\u2019t mine. I wanted to reach out to them, to put them at ease. I wanted them to know that I was put on earth for one reason: To catch that monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy Paulson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She feels their eyes burrowing into her. Spies a fair-haired man, hunched over, holding back tears. A blonde woman, maybe his wife, with big hair and mouth clinched tight. Then a younger woman — maybe someone’s sister? They were all there to see this man — if you could call him that. A man who’d killed more women than Alaska could count. Cindy doesn’t notice the prosecutors. She doesn’t notice the defense attorneys. Just the families. A crowd of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Judy Vigoren<\/strong>, mother of Hansen victim Tammy Pederson
(photo Fran Dumer, Anchorage Daily News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, Cindy’s eyes jump. It\u2019s Hansen at the defense table, wearing a starched white shirt. He\u2019s a circus animal, curled in his chair. He isn\u2019t handcuffed. He’s almost… Free. A sudden emotion washes over her. She needs to find the exit. “I\u2019m not going in until I know how to escape this place,” she tells herself. She’s been this way ever since she ran from him. Ever since she got away. She’s skittish. Part of her is still caged and bound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as quickly, she spies an open seat. She launches herself in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I walk toward what seems like eternity, I suddenly hear the girls\u2019 voices again. The dead girls\u2019 voices. They\u2019re in my head like an echo. Run, Cindy. Run. Run. Run. He\u2019s got a gun<\/em>. Run, Cindy. Run. <\/em>The last time I heard those voices, I was escaping him. I have a sudden urge to tell the families their girls are all right. That they\u2019re in a good place. But I don\u2019t. I can\u2019t. My voice is locked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy Paulson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Too Close For Comfort <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cindy’s perch puts her directly behind him. The Hansen him. The Robert Hansen him. She takes her chair; he turns his head. He sees her. His instinct is to see her. If he reaches out, if he stretches, he can almost touch her. Soon the band in her head starts playing. The pieces start moving. The judge makes his grand entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL RISE.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then, suddenly, it\u2019s as if everyone has disappeared. It\u2019s just him and me. This Hansen man inching so close he could grab me. And when he leans back in the chair and looks over his shoulder? When he turns and looks me dead in the eye? At that moment, when he leans back in that chair\u2026 It\u2019s like in the movies, when you see the monster and fall into his steel claws. I know he wants to kill me. His eyes are black and evil. Pure evil. It\u2019s as if he could just chop me up and chew me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, I\u2019m back in his basement, handcuffed, the gun in my face. My brain replays the sounds of the chains that bound me. There is nothing anyone in that courtroom can do. Not one person can stop him. Our eyes are locked and that’s what he\u2019s telling me. There is nobody but him and me. If he could have grabbed me, if he could have choked me without repercussions, he would have. Right then. Right there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy Paulson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Cindy does the only thing she can. She runs. Sprints, really. It’s pure instinct. She ends up on the floor of a courthouse bathroom, heaving tears, unconsolable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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