February 15, 1939 - Robert Hansen
A baker by trade in Anchorage, Hansen carried out a sustained campaign of abduction and murder across more than a decade, his crimes shaped by the isolation of the Alaskan wilderness, which he weaponized as part of the act itself. His method of releasing victims into remote terrain to hunt them distinguished his case from comparable crimes and reflected a calculated, prolonged pattern of violence rather than impulsive acts. Investigators connected him to at least seventeen deaths before his arrest in 1983, with the full scope of his activity only emerging through extensive forensic and geographic work.
From Wikipedia
Robert Christian Boes Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), also known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983, abducting, raping and murdering at least seventeen women. Many of his victims were released by Hansen into the wilderness and hunted with a Ruger Mini-14 and hunting knives. Hansen was captured in 1983 and sentenced to 461 years' imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He died in 2014 of natural causes at age 75.
While serving a prison sentence for arson in the early 1960s, Hansen was diagnosed with manic depression with periodic schizophrenic episodes. The psychiatrist who made the diagnosis noted that Hansen had an "infantile personality" and that he was obsessed with getting back at people whom he felt had wronged him.
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