VIDEO: Rhonda McBride speaks with Sylvia Butcher, a friend of Robert Hansen’s wife.
Serial killer Robert Hansen has died at the age of 75.
He had been in declining health for the past year and was pronounced dead around 1:30 a.m. after being taken to Alaska Regional Hospital, according to Sherrie Daigle, spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Corrections. Alaska State Troopers said Hansen had do-not-resuscitate paperwork on file with the DOC.
In February 1984, Hansen, known as the “Butcher Baker,” was sentenced to life plus 461 years in prison in connection with the kidnapping and murders of at least 17 women in the Anchorage area.
Hansen had recently been transferred from the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward to Anchorage because of declining health.
The exact cause of death is unknown at this time but, according to Daigle, Hansen appeared to have died of natural causes. Next-of-kin will take over possession of his remains.
Robert Hansen’s case was the subject of the 2013 film “The Frozen Ground,” starring John Cusack and Nicholas Cage.