Convicted Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen died early Thursday, August 21, at Alaska Regional Hospital at the age of 75.
Spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle with the Alaska Department of Corrections said Hansen had been in declining health over the past year.
Hansen, also known as the “Butcher Baker”, was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women from 1971 to 1983.
The Anchorage baker would kidnap women, tie them up, and fly them to remote locations to kill them. Only 12 of his victims bodies were found.
His conviction was of four murders in a deal that spared him having to go to trial 17 times. At that time he also confessed to raping another 30 women.
Hansen was in the midst of serving a 461 year sentence at Spring Creek in Seward, where he was originally one of the first prisoners after it opened.