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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
DIR By: Akoya
Date: February 6, 2020, 2:30 pm
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Eklutna Lake, Alaska
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
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Date: February 6, 2020, 2:31 pm
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
Victim of Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen exhumed for DNA
tests
(Reuters) - The remains of a young woman murdered 30 years ago
by Alaska’s most notorious serial killer has been exhumed in the
hopes of finally confirming her identity, officials said
Thursday.
The woman was one of 17 victims killed in the 1970s and 1980s by
Robert Hansen, who died in prison last month. His victims, many
of them prostitutes, were kidnapped and then released in the
wilderness where he hunted them down like game, police said.
Two of Hansen’s victims have never been identified, authorities
said.
On Wednesday, the state medical examiner’s exhumed the remains
of one of those women, known to investigators as “Horseshoe
Harriet” because her body was discovered in 1984 near Horseshoe
Lake, said Jason Grenn, a spokesman for the Department of Health
and Social Services.
He said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
which paid for the exhumation, will perform DNA testing and work
up a facial reconstruction.
“With the new information they have, they are hoping to finally
get an identity on her,” he said.
Forensic and DNA experts from across the country will assist in
the identification process, said Dr. Angela Williamson, who
leads the Unknown Victim Identification Team at the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
“The remains will undergo multiple forensic tests,” she said. “A
forensic anthropologist will more accurately determine this
girl’s age range.”
DNA from the remains can be cross-referenced against DNA
databases to try to link her to a family member, Williamson
said.
Hansen’s other unidentified victim, “Eklutna Annie” has already
undergone facial reconstruction but so far, her identity still
remains a mystery, Williamson said.
“Annie” was discovered in Eklutna, Alaska, and her remains are
buried at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, under a header
reading “Jane Doe: Died 1980,” Grenn said.
Hansen was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to 461 years in
prison. He died in August at the age of 75.
Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Seattle; Editing by Scott
Malone
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
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Date: February 6, 2020, 2:32 pm
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
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Date: February 6, 2020, 2:34 pm
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'Eklutna Annie' tells tale of Alaska murder - her own
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS July 21, 2012
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Rachel Gregory will portray "Eklutna Annie," said to be the
first of serial killer Robert Hansen's 17 victims, and Jeff
Aldrich will portray a detective in this year's tour of notable
cemetery residents in Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A small bronze plaque, partially buried by
sod at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, marks the grave of
one of Alaska's most famous murder victims. It doesn't have her
real name - no one knows what it was - or even the one by which
she is best known. And the date is probably wrong.
But there lies "Eklutna Annie," said to have been the first
victim of serial killer Robert Hansen.
Hansen, an Anchorage baker, admitted to killing 17 women between
1979 and 1984, sometimes taking them to remote locations and
hunting them like wild game. The slayings have inspired several
books - fiction and nonfiction - television shows,
documentaries and an upcoming film, "The Frozen Ground."
Investigators confirmed the names of 16 of Hansen's victims.
(Some believe he killed 21 or more.) But Annie has remained
nameless since her remains were uncovered near a remote power
line on July 21, 1980.
This year, 32 years and a day after Annie's body was found,
Anchorage schoolteacher Rachel Gregory will portray the deceased
woman, standing by her grave and telling visitors what little
can be confirmed about Annie's life. Gregory is one of several
actors who will depict people buried at the downtown graveyard
in a "Stories at the Cemetery" performance.
The "Stories" event was started last year by volunteer cemetery
researchers Bruce and Audrey Kelly and actress/storyteller Linda
Benson.
"We were making bets about how many people would show up," said
Gregory, who last year portrayed Ada Blackjack, the sole
survivor of a disastrous expedition to Wrangel Island in the
1920s. "We figured a couple dozen. There must have been a
thousand."
Began as cemetery tour
"Stories" builds on long-running annual tours of the cemetery
started by the late John Bagoy. Distressed by the deteriorating
condition of the graves of Anchorage pioneers, Bagoy swept the
grounds with a metal detector to uncover tin identification
plates, which in some cases were all that was left of the
original wood crosses.
For the inaugural year of "Stories," Benson and company focused
on local celebrities such as Blackjack; painter Sydney
Laurence's wife, Jeanne; and publisher and Native rights
advocate Howard Rock.
But they also featured the graves of those killed in the
notorious Cache Creek murders of 1939.
This year, the repertoire will feature more homicides, including
men killed in misunderstandings or love triangles. Jeff Aldrich,
a veteran of the Fairbanks Shakespeare Festival, will assume the
role of a detective who comments on Annie and directs visitors
to the nearby graves of four of Hansen's other victims.
The Kellys recruited Aldrich.
"It sounded cool to me," he said. "I'm into site-specific work
and work that's integral with the community - and this is both."
Period costumes are key to the show. Aldrich will wear a trench
coat and fedora. Gregory will be tarted up in a mini-skirt and
netted midriff.
"I'm trying to get the clothes right to the best of my ability,"
she said.
The real Annie was wearing knee-high, high-heeled boots, a
sleeveless knit top, jeans and a brown leather jacket when she
died. Hansen told police she was a topless dancer or a
prostitute - the same thing he said about all his victims.
Hansen didn't know her name but thought she might have been from
Kodiak. (Police dubbed her "Eklutna" because of where she was
found, not because she was thought to be from the village.)
An Anchorage Daily News article on the 20th anniversary of her
death told how Hansen drove her out of town in his truck, chased
her when she ran and grabbed her by her long hair.
She pulled a knife from her purse. He took it and stabbed her in
the back.
"It's a sad story, but a good awareness tool," said Gregory, "a
way to talk about the way some people still treat women."
Little left for identity
Annie was thought to have died a year before electrical workers
found her remains.
There was little left to identify her. The Alaska State
Troopers' missing persons website describes Annie as short,
between 4 feet 11 inches and 5 feet 3 inches tall.
And she was young, in her late teens or early 20s. She was
"possibly white with American Indian/Native mix" and had "light
brown to reddish-blond" hair.
Hansen was convicted and sentenced to 461 years plus life. He is
in Spring Creek prison in Seward.
Annie's humble marker sits between two elegant headstones under
a massive blue spruce flanked by flowering lilacs.
The plaque on Plot 21, Row 17, Section 14 of the cemetery is
hard to find. It gives visitors no clue as to her place among
Alaska's unsolved mysteries. It contains just four words.
"Jane Doe
Died 1980."
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
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Date: February 6, 2020, 2:37 pm
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
DIR By: Akoya
Date: February 6, 2020, 2:38 pm
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Ode to Doe: Eklutna Annie
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
DIR By: Akoya
Date: February 6, 2020, 2:39 pm
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Anchorage Daily News
Remains of unidentified victim of Alaska serial killer Hansen
exhumed -
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Re: EKLUTNA ANNIE: F, 16-25, found near Anchorage, AK - 17 July
1980 - Robert Hansen victim
DIR By: Akoya
Date: February 6, 2020, 2:40 pm
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Robert Hansen
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
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