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On 12th September 1982 just outside Anchorage, Alaska state troopers approached a remote site near a river. Buried in the ground was the body of a young woman. She’d been shot with a hunting rifle. Police were soon tracking one of North America’s notorious serial killers. Crime Stories: Robert C Hansen, 2007
The story of the human hunter ... One of North America’s most predatory serial killers. ibid.
He confessed to a total of 17 murders and 30 rapes. ibid.
Robert Hansen was sentenced to 461 years. ibid.
During later questioning, Hansen claimed that starting in 1973, after finishing his rape sentence, he became a serial rapist, picking up prostitutes from Anchorage’s tenderloin district and taking them by his bush plane to the wilderness, where he would rape and torture them. He later claimed that the ones who complied, he would return to Anchorage alive, and those who didn’t, he would kill. From 1973 to 1983, he abducted and raped at least 30 women that way and let them go. At least 17 women picked up during the years 1980-1983 were less fortunate. After raping them, he released them in the woods and hunted them with a hunting rifle. His crimes first became known in 1982, when the body of exotic dancer Sherry Morrow was found near the Knik River by two off-duty police officers. It took two weeks to identify her. A spent .223 shell casing was found in the dirt near the body. Two years prior to that, two other women had been found in similar circumstances. The first was found by construction workers near Eklutna Road and has never been identified; the investigating officer nicknamed her ‘Eklutna Annie’. The second was topless dancer Joanne Messina. Criminal Minds Wiki article
Alaska: For Robert Hansen it was a place he could parlay his love for hunting into a more dangerous game where no-one could hear his victims scream. For more than a decade he hunted women for sport. True Crime Recaps: He Hunted Women for Sport! Robert Hansen Case, Youtube 16.11, 2022
Mild-mannered family-man Robert Hansen … The girls shunned him sparking his deep-seated hatred of women. His life at home wasn’t much better than at school. ibid.
He developed into a kleptomaniac. ibid.
Bob’s favourite sport was to lure working girls off the street corner and into his car with the promise of cash. ibid.
He had already hunted and killed at least 17 women; she [Cindy] was the only one who managed escape her deadly plight. Cindy was just another bad girl to Robert. ibid.
In the early 1980s in Anchorage, Alaska, young women were vanishing off the streets. Their kidnapper was an apparently friendly local baker named Robert Hansen. After abducting the women, Hansen would take them deep into the Alaskan wilderness. It was a landscape the prize-winning gamehunter knew well. But Hansen was on the prowl for even more scalps to add to his impressive collection, targeting Anchorage’s sex workers and exotic dancers. World’s Most Evil Killers s7e2: Robert Hansen, Sky Crime 2022
Hansen confessed to killing 17 women in total. ibid.
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A vicious killer in a bleak alleyway. A dangerous criminal on the loose. And gruesome evidence that would help bring the murderer to justice. Forensics: Catching the Killer, Sky Crime 2024
In September 2000 the battered body of Eileen Jawczak, a 65-year-old schoolteacher, was found in an alleyway in Rochdale … She’d been attacked just yards from her home. ibid.
The rapist had left behind some potentially key pieces of evidence. ibid.
There were other crimes that could be linked. ibid.
Rochdale, Greater Manchester, 2000: An elderly woman has been brutally murdered. And when further attacks happen investigators are under pressure to catch the predator before it’s too late. Killer at the Crime Scene s2e7, Channel 5 2022
The pathologist confirmed the cause of death to be strangulation. ibid.
Two weeks after Eileen’s brutal murder news of another local attack … less than a mile from Eileen’s home. ibid.
‘A bloody handprint was found on a railing’ … ‘footwear marks found’ … Forensic scientists trawl through the case file of serious assaults. ibid.
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Anglesey, North Wales, 25th November 2001: An elderly woman [Mabel Leyshon] has been brutally murdered in a small Welsh village. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e3, Netflix 2023
‘Somebody had drunk some blood from that saucepan.’ ibid. forensics lady
‘Every strand of evidence is going to form a jigsaw.’ ibid. rozzer
The victim names the teenager who tried to bite her neck as Matthew Hardman. ibid.
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Tony Hardy stalks the streets of King’s Cross in London looking for women to kill. His hero was Jack the Ripper. Evil Up Close: The Camden Ripper, CI 2013
His trail of violence began in Australia. ibid.
A life-long addiction to sex. ibid.
Hardy was given three life sentences. ibid.
Anthony Hardy became known as the Camden Ripper after dismembered body parts were found in the refuse bins of a north London estate in 2002. He later admitted to three gruesome murders and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. David Wilson, Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story: Anthony Hardy, Channel 5 2012
One of the most disturbed serial killers I have ever examined. ibid.
On 30th December 2002 when police discovered dismembered human remains in a bin in North London, they had no idea these body parts would lead them to a serial killer. ibid.
A history of mental health problems. He’d been sectioned. ibid.
A cache of photographs of his victims taken after their death. ibid.
Shockingly, the trial also revealed that Hardy had killed another victim in almost identical circumstances a year earlier. ibid.
He was placed in the care of Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust. ibid.
Does his murderous career include more victims than anyone has previously realised? ibid.
Other attacks on sex workers in the west London area. ibid.
Maniac linked to attacks on more call-girls. August 19th 1991 Daily Express article August 19th 1991
An extremely dangerous individual. Bipolar disorder ... necrophilia ... Dr Julian Boon Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester
Body parts are found on the streets of London … ‘In this bin were body parts from two murders.’ How I Caught the Killer s1e6: The Camden Ripper, Sky Crime 2018
Anthony or Tony Hardy was already well known to the police … a significant person of interest. ibid.
One of the most memorable cases was that of Anthony Hardy. The Real Manhunter s3e1: The Camden Ripper, rozzer, Sky Crime 2023
He was suffering from a mental illness and assessed to have what we now call bipolar disorder. ibid. Colin Sutton
The Fugitive: Anthony Hardy is caught on CCTV leaving a London hospital just hours after police name him as the Bin Bag Murders suspect. ibid. Daily Mirror front page
These photographs were taken after he had killed both girls. ibid. man
The clerk read out the three murder charges against Hardy. ibid. TV news
Nobody knew him as a friend. ibid. rozzer
Camden, London, 30th December 2002: While searching the waste-bins for food a homeless man has discovered butchered body parts concealed in bin liners. Killer at the Crime Scene s1e1, Channel 5 2021
The police now have a person of interest on their radar … an image on CCTV. The man is identified as local resident Anthony Hardy. ibid.
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A man who would one day be branded the Beast of Manchester. A man who tormented lone women, mutilated their bodies and who went to extreme lengths to avoid capture. When Life Means Life s2e3, CI 2012
They would soon hear a detailed confession to three gruesome killings. ibid.
Hardy was given a whole-life tariff. ibid.
Years after Trevor Hardy had been sent down for three counts of murder, rumours would occasionally sweep through parts of Manchester that he had been released, or was about to be released from prison.
He had been dubbed the Beast of Manchester for his crimes, and, even behind bars, Hardy continued to be feared as some kind of bogeyman in the communities he traumatised ...
Shortly after he was sent down, Hardy sent a letter for the attention of the Mosoph family, posting it to a nearby club. ‘He was saying it was all his parents’ fault and that he wasn’t to blame,’ says Ralph. ‘He was blaming his upbringing.’ Manchester Evening News article 24th April 2012
In the 1970s a twisted killer was striking at teenage girls on the streets of Manchester. His methods were brutal and bizarre. Those who crossed his path recall an inner fury. But what led him to murder? And was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s7e2: Trevor Hardy, Really 2017
As his behaviour deteriorated, numerous escapes from borstal and approved schools forced authorities to take drastic action. Although nobody knew it yet, Hardy’s early misdemeanours would one day pale into insignificance as he evolved into a very different kind of criminal. ibid.
Colin was about to feel the full wroth of his brother Trevor Hardy. ibid.
‘He’d mutilated her body cutting Lesley’s head off, buried somewhere else, then he came back again, cut her feet off, buried the feet somewhere else nearby … He even took the ring off her finger and gave it to his girlfriend as a love token.’ ibid. rozzer