Robert Hansen's Victims: Cindy Paulson's Account and Its Significance

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Kidnapped and assaulted by serial killer Robert Hansen in 1983, her courage in escaping and reporting the crime led to his eventual capture and conviction. On June 13 , 1983 , Cindy Paulson was kidnapped and raped, her life threatened by Robert Hansen. Her eventual getaway was central to Hansen’s ultimate capture and. Living in Anchorage with her mother, Cindy Paulson was a 17-year-old dancer and sex worker who frequented many of the same establishments that Hansen visited while looking for targets. On June 13, 1983, Robert Hansen pulled up to Paulson in his car and propositioned her. The teenager agreed to get his in car, but as soon as she did, everything changed. Hansen immediately pulled a gunon Paulson and placed her in handcuffs. “And he had cuffed one of my hands, and I was trying to get loose and he pulled out a gun,” Paulson said in a police interview three months after the attack. “Then he had got my other hand cuffed, I don’t know how he did it, it was just frightening, ‘cause I didn’t really I fought, but not a lot, ‘cause I knew he would do something.” Robert Hansen then took Cindy Paulson to his home, sexually assaulted and tortured her for hours. In addition to the handcuffs he kept on her wrists, Hansen also tied a rope around her neck and tied it to a coffee table in his house. The ending of the movie reveals that Cindy Paulson now lives in the lower 48 with her husband and three children. As revealed by Scott Walker in an interview, while he. Cindy Paulson was Hansen’s final known victim , miraculously surviving his brutal attack in 1983. Unlike his other victims , she managed to escape his remote cabin,. But in 1983, everything changed when one of his intended victims , 17-year-old Cindy Paulson , escaped and told the police her harrowing story. Paulson’s account of being. Set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska, the film portrays the gruesome crimes committed by Hansen and the relentless pursuit of justice for his victims . Here, we delve. Cindy Paulson was kidnapped and raped, her life threatened by serial killer Robert Hansen . Her escape was pivotal to Hansen’s arrest.