You Won't Believe What Happened After Cindy Paulson Escaped Robert Hansen

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Cindy Paulson ’s decision to report the crime and cooperate with law enforcement was instrumental in bringing Robert Hansen to justice. Her testimony and the evidence she provided were crucial in building a case against him and securing a warrant to search his property. 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 was researching all about the background of Hansen ’s case, he met Glenn Flothe, who asked him to meet Cindy . After she was kidnapped by Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen , 17-year-old Cindy Paulson escaped captivity and directly led to his arrest, finally ending the Butcher Baker’s 12-year killing spree. 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 confession to the murder of dozens of women. In 1983, after being held captive and repeatedly assaulted by Hansen , she managed to escape when he left her momentarily unattended. Despite being handcuffed, Paulson fled to a nearby road where she flagged down a truck driver, who took her to the police station. What he told law enforcement in 1984 when he was caught after an 18-year-old named Cindy Paulson escaped before he could get her on the plane, was that he would sometimes fly his victims, often prostitutes, to a cabin in the wilderness where he would send them into the woods and then track and hunt them. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson tells detectives that she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Robert Hansen . Since she’s a sex worker who initially lied about her age, the officers don’t believe her recounting of events. After escaping Robert Hansen ’s basement torture chamber, Cindy Paulson faced a raft of choices. Her most pressing decision: Should she stay or should she go? The “go” side was fueled by local cops who refused to believe her — to the point they even doubted the minute-by-minute re-creation of her near-death experience. Robert Hansen was eventually sentenced to 461 years in jail without the possibility of parole. In the aftermath of the revelation of her husband’s killing spree, Darla said that she knew he was up to nefarious things, but she never imagined that he was murdering all these women.