#SERIAL KILLER VICTIMS PHOTOS SERIAL#

While they were unable to find a match in the FBI's national missing person database, investigators began using genetic genealogy to identify her last year. In 2014, the very same year that Hansen died at age 75, PelkeyвЂ™s remains were exhumed and samples of her DNA were obtained and sent into a lab to create a profile, Alaska state troopers noted in a video which announced the identification of Pelkey. He told officials during his confessions that he knew very little about her, not even her name. Hansen told investigators that the Colorado native was working as a sex worker in downtown Anchorage when he abducted her before taking her out to Horseshoe Lake in a small plane. Not only did Hansen rape and torture his victims but he then hunted them down in the wilderness as if they were wild game. In total, 12 bodies have been found though Hansen has claimed to have murdered 17 in all.

The remains of 19-year-old Pelkey were discovered in April of 1984 along with seven other victims of Hansen in the outskirts of Anchorage by Alaska state troopers.

The murder victim known as simply вЂњHorseshoe HarrietвЂќ for 37 years has now been identified as Robin Pelkey, a teenager who vanished in the early 1980s, the Alaska Department of Public Safety announced in a Friday press release.

#SERIAL KILLER VICTIMS PHOTOS SERIAL#

A woman who was murdered by notorious serial killer Robert Hansen has been given her name back after nearly four decades of remaining unidentified.

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