What Cindy Paulson's Story Teaches Us About Serial Killer Psychology

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The story of Cindy Paulson is one of unimaginable horror and extraordinary resilience. 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 confession to the murder of dozens of women. Though it would be another four months or so until Hansen was finally arrested for his 12-year-long serial killing spree, Cindy Paulson’s escape and resulting story gave police the break they needed to finally identify a suspect in the dozens of unsolved murders that took place throughout Anchorage. The Frozen Ground is a gripping crime thriller based on the true story of Cindy Paulson, a young woman who escaped the clutches of notorious serial killer Robert Hansen. In Scott Walker’s ‘The Frozen Ground ,’ Vanessa Hudgens plays the role of Cindy Paulson, a woman who gets abducted by Alaska’s most notorious serial killer but later becomes one of his few surviving victims. The story of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who released the women he kidnapped into the remote wilderness so he could hunt them like animals, is straight out of a horror movie. One day in 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson was seen in handcuffs, running frantically down a street in Anchorage, Alaska. She eventually managed to flag down a passing. Cindy Paulson was only seventeen when she had the misfortune of running into serial killer Robert Hansen. Cindy tells police about her encounter with this sick killer and her story leads police to a man who has been pretending to be a pillar of the community for years. Episode 7 of Mind of a Monster : The Butcher Baker, introduces us — finally introduces us — to Cindy Paulson. In 1983, at the age of seventeen, she was kidnapped, raped and hours away from certain death at the hands of Alaska serial killer Robert C. This expert chronicle will delve into Hansen’s twisted psyche, the government’s exhaustive hunt to unmask him, and what his grisly story reveals about the struggle to comprehend the psychology of serial murderers .