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Shortly before his capture, Robert Hansen put into play a plan he worked on for a year: to have a woman who wasn’t a sex worker stay in his house with him for the summer while his wife and children were in Europe. His reasoning behind this was that if they stayed in his house instead of the wilderness, he might end up forming a relationship with her instead of killing her. A month before he sent his family on vacation, he ran ads in the local singles paper seeking “a lady proud to be a woman”, imploring her to join him “in finding what’s around the next bend, over the next hill”.

The first woman who answered came to Hansen’s home and when he asked her to have sex with him on his bearskin rug in his trophy room, she denied him. The next woman who would be in his basement was his last would-be victim Cindy Paulson, just five days later. Held at gunpoint, she was on the same bearskin rug, handcuffed and chained to a post, afraid for her life.