Fair Game - Softcover

Bernard DuClos

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ISBN 10: 0312929056 ISBN 13: 9780312929053

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1993

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Definitive Account of the Crimes of Alaska Serial Killer Robert Hansen-the case that inspired "The Frozen Ground" starring Nicholas Cage and John Cusack .

IMDb movie review___ "The Frozen Ground"
As "true" stories go, the writers and directors did an excellent job ... However, you don't see the back story... On that note I strongly suggest reading Fair Game by Bernard DuClos whose research for his book was astonishingly rich and thorough.
---IMDb dixie dragon (imdb.com/user/ur35449188/)

*** This edition includes a 16-page "2013 Afterword" ***

First published 9 years after Robert Hansen's sentencing, FAIR GAME exposed law enforcement and judicial bungling that allowed the 12-year murder spree of Alaska's most prolific serial killer. With an Anchorage police officer risking his career, and FBI profiling assistance, Alaska State Troopers finally brought Hansen to justice. __

___Robert Hansen was never someone you'd call normal. A teenager bullied for having acne and a stutter, he became a loner with emotional problems. After prison time for arson in his native Iowa, and arrests for shoplifting in the Minnesota Twin Cities, he and his bride moved to Anchorage, Alaska. Becoming the father of two, a successful bakery owner, crack bush pilot and world-record holding big-game hunter, he seemed the solid "normal guy next door." But no one REALLY knew Robert Hansen ... or what he was capable of!

_From 1971 to 1983, he went on a rampage. Usually stalking his prey in the seedier corners of Anchorage, he kidnapped and raped dozens of women, murdering at least twenty. FAIR GAME reconstructs Hansen's 12-year reign of violence, a victim's harrowing escape that led to his arrest and chilling confession, and reveals why the Hansen case didn't go to trial.__

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About the Author:

After dipping a toe into public policy work and freelance journalism, Bernard DuClos dove into media and public relations. His book FAIR GAME was a Doubleday True Crime Book Club selection. A New Yorker starting with grad school at NYU, he's currently based in his native Midwest.

From Publishers Weekly:

This is a capable, if sometimes breathless, reconstruction of the rampage of Robert Hansen, the "most prolific serial rapist and murderer in Alaska's history," who killed more than 20 women in the 12 years before his conviction in 1984. Freelance journalist DuClos has recreated some scenes and dialogue, but has dug enough to find victims who escaped Hansen, to show how police and judges blundered in being lenient with Hansen (such as by not ensuring that he would receive psychotherapy and lithium treatment) and to describe Anchorage's tawdry tenderloin district, where Hansen stalked nude dancers. A native of Hansen's hometown, Pocahontas, Iowa, DuClos describes young Hansen as a stuttering loner with acute feelings of inadequacy--elements common to serial killers, according to FBI research cited here. Convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in 1972, Hansen was quickly furloughed, and while he held down a respectable job as a baker and won trophies for his hunting, he resumed his killing spree. He would kidnap women, take them to the wilderness (often in his plane), sometimes rape them, and stab or shoot them. After a victim who escaped Hansen identified him, police confronted him and he confessed, leading troopers on a macabre tour to identify wilderness gravesites. Hansen is now serving a life sentence in an Alaska prison.
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