Alaska has been the site of crimes by several serial killers due to its vast, isolated wilderness. The most notorious is Robert Hansen, known as the "Butcher Baker," but others have also committed murders in the state. Here's just a few of many:
Robert Hansen ("The Butcher Baker")
Activity: Active in and around Anchorage from the early 1970s to 1983. Hansen, a respected local baker and family man, would abduct vulnerable women (often sex workers or exotic dancers). He would fly them to remote wilderness areas in his small plane, release them, and then hunt them down with a rifle like wild game.
Victims & Conviction: He confessed to murdering 17 women and raping over 30. He was convicted of four murders and sentenced to 461 years in prison.
Israel Keyes
Believed to have committed murders across the U.S. from 2001 to 2012, with activity tied to his home base in Alaska.
Keyes was highly methodical and traveled across the country to commit random, "force of pure evil" killings, often burying "murder kits" in advance near future crime sites. He abducted and killed 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig in Anchorage in 2012. He died by suicide in an Anchorage jail cell in December 2012 while awaiting trial.
Joshua Wade
Committed murders in Anchorage between 1994 and 2007. Wade's victims included a neighbor, a nurse practitioner, and a man he killed when he was 14. He often targeted vulnerable people and was known for extreme violence. He was serving a life sentence in an Indiana federal prison and died in June 2024.
Thomas Bunday
Murdered five girls and young women near Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks between 1979 and 1981. He died in an apparent suicide via a motorcycle collision shortly after confessing to the crimes in 1983.
Brian Smith
Sentenced in 2024 for the murders of two Alaska Native women, Kathleen Henry and Veronica Abouchuk, in 2018. The murders came to light after a woman found a memory card containing graphic video footage of the crimes.
He was sentenced to 226 years in prison.
The vast, isolated terrain and a historical "Wild West" environment have been cited as factors that allowed some of these individuals, particularly Hansen, to evade detection for years.
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