The man who would one day be known as “The Butcher Baker” was born Robert Christian Hansen on Feb. 15, 1939. He grew up in Estherville, Iowa, a small town near the Minnesota border. Hansen’s father ...

Robert Christian Hansen was born Feb. 15, 1939, in Estherville, Iowa. As a young man, he was jailed for burning down a school-bus garage in Pocahontas, Iowa. He moved to Alaska in the late 1960s.