White/Caucasian female Lisa Futrell, age 41, left work at an Anchorage nightclub on the night of September 6, 1980, and never made it home to Palmer. When the 41-year-old failed to return after her shift, her housemates reported her missing, and for years the case sat in a grim limbo with no answers. Online memorial records list her as having been lost to gun violence on that same date in Palmer, sketching only the outline of a life abruptly interrupted.
The silence broke only after investigators closed in on a predator operating in and around Anchorage. In October 1983, Robert “Butcher Baker” Hansen was arrested; he eventually admitted to a series of abductions and murders stretching across the early 1970s to 1983. Confronted with evidence, he led authorities to burial sites across the Knik River area, a grim map that would later include the place where the 41-year-old's remains were concealed.
On May 9, 1984, search teams recovered the 41-year-old's body near the old Knik River/Arm bridge area south of the former Knik Arm Bridge, one of several secluded locations Hansen used to hide his victims. Contemporary accounts and later reconstructions note that this ground—service roads and gravel pits off the Old Glenn Highway—became a kind of ledger of his crimes, where spring thaws revealed what winter had hidden.
There was an arrest and there was accountability. Hansen, already in custody by then, pleaded guilty in 1984 to multiple murders and received a 461-year sentence without the possibility of parole. While many of his victims were never individually charged in court filings, investigators have long included the 41-year-old among the women he abducted and killed, her disappearance on September 6, 1980, and the later discovery of her remains aligning with his pattern.
