On May 19, 1980, White Female, age 24, Joanna Messina was in Seward, Alaska, where she crossed paths with Anchorage baker Robert Hansen. Contemporary accounts later reconstructed her final evening: she went to dinner with Hansen, after which he forced her out of town toward the Snow River area outside Seward. There, according to Hansen's own confession years later, an argument escalated; he struck her with a. 22-caliber revolver and shot her twice before discarding her remains in a nearby gravel
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