Robert Hansen
Accounts describe Robert Hansen as a quiet-spoken husband and father who ran a bakery in Anchorage and lived across town from it with his wife and children. He had been in declining health for about a year, and in May 2014 he was moved from the Anchorage Correctional Center to a hospital ward because his health had deteriorated. He died early on August 21, 2014, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage while in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections. The department said he appeared to have died of natural causes, and the medical examiner was to determine the cause of death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Department of Corrections said he appeared to have died of natural causes, and the medical examiner was to determine the cause.
Reported by: Alaska Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Sherrie Daigle, Department of Corrections spokeswoman (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
News reports (5)
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