AK HORSESHOE HARRIET: WF, 17-21, found near Horseshoe Lake in Palmer, AK - 25 Apr 1984 - Four gold-colored rings *ROBIN PELKEY*

1152UFAK - Unidentified Female

Victim's rings

Date of Discovery: April 25, 1984
Location of Discovery: Palmer, Matanuska Borough, Alaska
Estimated Date of Death: Unknown
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Cause of Death: Homicide by stabbing and gunshot

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 17-21 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2" to 5'6
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Possible smoker.

Identifiers
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Wool scarf, knit coat and sweater, blue jeans, wool socks, leg warmers, nylon bra, and tennis shoes.
Jewelry: Four gold-colored rings.
Additional Personal Items: Kool cigarettes, condoms, a compact, and a large comb.

Circumstances of Discovery
The victim's partial skeletal remains were found near Horseshoe Lake. She is believed to be a victim of serial killer Robert Hansen, aka "Butcher Baker," and is one of two victim's yet to be identified. The other is 311UFAK, also known as "Eklutna Annie." Only 12 of Hansen's victims were ever located.

Hansen died in 2014 while serving a 461-year sentence for the confessed murders of 17 women - mostly strippers and prostitutes - throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, although he was only charged with four of the murders.

In September 2014, the victim's remains were exhumed through funding from NCMEC from Anchorage Memorial Park in hopes to collect DNA and create a facial reconstruction to aid in identifying her. NCMEC hopes to compare her to a missing child from Alaska. After the exhumation, it was determined that a facial reconstruction would not be possible to create, yet DNA was successfully processed.

The victim is affectionately known as "Horseshoe Harriet" and her tombstone reads "Jane Doe #3" and is incorrectly dated April 24th although her actual discovery date is April 25th.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Alaska ME office
Agency Contact Person: Stephen Hoage
Agency Phone Number: 907-334-2200
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 14-01032

NCIC Case Number: Not entered
NamUs Case Number: 12846

Information Source(s)
NamUs
KTVA News (9/4/2014)
KTVA News (4/17/2015)
NCMEC case map
NY Daily News (September 4, 2014)
Alaska Dispatch News (September 4, 2014)

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HORSESHOE HARRIET - Robert Hansen victim

The victim was found at Horseshoe Lake. She is believed to be a victim of serial killer Robert Hansen.

 

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http://www.newsminer.com/news/alask...cle_7a88e6ac-3445-11e4-bd48-0017a43b2370.html

Body of Alaska serial killer's victim exhumed
Rachel D'Oro Associated Press Sep 4, 2014

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The remains of an unidentified victim of recently deceased Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen were being exhumed from an Anchorage gravesite, 30 years after her killer led authorities to her body near a lake north of the city.

Hansen confessed to killing 17 women in the 1970s and early '80s, hunting victims down in the wilderness as if they were game. Hansen died Aug. 21 at age 75 while serving a 461-year sentence in Alaska.

The exhumation at Anchorage Memorial Park Wednesday afternoon was for the remains of an unidentified woman believed to be in her late teens whose body was found April 25, 1984, near Horseshoe Lake.

"We know what happened to her," said Stephen Hoage, operations administrator for the state medical examiner's office, among those participating in the exhumation. "We're not trying to solve the crime. We just want her to be identified."

The woman became known as "Horseshoe Harriet" to some, according to Jason Grenn with the state health department. The agency oversees the medical examiner's office.

The work is being paid for by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which hopes DNA testing and facial reconstruction will lead to her identity. A former forensic anthropologist for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is working for the center on the case.

Hoage said the woman was among cases of unidentified and missing people that were being reviewed about six months ago by representatives of the center. They contacted his office about exhuming the body.

Authorities received permission to exhume the body the day before Hansen died, Hoage said.

"It was a very big coincidence," Hoage said as he stood near the dug-up site and a small grave marker for "Jane Doe #3."

The date on the marker is April 24, 1984, one day off of the date the body was found. But that's not the only discrepancy. Another Hansen victim, DeLynn Frey, reportedly also was found near the same lake on the same day, but Hoage said Frey was found near another lake in 1985.

Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women, mostly dancers and prostitutes, during a 12-year span that included the state's oil pipeline construction boom in the 1970s. Hansen was convicted of just four of the murders in a deal that spared him having to go to trial 17 times.

Hansen was the subject of a 2013 film titled, "The Frozen Ground," which starred Nicolas cage as an Alaska State Trooper investigating the slayings. Actor John Cusack portrayed Hansen.

Hansen owned a bakery in a downtown mini mall. He lived across town with his wife and children, who knew nothing of his double life.

He would abduct the women and take them to remote places outside the city. Sometimes he would drive and other times he would fly his private plane. Investigators have said that in some instances Hansen would **** the women but return them to Anchorage, warning them not to contact authorities.

Other times, he would let the women go free in the wilderness and then hunt them with his rifle.

 

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Horseshoe Lake

 

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Robert Hansen

 

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Victim of Robert Hansen exhumed

 

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Find A Grave
Jane “Horseshoe Harriet” Doe

 

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Alaska Department of Fish and Game - State of Alaska
Bathymetric Map of Horseshoe Lake (Point McKenzie)

 

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Horseshoe Harriet from 1984 has been identified as Robin Pelkey.

"DNA evidence has helped identify the remains of one of Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen’s victims, 37 years after her death.

Robin Pelkey is the name of the woman that was murdered in the early 1980s, according to the results of DNA research completed by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation Cold Case Unit and Parabon Nanolabs laboratory. The two agencies used new DNA samples from family members to construct a DNA profile and family tree for Pelkey, according to a Friday press release from the Alaska Department of Public Safety.

A new DNA profile for Pelkey was generated in August, and uploaded into a public geneaology database.

Pelkey, colloquially known for years as “Horseshoe Harriet,” was found dead April 25, 1984, near Horseshoe Lake in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. According to the release, records indicate that she had been living in Anchorage around the time when Hansen was active, and would have been 19 at the time of her murder.

Investigators found no record of her having been reported missing."

Victim of Alaska serial killer identified after 37 years

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AK - HORSESHOE HARRIET: WF, 17-21, found near Horseshoe Lake in Palmer, AK - 25 Apr 1984 - Four gold-colored rings *ROBIN PELKEY*

1152UFAK - Unidentified Female Victim's rings Date of Discovery: April 25, 1984 Location of Discovery: Palmer, Matanuska Borough, Alaska Estimated Date of Death: Unknown State of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton Cause of Death: Homicide by stabbing and gunshot...

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