"It was the best I've gotten so far," Gifford said.īut palm prints aren't usually taken when someone is arrested, so they didn't find any matches in their database. They found a clear palm print on her body. You’re trying to get the glue to adhere to the skin," Gifford explained. heat the liquid glue and as it heats, it starts putting vapors, then you push those vapors over the body you’re trying to get the print off of. "If the conditions are just right, Superglue could raise a print on the body. Somebody spent some time with her after they killed her," Michael Grimes, a retired sergeant with Anchorage PD, told producers.īill Gifford, who was captain of Anchorage PD at the time, came up with an interesting idea based off a case he had read about. "There was substantial postmortem activity. It appeared the killer had tried to burn her hair. There were also depressions indicating that someone had sat by her body. They found foot impressions as well as long human hairs tangled in nearby nearby trees. Investigators scoured the crime scene for evidence. We got divorced," Dave explained.Īfter the divorce, she and her children moved away from Tyonek, the small native village where she had grown up, to Anchorage, to get away from the drinking scene in the village, her daughter told producers. I was worried sick she'd be hurt or killed. "She could take off and be gone four or five days even. The losses affected her greatly, and she sometimes drank too much, much to the chagrin of her new husband, Dave. During the 1970s, she lost three sisters and a husband during a short period. She'd never turn someone away - she just didn’t have it in her," her ex-husband Dave Hansen told producers.īut Martha had dealt with numerous tragedies. She'd do anything she could do to help you. Martha Hansen was a 46-year-old mother of four. "I dont think I remember the exact words because from that day on I blocked things out," daughter Tina Stephan told "Fatal Frontier: Evil In Alaska," airing Sundays at 7/6c and 8/7c on Oxygen.
She had signs of blunt force and sexual and was strangled to death. She was naked except for one white sock on her foot. A city electrician found Hansen's body, lying on a hillside. On August 8, 1996, authorities were notified that a woman had been found deceased in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Tragically, her life was cut short by someone the family considered a friend. Martha Hansen was a loving mother who was known to look out for other people in her community.
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