Colorado Girl Robin Pelkey Recognized As Alaska Serial Killer’s Sufferer – CBS Denver

(CBS4) — DNA testing confirmed the identification of a girl believed to be a sufferer of serial killer Robert Hansen, Alaska authorities introduced Friday.

Genetic materials from relations of Robin Pelkey matched skeletal stays discovered within the early 1980’s within the space of Horseshoe Lake.

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She was beforehand known as “Horseshoe Harriet” for the 37 years separating her physique’s discovery and the profitable kinship DNA evaluation accomplished final month, the Alaska Division of Public Security said in a press release.

The division said Pelkey was born in Colorado in 1963. Information indicated she was residing within the Anchorage space in the course of the stretch of time Hansen was killing 17 girls. Authorities imagine she was 19 years outdated when murdered.

Robin Pelkey simply earlier than her 18th birthday. (credit score: , Alaska Division of Public Security)

The Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Chilly Case Investigation Unit re-launched efforts to establish “Horseshoe Harriet” in August, in accordance with the press launch. A brand new DNA profile for the sufferer was generated and uploaded right into a public entry family tree database. A household tree was constructed using a number of shut matches. Family tree analysis by Parabon Nanolabs and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation gave a preliminary results of Pelkey’s ID.

Arkansas State Police then collected DNA samples from Pelkin’s relations in that state and shipped the objects to Alaska for testing.

Per Alaska’s public security division, the Pelkin household requested for privateness following the findings “whereas they arrive to grips with this heartbreaking news.”

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Convicted serial killer Robert Hansen is seen in Alaska on this undated file picture. (credit score: Anchorage Every day News/Tribune News Service by way of Getty Pictures)

Hansen was arrested in October of 1983. He pleaded responsible to 4 murders and a number of other different felony crimes. Ultimately, he admitted to killing 17 girls and led police to a number of burial websites.

The division is at the moment utilizing genetic expertise to positively establish a girl believed to be Eklutna Annie, the final of Hansen’s victims to not be formally named.

The Division of Public Security has bought a brand new grave marker figuring out the ultimate resting place of Ms. Pelkey on the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.

Horseshoe Lake is situated halfway between Anchorage and Fairbanks alongside an entryway to Denali Nationwide Park.

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