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a. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as a quiet and loner, and had a dysfunctional relationship with his overbearing father. He was often bullied at school because he suffered from acne and spoke with a stutter. He began to hunt and often found refuge in this.b. Hansen began hunting as a teenager and continues to hunt his "prey" into adulthood.c. He joined the Army and served for a year before being discharged. He became an assistant instructor at a police academy in Pocahontas, Iowa, where he met his young wife. Hansen married the woman in 1960. After being arrested on December 7, 1960 for setting fire to a school bus garage and serving 20 months of a 3-year sentence, Hansen's first wife filed for divorce. In the following years he was arrested several times for theft. He moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1967 with his second wife and had 2 children.d. By 1977 he was suffering from bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium to control his mood swings although he was never officially ordered to take the drug. Robert C. Hansen raped and assed...