ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Convicted Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen, who gained the nickname of "the Butcher Baker" for abducting and hunting down women in the wilderness during the state's oil pipeline construction boom in the 1970s, has died at age 75. 
 
 File - In this undated file photo, Robert Hansen leaves court in Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen, a convicted Alaska serial killer who hunted down women in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s as Anchorage boomed... (Associated Press) 
 
 Hansen died Thursday at Alaska Regional Hospital after being in declining health for the past year, Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sherrie Daigle said. Hansen had a "do not resuscitate" order on file with the agency, according to Alaska State Troopers. 
 
 Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women, mostly dancers and prostitutes, during a 12-year span. Hansen was convicted of just four of the murders in a deal that spared him having to go to trial 17 times. 
 
 The Anchorage baker also confessed to raping another 30 women in that time. 
 
 Decades later in 2006, Hansen rejected a request to be interviewed by The Associated Press. 
 
 "I do not care so much for myself, but you journalist (sic) have hurt my family so very much," Hansen wrote in a typo-riddled, unsigned letter from Alaska's Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward. 
 
 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 was serving a 461-year sentence in Alaska at the time of his death. He had been incarcerated at the Seward state prison and was moved May 11, 2014, to the Anchorage Correctional Center to receive medical attention. 
 
 Hansen owned a bakery in a downtown mini-mall in the 1970s and 1980s. He lived across town with his wife and children, who knew nothing of his other life. 
 
 Construction of the 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s brought prostitutes, pimps, con artists and drug dealers to Alaska's largest city, all aiming to separate construction workers from some of the big money they were pulling in. Many who looked for quick riches left as abruptly as they arrived in Anchorage, making sudden disappearances commonplace. 
 
 Glenn Flothe, a then-trooper who helped put Hansen behind bars, told the Anchorage Daily News in 2008 that Hansen's victims initially included any woman who caught his eye, but Hansen quickly learned that strippers and prostitutes were harder to track and less likely to be missed. 
 
 Hansen 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. A licensed pilot, Hansen told investigators one of his favorite spots to take his victims was the Knik River northeast of Anchorage. 
 
 Investigators have said that in some instances Hansen would rape 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. 
 
 Only 12 bodies of the 17 women Hansen confessed to killing have been found. The others were never located. 
 
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– The "world is better" now that the worst serial killer in Alaskan history has died, says a state trooper who helped track down Robert Hansen. The 75-year-old had been in prison since 1984 after he admitted murdering at least 17 women and raping 30 more over a 12-year period, the AP reports. Hansen—who had a wife and children and owned a bakery in Anchorage—was nicknamed the "Butcher Baker" after his crimes emerged. He kidnapped his victims, most of whom were strippers or prostitutes, and flew them in his private plane to remote locations, sometimes letting them go in the wilderness and hunting them down. Hansen was caught after a victim escaped and investigators discovered a map in his home marked with the locations of 17 bodies. "Good riddance to him," the assistant district attorney who tried the case tells the Anchorage Daily News. "He's one of those kind of guys that you kind of hope every breath he takes in his life, there’s some pain associated with it, because he caused such pain." Hansen was played by John Cusack in the 2013 movie The Frozen Ground, which also starred Nicolas Cage as an Alaska state trooper.