The hunt for Alaska's most infamous serial murderer is about to get the Hollywood treatment.
Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage will star in "Frozen Ground," a movie detailing the police investigation of serial killer Robert Hansen, Variety reported Wednesday. He will play an Alaska State Trooper who investigated the murders.
Filming is scheduled to start in Anchorage on Oct. 10.
Hansen, who got the nickname "the Butcher Baker," was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women and raping another 30 in a 12-year span.
He received a 461 year sentence and is incarcerated at a state prison in Seward.
Hansen owned a bakery in a downtown mini-mall in the 1970s and '80s. He lived across town with his wife and children, and they knew nothing of his other life.
The construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline in the 1970s brought prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers and con artists to Alaska's largest city, all hoping to pry away some of the big money construction workers were pulling in.
Those who sought a quick buck left as abruptly as they arrived in Anchorage, making sudden disappearances commonplace.
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