Teresa Watson was 22 when she was last seen in Anchorage on March 25, 1983, telling her roommate she planned to meet a man who offered $300 for a couple of hours of company. Winter conditions prevailed in the backcountry lakes north of town that spring. Later investigative accounts and Robert Hansen’s admissions connect that meeting to the Anchorage baker who flew or drove women out beyond the city toward places like Scenic Lake and there abducted and killed Teresa.

Investigators later reported the ground was frozen and her killer could not dig, so her body was left where she fell. For a year she remained missing; on April 26, 1984, searchers working sites Hansen identified recovered her remains near Scenic Lake. Records link her disappearance and recovery to Hansen’s pattern of crimes in the Anchorage, Knik River, and Mat-Su areas.

If anyone knew Teresa or has information about her last movements in March 1983, please share what might help complete her story.