Many of these “rare breed” serial killers had “spent quality time in Tacoma, a place where paraphilias flourish like fungi,” she writes.

From Butch Cassidy’s rampage of robberies in the late 1800s to the kidnapping and recovery of Elizabeth Smart, the Deseret ...

When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary ...

In the early hours of August 31, 1961, an eight-year-old girl named Ann Burr disappeared during a deafening thunderstorm from ...

Caroline Fraser’s Murderland explores why so many serial killers came from the Pacific Northwest—linking toxic lead exposure ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people ...

Their names are Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Gary Ridgway. What are the odds? In 1961, Manson is twenty-­six, serving a ten-­year sentence in the federal prison on McNeil Island for forging a ...

Caroline Fraser tells a gripping history of crime and industrial wrongs, including a toxic legacy of lead and arsenic that ...

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland' delves into the lead-crime theory behind the proliferation of ...

In “Murderland,” Caroline Fraser tries to understand why her hometown became a breeding ground for serial killers.