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Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
  • Caroline Fraser
2025
Penguin Press

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  • Children standing in front of a house and pollution/smoke in background.
    Book Review

    American Berserk

    A new book links the Pacific Northwest’s infamous serial killers to decades of toxic lead pollution, arguing that poison bred violence.
    by James Lasdun via London Review of Books on October 29, 2025
  • Silhouette of a man with smokestack smoke entering his brain.
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    Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers?

    Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.
    by Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker on June 25, 2025
  • Industrial plant releasing thick smoke into the sky.
    Book Excerpt

    Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

    On the intersection of environmental contamination and violence in the Pacific Northwest.
    by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on June 10, 2025
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