Why Have We Had So Many Serial Killers Here?

Murderland author Caroline Fraser, photographed in Seattle.

When the serial killer Ted Bundy was 7 years old, in 1953, he lived under an abhorrent black plume consisting of 630 annual tons of arsenic and a couple hundred more of lead. The plume emanated from the 562-foot-tall stack at ASARCO’s Ruston smelter, once the largest such emissions tower in the world, perched on the flanks of Commencement Bay some four miles northwest of downtown Tacoma. A veritable mint for its owners, the Guggenheim family, the plant was a nightmare for those living in its shadow.

In her new book Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial

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