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

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

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

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

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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 ...

Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution ...

Caroline Fraser, a Pulitzer winner, traces the connection between a now-closed smelter in Tacoma and serial killers including ...

Lew Cox, a longtime advocate for victims of violent crime who was a fixture in the courthouse in Pierce County, was recently involved in a car crash and died at 85.

"Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" is out June 10. Fraser will visit the SLCL Clark Family Branch on June 17.

Cox provided his perspective on the relief that families felt being able to address “Green River Killer” Gary Ridgway during Ridgway’s sentencing hearing in 2003. He advocated for justice in ...