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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com, written by Charlie Harger, Host of Seattle’s Morning News. For months, a mystery surrounded Gary Ridgway, one of the worst serial killers ...

For months, a mystery surrounded Gary Ridgway, one of the worst serial killers in American history. Why was he moved from his prison cell in Walla Walla to the King County Jail from September 9-13 ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, was transferred back to the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla Friday evening. Ridgway is currently serving 49 ...