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Murderland
Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser
2025
Penguin Press
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American Berserk
A new book links the Pacific Northwest’s infamous serial killers to decades of toxic lead pollution, arguing that poison bred violence.
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James Lasdun
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London Review of Books
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October 29, 2025
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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.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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The New Yorker
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June 25, 2025
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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.
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Caroline Fraser
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Literary Hub
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June 10, 2025