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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Fraser, Caroline

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A National Bestseller

"Scorching, seductive . . . A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges." --Los Angeles Times

"This is about as highbrow as true crime gets." --Vulture

"Fraser has outdone herself, and just about everyone else in the true-crime genre, with Murderland." --Esquire

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond--a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and '80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem--the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson--Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was hardly unique in the West. As Fraser's investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of these smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives but also warped young minds, including some who grew up to become serial killers.

A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.

EAN: 9780593657225
Publisher: Penguin Press
Publication Date: 2025-06-10
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
BISAC Subjects: , Murder - Serial Killers,
Historical

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