It’s 1970 and Caroline Fraser is 9 years old, living outside of Tacoma, Wash. That local refineries are dumping 8.5 million gallons of smelter discharge a day, including 2,500 pounds of toxic metals, ...

The first film I saw in a theater was “The Love Bug,” Disney’s 1969 comedy about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and the motley team who race him to many a checkered flag. Although my memory ...

What creates a serial killer? Caroline Fraser, author of “Murderland,” has linked toxic fumes to the brain development of some of the most notorious criminals. Scientists came up with the lead-crime ...

You’re sure because you checked it twice. You can never be too careful; it’s a weird world, you want that weirdness to stay outside your home and so the door is locked. The windows are, too, but as ...

“Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution and its most infamous murderers. By Timothy Egan Timothy Egan, a winner ...

The new nonfiction title, out June 10, explores how environmental factors may play a part in how serial killers come to be. I wasn’t aware of the whole smelter piece of it until more recently. The ...

“Murderland,” a new book, links serial killers in the Pacific Northwest to a Tacoma smelter. The book explores the connection between lead exposure and violent crime. It focuses largely on the city’s ...

Why does the Pacific Northwest have so many serial killers? In her latest book, “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers” (out June 10 from Penguin Press), Mercer Island-raised ...