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Murderland : crime and bloodlust in the time of serial killers / Caroline Fraser.

Fraser, Caroline, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593657225 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2025]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Bianchi, Ken.
Bundy, Ted.
Manson, Charles, 1934-2017.
Ridgway, Gary Leon, 1949-
Woodfield, Randall Brent, 1950-
Murder > United States.
Rapists.
Serial murderers.
Genre: Case studies.
True crime stories.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 364.1523209795 Fra 31681010423689 NONFIC Checked out 10/11/2025


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