Many of these “rare breed” serial killers had “spent quality time in Tacoma, a place where paraphilias flourish like fungi,” she writes.

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When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary ...

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In “Murderland,” Caroline Fraser tries to understand why her hometown became a breeding ground for serial killers.

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

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