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  title info:
    title: Murderland
    sub title: crime and bloodlust in the time of serial killers
  name:
    name part: Fraser, Caroline
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 466 pages, [16] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: Crime scenes of Pacific Northwest, or the crazy wall -- Maps -- Part 1. Little Domesday. The floating bridge -- The smelter -- The reversible -- The island -- The devil's business -- The daylight basement -- The bird's nest -- Interlude: From Alamein to Zem Zem -- Part 2. Great Domesday. The lead moon -- The Dutch door -- The volcano -- The Green River -- The towering inferno -- The fog warning.
  note: Caroline Fraser.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    topic: Serial murders
    geographic: Northwest, Pacific
  subject:
    topic: Serial murderers
    geographic: Northwest, Pacific
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Serial murderers
  subject:
    topic: Rapists
  subject:
    topic: Industrial toxicology
  subject:
    topic: True crime stories
  classification: HV6533.N96 F73 2025
  classification: 364.152/3209795
  identifier: 9780593657225
  identifier: 0593657225
  identifier: 9780593657232
  identifier: 2025001189
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250625
    record change date: 20260424192409.7
    record identifier: in00005695719