From Butch Cassidy’s rampage of robberies in the late 1800s to the kidnapping and recovery of Elizabeth Smart, the Deseret ...

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

Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.

In her new book, "Murderland," Caroline Fraser argues that the rise of these criminals has deep roots in the release of ...

In the early hours of August 31, 1961, an eight-year-old girl named Ann Burr disappeared during a deafening thunderstorm from ...

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

Last weekend, the Prime Minister announced a national inquiry into grooming gangs, having previously argued against it. The ...

Their names are Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Gary Ridgway. What are the odds? In 1961, Manson is twenty-­six, serving a ten-­year sentence in the federal prison on McNeil Island for forging a ...

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland' delves into the lead-crime theory behind the proliferation of ...

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared ...

Every week, critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...