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September 12, 2025 61 mins

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The Pacific Northwest is known for its startling natural beauty, precocious rainfall, and propensity to birth serial killers. Why? Caroline Fraser has a theory and it’s a good one.


This week on Angry Planet, Fraser takes us on a journey through the American past and into the dark heart of the PNW. Her new book Murderland weaves together memoir, true crime, history, and science into a compelling narrative that’s as beautiful and deadly as the forests around Tacoma.


  • Lead in the time of serial killers
  • Crazywall as map
  • America’s ultra-leaded 1970s
  • The killer hubristic roadways of the Pacific Northwest
  • The unique draw of Ted Bundy
  • The beauty and horror of the PNW’s woods
  • Lead poisoned psychos become pop culture geniuses
  • Anne Rule and the different eras of true crime writing
  • The Olympic–Wallowa lineament
  • The current state of the true crime genre


Murdlerand: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers


Tacoma Smelter Plume project


Houses of Butterflies


A look back at the I-90 floating bridges before light-rail work begins


The Domesday Book

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