
This Part of the U.S. Was a Hotbed of Serial Killers in the 1970s. One Writer Thinks She’s Figured Out Why.
Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial killers. From Ted Bundy to Gary Ridgway, aka the Green …