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The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations - The Michael Shermer Show

The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations - The Michael Shermer Show

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Pulitzer-winner Caroline Fraser maps the lives and crimes of Ted Bundy and his infamous peers—the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, and even Charles Manson—and explores an intriguing hypothesis: might environmental factors have played a role in the rise of serial killers in the 1970s and ’80s?

Caroline Fraser is the author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, and her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, and London Review of Books, among other publications. Her new book is Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.

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The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations - The Michael Shermer Show

The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations - The Michael Shermer Show