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

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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…