From Butch Cassidy’s rampage of robberies in the late 1800s to the kidnapping and recovery of Elizabeth Smart, the Deseret News has been there to chronicle the darkest moments of human nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution ...

Caroline Fraser tells a gripping history of crime and industrial wrongs, including a toxic legacy of lead and arsenic that ...

Caroline Fraser, a Pulitzer winner, traces the connection between a now-closed smelter in Tacoma and serial killers including ...

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 ...