Caroline Fraser is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor. Her most recent book is "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers."
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Thanks for doing this thank you for having me so I've read about the premise of your book online and
Immediately I'm like I gotta talk to this lady that sounds crazy
Please tell people what the premise is just so we get started with this
Yeah, well I started thinking about this a long time ago looks called murderly yeah the book is murder land and
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s around the time when there were a lot of you know
Serial killers beginning to pop up and there always had been this question
Why are there so many serial killers in the Pacific Northwest?
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