Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — True crime stories are extremely popular. And ones that focus on serial killers are an even more popular ...

Caroline Fraser has pulled a major switcheroo with her new book, “Murderland.” Fraser’s last book, “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” won a Pulitzer Prize for its portrait ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and ...

It’s 1970 and Caroline Fraser is 9 years old, living outside of Tacoma, Wash. That local refineries are dumping 8.5 million gallons of smelter discharge a day, including 2,500 pounds of toxic metals, ...

Two new books, different in subject but oddly companionable in spirit, look past the surfaces of American storytelling and toward the forces that shape it -- some intimate, some atmospheric, some ...

The new nonfiction title, out June 10, explores how environmental factors may play a part in how serial killers come to be. I wasn’t aware of the whole smelter piece of it until more recently. The ...