When Ted Bondi was a child in the fifties, he was looking for frogs in the nearby swamps in Takoma, Washington. The young Green River Killer, The Future Green River Killer, originated in the north. Both men went to become a heavy serial killers and raped dozens of women, starting in the seventies and eighties. These types of social meetings are very rare, representing less than 1 percent of all killers through some novels. However, in Takoma, they were amazingly common – there was more than just Bondi and Ridghaway.
In her new book Huttlland: Crime and blood in the time of serial killers, Politzer Caroline Fraser’s award -winning composer planning the rise of serial killers in the northwest of the Pacific to the spread of pollution. In this case, the pillar of lead and arsenic that flows from mineral fascinations in Asarko northwest of Takoma, which was working for nearly a century and pollution More than 1000 square miles From PUGET, the famous “Tacoma Smell” source.
Fraser grew up in the seventies of the twentieth century on Mercer Island, connected to a natel bridge with a fatal design, and not far from a terrifying collection of serial killers. George Wutfield Russell Junior, who went to the killing of three women, lived on the street, a few years before the freezer at Mercer Island High School. (It is not surprising that his family once lives in Takoma). I always thought that the idea that the northwest of the Pacific was a land to multiply the killers of the series was a “kind of urban legend”.
But after spending a lot of time staring at pollution maps, looking at the previous titles of the killers, I reached an irresistible hypothesis: What if exposure to a leadership displays the minds of the most horrific murderers in the country? in HeinlandFraser provides a convincing case that these killers were subjected to heavy metal pollution in their youth, and it is often from the nearby and respected gasoline that was burned in every way in the country.
Studies have shown that exposure to childhood leadership is linked to high crime rates, aggression and psychopath. In children, this can lead to a behavior that has been described as harsh, reckless, and “madly like”; By adulthood, it was linked to the loss of the size of the brain, especially for men. Fraser not only attaches to socialopathy on exposure to bullets, although it indicates that it is a major element.
“The recipes of a serial murderer may vary, including ingredients such as poverty, raw forceps connections, poor diet, physical and sexual assault, brain damage, and neglect,” writes freezer. “Many horror plays a role in falsifying these tormented souls, but what happens if we add light dust from the periodic table in addition to all this shock?”
She said that Fraser is a fan of real crime, but when writing the book, she tried to correct what she sees with gender problems. Siran biography often arrogates to a murderer in isolation, such as Ted Bondi or the zodiac killer, and comes as a kind of mastermind. In the Fraser novel, with all the disadvantaged killings side by side, it appears that these killers are almost predictable. She said, “It was also necessary to see that they were not only smart as we had thought that after Hollywood faced them, but their behavior is very similar.” “Like, it’s almost a type of automatic, as their behavior is very similar to a robot.”
Frazer draws a parallel between the killers and we usually understand them and the indirect killers, the true bow of the book: smelting Companies and people who benefit from them, such as the famous Guggenheim family Asko captured. In 1974, officials of ASARCO’s Bunker Hill Smelter in Kellogg, Idaho, an estimate to the bottom of the napkin and found that the poisoning of 500 children with the initiative bears a legal responsibility of 6 to 7 million dollars, compared to $ 10-11 million by increasing lead production. So the choice was easy.
She said: “The behavior of the people who built these mosques, who invested in it, managed it, continued to empty a lot of bullets and arsenic in the air in the inhabited cities – I mean, it is amazing, what they did.” Take Dr. Sherman Pinto, medical director at Tacoma Smelter, who claimed that lung cancer deaths were simply due to pneumonia. Fraser said: “I just surprised me how comparable to their behavior is the pre -emptive killers, because they are constantly lying,” said Fraser.
Besides the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, the book follows the corrupt behavior of Dinis Rider in Kansas in the 1970s and 1980s, and Richard Ramirez in California in the 1980s – both of them also arose near oscillation. Even the famous Jack The Ripper in London may be poisoned by the microscopic microscope in the nineteenth century, driven by the coating. yet Heinland It focuses on Washington for some reason. When Fraser looked at the map of the Ministry of Environment in Washington, I saw four columns: the repercussions of Tacoma Samlater from Asarko, other noisy columns in Evere, the previous lands of Al -Bustan in central Washington were. Sprinkle with pulpal orthodoxesAnd a cleaning site on the upper Colombia.
“Each of these columns, including the remote and less populated site in Colombia, hosted one or more activities of the serial rapes or killers,” Fraser notes. (Israel Keys, the serial and smooth killer, originated to the bottom of the Trail Smelter in the British Columbia.)
The gradual gas has been completely eliminated in the United States by 1996, and mineral fuse was largely stopped for financial reasons. But the legacy of the lead remains with us. I found a recent experience About 90 percent of toothpastes He was tested in lead; A few weeks ago, the Publix supermarket Remember children’s food bags After testing the product, discovered lead pollution. Last year, Biden Administration I issued a list Drinking water systems throughout the country require the replacement of lead pipes within 10 years, but the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress are they Try to retreat this protection.
“Regardless of whether you agree with my relationship between bullets and serial killers, I think people really need to realize that this was a large part of our history, and still there,” Fraser said. “I hope this book will do something to help people make contacts between the place where they live, what they might be exposed to, and what it might mean.”
