Has lead poisoning helped create a generation of serial killers? – Podcast | True Crime Books

The author winner of the Pulitzer Prize Caroline Fraser grew up in Seattle in the 1970s, a decade that had the highest crime rates in recent history in the United States. At that time, the United States entered a rush era of serial killers, and Fraser tells Michael Safi What it was, especially for a woman, to grow with violent men like Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer operating locally.

Fraser describes his investigation into “the hypothesis of lead crime”, which links male violence to exposure to air pollution, and shows how this theory could help explain the relationship between the sharp drop in violent crimes and the phasing of lead fuel and the fusion of the city center, and why the impact of pollution in our environment should not be overlooked.

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