Nation & World Why was Pacific Northwest home to so many serial killers? In ‘Murderland,’ alum explores lead-crime theory through lens of her own memories growing up there Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer August 19, 2025 5 min read In Caroline Fraser’s 2025 book “Murderland,” the air is always thick with smog, and sinister beings lie around every corner. Fraser, Ph.D. ’87, in her first book since “Prairie Fires,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of “Little House on the P...