Traveling America’s ‘Murderland’
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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The Pacific Northwest is known for its startling natural beauty, precocious rainfall, and propensity to birth serial killers. Why? Caroline Fraser has a theory and it’s a good one.
This week on Angry Planet, Fraser takes us on a journey through the American past and into the dark heart of the PNW. Her new book Murderland weaves together memoir, true crime, history, and science into a compelling narrative that’s as beautiful and deadly as the forests around Tacoma.
- Lead in the time of serial killers
- Crazywall as map
- America’s ultra-leaded 1970s
- The killer hubristic roadways of the Pacific Northwest
- The unique draw of Ted Bundy
- The beauty and horror of the PNW’s woods
- Lead poisoned psychos become pop culture geniuses
- Anne Rule and the different eras of true crime writing
- The Olympic–Wallowa lineament
- The current state of the true crime genre
Murdlerand: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
A look back at the I-90 floating bridges before light-rail work begins
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| 0:44.9 | Hello and welcome to another conversation about conflict on an angry planet. |
| 0:52.0 | I am Matthew Galt. I am so delighted to be sitting here with the author of a book that I finished a couple weeks ago that I was not planning on talking about on the show. |
| 0:55.3 | I had read it for my own pleasure, |
| 0:56.8 | kind of just picked it up at random, |
| 0:58.2 | and thought it was so, so striking, |
| 1:02.1 | and we had not kind of done an episode like this in a while |
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| 1:07.1 | The book is Murderland. |
| 1:08.7 | The author is Caroline Fraser. |
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