New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Summary Caroline Fraser's new book explores the potential link between environmental pollution and the emergence of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970s and 1980s.

Focusing on Tacoma, Washington, Fraser examines how lead pollution from the ASARCO smelter may have influenced notorious criminals like Ted Bundy, suggesting a connection between lead exposure and increased crime rates.

Were the notoriously prolific serial killers spawned by the United States Pacific Northwest region in the 1970s and 1980s a product of a highly polluted environment?

In her latest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser probes this link between crime and environmental pollution as she profiles the lives of...