Interesting. I read an excerpt from the book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. The book’s author, Caroline Fraser, speculates on the toxic air around the industrial city of Tacoma, Washington, in the early 1960s and its impact on some of those who lived in Tacoma during that time.

The air was polluted by the lead from the American Smelting and Refining Company’s smokestack.
The book isn’t about the air, but about three men, who as children breathed the air. Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway. The first two names are familiar to most of us, the third less so, but Ridgeway, AKA the Green River Killer, is thought to be the most prolific serial killer in the US.
In the book, Fraser speculated on whether it might have been the poisonous air of Tacoma that made these killers who they were.

Of course, during that period, it wasn’t just future serial killers who were breathing the fumes. It was also future doctors, nurses, teachers and preachers.Perhaps it makes us more comfortable to blame evil on something other than evil.

However, Manson, Bundy and Ridgeway all came to a place in their lives that they chose to be evil, just as others chose to be virtuous.

Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, attempt the impossibl