Did lead poisoning help create a generation of serial killers?

铅中毒是否助长了一代连环杀手的产生?

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2025-08-01

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  • This is The Guardian. Today,

  • America's Pacific Northwest in the 1960s and 70s produced an astonishing number of serial killers.

  • Was it something in the air they breathed?

  • Hello, Jonathan Friedland here, host of The Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast.

  • Has Donald Trump been quietly building a political dynasty to rival that of the Kennedys?

  • That's the question I'm answering in a new three-part special series.

  • Why did Ivanka and Jared step back from political life?

  • Is Don Jr. the obvious successor?

  • Or could the silent MAGA favourite, Barron?

  • be a dark horse.

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  • getting their take on who helped him get to the White House and who might take over once he leaves.

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  • airplanes, lumber, tech, coffee, and serial killers.

  • This is Caroline Fraser, a Pulitzer Prize winning author.

  • She grew up in the city of Seattle in the 1970s when a new kind of threat was gripping the US.

  • We don't know his name.

  • We don't have a picture.

  • There are very few clues.

  • He is one of a new breed of murderer, a serial killer, a stranger who kills strangers.