Caroline Fraser

And it also was in the plume from the Tacoma smelter.

And while I was growing up there, some weird shit happened.

Well, I lived on a street that was close to I-90 and was actually kind of ran over the top of a tunnel that enclosed I-90 on part of the island.

And down the street from where I grew up was growing up another young guy named George Waterfield Russell who turned out to be a serial killer.

And in the 1990s,

Killed three women on the east side where Bellevue is.

And so that is really kind of a striking moment.

You know, you don't expect serial killers to come from that kind of a neighborhood, not very far away from where Russell grew up.

This other guy was also, who went to my high school, as did Russell, was growing up, who became one of the worst arsonists in Seattle history when he burned down his parents' warehouse and killed several Seattle firefighters.

So there were those two.

There was a guy in my class at the high school who was obsessed with his ex-girlfriend and he worked at a facility that used dynamite and he stole some dynamite and blasting caps and he went and blew up her dorm building.

And there was another kid who went to my junior high who decided he was so depressed he was going to kill himself.

And he drove his car at like 100 miles an hour.

It actually wasn't his car.

It was like his girlfriend's sister's Camaro or something.

And he drove it, you know, at a million miles an hour into the wall of the junior high gymnasium and destroyed the gymnasium.

Wow.

So all this stuff is happening, you know, in a period of time, you know, and in a place that you wouldn't think would have that level of crime.

And that kind of crime.

Yeah.