Caroline Fraser

And it's hard to talk about these numbers simply because we don't know what a normal number of serial killers in a given population.

There are several cases that have never been resolved.

You know, there's something called the dismemberment murders.

Yeah, up in the Northwest where, you know, various feet and things were found washing up on shore and

Nobody could figure out who they belonged to.

Oh, I remember that.

It may be another thing that you're thinking of.

And they could have just been, you know, bodies of people who drowned because that's, I think, what happens in some cases.

So I think that's a sort of question mark.

There are a couple of others.

There's one in Idaho that they've never solved.

So there are those cases.

But even aside from those, I mean, I spent a lot of time looking at the year 1974 because it seemed really active in terms of what was happening with serial killers around the country and in the Northwest.

And it was famously the year when Bundy...

really kind of broke free of any restraints he might have

once had and began abducting women basically kind of like once a month during that year.

And in 1974, I found at least six active serial killers in Seattle or along the I-5 corridor who were all kind of working at the same time.

And that seems like a lot to me.

And just looking at Tacoma,

The rate of violent crime really skyrocketed in 1974 and in the mid-'70s.