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What Caused the Serial Killing Spike of the 1970s and '80s?

A new book draws a rich, informative, but not entirely convincing account of a crime wave.

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Close up of the cover of "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" by Caroline Fraser | Penguin Press
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Philip Jenkins is a professor of history at Baylor University and the author of many books, including Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide and Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America.