Mad City Author on Podcast

 

In his book Mad City, Michael Arntfield postulates that Madison was home to multiple serial killers from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

But amid the hunt for the New Year’s Gang, as the university was teetering on a precipice of turmoil and rioting for the sake of rioting became a weekly occurrence, others showed up when no one was looking.

They all came with a plan.

Beginning in 1967 with an odious medical resident named Niels Bjorn Jorgensen — who, I hypothesize in the book for the first time, had already murdered at least five people, including his own brother — UW-Madison emerged as a select destination for at least three serial killers.

I've not read it but Arntfield appeared on the Stand Up Speak Up podcast to talk about the book and some of the issues raised by the book. Listen to it here.