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William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer [2] and the Freeway Strangler, [3] was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered young men and boys between November 1968 and June 1980 in southern California.
The Freeway Killer was a collective epithet given by the media and the police to what the media believed was a single serial killer claiming young male victims, predominantly in California during the 1970s and early 1980s, and who often discarded the victims' bodies alongside or upon freeways.
Oct 30, 2021 · "Freeway Killer" William George Bonin kidnapped, robbed, raped, and killed at least 21 young men and boys in southern California between May 1979 and June 1980. Known as California's Freeway Killer, William Bonin used a Ford van to lure in teenage hitchhikers to rape and ruthlessly murder.
Mar 1, 2019 · Profile of Serial Killer William Bonin, The Freeway Killer. Mug Shot. By. Charles Montaldo. Updated on March 01, 2019. William Bonin was a serial killer suspected of sexually assaulting, torturing and killing at least 21 boys and young men in Los Angeles and Orange County, California.
Aug 11, 2023 · Who is William Bonin, Southern California's Freeway Killer? William Bonin was convicted of killing 14 boys and young men in Southern California, sexually assaulting and torturing many of them in his van — and he had help. By Grace Jidoun Aug 11, 2023, 4:10 PM ET. Killer Motive: What Drives People To Kill?
Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer and rapist known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer, [4] who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of sixteen young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.
Defendant William George Bonin, the “Freeway Killer,” kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered a total of 14 teenaged boys between 1979 and 1980. His co-defendants were also young men between the ages of 17 and 21. The defendant was sentenced to death in 1982 for 10 murders throughout Los Angeles County.
