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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.
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Bonin generally operated by luring his victims into his van under the pretense of having consensual sex. He became known as the "Freeway Killer" because most of his victims' bodies were discovered beside freeways. On many occasions, he was helped by one of his four known accomplices.
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- Ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean
- The Freeway Killer, The Freeway Strangler
- Execution by lethal injection
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?
- What was William Bonin's childhood like?Born in 1947, Bonin grew up in Connecticut, the middle son of a troubled parents. According to testimony from his mother, Bonin’s violent and alcoh...
- Was William Bonin married?Bonin and a young woman began dating before he joined the military. His mother reportedly pushed for an engagement, hoping it would curb his homose...
- Where did William Bonin kill his victims?Bonin trolled neighborhoods and highways in a dingy 1972 Ford van looking for young victims, whom he usually bound, sexually assaulted, tortured an...
- When did William Bonin die?Bonin was sentenced to death in 1982 for 10 murders in Los Angeles and, a year later, earned a second death penalty for another four murders in Ora...
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Dec 20, 2021 · Crime. This Is How The Freeway Killer Was Finally Caught. Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. By Jean Mendoza / Dec. 19, 2021 11:49 pm EST. William Bonin, also known as California's "Freeway Killer," murdered at least 14 boys between 1979 and 1980. Bonin came from a dysfunctional family.
Nov 15, 1981 · William G. Bonin, a 34-year-old former truck driver, is on trial before Judge William B. Keene of Superior Court on charges of killing 12 young men and boys from May 1979 to June 1980, in the...
Citing court records, the CDCR said police began tailing Bonin’s van. On June 11, 1980, Bonin was in Hollywood when a 15-year-old boy, identified in court documents as Harold T., got into the vehicle. A short time later, police busted Bonin while he was raping the teenage victim.
Feb 24, 1996 · William George Bonin, whom the media had labeled the Freeway Killer, was executed today, becoming the first California convict to be executed by injection. Relatives of some of Mr. Bonin's...
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