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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.
- William Bonin’s Deeply Troubled Early Life
- The Vicious String of Murders Committed by The Freeway Killer
- William Bonin Gets Caught in The Act and Faces Justice
William Bonin himself was the product of a dysfunctional family and child molestation. Born William George Bonin in Connecticut on January 8, 1947, he was the middle child of three brothers. He grew up with an alcoholic father and absentee mother and was primarily raised by his grandfather, who was a convicted child molester. He ran away from home ...
William Bonin was once again released from prison in 1979 and vowed to never get caught again. This tragically resulted in an escalation of the violence, as Bonin began to murder his teenage victims. However, Bonin didn’t commit these murders alone as he had four accomplices: Vernon Butts, Gregory Miley, James Munro, and William Pugh. His first mur...
On June 11, 1980, William Bonin set out in his van, stopping to talk to five young men along the way. Finally, one young man accepted a ride. Police caught Bonin in the act of sodomizing the 15-year-old victim. They found a length of white nylon cord, several knives, and a thick scrapbook of clips about the “Freeway Killer” in his van. He went to t...
- John Kuroski
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.
Mar 1, 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. The press nicknamed him the "The Freeway Killer ," because he would pick up young boys who were hitchhiking, sexually assault and murder them, then dispose of their bodies along ...
- Charles Montaldo
Oct 24, 2022 · The state of California, specifically the counties of Los Angeles and Orange, was terrorized by William George Bonin between the years 1979 and 1980. Infamous for kidnapping, raping, and strangling young men and boys, Bonin earned the moniker of “Freeway Killer” since the bodies of most of his victims were found lying beside southern ...
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, 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. Kraft is also believed to ...
Between December 1972 and June 1980, authorities in seven Southern California counties recorded the violent deaths of at least 44 young men and boys, attributing their murders to an unknown Freeway Killer.
