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William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer and the Freeway Strangler, 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.
Known as California's Freeway Killer, William Bonin used a Ford van to lure in teenage hitchhikers to rape and ruthlessly murder.
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.
William Bonin was finally identified as the Freeway Killer on June 11, 1980, after police spent over a week observing him, tipped off by Bonin's co-defendant, then 17-year-old William Ray...
William Bonin was a habitual sex offender turned serial killer, suspected of sexually assaulting, torturing and killing 21 boys in California.
William G. Bonin, the notorious "Freeway Killer" who seared his way into the nation's consciousness with a string of sadistic murders 16 years ago, was executed at San Quentin Prison early...
Bonin was dubbed the Freeway Killer because his victims were found dumped alongside major highways and roads. As far as authorities know, he was 32 the first time he took a life, but the two-time parolee already had stints in jail with a rap sheet a mile long for kidnapping, assault, and rape.
