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1. What gender were all his victims?

2.When was his first arrest

1. How many victims did he have?

2.What evidence convicted him?

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/bonin322.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bonin

http://crime.about.com/od/serial/a/william_bonin.htm

Execution

-Bonin was executed February 23, 1996, 16 years after his arrest, by lethal injection inside the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. Bonin was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the history of California.

Evidence

-Deputy District Attorney Stirling Norris stated in his opening speech to the jury: "We will prove he is the Freeway Killer, as he has bragged to a number of witnesses. We will show you that he enjoyed the killings. Not only did he enjoy it, and plan to enjoy it, he had an insatiable demand, an insatiable appetite - not only for sodomy, but for killing."

- Physically linked to many of the murders by blood and semen stains, hair and carpet fibers.

- Unique "windlass" strangulation method (signature)

-Surveillance from his capture

Victims

  • Thomas Lundgren, age 14, murdered on May 28, 1979. Accomplices Vernon Butts and William Pugh
  • Mark Shelton, age 17, murdered on August 4, 1979
  • Marcus Grabs, age 17, murdered on August 5, 1979. Accomplice Vernon Butts
  • Donald Hayden, age 15, murdered on August 27, 1979. Accomplice Vernon Butts
  • David Murillo, age 17, murdered on September 9, 1979. Accomplice Vernon Butts
  • Robert Wirostek, age 16, murdered on September 27, 1979
  • John Doe, age 14-20, murdered on November 30, 1979
  • Dennis Frank Fox, age 17, murdered on December 2, 1979. Accomplice James Munro
  • John Doe, age 15-20, murdered on December 13, 1979
  • Michael McDonald, age 16, murdered on January 1, 1980
  • Charles Miranda, age 14, murdered on February 3, 1980. Accomplice Gregory Miley
  • James McCabe, age 12, murdered on February 3, 1980. Accomplice Gregory Miley
  • Ronald Gaitlin, age 18, murdered on March 14, 1980
  • Harry Todd Turner, age 15, murdered on March 20, 1980. Accomplice William Pugh
  • Glen Barker, age 14, murdered on March 21, 1980
  • Russell Rugh, age 15, murdered on March 22, 1980
  • Steven Wood, age 16, murdered on April 10, 1980
  • Lawrence Sharp, age 18, murdered on April 10, 1980
  • Darin Lee Kendrick, age 19, murdered on April 29, 1980. Accomplice Vernon Butts
  • Sean King, age 14, murdered on May 19, 1980. Confessed accomplice William Pugh
  • Steven Wells, age 18, murdered on June 2, 1980. Accomplices Vernon Butts and James Munro

Freeway Killer Murders

William Bonin

Bonin kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered a total of 14 teenaged boys between 1979 and 1980. Bonin was also charged with two additional murders for which he was acquitted at his first trial in Los Angeles County. Of these murders for which Bonin was convicted, 10 were committed in Los Angeles County and four in nearby Orange County; however, the Freeway Killer was suspected of committing at least 21 murders.

First Arrest

-In November of 1968, Bonin sexually assaulted a young boy.

-In late 1968 and early 1969, he kidnapped and assaulted four boys between the ages of 12 and 18.

-In 1969, he was indicted on five counts of kidnapping and four counts of sexual assault on five children. He pleaded guilty to molestation and forced oral copulation and was sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a mentally disordered sexual offender amenable to treatment. -Bonin was released in May 1974.

-Within 16 months of his release, Bonin had been charged with the gunpoint rape of a 14-year-old hitchhiker and the attempted abduction of another teenager, for which he was sentenced to between one and 15 years imprisonment at the California Men's Facility in San Luis Obispo.

Childhood

The Freeway Killer

-William Bonin was born on January 8, 1947 in Connecticut.

-He was the second of three brothers. His father was a gambler and alcoholic, and his mother was also an alcoholic

-Bonin and his brothers were often left in the care of their grandfather, a convicted child molester.

-At six, he was put in an orphanage where he stayed until he was nine.

At 10, Bonin was arrested for stealing license plates and ended up in a juvenile detention center

-In his teens Bonin began molesting younger children.

The Freeway Killer

-William George Bonin was an American serial killer and twice-paroled sex offender

-Who committed the rape, torture and murder of a minimum of 21 boys and young men in a series of killings between 1979 and 1980 in southern California.

-Majority of his victims' bodies were discovered alongside numerous freeways in southern California.

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