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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.
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 ...
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 Pugh....
In 1979, dozens of murdered teenage boys were uncovered on California’s sprawling freeways, with one victim as young as twelve. As police discovered the bodies of the victims, their corpses showed signs of violent sexual assault with the trademark of the serial killer being death by strangulation and stabbing.
William Bonin was a habitual sex offender turned serial killer, suspected of sexually assaulting, torturing and killing 21 boys in California.
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.
