The Freeway Killer: The Crimes of William Bonin
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Southern California’s freeways became dumping grounds for the bodies of young men and boys. The man behind the killings was William George Bonin, known as the Freeway Killer.
Host Alexander Lawson examines Bonin’s troubled background, his year-long murder spree, the young accomplices who helped him, the investigation that finally stopped him, and his eventual execution in 1996. Bonin was convicted of 14 murders and confessed to 21.
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