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WILLIAM GEORGE 'BILL' BONIN
THE FREEWAY KILLER
Born: January 8, 1947. Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
Died: 12:13 a.m. February 23, 1996 (aged 49) Executed by Lethal Injection. San Quentin, California, USA
Religion: Catholic
I.Q: 121
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder
Physical Diagnosis: substantial damage to prefrontal cortex may have reduced his ability to hold back violent impulses. Extensive scar tissue noted on head and buttocks.
Criminal Charges:
16 counts of murder
5 counts of kidnapping
5 counts of sodomy
1 count of oral copulation
1 count of oral copulation
1 count of rape
1 count of forcible copulation of a minor
1 count of attempted kidnapping
11 counts of robbery
1 count of mayhem
Span of killings: May 28, 1979 – June 2, 1980
Country: USA State: California
Date apprehended: June 11, 1980
Final Meal: Two large pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three pints of coffee ice cream and three six-packs of regular Coca Cola.
Identified Victims:
1. Thomas Lundgren (13): May 28, 1979
2. Mark Shelton (17): August 4, 1979
3. Markus Grabs (17): August 5, 1979
4. Donald Ray Hyden (15): August 27, 1979
5. David Murillo (17): September 9, 1979
6. Robert Wirostek (18): September 17, 1979
7. John Doe (19–25): c. November 1, 1979
8. Frank Dennis Fox (17): November 30, 1979
9. John Kilpatrick (15): December 10, 1979
10. Michael McDonald (16): January 1, 1980
11. Charles Miranda (15): February 3, 1980
12. James Macabe (12): February 3, 1980
13. Ronald Gatlin (18): March 14, 1980
14. Glenn Barker (14): March 21, 1980
15. Russell Rugh (15): March 21, 1980
16. Harry Todd Turner (15): March 24, 1980
17. Steven Wood (16): April 10, 1980
18. Darin Lee Kendrick (19): April 29, 1980
19. Lawrence Sharp (17): May 17, 1980
20. Sean King (14): May 19, 1980
21. Steven Wells (18): June 2, 1980
▶️ The Freeway Killer (documentary)
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Without Remption ~ Vonda Pelto & Michael B.Butler
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Doug Mastriano lost by a lot.
But some of his supporters wrongly believe the results are inaccurate, and they think they’ve found a way to do something about it. So now election denial groups are flooding Pennsylvania courts with petitions seeking to force hand recounts under a little-known provision of state election law.
It’s not clear the effort will succeed in requiring counties to retally their votes — some courts have already thrown out the requests — and they certainly won’t give Mastriano, the defeated Republican nominee for governor, the 781,000 votes by which he lost to Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro. Recounts change election results very little, if at all.
But the baseless efforts threaten to sow confusion about the validity of this month’s election, tie up state courts, and disrupt officials’ ongoing work to audit and certify results by Monday’s deadline. It’s the latest front for an election denial movement that helped lift Mastriano to prominence, and has repeatedly tried to find and exploit vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.
The groups — organizing over social media and some claiming they are working in conjunction with Mastriano’s campaign — filed more than 100 petitions in at least a dozen counties over the last week, according to interviews and court records. Elections officials said they heard of at least 17 more counties where petitions have been filed and records weren’t immediately available.
The petitions largely follow a similar format — and in many cases use the same boilerplate legal document with blank fields for individual filers to complete.
“These orchestrated moves to delay certification of the vote at the county level are a deliberate attempt to flout the will of the people as expressed in the election results,” the Pennsylvania Department of State, which oversees elections, said in a statement.
A precinct’s results can be recounted under state election law if three voters from the precinct pay $50 and file a petition in county court saying they believe “fraud or error” occurred there.
The provision is rarely used. In the past, it has triggered recounts primarily in small, local races, said Democratic elections lawyer Adam Bonin, who has used it in razor-thin races for school board and township commissioner.
“For races that are actually incredibly close — we’re talking about single-digit races for local office — in those circumstances you do want to make sure that every machine’s results were transcribed accurately, that every paper ballot was scanned correctly by the machine, and there were no accidental errors in arithmetic,” Bonin said.
But some elections officials have worried for years that bad-faith actors could attempt to weaponize the law in statewide or national elections. Word started to spread last week among county elections officials that election denial activists were using recount petitions in an organized way for the first time on a large scale.
“It’s their latest bright idea,” one county elections director told The Inquirer, calling it a “merry-go-round of nonsense.”
In Bucks County, the onslaught started last Thursday, and within a day 18 recount petitions had been filed. Voters filed 12 in Allegheny County on Friday. Montgomery County received 37 in a span of two days. Chester 11. And in Berks County, a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Liberty Fund said it organized 30 more.
“It’s a lot of the same groups and same individuals … they’re finding things in the law and they’re using it to bog us down,” said Sean D. Drasher, the elections director for Lebanon County, which has recount petitions in five precincts. They were all dropped off at the same time by one person, Drasher said.
Few of the voters who filed recount petitions were willing to discuss it, or whether they were working with organized groups. Those that did cited vague concerns about voting machines and poll workers.
Barbara Canete, a Bucks County Republican committee person who filed a recount petition in Bristol Township, said she heard about the effort through “grassroots groups” that had been preparing for months. Like most petitions reviewed by The Inquirer, Canete’s sought a hand recount of the governor’s race specifically, though some also requested recounts in other races.
“Behind the scenes, I think there are things happening that aren’t really on the up and up,” she said.
Signs of broader organizing have proliferated online and quickly spread among conservative groups on social media.
A Facebook group called “We The People of Columbia County PA” posted a “call to action” last week seeking recruits for recount petitions in that Northeastern Pennsylvania county. It said Audit the Vote PA, an organization that has repeatedly peddled election conspiracy theories and allied itself with Mastriano, would reimburse voters for the $50 filing fee when possible. Audit the Vote’s cofounder Karen Taylor filed her own recount petition in Westmoreland County.
The Facebook post, which was deleted this week, also encouraged voters to email an address associated with Mastriano’s campaign for links to the required forms. The Mastriano campaign did not respond to questions about its involvement.
In Bucks County, the conservative group “Right for Bucks” hosted a virtual event this month with Audit the Vote seeking recruits to participate in an unspecified “election challenge.” It later provided boilerplate recount petition forms on its website.
Most local Republican Party officials have steered clear of publicly endorsing the recount push, with some dismissing it as a fringe idea. But in Berks County, the local GOP committee is openly backing the effort.
“No one is alleging the 2022 election is stolen,” party chairman Clay Breece said in a statement that also sought donations to fund the work. “We are asking for a court order to open the ballot boxes so the paper ballots are manually counted by human beings to verify that the machines are working as advertised.”
But some of the most persistent and pernicious attacks on Pennsylvania’s election system, officials and experts say, are the ones couched as simply seeking transparency. They can erode trust in the system, and recount and audit requests, when organized, can overwhelm elections offices.
Public records requests poured into county elections offices this summer, which one official likened to a “denial-of-service” attack that tries to crash a web server by overloading it with traffic. The wave of recount petitions feels like the latest front in that, elections officials said.
“While it sounds like it’s a very good way to keep an eye on government,” Drasher said, “it’s also a good way to be unaccountable and file paperwork harassing county governments.”
Local elections officials have already counted the results, checked their work and resolved any inconsistencies, recounted a sample of ballots as required by state law, and are conducting a statewide “risk-limiting audit” that’s considered the gold standard method of verifying election results.
County courts have yet to rule on the vast majority of recount petitions. But the few that have come before judges so far haven’t fared well.
A judge in Butler County threw out several recount petitions Wednesday, county solicitor H. William White III said. Three of the petitions there were submitted by voters who’d served as poll workers and signed off on their polling place’s results just days before they filed recount petitions alleging unspecified “fraud or error” in the precincts they worked in.
And a ruling Monday in Forest County might foreshadow a broader rejection of petitions across the state.
Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen A. Skerda dismissed two petitions there, citing language in the law that requires voters seeking to force a recount to either provide specific evidence of fraud or error, or to file petitions in every precinct where the election was held. That means petitions filed in the governor’s race with no specific fraud allegations would have to be filed in every one of the thousands of voting precincts across the state.
Mastriano, who conceded defeat five days after Election Day, lost by almost 15 percentage points.
“We’re way, way, way outside the margin of error, and these are just frivolous requests from people who can’t accept the results of an election,” said Northumberland County Clerk Nathan Savidge, a Republican. “Soon-to-be Gov. Shapiro blew Mastriano out of the water.”
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Flowers & Mushrooms
Essays by M. Harder, M. Moschik, T. Teufel, P. Weiermair, V. Ziegelmaier et al.
Hirmer Verlag, München 2013, 256 pages, 24x28,5cm, ISBN 9783777421605
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Flowers and Mushrooms takes readers inside the rich and diverse symbolism of its eponymous subjects. Flowers have at times stood for freshness and fertility, transience and death. In addition to its ubiquitous and much-maligned image as a hallucinogen, the mushroom has throughout history signified health and life and served as an important symbol within religious ritual. In recent years though, flowers and mushrooms have become a focus in contemporary art, with artists manipulating the many clichés that surround them and adapting their representation to produce new and unexpected layers of meaning, from social criticism to feminism and the conceptual framework of the erotic. Among the leading plant portraitists are the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose series of forty photographs epitomize the potential to shed new light on familiar objects by presenting them in unusual context.
The exhibition at MdM Museum der Moderne - Salzburg presents works from Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna Atkins, Eliška Bartek, Christopher Beane, Karl Blossfeldt, Lou Bonin-Tchimoukoff, Balthasar Burkhard, Giovanni Gastel, Georgia Creimer, Imogen Cunningham, Nathalie Djurberg, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Seiichi Furuya, Ernst Haas, Carsten Höller, Judith Huemer, Dieter Huber, Rolf Koppel, August Kotzsch, David LaChapelle, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Chen Lingyang, Vera Lutter, Katharina Malli, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elfriede Mejchar, Moritz Meurer, Paloma Navares, Nam June Paik, Marc Quinn, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Zeger Reyers, Pipilotti Rist, August Sander, Gitte Schäfer, Shirana Shahbazi, Luzia Simons, Thomas Stimm, Robert von Stockert, William Henry Fox Talbot, Diana Thater, Stefan Waibel, Xiao Hui Wang, Andy Warhol, Alois Auer von Welsbach, Michael Wesely, Manfred Willmann, Andrew Zuckerman.
07/03/24
#Flowers & Mushrooms#exhibition catalogue#MdM Museum der Moderne - Salzburg 2013#Araki#Blossfedt#Gastel#Fischli/Weiss#LaChapelle#Mapplethorpe#Sander#Warhol#Haas#Nam Jun Paik#photography books#fashionbooksmilano
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Serial Killers Last Meals
Aileen Wuornos - She denied a formal last meal and opted for a regular prison meal of burger and snacks from the canteen instead. She then had a cup of coffee to top it off.
Ted Bundy - He declined to have one of the special last meals. So, he was served the "traditional" steak dinner, over-easy eggs, hash browns, toast, milk, coffee, juice, butter, and jelly. However, he did not eat any of it.
'The Freeway Killer' aka William Bonin - He had two pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three servings of chocolate ice cream, and three six-packs of Coca-Cola and Pepsi for his last meal.
John Wayne Gacy - Before he was executed by lethal injection, he had a dozen deep-fried shrimp, a bucket of KFC original recipe chicken, fries, and a pound of strawberries as his last meal.
Oklahoma City Bomber aka Timothy McVeigh - He ordered two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream and nothing else.
H.H. Holmes - He ordered boiled eggs, toast, and coffee.
1-95 Killer aka Gary Ray Bowles - For his final meal he had three cheeseburgers and a side of French fries.
Butcher of Hanover aka Fritz Haarmann - Had a cup of coffee and a cigar.
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SERIAL KILLER INFORMATION MASTERLIST
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RODNEY ALCALA
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VELMA BARFIELD
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MARY BELL
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
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WILLIAM BONIN
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IAN BRADY
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JERRY BRUDOS
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TED BUNDY
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RICHARD CHASE
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ANDREI CHIKATILO
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DEAN CORLL
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JEFFREY DAHMER
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LONNIE DAVID FRANKLIN JR
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JOHN WAYNE GACY
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ED GEIN
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MYRA HINDLEY
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H.H. HOLMES
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PATRICK KEARNEY
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ED KEMPER
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PATRICK MACKAY
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CHARLES MANSON
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GARY RIDGWAY
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HAROLD SHIPMAN
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The Last Words of 30 Famous Serial Killers
Some killers have offered sincere apologies for the heinous offenses they committed. Others’ final words were filled with anger and resentment, while some seemed indifferent. A few of the most interesting final words are quizzically strange rantings.
What are the last words of some of the most famous serial slayers? The last words on this list come from the mouths of some of the most heinous, dangerous people in human history.
James French
“Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries.‘” (August 10, 1966)
James French has the distinction of being the last person to be executed in Oklahoma, via electric chair
Carl Panzram
“Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard. I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around.” (September 5, 1930)
Peter Kurten
“Tell me. After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.” (July 2, 1931)
Peter Kurten, AKA “The Vampire of Dusseldorf,” drank the blood of at least one person.
John Wayne Gacy
Kiss My Ass (May 10, 1994)
Thomas J. Grasso
“I did not get my Spaghetti O’s. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.” (March 20, 1995)
Tom Ketchum
“I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys. Let her rip.” (April 26, 1901)
Jeffery Dahmer
“I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.” (Novemer 28, 1994)
H.H. Holmes
“Take your time. Don’t bungle it.” (May 7, 1896)
Dr. H.H. Holmes was one of the first American serial killers.
Albert Fish
“I don’t even know why I’m here.” (January 16, 1936)
In the 1920s, Albert Fish claimed that he had slain at least 100 children.
Ted Bundy
“I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.” (January 24, 1989)
The exact number of women Ted Bundy offed or hurt in the 1970s is unknown, but some say the number is somewhere in the 100s.
Marcel Petiot
“Gentleman, I have one last piece of advice: Look away. This will not be pretty to see.” (May 25, 1946)
Petiot was a French doctor who was only found out when the remains of 23 people were found in his Parisian home during WW2.
Steven Timothy Judy
“I don’t hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened.” (March 9, 1981)
Steven Judy slayed a woman and her three children in 1979.
William Bonin
“I would suggest that when a person has a thought of doing anything serious against the law, that before they did that they should go to a quiet place and think about it seriously.” (February 23, 1996)
William Bonin’s habit of dumping cadavers near freeways earned him the nickname Freeway Killer.
Amelia Dyer
“I have nothing to say.” (June 10, 1896)
Dyer is believed to have slain 400 children during a 20-year period in Victorian England.
Peter Manuel
“Turn up the radio and I’ll go quietly.” (July 11, 1958)
Manuel was an American-born Scottish man who is believed to have slain from nine to 18 people during the 1950s.
Francis Crowley
“You sons of bitches. Give love to Mother.” (January 21, 1932)
Francis Crowley went on a three-month spree that ended when he was sent to the electric chair.
Angel Maturino Resendiz
“I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me. You don’t have to. I know I allowed the Devil to rule my life. I just ask you to forgive me and ask the Lord to forgive me for allowing the devil to deceive me. I thank God for having patience in me. I don’t deserve to cause you pain. You do not deserve this. I deserve what I am getting.” (June 27, 2006)
Reséndiz left people’s cadavers near railroad tracks.
Fritz Haarmann
“I repent, but I do not fear death.” (April 15, 1925)
Fritz Haarmann of Germany, active in the years following WWI, became known as the Vampire of Hanover because he would bite through people’s throats.
Ned Kelly
“Such is life.” (November 11, 1880)
Ned Kelly was often considered a folk hero in Australia.
Donald Henry Gaskins
“I’ll let my lawyers talk for me. I’m ready to go.” (September 6, 1991)
Donald Henry Gaskins was known as the Meanest Man in America for slaying at least 100 people, most of them hitchhikers, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Israel Keyes
“Okay, talk is over, words are placid and weak. Back it with action or it all comes off cheap. Watch close while I work now, feel the electric shock of my touch, open your trembling flower, or your petals I’ll crush.” (December 2, 2012)
Israel Keyes took his own life; the words are from his final note.
John George Haigh
In a letter to his girlfriend, Barbara: “It is difficult to say farewell under these circumstances, but you will understand that you will always be in my thoughts. You know I have been proud of our association: it has always been an honourable one. I shall remember your great kindness and devotion. Now I must leave you.” (August 10, 1949)
In the 1940s, John George Haigh dissolved six women’s cadavers in acid.
Kenneth McDuff
“I am ready to be released. Release me.” (November 17, 1998)
After his sentence was commuted in 1989, Kenneth McDuff killed again before being detained in 1992.
Carroll Cole
“It’s all right.” (December 6, 1985)
Carroll Cole possibly committed acts of cannibalism
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
“I wanna shout it out; I love Martha! What do the public know about love?” – Raymond Fernandez (March 8, 1951)
“My story is a love story. But only those tortured by love can know what I mean […] Imprisonment in the Death House has only strengthened my feeling for Raymond….” – Martha Beck (March 8, 1951)
In the 1940s, Fernandez and Beck would place personal ads in newspapers with the intent of taking money from the women who replied.
Aileen Wuornos
“I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus, June 6th. Like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back.” (October 9, 2002)
From 1989 to 1990, Aileen Wuornos terminated seven men, with the excuse that each of them tried to rape her.
James Allen Red Dog
“I’m going home, babe.” (October 9, 2002)
James Allen Red Dog had been connected to at least five murders
Myra Hindley
According to the Catholic priest who gave Hindley last rites, “The last conversation she had before she died concerned her mother. She just expressed concern for her mother – but I will not say exactly what she said.” (November 15, 2002)
Hindley, with her lover Ian Brady, shocked 1960s England when they killed five children.
Earle Nelson
“I am innocent. I stand innocent before God and man. I forgive those who have wronged me and ask forgiveness of those I have injured. God have mercy!” (January 13, 1928)
During a two-year period in the mid-1920s, Earle Nelson felled 22 women, most of whom were landladies he approached about rooms they wanted to rent.
Sean Flanagan
“I love you.”
Sean Flanagan terminated two gay men in Nevada, claiming he was doing “good for… society.” (June 23, 1989)
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Again, with these Americans--yes, I'm not going to even beat around the fucking bush anymore, I don't care if anyone doesn't "like" me talking about this--Americans on this true crime podcast called Morbid talking about the Vietnam War as if it wasn't a fucking crime that permanently damaged people in Vietnam and US. Let's see, there was fucking Richard Ramirez (no I'm not going to address him by his "cool" little nickname), who had pictures of war crimes (killing and raping of Vietnamese women; this podcast would not call it a war crime, which is really telling) shown to him by his older cousin who was in Vietnam committing these war crimes, and he grew into a fucking inhuman monster who raped and killed girls. Like what a fucking surprise! The podcast says "oh yea many people grew up in horrible environments and were fine", like oh yea obviously, obviously many people also had older relatives who proudly boasted to them of the war crimes they committed in another country, yea obviously everyone had that growing up, ha ha. And then now there's William Bonin who joined the US army and participated in the Vietnam war as an aerial gunner, who went on to commit horrible murders and was literally remorseless.
And now here is a direct quote from this podcast, please enjoy:
"So off he (William Bonin) went to serve in the Vietnam War. Which was probably...not gonna be great for him, but we'll see. So he went in there, and he became an aerial gunner. And he actually was doing great. He actually received medals for conduct and actually saved a fellow soldier's life, and received an honor for that. Like risked his own life to save a fellow soldier. And you would think that maybe that gave him some new sense of purpose or a feeling that life was precious, but it did not. And again, Vietnam was...hooo...like you would hope that saving a fellow soldier would give you something to latch onto, but then the other stuff that he saw, I'm sure was just like a constant... Now during his enlistment, he actually ended up assaulting two fellow soldiers, he literally like tied them down and raped them. Yea. At gun point. So he like already started this bad reign of terror. I think he was there for like a 5 month tour, so 1968, he was honorably discharged. And he was quoted as saying that his time in Vietnam made him feel like 'human life was overvalued'. So, not great."
Like what the fuck did you expect, ma'am? You think being in a war where your side was raping and torturing people and killing entire villages in another country would "give him some new sense of purpose or a feeling that life was precious"??????? What drugs are you on ma'am????
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PT.1 of 3. William George Bonin also known as the Freeway Killer, was an American serial killer and twice-paroled sex offender who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of twenty-one young men and boys in a series of killings in southern California from May 1979 to June 1980. On at least twelve occasions, Bonin was assisted by one of his four known accomplices he is also suspected of committing a further fifteen murders.
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Man you couldn’t do shit in the 70s without being serial killed
#serial killers#Ted bundy#jeffrey dahmer#david berkowitz#john wayne gacy#William bonin#Randy Kraft#zodiac killer#Patrick Kearney#ed kemper
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William bonin
general information
full name: William George Bonin
born:8th january 1947, willimantic, windham, connecticut, US
died: 23rd february 1996, san squentin, california, US
cause of death: lethal injection
family
parents: robert leonard bonin sr (father)
alice dorothy cote (mother)
siblings: two unnamed brothers
children: one unnamed son
physical description
skin colour/ethnicity: white american
hair colour: ginger
eye colour: brown
IQ: 121
mental / physical illnesses
manic depression, sexual sadism disorder, antisocial personality disorder
crimes
known crimes: murder, rape, torture
nicknames: the freeway killer
span of murders: 1979-1980
known victims: 14
possible number of victims: 44
youngest victim: 12 years old
oldest victim: 19 years old
caught and arrested: 13/6/1980
trial: 5/11/1981-6/1/1982
charged with: 8 counts of murder
3 counts of robbery
sentenced to: death
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William Bonin, The Freeway Killer
William George Bonin, also known as the Freeway Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist. Bonin raped, tortured and murder a minimum of 21 boys and young men betwen 1979 and 1980 in California although he is suspected to have killed many more.
Born to alcoholic parents, Bonin’s father was abusive and a compulsive gambler. Bonin and his siblings were often placed in the care of their grandfather, a convicted child molester. In 1953, Bonin’s mother sent her sons to an orphanage in an attempt to protect them from their father’s physical violence towards them. The orphanage was known for its severe discipline and abusive punishments. At age 10, Bonin was arrested for stealing license plates and sent to a detention centre, he was physically and sexually abused there before moving back home to his parents’ address. While living with them, Bonin is known to have molested his younger brother and other neighbourhood children. After graduating from high school Bonin served as an aerial gunner in the Vietnam war, an experience he claimed led him to believe that human life is overvalued. Bonin was honourably discharged from the Air Force in 1968.
In 1968 Bonin began to sexually assault youths, bounding and restraining them before raping them and torturing them. In 1969, Bonin was arrested and charged with 5 counts of kidnapping four counts of sodomy, one count of oral copulation, and one count of child molestation against the five youths he had abducted and assaulted. He was sent to a mental hospital and then later sent to prison, declared unsuitable for treatment due to raping other inmates. In June 1974 he was released from prison.
In September 1974, Bonin raped and beat and 14-year-old boy, he began to strangle the boy before apologising and driving him home. Bonin was arrested again and released in 1978.
In 1979 Bonin began murdering his victims. Bonin’s usual victims were hitchhikers or schoolboys aged 12 to 19 who he forced into his van and overpowered. The victims would then be bound, raped and beaten before being tortured, and usually, strangled although some victims were stabbed or battered to death. Some victims had their genitals removed. One victim was forced to drink hydrochloric acid and three had ice picks driven into their ears. Victims were brutalised and beaten horrifically, often showing extensive trauma to their faces and genitals. Their bodies were then discarded along various freeways leading to the killer being known as the ‘Freeway Killer.’ Bonin was known to have had four known accomplices.
Detectives became suspicious of Bonin and put him under surveillance. On the same day the surveillance began, Bonin bound, raped, beat and murdered an 18 year old shop worker and discarded the body. 9 days later Bonin was seen attempting to lure victims into his van before successfully picking up one. Police followed the van until it parked in a desolate parking lot close to a freeway, officers approached the van and forced their way in, discovering Bonin in the act of raping the bound and handcuffed teenager. Bonin was charged with rape and held on suspicious of murder. Inspection of his vehicle showed restraining devices and extensive bloodstains. Inside the glovebox investigators found a scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to the murders.
Although initially denying involvement, after reviewing a letter from a victim’s mother Bonin began to confess to abducting, raping and murdering 21 boys and young men. He did not express remorse but did claim to be embarrassed and regret being caught, he later claimed when asked if he would still be doing it if un-apprehended, "I'd still be killing, I couldn't stop killing. It got easier with each one we did." Bonin was linked to many of the murders by semen stains, carpet fibers, hair samples and blood work. Bonin’s method of strangulation was also referred to as unique and a signature.
Bonin was sentenced to death, with the judge commenting that ‘He (Bonin) had a total disregard for the sanctity of human life and a civilised society. Sadistic, unbelievably cruel, senseless and deliberately premeditated. Guilty beyond any possible or imaginary doubt
Bonin spent 14 years on death row before being executed by lethal injection in 1996.
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