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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. He was convicted of 14 murders, but he confessed to 21 and ...
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.
"Freeway Killer" William Bonin, who killed at least 21 young men and boys in Southern California in the late 1970s and 1980s, was also housed at the prison until his execution by lethal injection ...
[12] [24] Serial killer William Bonin was the first person to be executed under these new laws, on February 23, 1996. Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 180 other people have died on death row from other causes (30 of them from suicide) as of December 16, 2024.
William Bonin: convicted serial killer, the "Freeway Killer" (one of three men to have the same nickname) became the first person in California history to be executed by lethal injection on February 23, 1996. [196] Keith Daniel Williams: convicted triple murderer, executed by lethal injection on May 3, 1996. [197]
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, [4] 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.
William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978) Mun Se-gwang (1974) Khwan-On Natthaphon (2002) Keith Dwayne Nelson (2020) Hester Rebecca Nepping (1812) Susan Newell (1923) last woman executed in Scotland; Solomon Ngobeni (1989) last execution in South Africa; Oh Laye Koh ...
One of Daytop’s founders, a Roman Catholic priest named William O’Brien, thought of addicts as needy infants — another sentiment borrowed from Synanon. “You don’t have a drug problem, you have a B-A-B-Y problem,” he explained in Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use In America, 1923-1965, published in 1989. “You ...