[304] At the time of Butts' suicide, he had not agreed to accept any form of plea bargain, or to testify against Bonin. [65][66] According to Bonin, he engaged in allegedly consensual relations with four young girls and had a "number of homosexual encounters" in Vietnam, as well as a 25-year-old female prostitute in Hong Kong,[67][63] although he also confessed to sexually assaulting two soldiers under his command at gunpoint during the period of the Tet Offensive. [400] He served less than four years of his sentence, and was released from prison in late 1985.[376]. [328], In response to the recommendations of the jury, Judge Keene ordered a reconvening of court on February 24. [42], Bonin regularly attended group therapy sessions while incarcerated at Atascadero. [186], On August 27, 1979, Bonin and Butts abducted 15-year-old Hollywood youth Donald Ray Hyden at approximately 1:00 a.m. on Santa Monica Boulevard. The first killer to be executed in this manner at San Quentin was the infamous William Bonin. [223][219] Bonin then strangled Macabe to death with his own T-shirt before the pair discarded his corpse alongside a dumpster at a construction site in Walnut City. William George Bonin was a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. [78], Bonin pleaded guilty to both charges and on December 31, 1975, he was sentenced to serve between one and fifteen years' imprisonment at the California Men's Facility in San Luis Obispo. He would then repeatedly rape his captive between and throughout instances of torture, before finally reaching the "climax of the orgy" by killing his victim. [n 24] One of Bonin's lawyers was quoted as stating it was "virtually impossible for [Bonin] to be a successful human being" given the various extreme childhood abuses he had endured, with a prospective biographer also opining that Bonin was essentially unable to handle minute problems in his day-to-day life due to past trauma. Actively bisexual and frequently abusing drugs and alcohol, Butts performed public magic acts at schools, privately for small groups,[133] and for children's parties in which he charged $30 per show to perform for audiences. As these verdicts were read by the clerk of court, many relatives and friends of Bonin's victims wept openly. The Freeway Killer: The Socking True Story of Serial Killer William Bonin America: home of the free, land of the brave. Bonin growled and squeezed Jones' genitals before disclosing his sexual motive and parking behind a closed shopping center. Initially denying early childhood abuse, Bonin confessed to being fondled at age eight and suspecting he was molested on various occasions between 9 and 12 years old. Bonin would later allege he had been intimately involved with Sharp, and had taken him out to Knott's Berry Farm for a date when his (Bonin's) girlfriend was absent. After engaging in mutual oral copulation, the teenager was bound and raped by Bonin in the van before being transported to his parents' house, where he was extensively flagellated with string until he cried and strangled to death with the aforementioned string. Lpez had agreed to these conditions, and Bonin had confessed to him on January 9[309] that he was indeed the Freeway Killer and that he had killed 21 victims. Noting Bonin's frantic state and similar profile to the rapist, she promptly searched him and retrieved handcuffs. [121] As a result, Bonin and Butts frequently discussed the subject of death. [333] He was tried before Superior Court Judge Kenneth Lae. [314][n 18], Against overruled objections from Bonin's defense attorney, Fresno-based reporter David Lpez waived his previously sought immunity under California's shield law and agreed to testify on behalf of the prosecution as to the details of seven interviews Bonin had granted him between December 1980 and April 1981. [393] He was later sentenced to a concurrent term of 25 years to life by an Orange County court judge for the abduction and murder of James Macabe. the creepiest facts about the freeway killer William Bonin. [181] Grabs was partially strangled, and revealed to have been stabbed a total of 77 times[180] again postulated by various experts to be an attempt to "kill" his homosexuality[182] before his nude body was discarded in Malibu Creek, close to Las Virgenes Canyon Road. Known as "Thread City" for the American Thread Company's mills along the Willimantic River, it was a center of the textile industry in the 19th century. These accrued reprimands had included the possession of contraband drugs, and attempting to engage in non-consensual sodomy with fellow inmates. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFPeltoButler2022 (, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFPelto2022 (, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital, California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran, List of serial killers by number of victims, List of serial killers in the United States, "Freeway Killer: Bonin Convicted for 10 Killings; Awaits Sentencing", "The Beat Goes On: Decades Have Passed, but Housewife and Mom Jane Howatt Remains Determined to Piece", "California Murderer Gets Death Sentence", "Freeway Killer's Story: Ghastly Tale of Horror", "The Mother and Two Brothers of Convicted Freeway Killer", "William George Bonin, Petitioner-appellant, v. Arthur Calderon, As Warden of San Quentin State Prison; James Rowland, Director of the California Department of Corrections. [300] He initially pleaded innocent to two charges of first-degree murder on December 18,[215] but pleaded guilty at two separate pretrial hearings in May 1981. [344] Over the years, Bonin received several minor awards for his artwork, short stories and poems. [109], The following month,[110] Bonin established a relationship with a married mother who held a criminal record for child cruelty[111] named Mary, whom he accompanied to Anaheim on Sundays to partake in her hobby of roller skating,[112] in addition to attending church services and bowling together. Mass Murderers, Spree and Serial Killers. [211], On January 1, 1980, Bonin encountered 16-year-old Ontario youth Michael Francis McDonald near the Chino Airport. [19][17], Frequently arguing with his wife who obtained a job at a local thread mill to supplement for his gambling habit over finances, Bonin's father lost their home in Andover, Connecticut, in a high stakes poker game in January 1950, forcing the family to reside with Bonin's maternal grandmother in Willimantic and continuing to spend his money each night by gambling and drinking at local bars. Bonin was not a first offender. Each successive appeal proved unsuccessful,[349] with the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to overturn Bonin's death penalty convictions in August 1988 and January 1989. [169][170], His body, clad only in a T-shirt, shoes and socks, was found the same afternoon in Agoura. [349] He has also written to successive governors, requesting he be executed rather than spend the remainder of his life behind bars for what he claims is "a crime I didn't commit". [126] On this subject, then-Governor Pete Wilson, who had rejected a submitted plea for clemency from Bonin's attorneys three days prior to the execution,[351] referred to Bonin as the "poster boy for capital punishment" before adding that California's method of execution ensured his death was infinitely more pleasant than that endured by his victims.[151]. [187] While driving on Interstate 10, Butts orally copulated the youth before repeatedly striking him and taking Bonin's place behind the wheel, who then tortured Wirostek by bending his fingers and squeezing his genitals before extensively bludgeoning him with a tire iron and strangling him with his T-shirt and a tire iron. Bonin immediately ceased his assault and apologized before reverting to casual conversation. He has repeatedly appealed his sentence, claiming that he had not known Bonin had been the Freeway Killer until after Wells' murder, and that he had been tricked into accepting a plea bargain whereby he pleaded guilty to this second degree murder charge. Seven of the 14 victims killed by "Freeway Killer" William George Bonin during 1979 and 1980: #1--James Michael McCabe; #2--Marcus Grabs; #3--Donald Hyden; #4--David Murillo; #10--Charles Miranda; #11--James Michael McCabe; #12--Ronald Gatlin. [264], While at the Angell Street residence, Munro who was bisexual and preferred sexual relations with females began a consensual sexual relationship with Bonin. On January 5, 1982 Bonin was convicted on ten counts of murder and robbery. In summary, Dietz concluded that Bonin was a sexual sadist, and that although he suffered from an antisocial personality disorder, neither of these conditions had impaired his ability to control his actions. [104] Upon Macabe's waking, Miley joined Bonin in beating the child into unconsciousness simply because he "felt like" doing so before Bonin crushed Macabe's neck with a tire iron. He then complimented Bonin, stating: "Good job, Billy, you really did a good one. He was sentenced to twenty-one terms of life imprisonment. [163][164] Scrapbooking newspaper clippings of his murders, Bonin would later hold up newspapers to accomplice Vernon Butts[125] and acquaintance Everett Fraser and boast of which murders he had committed. Los Angeles, CAA major historical biography about serial killer Bill Bonin, aka The Freeway Killer, is now on sale in Kindle and Nook formats for 99 Cents thru March 31. Miley continued his testimony with the words: "The kid vomited. [296], Butts was brought before Orange County Municipal Court Judge Richard Orozco on November 14, 1980. "[94], On July 7, 1971, Bonin was sent to the California Medical Facility, having been declared unsuitable for further treatment due to repeated sexual engagement with inmates two of whom were mentally challenged which resulted in his being beaten on several occasions, in addition to alienating and irritating fellow patients. I stabbed him again and then again, and again and again until he was helpless. [41] While incarcerated, he was molested by an adult counselor assigned to control and monitor the juvenile offenders. "[386][387] In the years following Bonin's execution, McVicker has actively campaigned to ensure that his accomplices, Miley and Munro, remain incarcerated. But that is not the case and they're going to find that out. Despite this ruling, this finding was also deemed not to have affected the overall verdict. Early on he was a troubled kid and ran away from home when he was eight years old. [59] Bonin's mother allegedly extremely emotionally controlling and protective of her son reportedly refused to acknowledge his acts of molestation, as well as the general escalating antisocial behavior exhibited by Bonin throughout his adolescence. Shortly after McVicker entered Bonin's Opel Kadett, he asked him whether he had engaged in homosexuality or was homosexual. "[319], Upon cross-examination, Bonin's defense attorney ensured that Lpez conceded that his testimony was based upon what he had recalled from the interviews as opposed to any handwritten notes, although he strenuously denied he had received any form of payment to testify. As far as I know, I'm the only surviving victim. [113] Bonin also often spent time with her children and included them in these events. [339][341], After three days of deliberations as to the actual penalty to be imposed upon Bonin, the jury announced on August 22 their recommendations that he be sentenced to death on each count. [159] In an apparent effort to avoid investigators connecting his crimes, Bonin often drove to various counties to discard his victims' bodies far from the site of their abduction. When Monge attempted to exit the vehicle, Bonin punched his stomach and chest before squeezing his genitals, handcuffing him, and forcing Monge to orally copulate him. After Pugh had bludgeoned and beat Turner about the head and body for several minutes,[240] Bonin strangled Turner to death with his own T-shirt and a tire iron before discarding his body at the rear delivery door to a Los Angeles business. [80][n 4], He was indicted on five counts of kidnapping, four counts of sodomy, one count of oral copulation, and one count of child molestation against the five individuals he had abducted and assaulted or in the case of the final youth he had abducted, attempted to assault since the previous November. [269][270], Hours prior to the implementation of police surveillance of Bonin on the evening of June 2, he, accompanied by Munro,[118] encountered 18-year-old print shop worker Steven Jay Wells standing at a bus stop on El Segundo Boulevard. American serial killer and rapist (19471996), Incarceration at Atascadero and Vacaville prison. [231] The following day, his bound body was found behind an industrial building[73] in the city of Duarte. Chances are the three of William Bunyan's accomplices would have never gotten out of prison no matter how long they lived. [46] Although both parents were generally neglectful of their children, Bonin and his brothers were primarily raised by their mother,[47] who often displayed inordinately domineering and emasculating behavior toward Bonin. [307], Bonin was brought to trial in Los Angeles County, charged with the murder of twelve of his victims whose bodies had been found within this constituency, on October 19, 1981. [276][277], Returning to Bonin's parents' home, Bonin and Munro watched television in search of news coverage of Wells' discovery. Bonin and his brothers were severely neglected as children, and were often fed and . [111] Months later in April 1979, Bonin's parole supervision concluded. "If he had a bag of candy, he gave it away," Bonin's mother also later recalled of her middle son. These convened judges also rejected Bonin's final claim that he had a right to choose between the gas chamber or lethal injection as his actual method of execution.[347]. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. On May 25, 2016, Miley died of injuries he had sustained two days previously, when he had been attacked by another inmate in an exercise yard at Mule Creek State Prison. He was savagely beaten and strangled to death. [204] During the ordeal, Bonin allegedly asked the victim whether he knew why he "had to die." [309] Norris further asserted that Bonin considered murder a group sport,[162] and would typically groom people of a low mentality to participate in many of his murders. William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 - February 23, 1996), 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. Though no other significant brain anomalies were present,[78][21] a physical examination revealed extensive scars on Bonin's head and buttocks, which he claimed to have no memory of obtaining, but were likely sustained in the Franco-American Orphanage. Butts was adamant he had had only a limited role in the actual torture of the victims, but confessed to actively participating in the torture of one victim. [186] He then bound and raped the boy at knife-point before driving to Butts' residence. He was haunted by nightmares on a nightly basis concerning the incident,[332] dropped out of high school and became dependent on drugs and alcohol. [148] His underwear, jeans, and severed genitals bearing several bite marks[151] were discovered strewn in a field close to his body. - Bonin, describing the murder of Darin Lee Kendrick. [397] At the time of Miley's death, his next scheduled parole hearing was to be held in 2019. [244] Wood's autopsy revealed the youth had been killed by ligature strangulation. This book holds the entire details of the evidence, trial, and execution of William Bonin, a serial killer of the 1970's and 80's in California. William Bonin was a twice paroled sex offender and truck driver, who is better known as an American serial killer who abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least 22 young boys and men in. [195] After entering the van, Bonin offered him money for sex which was refused. He then further explained why, stating, "Your folks paid us to find you and kill you." Bonin then strangled Miranda to death with a T-shirt and a tire iron as Miley repeatedly jumped on Miranda's chest. In his confession, Butts claimed to have participated in the murders primarily out of fear, claiming, "It was either go, or become the next victim",[140] adding he only found the courage to confess upon learning Bonin was in custody. . William George Bonin, a.k.a. Bonin was later convicted of killing 14 people. Young people act as they see other people acting instead of as people tell them to act. To call Bonin's evil a psychiatric disorder, as the defense has, or an illness, is to slander the mentally ill.[384], Butts, who was accused of accompanying or otherwise assisting Bonin on at least nine of the murders, hanged himself while awaiting trial on January 11, 1981. William George Bonin (7 de janeiro de 1944 - 23 de fevereiro de 1996) foi um assassino em srie americano e duas vezes condenado como violador, que cometeu violao, tortura e assassinatos de pelo menos 21 rapazes e jovens numa srie de mortes entre 1979 e 1980 no sul da Califrnia. His reporting on the Bonin story earned him the first of several Emmy Awards. [252], On November 24, prison inmate Lloyd Douglas testified that Bonin had bragged to him of his culpability in the Freeway Killer murders while both were incarcerated in the Los Angeles County Jail in the summer of 1980. ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 30, 8:21 A.M.: Gregory Matthew Miley could have . This incident had occurred on December 8, 1981; Bonin had subsequently worn sunglasses in court to conceal his black eyes. Michael Francis McDonald (16): Disappeared and found on January 1, 1980, in San Bernardino County; mutilated and strangled to death with ligature after being assaulted. He was known in his life as the Freeway Killer. [360] According to several of these witnesses, Bonin's execution passed without complications, and he was heavily sedated throughout the latter stages of the procedure. Biography of Albert Fish, Serial Killer. [56], By his teenage years, Bonin had developed an unrelenting and obsessive interest in pedophilia,[42] keeping his emerging feelings for young boys a secret. [381], Four months following Bonin's arrest, Bonin's 61-year-old father died of cirrhosis of the liver on October 11, 1980. )[390] Munro has repeatedly been denied parole and is incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison. Of these murders for which Bonin was convicted, ten were committed in Los Angeles County and four in nearby Orange County. [73], At approximately 4:07p.m. the same day, 15-year-old Russell Duane Rugh was abducted from a bus stop in Garden Grove. [223], A final submission to the United States Court of Appeals was submitted in October 1994, with Bonin contending such issues as his being denied the effective assistance of counsel at his trials, that he had been denied due process at his Los Angeles trial due to the judge's refusal to suppress the testimony of Munro and Miley,[252] that Charvet failed to point out Bonin's brain damage and other mitigating circumstances, and that the judge at his Orange County trial had denied his counsel's motion for a change of venue upon the basis that pretrial publicity had effectively minimized any chance of obtaining an unbiased jury within the county. Six officers from three of the jurisdictions in which the "Freeway Killer" had most regularly either abducted or deposited the bodies of his victims formed a task force dedicated to the apprehension of the suspect or suspects who, as one of the officers upon this assembled task force later recalled, was striking at an average rate of once every two weeks in the spring of 1980. [56] His sexuality later became the basis of a long-standing conflict with his mother, who believed his sexual inclinations to be a curable social disorder. [382], Three weeks after Bonin's execution, authorities discovered that his mother had openly exploited an administrative error pertaining to her son's social security disability payments which Bonin had begun receiving for a mental disability in 1972 and which should have terminated upon his 1982 imprisonment to maintain payments on her Downey home. [160][n 11], In a minimum of twelve of the murders, Bonin who considered murder a "group sport"[162] was assisted by one or more of his four known accomplices. William Bonin: The Freeway Killer: Directed by Beth Parkes. [91] His "extremely disturbed" methods of social interaction were also viewed as hindering his own treatment. Bonin, who. These lawyers contended that had Charvet placed further emphasis on these issues, Bonin would have been "humanized" in the eyes of his juries. [252][253] The body of 17-year-old Lawrence Sharp[9][n 15] was discarded behind a Westminster gas station. Fearful of Butts,[191] Bonin reassured Hyden and offered him $50 for sexual services, soon engaging in consensual intercourse as Butts drove the van. An accomplice of serial killer William G. Bonin the so-called Freeway Killer who murdered as many as 21 people along Southern California's highways has died after being beaten by another inmate at Mule Creek State Prison, authorities said. [20] Consequently, the siblings were severely neglected as children, with their parents seldom present in the household. Bonin, reflecting on his impending execution and life regrets. This supermarket was located close to Butts' former workplace. [23] After returning home, Bonin was reportedly more recalcitrant toward his parents than before the punishment. [298] Munro pleaded innocent to all charges against him on August 14. A statement was issued on his social media accounts, saying he "died peacefully . Three days later, in accordance with Penal Code section 987, Boninat this stage without legal representationwas appointed attorney Earl Hanson to act as his legal representative. [223], To subdue the child, Bonin began repeatedly punching him in the stomach, mouth, and leg. Jones was then deposited at a park bench by Bonin, who threatened to kill him if he reported the assault. "[166] Following media coverage of his murders, Bonin also enthusiastically mentioned his killings to fellow co-workers at Dependable Drive-Away, stating, "He did it again. So I regret that I didn't get to go out and get the instruction, and pursue that. 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 between 1979 and 1980 in southern California, disposing of the bodies alone the expansive California freeways. [180][165], On August 9, 1979,[183] Bonin was again detained for molesting a 17-year-old boy in the coastal community of Dana Point. This administrative error totaling approximately $79,424 was only discovered after a funeral director notified the Social Security Administration of Bonin's death. "[200], Bonin is not known to have killed again until on or about November 1, 1979, when he and Butts abducted and murdered an unidentified young man with brown hair, whom Bonin claimed to be 5 ft 6 in tall, and eighteen years of age. [201][202] This victim was savagely beaten repeatedly by both captors,[203] then strangled to death by Bonin before his fully clothed body was discarded in an irrigation ditch alongside State Route 99, south of Bakersfield. [124], At the time of his initial acquaintance with Bonin, Butts an avid reader of horror fiction[125] who frequently cosplayed as fictional characters such as Darth Vader[126] had developed a local reputation as an eccentric figure[127] who adorned his apartment with novelty spiders and who kept two coffins in his apartment,[128] one of which was used as a phone booth, and another as a coffee table in which Butts made love to his girlfriend, Pam "Cati" Razook,[125] a self-proclaimed witch with whom he attended Pagan religious ritual events and visited graveyards. [299] On August 22, Miley by this stage 19 years old was arrested in Texas and subsequently charged by California authorities with the murders of Miranda and Macabe. Bonin would later claim he murdered Markus Grabs in self-defense to Fraser. Willimantic Willimantic is a census-designated place, former city and borough. His body was found on May 18, and his autopsy revealed that in addition to being bound and sodomized, Sharp had been extensively beaten about the face and body, then strangled with a ligature. A new book is expected to be put out soon about the only known living victim of the Freeway Killer William Bonin. [379] In addition, many of his victims had been aged in their early- or mid-twenties, and a small number of his victims had also been dismembered prior to their disposal. [337] As such, Brown stated, the four Orange County victims had been killed by the same individual who had killed Miranda and Wells, and his accomplices in these two murders, Miley and Munro, would testify as to their accompanying Bonin on each of these murders. Turner had absconded from a boys' home in the desert community of Lancaster[239] four days prior to his meeting Bonin and Pugh. [148] His nude body was discovered on September 12, 1979. He remained unmoved upon receipt of this sentence, having earlier informed his attorney he fully expected to formally receive the death penalty. [49][13], On November 17, 1968, Bonin confronted 14-year-old Billy Jones in Arcadia, California, at 9:00 p.m. while driving his mother's white Chevrolet station wagon. Bonin was the first California inmate to be executed by lethal injection. [13] Bonin joined the United States Air Force with his mother's persuasion, who hoped it would cure his inclination toward chaos. Accomplices Robbie Ruinsburg. Initially formally arraigned for the murder of Grabs on July 25,[293] by July 29, Bonin had been charged with an additional fifteen murders to which he had confessed and upon which the prosecution believed they had sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction. 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