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'''William George Bonin''' (January | '''William George Bonin''' (January 8th, 1947 – February 23rd, 1996) was an American serial killer and twice-paroled sex offender,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bonin#cite_note-2 [2]]</sup> who committed the rape, torture and murder of a minimum of 21 boys and young men in a series of killings between 1979 and 1980 in Southern California. He is sometimes referred to as "'''The Freeway Killer'''", a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, [[Patrick Kearney]] and [[Randy Kraft]]. Bonin is also suspected of committing a further fifteen murders. He was convicted of 14 of these murders and subsequently executed in 1996. | ||
Bonin became known as the Freeway Killer due to the fact that the majority of his victims' bodies were discovered alongside numerous freeways in southern California. | Bonin became known as the Freeway Killer due to the fact that the majority of his victims' bodies were discovered alongside numerous freeways in southern California. |