William George Bonin Or The Freeway Killer

Donald Henry Gaskins (The hitchhikers killer) was born on March 13, 1933 in Florence County, South Carolina, SC and died at age 58 on September 6, 1991. At age 11, Gaskins quit school and started working on cars at a local garage. While working in the garage, he met two boys the same age. They’re both out of school too. When they met, they started calling themselves “The Trouble Trio”.

Gary Ridgway went on a killing spree for about 19 years. He would strangle young female runaways and prostitutes after having

Danny Harold Rolling is also known, as the Gainesville Ripper was an American serial killer who murdered five students at the University of Florida. Danny was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 26th 1954. His dad James was abusive from the start of his birth. His father was also a police officer. His father also abused his mom Claudia and brother Kevin.

He gained the nickname of “The Freeway Killer” because he would leave his victims alongside freeways and ramps. Some of Bonin’s victims were, Thomas Lundgren (13) May 28, 1979, Mark Shelton (17) August 4, 1979, Markus Grabs (17) August 5, 1979, Donald Hyden (15) August 27, 1979, David Murillo (17) September 9, 1979, Robert Wirostek (18)September 17, 1979, John Doe (19-25 c.) November 29, 1979, Frank Dennis Fox (17) November 30, 1979, John Kilpatrick (15) December 10, 1979, Michael Mcdonald (16) January 1, 1980. His last known victim was Steven Wells (18) June 2, 1980.

My serial killer was William George Bonin. He was also referred to as the “Freeway Killer”. Bonin was a Caucasian male, born in Connecticut on January 18, 1947. He was born the 2nd of 3 brothers. Both of his parents were alcoholics and his father was compulsive gambler.

Jeffery Dahmer was an American serial killer in the 80s Dahmer killed 17 young men over the course of 13 years. Jeffery Dahmer was a child who was neglected by his parents, due to his father working continuously and his mothers addiction to drugs; therefore, he felt like never received any affection from either of them. The only bonding he and his father had was dissecting roadkill in the garage, thus teaching his son skills to utilize on his victims. By the time he was 18, Dahmer was already struggling with his personal desires, his hidden homosexuality, and fantasy for murder; however, this fantasy did not become reality until June of 1978 when Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and murdered him. Jeffery Dahmer, “the Milwaukee Cannibal” who was an American serial killer, murdered 17 and cannibalized some young men from 1978-1991; however He was caught in 1991 when one of his victims escaped.

By late 1979, the Golden State Killer, now known as Joseph DeAngelo, was targeting people in southern California. He continued to rape female victims, then brutally murdered them and their male partners (if present). Ten people (four heterosexual couples and two individual women) were killed by the Golden State Killer in Santa Barbaras, Ventura and Orange Counties between 1979 and 1986. Since the burglaries, rapes, and murders were spread out geographically, authorities attributed the varying crime sprees to different people.

Arthur Shawcross The interview and Documentary I focused on was Arthur Shawcross who was known as the Genesee River Killer because he dumped a lot of bodies around the river. He killed 11 women Victims, including two children who he raped before he murdered them in and around Rochester, New York. Shawcross was the type of Killer who enjoys mutilate his victims and committed to acts of cannibalism. Most of the murders Shawcross committed took place when he was imprisoned and released for the child murders he did.

The serial killer I chose to write about is Charles Manson. He was the leader of the Manson Family Cult. He was born in 1934 and he died in November 2017 from natural causes. The brutal attacks started in 1969, when he and his followers broke into the home of Sharon Tate. Sharon Tate was an actress and she was eight months pregnant when she killed by the Manson family.

In the 1970s, the United States had a national drifter that claimed to have killed over six hundred people. He was first incarcerated for the murder of his mother and was later incarcerated for the murder of his girlfriend and his landlord. Lucas confessed to many murders, claiming he targeted female hitchhikers that were national vast. Henry Lee Lucas was an infamous murderer born to alcoholic parents Viola and Anderson Lucas in Virginia in 1936.

During the times of 1972 to 1978, John Wayne Gacy Jr. killed 33 people in the Chicago area. He was known for raping, torturing, then strangling his victims (SC4). Then he would dispose of the bodies by either dumping them into a river or hiding them beneath his house. He wasn't caught until after the murder of his final victim in 1978. Then he became one of the most famous serial killers in American history.

John Wayne Gacy was one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Born and raised in Chicago, Gacy would go on to kill thirty-three boys within the Des Plaines area of Chicago, Illinois. He would rape, torture, then finally suffocate every single one of his thirty-three victims within the very walls of his own home. Having killed that many people, he became the serial killer with the most amount of confirmed kills in the United States at the time. He would be caught in early 1978 and sentenced to twenty-one life sentences, twelve death sentences, and to be executed by lethal injection, which would not happen until over a decade later in the middle of 1994.

Police were unsure of this killer at first. He would often kill with knife, hammer, and gun, rape victims genitally, orally, and anally, and on a random occurrence would mess with the bodies after being deceased, rarely, he would let his victims live. However, he would leave signs behind that eventually lead back to him. Ramirez was arrested on August 31, 1985. However, this arrest was not an easy one.

The Freeway Killer William George Bonin was a pedophile serial killer who targeted mainly young teenage boys, especially hitchhikers. He kidnapped, raped, tortured, and confessed to murdering up to twenty-one victims across southern California between 1979 and 1980. He was most known as the “Freeway killer” for the way he would dump the body of his victims, naked along roadways and behind buildings between LA County and Orange county. He terrorized many children while spreading more fear among the community and as a result was later known as the “Freeway killer” over time. Bonin was born on January 8, 1947, in Willimantic Connecticut, he was the second child out of three sons and each of them were only three

This paper examines Gary Ridgway's life, brutal murders, and theories. Gary Ridgway also operated under another name. The Green River Killer. He was convicted of 49 murders but admitted to over 90. (Shenfeld, 2018)