Sadistic “Freeway Killer” Left Trail of Over 22 Boy’s Bodies: The Story of William Bonin

Kym L Pasqualini
11 min readOct 22, 2020
Victims of serial killer William Bonin, known as the Freeway Killer in southern California during the late 70s and early 80s.
Victims of serial killer William Bonin, known as the Freeway Killer in southern California during the late 70s and early 80s.

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 a series of murders between 1979 and 1980. Bonin is suspected of at least 15 additional murders but never charged.

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Kym L Pasqualini

A veteran crime victim advocate who loves to write. Founder and CEO of the National Center for Missing Adults from 1994–2010.