Police caught and arrested Bonin while he was in the act of raping a teenage boy in his van.īonin garnered the nickname “The Freeway Killer” for dumping most of his victims along various freeways around Los Angeles. Though he was convicted of 14 murders between 19, he confessed to killing 21 people, most of them hitchhikers.
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Bonin was a truck driver who kidnapped, raped, and murdered teenage boys and young men, according to the California Department of Corrections. He received five life sentences, but not before he testified against his cousin, who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.īianchi remains behind bars, while Buono died in 2002.Īnother noteworthy serial killer who hunted the streets of Los Angeles was William Bonin, better known as the Freeway Killer. Bianchi was arrested in Washington state for murdering two college students in 1979 ,and later confessed to the California murders. They began targeting sex workers and then widened their net to cover middle-class neighborhoods, where they took their victims back to Buono’s house to torture and rape them. According to CNN, the murderous duo posed as police officers to ensnare their victims. The pair killed ten women and girls between 19, disposing of their bodies in the hills surrounding the greater Los Angeles area. One notable killer (or killers) was the Hillside Strangler, identified as Kenneth Alessio Bianchi, and his cousin, Angelo Buono Jr.
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