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 21 boys and young men in a series of killings in 1979 and 1980 in southern California.

Obsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer. Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder. In the end of the 70's,...

The Freeway Killer was a collective epithet given by the media and the police to what the media believed was a single serial killer claiming young male victims, predominantly in California during the 1970s and early 1980s, and who often discarded the victims' bodies alongside or upon freeways.

William Bonin was a serial killer suspected of sexually assaulting, torturing and killing at least 21 boys and young men in Los Angeles and Orange County, California. The press nicknamed him the "The Freeway Killer ," because he would pick up young boys who were hitchhiking, sexually assault and murder them, then dispose of their bodies along the freeways.

The shocking true story of serial killer William Bonin (Scott Leet), who stalked California freeways in search of victims to murder, mutilate, and rape from May of 1979 through June of 1980. A deceitful charmer with a hair-trigger temper, Bonin could go from benevolent citizen to murderous psychopath in the blink of an eye.

Freeway Killer (33) 5.4 1h 28min 2010 R For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. Find out in this chilling true story of one of our most notorious serial killers, William Bonin aka the FREEWAY KILLER, whose poisoned mind struck terror into an entire nation.

The shocking true story of serial killer William Bonin (Scott Leet), who stalked California freeways in search of victims to murder, mutilate, and rape from May of 1979 through June of 1980. A deceitful charmer with a hair-trigger temper, Bonin could go from benevolent citizen to murderous psychopath in the blink of an eye.

Find out in this chilling true story of one of our most notorious serial killers, William Bonin aka the FREEWAY KILLER, whose poisoned mind struck terror into an entire nation.

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.

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.