Bonin then strangled Macabe to death with his own T-shirt. Miley then heard Macabe crying as Bonin beat and raped him, before he himself joined Bonin in beating the youngster simply because he "felt like" doing so. According to Miley, the boy entered the rear of the van voluntarily as he drove, before Bonin parked the van in a grocery store parking lot. Macabe was abducted as he waited for a bus to Disneyland at the corner of Beach Boulevard and Slater Avenue. Bonin then suggested to Miley: "I'm horny, let's go and do another one." A few hours later, in Huntington Beach, Bonin and Miley abducted, raped and killed James Macabe who, at age 12, was Bonin's youngest victim. His nude corpse was dumped in an alleyway. Miranda was forced to hand his wallet to Bonin before he was overpowered, raped, assaulted with other objects, before Bonin strangled the youth to death with a tire iron as Miley repeatedly jumped on his chest.
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On February 3, Bonin, assisted by an acquaintance of his named Gregory Matthews Miley, drove from Downey to Hollywood, where they encountered a 15-year-old hitchhiker named Charles Miranda hitchhiking upon Santa Monica Boulevard.
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He was convicted of 14 of these murders and subsequently executed in 1996.īonin 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 is also suspected of committing a further fifteen murders.
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He is sometimes referred to as " The Freeway Killer", a nickname he shares with two other – separate – serial killers, Patrick Kearney and Randy Steven Kraft. William George Bonin (Janu– February 23, 1996) 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 between 19 in southern California.