David’s nude body was found three days later on a Ventura Highway off-ramp. On September 9, 1979, in the early morning, David Murillo, 17, was bicycling to the movies in La Mirada when the defendant and co-defendant Butts abducted him. He had been sodomized and it appeared that attempts had been made to cut off his testicles and slash his throat. Donald had been strangled by ligature and stabbed. near Liberty Canyon and the off ramp of the Ventura Freeway. On August 27, 1979, at 1 a.m., the defendant and co-defendant Butts picked up Donald Hyden, 15, near the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles. His nude body was found the next day beside a road in Malibu, with an orange nylon cord loosely wrapped behind his head and a piece of ignition wire around one of his ankles. Marcus, a German student on a backpacking tour of the United States, was sodomized, beaten and stabbed 77 times. On August 5, 1979, the defendant and co-defendant Butts accosted Marcus Grabs, 17, in Newport Beach sometime between 6 and 10 p.m. With the help of four co-defendants, defendant Bonin kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered 10 teenaged boys in Los Angeles County between19. The following is a chronological, case-by-case summary of the crimes in each of the two counties from which Bonin received a death sentence. The defendant was not prosecuted for those crimes. About one year later he was convicted in Orange County of the other four murders, for which he received a second death sentence.īonin also was suspected of murdering other males, whose bodies were found around the same period of time in Kern, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernardino Counties. The defendant was sentenced to death in 1982 for 10 murders throughout Los Angeles County. His co-defendants were also young men between the ages of 17 and 21. Jail) Gregory Matthew Miley (CDC# C42801 First degree murder – 25 yrs to life) William Ray Pugh (CDC# C53164 Voluntary manslaughter – 6 yrs) James Michael Munro (CDC# C44535 Second degree murder – 15 yrs to life) Summary:ĭefendant William George Bonin, the “Freeway Killer,” kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered a total of 14 teenaged boys between 19. Vernon Robert Butts (committed suicide while at LA Co. Note: Both co-defendants were also co-defendants in some of the Los Angeles murder cases. (15 – Bonin’s last victim was not killed)Ĭo-Defendants: Gregory Matthew Miley (CDC# C42801), James Michael Munro (CDC# C44535). Victims: Dennis Frank Fox (17), Glenn Barker (14), Russell Rugh (15), Lawrence Sharp (17), Marcus Grabs (17), Donald Hyden (15), David Murillo (17), Charles Miranda (15), James McCabe (12), Ronald Gatlin (19), Harry Todd Turner (14), Steven Wood (16), Darin Lee Kendrick (19), Steven Jay Wells (18), Harold T.

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