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William Bonin

1947 - 1996

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William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer and the Freeway Strangler, was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered young men and boys between 1968 and 1980 in southern California. He was convicted of 14 murders, but he confessed to 21 and is suspected of even more. Bonin's first known murder victim was killed in May 1979. He generally operated by luring his victims into his van under the pretense of having consensual sex. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Bonin is the 218th most popular extremist (down from 211th in 2019), the 6,591st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,033rd in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, William Bonin ranks 218 out of 283. Before him are Luis Posada Carriles, Dick Turpin, Mary Ann Cotton, Ernst Zündel, Yoo Young-chul, and Robert Berdella. After him are Amparo Poch y Gascón, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Mikhail Popkov, Mildred Gillars, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, and Abdullah Çatlı.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, William Bonin ranks 465. Before him are Nina Matviienko, John Aston Jr., Michael Ignatieff, Jude Ciccolella, Michèle Pierre-Louis, and Peter Riegert. After him are Kathy Acker, Rita Kühne, Teemu Sippo, Linda Thorson, John Johnson, and Ladislav Kuna. Among people deceased in 1996, William Bonin ranks 207. Before him are Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Gabriel Alonso, Lydia Chukovskaya, Yun Chi-young, and Aliki Vougiouklaki. After him are Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Jon Pertwee, Camilla Horn, Zainab Biisheva, Gizella Farkas, and Lola Beltrán.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Bonin ranks 6,592 out of 20,380. Before him are Sandy Koufax (1935), Will Rogers (1879), Rob Delaney (1977), Albert Nasse (1878), Lou Rawls (1933), and Tony Lo Bianco (1936). After him are Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Kristin Chenoweth (1968), Eugene McCarthy (1916), Nita Naldi (1894), and Roy D. Bridges Jr. (1943).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, William Bonin ranks 76. Before him are Jane Toppan (1854), Robert Ford (1862), Stanley Williams (1953), Stand Watie (1806), Richard Speck (1941), and Robert Berdella (1949). After him are Mildred Gillars (1900), Frank James (1843), Christopher Scarver (1969), Ottis Toole (1947), Marshall Applewhite (1931), and Warren Jeffs (1955).

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