104 MPH on PCH: Fraser Bohm’s Deadly Joyride That Killed Four Sorority Sisters
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
And a single phrase echoing through the courtroom: “Speed is not malice.”
In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we break down the case of Fraser Michael Bohm, the 22-year-old driver accused of killing four Pepperdine University seniors in a fiery crash on Malibu’s infamous Dead Man’s Curve. Prosecutors say Bohm’s BMW was flying at over 100 mph in a 45 zone when it struck a row of parked cars, sending them careening into the victims — Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir, and Deslyn Williams.
Bohm’s defense insists this was a tragedy, not a crime — arguing that “speed alone doesn’t prove malice.” But Judge Thomas Rubinson disagreed, refusing to toss the murder charges and allowing the case to move forward.
We unpack the legal fault lines between vehicular manslaughter and implied-malice murder, the psychology of risk and privilege, and what this ruling could mean for every reckless-driving case going forward. Was this youthful arrogance, blind panic, or conscious disregard for life?
From courtroom strategy to moral accountability, this is the story of how a split-second decision on one of America’s most dangerous highways became a test case for justice — and a defining moment for four grieving families demanding that speed finally have consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.8 | In a courtroom in Los Angeles County, a defense attorney named Alan Jackson. |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, that Alan Jackson. |
| 0:16.0 | Not the country singer Alan Jackson, the true crime, Alan Jackson, you know, from Karen Reed. |
| 0:22.0 | He's Frazier's defense attorney. |
| 0:26.1 | It's a guy you want if you want to get away with something, right? |
| 0:29.2 | A defense attorney stood before a judge and said something that hung in the air like a challenge to both logic and law. |
| 0:37.1 | Speed is not malice. |
| 0:39.6 | It's a clean line. |
| 0:41.8 | Calm, measured, almost reasonable on its face. |
| 0:44.9 | And maybe that's the point. |
| 0:46.7 | Because when you strip away the images of crushed steel and broken glass, |
| 0:51.7 | four young women whose futures ended on the side of Pacific Coast Highway. |
| 0:56.2 | You're left with a philosophical question that's been chasing the justice system for decades. |
| 1:02.7 | When does reckless behavior, the kind that everyone knows can kill, cross over into murder? |
| 1:12.5 | The defendant is 22-year-old |
| 1:14.4 | Frazier Michael Boom. |
| 1:17.1 | And the four people that are dead, |
| 1:20.7 | Nima Ralston, who is 20, |
| 1:23.0 | Peyton Stewart, who was 21, |
| 1:26.7 | Isha Weir, 21, and Deslin Williams, 21. |
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