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260: William Bonin The Freeway Killer - January 8 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com There are only 3 men who, as far as documentation goes, carry the moniker of Freeway Killer. And, on January 8th 1947 one of these men, one who would take the lives of a minimum of 21 young boys, was born. William Bonin Born (1947) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement of

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telemarked.

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We have a weird.

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A weird.

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A woman is described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

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Morning.

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A cop of murder.

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There were only three men who, as far as documentation goes, carry the moniker of Freeway

0:16.9

killer.

0:18.3

And, on January 8th, 1947, one of these men, one who would take the lives of a minimum

0:24.9

of 21 young boys, was born. So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back

0:32.0

and search your day with a morning cup of murder. William Bonin was born on January 8th, 1947, to alcoholic parents

0:43.6

and an abusive father. He and his brothers were often taken care of by sympathetic neighbors,

0:49.8

or their grandfather, a convicted child molester who molested William's mother when she was a child.

0:56.7

By 1953, the Bonn Boys were placed in an orphanage in an effort to protect them from their father,

1:03.3

which would have worked if it weren't for the facility and their corporal punishment practices.

1:09.9

Children were severely beaten, drowned in sinks filled with water to prove a point,

1:15.1

and Bonin himself admitted to consenting to sexual advances made by older men as long as they

1:20.7

agreed to bind him beforehand.

1:22.9

He stayed in this orphanage until he was nine.

1:26.4

At ten, he was arrested for the first time,

1:29.4

stealing license plates, and sent to a juvenile detention center where, once again, he was

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