I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Freeway Killer
I Survived
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4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In September of 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend’s house in Garden Grove, CA. His assailant, William Bonin, has an appetite for assaulting young men and boys, and just four short years after attacking David, Bonin embarks on an all out killing spree. David recounts in his own words his persistence and unfailing bravery in the mission to lock up the Freeway Killer, one of the most notoriously vicious serial killers to ever terrorize Southern California.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains stories involving violence against children. |
| 0:04.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:07.0 | William Bonin has been convicted of killing 14 boys in Southern California from 1979 to 1980. |
| 0:14.0 | There was a killer on the loose, and young men were in danger. |
| 0:18.4 | The bodies were piling up. |
| 0:23.1 | The public was frantic. |
| 0:25.3 | The guy offered me a ride, so I jumped inside. |
| 0:28.7 | He said, close the door and shut up. |
| 0:31.7 | I was scared to death. |
| 0:33.2 | I was just dead. |
| 0:35.3 | We enjoyed it. |
| 0:36.2 | We loved to hear the screams. |
| 0:42.3 | All I could imagine was him pulling the trigger and me just falling out of the car. With my last breath, I said God help. |
| 0:45.3 | I drove down on a ball beach and I was looking to somebody here trying to and I picked the law. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey, I got there before I was going to know who this guy is or a three-way killer. |
| 0:58.0 | What you do? |
| 1:00.0 | Who? |
| 1:01.0 | That went to me. |
| 1:03.0 | Real people who faced death and lived to tell how. |
| 1:07.0 | This is I survivedived, a Serial Killer. |
| 1:21.2 | I am David McVicker, and I survived a serial killer. |
| 1:26.2 | September 8, 1975, I was 14 years old. |
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