BONIN, WILLIAM: Killers: Behind the Myth: Freeway Killer TV - Los Angeles Times - World’s Most Evil Killers: William Bonin TV -
California, 1979 ... A nightmare is unfolding ... The police are puzzled by the sheer number of dead bodies ... a predator with a taste for teenage boys. Killers: Behind the Myth: Freeway Killer, CI 2014
The boy is stabbed seventy-seven times. The murder is the start of a horrific killing spree. ibid.
Up to four different accomplices. ibid.
In custody Bonin will shock hardened policemen. ibid.
San Quentin – William G Bonin, the notorious ‘Freeway Killer’ who seared his way into the nation’s consciousness with a string of sadistic murders 16 years ago, was executed at San Quentin Prison early today, becoming the first person in California to die by lethal injection.
Bonin, a former Downey truck driver who confessed to raping, torturing and killing 21 boys and young men, was put to death in the prison’s converted gas chamber. Bonin was declared dead at 12:13 a.m.
At 10:47 p.m. the US Supreme Court rejected a desperate, last-minute appeal by Bonin’s attorneys to spare his life. Earlier Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, then a larger panel from the same court, refused to block the execution.
Outside the prison gates, hundreds of death penalty opponents and supporters engaged in raucous, often angry demonstrations, becoming increasingly confrontational as the night wore on. Los Angeles Times article 23rd February 1996, ‘Freeway Killer Bonin Executed’
22nd March 1980 the bodies of two teenage boys were discovered dumped together beside a freeway in California. Sadly, they weren’t the first and they wouldn’t be the last. Bodies of young boys, most of them hitchhikers, had been discarded like trash. The victims had all been tied up and sexually assaulted before being strangled. The killer was a local truck driver called William Bonin. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e1: William Bonin – Freeway Killer, Sky Crime 2021
In just thirteen months the monster dubbed the Freeway Killer was responsible for the murders of up to twenty-one young boys and teenagers. ibid.
BOONE, SARAH: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
9-1-1 call February 24th 2020: ‘My boyfriend is dead. My boyfriend and I were playing last night and I put him in a case when we were playing like kind of hide and seek kind of thing. So I fell asleep and I woke up and he was dead in the suitcase, so I don’t know what happened.’ True Crime Recaps: Stuffed in Suitcase in Game of Hide & Seek: Sarah Boone Case, Youtube 6.41, 2022
Two videos from her phone told a very different story … ‘For everything you’ve done to me.’ ibid.
A history of domestic violence between them. ibid.
BORDEN, LIZZIE: Popular Rhyme - Lizzie Borden documentary - Crime Library online
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one! Popular rhyme, re acquittal of Lizzie Borden June 1893 Massachusetts
It was a crime that shocked the nation: a pious young woman arrested for the brutal murder of her parents. Did she do it? Lizzie Borden, Crime Channel
Lizzie was acquitted. ibid.
Andrew Borden seventy-two and his second wife Abby had been brutally murdered, both hacked to death. ibid.
Andrew Borden’s fortune was vast. ibid.
Witnesses still wondered about a man seen in front of the house on the morning of the murders. ibid.
From the beginning people were intent on solving the case. ibid.
Author Arnold Brown [The Legend, The Truth, The Final Chapter] believes the killer’s name was William Borden. And he really was Andrew Borden’s illegitimate son. ibid.
Did William Borden wield the axe that killed Abby and Andrew Borden or was someone paid to do it, as historian George Quigley [International Lizzie Borden Association] suggests? ibid.
Quigley also believes Lizzie’s older sister Emma and their uncle Morse were involved. ibid.
Many of those who have studied the Lizzie Borden case believe that more than one person was involved in the murder of Abby and Andrew Borden. ibid.
Other theories suggest the maid Bridget Sullivan may have been involved. ibid.
The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime for over one hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. This is a murder case in which the accused is found not guilty for the violent and bloody murders of two people. There were the unusual circumstances considering that it was an era of swift justice, of vast newspaper coverage, evidence that was almost entirely circumstantial, passionately divided public opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, incompetent prosecution, and acquittal. Crime Library online article
BORJESSON, ANNIE murder: The Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? I: The Body TV -
Annie Borjesson said she was coming home to see friends and family. She never made it. The police investigation said she took her own life. Her family and friends have never accepted this. The Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? I: The Body, Hazel Martin reporting, captions, BBC 2023
December 4th 2005 8.23 a.m.: ‘Found right here on this beach.’ ibid.
‘It looked like someone had pressed their thumbs standing in front of Annie and with matching finger bruisings on her back.’ ibid. friend in Sweden
‘She couldn’t have caused all those bruises herself.’ ibid. woman
After seeing her body Annie’s family became convinced she’d been heavily beaten and drowned. ibid. caption
There’s all the weird bruising and the missing hair that the family say they found on Annie’s body. The Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? II: The Journey
Annie began the 76 mile journey [from Edinburgh] to Prestwick Airport. ibid. caption
After being in the terminal for 5 minutes and 47 seconds Annie left the airport. ibid.
Two days before she died Annie called her family from a payphone. She said she was worried someone was listening to her mobile phone calls. ibid.
Why on earth would the security services be interested in Annie Borjesson? ibid.
‘A case of mistaken identity by agents of the US state.’ ibid. bloke’s theory
How incredibly shallow it was … Just how far would Annie have had to travel? … She would have had to walk nearly half a mile … She was a strong swimmer. The Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? III: The Beach *****
‘To be able to hold your head underwater for long enough for you to drown simply voluntarily would be almost impossible.’ ibid. pathologist
When her body was found she was discovered right next to the sea wall, and right next to her metres away were her jacket and her bag … Is that even possible? ibid.
The tidal conditions at Prestwick beach do make it possible for different objects to wash up all together at exactly the same spot where Annie was found. ibid.
‘What we’re seeing here is a diatom species that we typically find in freshwater environments.’ ibid. specialist