William Bonin

The True Story of the Freeway Killer

De: Jack Rosewood

Narrado por: Gaius M. Thynne

In the 1970s and early '80s, southern California was shocked when dead boys began turning up with disturbing regularity alongside some of the state's most heavily traveled freeways.

Victims of sadistic torture, the dead boys and young men had been raped and strangled, and their untimely deaths were eventually attributed to the Freeway Killer, an elusive psychopath whose trail of death would go down in California history as one of the worst true crime stories in the country.

While the Freeway Killer ultimately turned out to be three different men, one of them was truck driver William Bonin, one of the most prolific and sadistic among American serial killers. Bonin usually preferred to work with an accomplice, and the lust killer and his cronies brutally raped and tortured his victims - Bonin loved the sounds of their screams - before strangling them and dumping them on the side of the road like garbage.

Bonin confessed to committing 21 murders in the span of just a year, although many experts believe he was responsible for the deaths of many more missing young men.

He was executed in 1996, and in this detailed serial killer biography, you'll learn the background that might offer some understanding of what makes a man go off the rails and become a deranged lust killer.

Of course, spine-tingling story of a man whose youngest victim was a 12-year-old who was waiting for a bus to take him to Disneyland might be one that causes you to sleep with the lights on for weeks after listening to this book.

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The narrator completely ruins it

The monotone voice is extremely hard to listen to. While the story is indeed fascinating for any true crime aficionado, the narration makes it incredibly hard to become immersed or pay attention for long sittings. It took me a while to finish this primarily because of the voice over.

Terrible narrator

Disliked everything Poor author for a book. Reads like a bad police report horrible narrator

Awful narration - couldn't finish listening!

Interesting information, but I just couldn't get past the narration. I wanted to give it a chance, but ran out of patience with the monotone narrator. I should have read and trusted the reviews beforehand.

Couldn't get past the narration

Would have probably been a great book with another narrator. Monotone voice and mispronounced as well as obviously misread words just killed the suspense for me and made this interesting true tale just very hard to listen to.

horrible narrator! do not buy

Couldn't finish listening to the horrible narration of this book. I honestly thought it was a computer until it changed its voice to mimic that of a woman's. It is also full of mispronunciations.

The electronic reader is painful

This was a story that I had heard about from a true crime podcast. I couldn’t finish it. The odd tone of the “reader” was painful and I couldn’t continue.