# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bonin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:53.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bonin"
name: "William Bonin"
slug: "william-bonin"
description: "William George Bonin, also called the Freeway Killer and the Freeway Strangler, was an American serial killer and sex offender. Bonin attacked numerous boys and men between 1968 and 1980, in southern California, and briefly, Vietnam. He was convicted of 14 murders, but confessed to 21, and is a suspect in additional cases."
tagline: "American serial killer (1947–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Bonin_mug_shot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1947-01-08"
deathDate: "1996-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.33731792353065
  historical:           17.871668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump