Harry Todd Turner (14)
Born
Orange County, California
Death
24 Mar 1980, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Tragically, Harry Turner was one of the victims of California serial murderer, William Bonin who was convicted of the rape, torture and murder of 14 boys and young men between 1968 and 1980. Known as “The Freeway Killer”, he was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison in 1996. Prosecutors portrayed him as “the most arch-evil person who ever existed.” Although he was found guilty of 14 murders, he confessed to 21 and is suspected of even more.
On March 25, 1980, 15-year-old runaway Harry Turner from a Los Angeles street was abducted by William Bonin and another accomplice William Pugh. Turner had escaped a boys’ home in Lancaster four days prior. Pugh later testified that he and Bonin lured Turner into Bonin’s van with an offer of $20 for sex. After binding and sodomizing Turner, Bonin bit into his penis until it tore and then ordered Pugh to beat him up. After Pugh bludgeoned and beat him, Bonin strangled him to death. His body was discarded behind a Los Angeles business.
