Born
3 Nov 1962, Oklahoma

Death
12 May 1980, Orange, Orange County, California

Tragically, Lawrence Sharp 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 May 12, 1980, 17-year-old Lawrence Sharp, an acquaintance of Bonin’s was abducted and murdered. Bonin later stated that he decided to kill them when he had awoken that morning, because he was “tired of having him around”. Sharp’s body was discarded behind a Westminster gas station. His body was found on the 18th, and his autopsy revealed that he had been bound, sodomized, beaten, and strangled.