Born
24 Mar 1966, Northridge, Los Angeles County, California

Death
28 May 1979, Los Angeles County, California

Tragically, Thomas Lundgren is 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.

“The first murder for which Bonin was charged was that of a 13-year-old hitchhiker named Thomas Lundgren. The youth was kidnapped, assaulted and killed on the morning of May 28, 1979. Lundgren’s body was found near a freeway in Agoura. An autopsy showed that Lundgren had been emasculated, bludgeoned, stabbed, and strangled to death. Bonin carried out the crime with his primary accomplice, Vernon Butts, who is suspected of accompanying Bonin on at least nine of the murders.”