Without Redemption: Creation & Deeds of Freeway Killer Bill Bonin, His Five Accomplices & How One Who Escaped Justice

by Michael B. Butler, Vonda Pelto, Ph. D.

Overview

Without Redemption was written on a number of parallel tracks that constantly intersect: First, it is the most detailed historical biography ever written about Bill Bonin, the notrorious Freeway Killer responsible for murdering 22 teenage boys over ten-months in 1979-80.

Second, it is a comprehensive psychologial roadmap which charts the evolution of Bonin's personality from abused child to sexual predator to serial killer. This is accomplished using documents from his childhood, war serrvice, multiple California government mental health and penal institutions, witness testimony and the expertise of Clinical Psychologist Vonda Pelto, Ph.D., who had many sessions with Bonin and two of his accopmplices while working in Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.

Third, it is a narrative which, using a trove of lond hidden documents, reveals the inner workings of Bonin's mind, showing how he throught, felt, planned and viewed the world. The narrative displays Bonin, an abused high school dropout, cleverly manipulating lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, social workers, friends, family, probation officers, government bureaucrats, detectives, journalists and, most tragically, the innocent victims of his rage.

Fourth, Without Redemption reveals the complex and interconnected stories of waht took palce after Bonin's final arrest, when so much was in flux and so many moving parts were swirling about. Archieved investigative documents, collected from a variety of sources, brings to light a number of surprising, shocking, sad and even funny events from those tumultuous ten-months from June 1980 to March 1981.

Finally, it is a book which solves two murder mysteries and unlocks how one day of crossroads and coincidences, in the misdst of the murder spress, profoundly impacted many lives and future events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823120548
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/20/2022
Edition description:	Detaield Historical Bio of Bill Bonin ed.
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Vonda Pelto, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist based in Southern California wrote her first book, Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles’ Serial Killers Alive, which came out in 2008. Her time spent working in Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail with notorious serial killers and murderers, from September 1981 till February 1985, provided the basis for Without Remorse and Without Redemption.

Michael B. Butler’s first book, A World Flight Over Russia, published in 1998 by Wind Canyon Books, was the result of a last-minute assignment to document a flight of 12 small planes flying 17,500 miles around the world while crossing the entire landmass of Russia and Siberia. His work in public relations, marketing and as a photographer resulted in documenting travel junkets to Tahiti and Ireland, the 50th Anniversaries of Pearl Harbor and D-Day and a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with 750 Christians from all over the world.