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William George Bonin
Clifford  Robert Olson Jr.

 

Motive

 

  • Love to impress and impersonate others.

 

  • Hedonistic -Thrill Killer 

 

  • (Olson often drugged victims as well as serving alohol to them in order to subdue them)

 

 

 

 

Operandi/Method

 

Olson's Modus Operandi in all eleven murders was to entice the victims into his car with the spurious offer of work, the use of alcohol and a drug called chloral hydrate which when mixed confused and overcame his victims. Blanco (nd) Murderpedia retrieved from .http://murderpedia.org/male.O/o/olson-

clifford-robert.htm.

 

  • No known accomplices

 

  • Gift giving, money, alcohol, bribes and other recreational rewards were the most effective methods used to courting youngsters, amongst other tactics such as charm. (Kerr) .

 

  • Posing as a construction contractor/employer and handing out a Hale & Olson Construction business card, he impressed the youngsters, especially with the promise of work. On a promise of $5.00-$10.00 per hour for landscaping. (Hale was his wife--Joan Hale). (Kerr).

 

  • Olson was extroverted and sociable. Kerr references "a compelling, anonymous story on the Internet, entitled I Survived Clifford Olson, reveals some of the other ways that Olson employed in order to enticed the teens & children to trust him:

 

  • " He would hire skinny kids while turning away what I thought to be stronger more suitable workers." (Kerr).

 

  • "Olson raped some of the boys by first singling out a person for special duties...and slowly gaining the confidence and respect of each individual by bragging about how bad he was and how he used to be." (Kerr)

 

  • Mounties became aware of his methods for luring children in late May 1981.

 

  • Prior to being caught and sent to prison permanently, Olson was arrested for impaired driving and also charged with contrib uting to "juvenile delinquency" when her crashed his vehicle with a 16-year-old female passenger in Agassiz, Valley, Vancouver. (Kerr).

 

Source:

Kerr, B. J. (n.d). Clifford olson jr. <Crimelibrary>: criminal minds and methods. Retrieved from http://www.crimelibrary

.com/serial_killers/predators/olson/2.html

 

 

 

 

Motive: 

  • Hedonistic-Thrill killer driven by euphoric blood lust (per psychiatrist at his trial).

 

  • He was sexually excited by  the sound of children screaming and dying.

 

  • Psychiatrists at his Los Angeles trial said: "Bonin was likely in a manic state when he killed. His violent sexual urges would finally be irresistible."

 

  • Killing was a team sport for Bonin.  He enjoyed the camaraderie.

 

  • "He described feeling excited by the prospect of killing someone, of being barely able to wait for sundown so he could begin to cruise to pick up someone for this purpose and obtain some sense of release." (Gribben).

 

 

Operation/ (Operandi)

 

  • Entice and/or pick up hitchhiking boy along the California freeway.

 

 

  •  Used accomplices to help lure, subdue and murder teens.

 

  • Bonin and  accomplice his primary accomplice Vernon  Butts left few clues in the raping, bludgeoning, strangulation with a ligature

 

  • There was a ritualistic element to the use of the victims own t-shirt as a ligature. (K

 

  • Tying with rope - influenced with his childhood sexual abuse.  Bonin asked for his hands to be tied while being sexually assaulted by older boys in the reformatory (Kerr, Crimelibrary, Blanco, Murderpedia)

 

  • Materials: Tape and rope similar to that which bound his victims was found in the van, as well as, keeping a scrapbook for Freeway Killer stories in his vans.

 

  • Organized/methodical in order to avoided detection for several years

 

 

  • "Used bribery for sex, alcohol, poison. One victim was made to drink hydrochloric acid before he was slain. (Gribben).

 

  • Cooling off period was only a few days. Sometimes he would kill more than once per day.

 

  • Their bodies were then dumped along the freeway.   (Gribben).

 

 

 

Modus Operandi

Definition

 

 

"A method of procedure; especially : a distinct pattern or method of operation that indicates or suggests the work of a single criminal in more than one crime Source: Modus Operandi. Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modus operandi.

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