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6 Part 11 Thursday, January 8, 1981 Youth's Story About Bonin Unsealed Informant in Freeway Killer Case Recounts Harrowing Tale The Career With a Future! FOR SPRIGS SESSION ST ejohu nw. Swastikas and Nazi Slogans Painted on Simon Wiesenthal Center in L.A. By JANET CLAYTON, Times Staff Writer Vandals spray -painted swastikas and Nazi slogans on the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in West Los Angeles early Wednesday. It was the third anti-Semitic incident at the center this week. Police said the vandals struck sometime after 1 a.m.

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and JO daoaa Nama STREET PHONE CITY STATE ZIP DOB'S r.lEDJ'S SHOP By BILL FARR, Times Staff Writer The informant who led investigators to accused Freeway Killer William Bonin quoted him as saying he liked to kill teen-age boys on Friday and Saturday nights so he would have time to visit his girl friend on Sundays. This was revealed in previously secret court documents that were unsealed Wednesday after a May 4 date was set for Bonin to stand trial on charges he killed 14 youths between May. 1979, and June, 1980. The documents opened by the order of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William B. Keene disclosed for the first time how detectives came to focus on Bonin and place him under surveillance in early June, 1980.

The crucial information was provided, according to the court files, by a 17-year-old inmate at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey who told his counselors that he had information about the Freeway Killer. This was relayed to Los Angeles Police Department's John St. John, who was one of the dozens of detectives working on the case at the time. When St. John visited the youth, who had been sent to Los Padrinos on a grand theft auto charge, the young man recounted a harrowing tale of his encounter with Bonin in March, 1980.

During the May 29 interview with St. John, the youth said he met Bo nin during a party at a friend's house in Lynwood. He said he accepted a ride home from Bonin, who quickly asked him to engage in a variety of homosexual acts. The youth said he turned down Bonin. Then, the informant said, Bonin tried to talk him into helping him with killings.

The youth said he declined, and, fearing for his life, tried to escape from Bonin's van. The young man said he tried to jump out while the vehicle was stopped at an intersection but that Bonin grabbed him by the neck and forced him back in. The informant quoted Bonin as saying, "I can't do that to you," explaining that he would not harm him because there had been witnesses who saw them leave the party together. As they continued their drive together, the youth stated, Bonin began to tell him how he liked to pick up young hitchhikers and use their T-shirts to strangle them, using a tire iron to increase his leverage for the twisting. The court documents also have the youth quoting Bonin as saying, "If you want to kill somebody, you should make a plan and find a place to dump the body before you pick a victim." It was during this conversation, the informant told St.

John, that Bonin said he went out looking for young men to kill on Friday and Saturday nights, leaving him free to take his girl friend rollerskating in Anaheim on Sundays. The informant, whose identity is being withheld for his protection, said that at one point Bonin opened his glove compartment and a large number of newspaper clippings on the Freeway Killer case fell out. Finally, Bonin let the youth out at a location he described to Bonin as his home. He said he lied to Bonin about that because he did not want him to know where he lived. Based on this information, investigators put Bonin under 24 -hour surveillance beginning on June 2, the same day that the final victim, Steven Wells, disappeared.

Bonin was then under constant surveillance until June 11 when officers followed him into Hollywood where he was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a teen-age youth in his van. Details of all this were contained in a series of affidavits supporting search warrants for Bonin's van and home and for the residence of Vernon Butts, 23, who reportedly confessed to taking part in several of the killings with Bonin. Butts also was in court before Keene Wednesday and his trial was set for July 27 on the five murders charged against him by Los Angeles authorities. Butts also faces homicide charges in Orange County. OF REGULAR MERCHANDISE SALE STARTS JAN.

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Several other Southern California cities already have such an ordinance. Public urination has not been an issue in most Orange County cities, but Fountain Valley has had problems. It is already in court, promoted by the complaints of several residents. Urinating in a front yard was one of the points of dispute. Assistant City Atty.

Alan Burns said the city had a second, unrelated incident of public urination that helped prompt the ordinance. Apparently, there is nothing in the state statutes against it. "This is not a problem of epidemic proportions," Burns said. "But there is a definite gap in the law, and the City Council is doing something about it." Burns said the courts have ruled that people who urgently need to relieve themselves cannot be charged with lewd conduct. But the new Fountain Valley ordinance is based on public urination as a sanitary problem.

The ordinance was based on a similar law passed recently in Stanton. The drinking ordinance was prompted by problems police were having with young people imbibing in a parking lot outside an arcade. "I don't think anyone is interested in arresting someone drinking a beer in his front yard," Burns said. "But from now on it will be illegal to sit in the parking lot of a shopping center and drink alcohol." Other examples of "public" listed in the ordinance are open streets, schoolgrounds and parks. (Drinking is already prohibited at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley, which is operated by the county.) The two ordinances take effect Feb.

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