LOS ANGELES -- William Ray Pugh, 19, an alleged accomplice of convicted Freeway Killer William Bonin, was to go to trial Monday on charges he helped Bonin kill a 15-year-old runaway.
Pugh was charged with sodomizing and killing Harry Todd Turner whose nude and strangled body was found in an alley near downtown Los Angeles in March of 1980.
Turner was one of the victims in the Freeway Killer case, which involved the loosely connected deaths of 44 young men and boys whose bodies were dumped near freeways in five counties from 1972.
Bonin, 35, was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for the sex and torture murders of Turner and nine other young males in 1979 and 1980.
He still faces a May 17 trial in Orange County for four additional murders.
Two other accomplices were sentenced to prison terms earlier. Gregory Miley, 20, received a 25 years to life sentence and James Munro, also 20, was sentenced to 15 years to life.
