Charles Miranda was 15 years old when he died on February 3, 1980. He is named among the victims of William Bonin, the serial killer called the Freeway Killer, who is reported to have raped, tortured and murdered at least 14 boys and young men between 1979 and 1980.

Miranda is described as one of the victims who endured those assaults before his death.

Bonin was later arrested and convicted; the text records he received a death sentence in 1982 for ten Los Angeles County murders and another death sentence for four Orange County murders, and was executed by lethal injection on February 23, 1996.