Darin Kendrick was 19 when he was murdered on April 29, 1980. He worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Stanton, California, and was approached with an offer to buy marijuana that led him into a van driven by William Bonin and Vernon Butts. Kendrick was taken to Butts’ apartment, where he was tortured and killed; his body was dumped behind a warehouse near the Artesia Freeway and found the next day.

Medical and investigative descriptions from the case state Kendrick had been stabbed in the ear with an ice pick, had a caustic solution poured down his chin, and was found nude and strangled near an industrial area in Carson, California. His mother, Patricia Kendrick, identified a photograph of his body during the trial; witnesses who last saw him alive included a coworker, Bob Edwards.

This killing was one of a series attributed to William Bonin, the so-called Freeway Killer; Bonin was described in the case as the alleged ringleader who used a death van and targeted young men and boys. Does anyone have memories of Darin, where he worked, or information about his last day that could help preserve his story?