Lawrence Eugene Sharp was 17 when he was abducted and murdered on May 12, 1980, in Orange, Orange County, California. Born November 3, 1962, in Oklahoma, he was a Caucasian teenager whose body was recovered behind a Westminster gas station on May 18, 1980. The autopsy found he had been bound, sodomized, beaten, and strangled.

An information filed January 2, 1981, charged Bonin with Lawrence Sharp’s murder among others, including counts of murder, robbery, sodomy, and mayhem.

Does anyone have memories of Lawrence or information about his life that could add to what is known about him?