The Timeline That Doesn't Add Up
Officially, three of William Bonin's murders from March 1980 — Ronald Gatlin, Glenn Norman Barker, and Russell Rugh — are on the books as solo kills. No accomplice. No second set of hands. No one else in the van.
Murder Phone isn't buying it.
In this episode, we rebuild the March 1980 timeline matching the days of the week against the facts, and mapped every move Bonin made that March. What we found doesn't fit.There's reason to believe William Pugh and James Munro were already riding with him, long before investigators say they were.
Four Men. One Van. All of Them Lying.
Vernon Butts. Gregory Miley. James Munro. William Pugh.
Four men climbed into that van with Bonin. Four men walked away with plea deals, half-truths, and stories that don't line up.
We go through all of it — the contradictions, the deals cut to save their own skin, and what happened to each of them in the years after Bonin was finally caught, on June 11, 1980.
Not all of them made it out.
A Tape No One Was Meant to Hear
In 2007, Tony picked up the phone. On the other end: Gregory Miley.
What he said has never been aired. Never been heard. Until now.
Miley makes a claim that should chill you — about the night Vernon Butts died in his jail cell. The official story says suicide.
Miley says murder.
You'll hear the tape. And more voices from the men who rode in the Murder Van — men who know exactly what happened, and have spent decades deciding how much of it to tell.
We want to know what you think:
- Did Bonin really act alone that March — or was someone else in the van the whole time?
- Did Vernon Butts take his own life... or did someone make sure he never talked?
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