Who is your town's most infamous celebrity?

[Bennyboy]

Charlie Manson (Folsom prison) and the Manson Family used to live here. Sandra Goode was living here when she tried to kill Ford.

Tim Leary was in Folsom for a while.

Dorthea Puente lived in Sacramento. (killed 7 men and buried them in her backyard)

[BurtWorm]

1. Donald Trump

or Son of Sam.

[Captain Boomerang]

14. Dennis Raider (BTK) or Charles Koch (PIG)

[Captain Boomerang]

15. Didn't go up far enough... sorry.

[Archae]

2. Douglas Dean.

Shot and killed his girlfriend's whole family, (about a half a dozen,) before he turned himself in.

He's still in jail, almost 40 years later.

[Initech]

3. Richard Nixon

[Xipe Totec]

4. George Herbert Walker Bush

Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Charles Sweeney

He wasn't born in Milton, but he died here:

Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the second atomic strike on Japan in the final days of World War II, died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. General Sweeney, who lived in Milton, Mass., was 84.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/us/charles-sweeney-84-pilot-in-bombing-of-nagasaki-dies.html

[baldguy]

6. Tim McVeigh

[Oceansaway]

7. Black Hawk

Black Hawk

Along with John Deere, Black Hawk is probably the most famous Quad-Citian. War leader (but not chief) of the Sauk and Mesquakie (Fox) nations, he lived in the Indian village of Saukenuk in what is now Rock Island. Commissioned as a general, he fought on the British side in the War of 1812. After tribal leaders signed away Indian lands in most of Illinois in 1830, Black Hawk repudiated the agreement and moved back across the Mississippi, triggering the Black Hawk War of 1832. He was defeated, and died of a respiratory illness in 1838 at age 71. He was the great-grandfather of sports legend Jim Thorpe.

[SoxFan]

8. Pam Smart and Sheila Labarre

Smart was the teacher's aide who seduced a student into killing her husband. The sordid story was made into two movies, including Murder in New Hampshire", a television movie with Helen Hunt, and the theatrical release "To Die For", starring Nicole Kidman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Smart


Labarre is the nasty creature who lulled screwed up men into her life and killed them on her farm about 15 miles east of Manchester.

http://www.wmur.com/sheilalabarre/index.html

[KamaAina]

9. Probably rabid Prop H8 backer Larry Pegram

who recently tried, and failed, to sleaze onto the City Council.

[kentauros]

10. Kenny boy, aka Ken Lay

Though it could also be George H.W. Bush.

[dembotoz]

11. dalmer

[knowbody0]

12. world famous Barefoot Bandit

grew up with my kids

[Suich]

42. Cool!

He's got a great attorney.

:hi:

[Capn Sunshine]

13. The closest one would be Ronald Raygun

His grave is right up the hill from me. I could hit it with a skyrocket. But this area is known to attract the infamous.

I long harbored a desire to piss on that grave, but it's got 24/7 camera surveillance and all kinds of anti terrarist security.

If I didn't care about anything I'd LOVE To get arrested for doing that.

I settled for a quick dance.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. As said before, Jackson Michigan is home to that infamous draft-dodging chickenhawk...

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And there WERE two Apollo astronauts from Jackson -- James McDivitt (born Chicago but lived in Jackson) -- Apollo 9 and
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Additionally, Worden has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most isolated human being" during his
time alone in the command module "Endeavour". When the orbiting command module was at its greatest distance from Scott
and Irwin in the "Falcon" (the lunar landing module), Worden was 2,235 miles away from any other human beings.
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H-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-r-e am I... ... ... sitting in my tincan.
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[hippywife]

17. Richard Roberts.

:puke:

[mysuzuki2]

18. Jeffrey Dahmer

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Tammy Faye Bakker (current hometown); Jeffrey Dahmer (original hometown)

[JTG of the PRB]

20. John and Patsy Ramsey.

The case still isn't solved, and I doubt it ever will be. Hard to know what to think about what happened. The Boulder PD/DA really screwed up the investigation. It's hard to believe that was 14 years ago this December...

[TheMightyFavog]

21. Eugene Hasenfus

From the Iran-Contra mess.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

22. Mary Lee Orsini from North Little Rock, Arkansas

Killed her husband. Hired two thugs to kill a lawyers wife. Died in prison. They did a "City Confidential" about her.

After that, Mike Huckabee, before he moved to Fla. We're still airing out the double wide stench.

[doc03]

23. Charlie Manson also spent some time in this area in McMechan

WV. General George Armstrong Custer is also a local boy. Richard Nixon's ancestors on the Millhouse side are buried just out the road.

[justabob]

24. Lee Harvey Oswald is the first one to mind

He's not native, but he lived here. Dallas really has quite a few to choose from: GWBush, John Hinckley Jr, Cheney was ours for a while...various sports people, esp football players...

[blogslut]

27. I used to live across the alley from Oswald's old boarding house

It's on Beckley and I lived in an apartment on Crawford. :hi:

[justabob]

30. is it still there?

I go into Oak Cliff a lot, but oswald is rarely what I am thinking about when I do. :) Seems unlikely that the boarding house would rate "historic" standing in this town (history, what is that? It is OLD it has to go!). Now I am curious.... maybe our friend google can answer.

on edit... what do you know? Apparently it is still standing and can be visited on tour.

[blogslut]

35. LOL

You beat me to the answer. Yeah, it's still there:



link: http://www.texasmonthly.com/1000-01-01/webextra13-2.php

[justabob]

38. I should really spend a day or two as a tourist

just to remind myself what is still here. :D LOL

[AsahinaKimi]

25. The Bird man of Alcatraz?

Robert Stroud, who was better known to the public as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was probably the most famous inmate ever to reside on Alcatraz

http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/stroud.htm


I don't think he was born here but he was certainly an infamous resident.

[csziggy]

26. Ted Bundy killed the sorority women here

But frankly, I consider Jeb Bush to be our most infamous celebrity. His family is certainly more dangerous to more people than Bundy ever was.

[The Midway Rebel]

28. Robert Berdella

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berdella'


*shiver*

[Syrinx]

29. Nick Saban?

Or maybe Tim Leary, if I can count him. He got kicked out of UA back in forties.

[warrior1]

31. Arnold Schwarzenegger

[hobbit709]

32. Charles Whitman or George Bush

[GoCubsGo]

33. Lee Atwater

He's the most famous, and the most infamous. His vile behavior lives on through many of my town's residents, sadly.

[LiberalAndProud]

34. Charles Starkweather

and his sidekick Carol Ann Fugate.

[backwoodsbob]

36. well it's the next town over

Bob Denver (gilligan)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

37. As mentioned in another thread: NIU shooter Steven Kazmierczak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Illinois_University_shooting#Perpetrator
The perpetrator of the Northern Illinois University shooting was 27-year-old Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, a former student of NIU. He was born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois on August 26, 1980<19><20><21> to Gail and Robert Kazmierczak. He graduated from Elk Grove High School in 1998, during which he was treated temporarily for mental illness at the Elk Grove Village Thresholds-Mary Hill House psychiatric center,<22> for being "unruly" at home, according to his parents. He later went on to study sociology at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Though his family moved to Florida in 2004, Kazmierczak continued his education in Illinois.<23><24> He enlisted in the United States Army in September 2001, and was discharged before completing basic training in February 2002 for lying on his application about his mental illness.<25><26> His mother died in Lakeland, Florida in September 2006 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease).<27><28><29> At the time of Steven's death, his father was living in a retirement community in Lakeland.

Kazmierczak graduated from NIU in 2006<23> where he received the Dean's award in 2006 and was considered a stand-out, well-regarded student.<23> Campus police describe him as a "fairly normal" and "unstressed person."<30> Faculty, students, and staff "revered" him and there was no indication of any trouble.<31> NIU President John G. Peters said that he had "a very good academic record, no record of trouble."<24> Kazmierczak was Vice-President of the NIU chapter of the American Correctional Association; he had also written about the U.S. correctional system, specifically prisons.<32>

In 2006, Kazmierczak, along with two other graduate students and under the lead authorship of a sociology professor, co-authored an academic paper entitled, "Self-injury in Correctional Settings: 'Pathology' of Prisons or of Prisoners?"; it was published in the academic journal Criminology & Public Policy.<33>

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. Oh, that's me! They don't know it yet, but that's what the history books will say.

And my hometown will forever be renamed "rabrrrrrr crater", not because I will make it so, but an America angry at my hometown for creating me will exact their vengeance.

[whistler162]

40. DOwn the road, 10+ miles, the chair is the

most infamous celebrity.

http://www.ccadp.org/electricchair.htm

[PassingFair]

41. Jack Kevorkian

My aunt used to make slides for him.
She says he was the FAIREST doctor
she ever worked for.

[nickinSTL]

43. Pretty pathetic as a "celebrity", but...

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.)

In case you don't recognize the name...

He was in charge of the Congressional page program during the Mark Foley scandal. :eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shimkus

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. Roger Brooke Taney, chief justice in the Dred Scott decision

Normally, having a chief justice of the United States Supreme Court come from your hometown would be something of a great honor, and probably grounds for a museum. However, in Taney's case, the most he gets is a small historical plaque on the roadside. Probably for good cause, given that Dred Scott was the worst Supreme Court decision in the nation's history (yet Sarah Palin was too stupid to name it).

[Forkboy]

45. Daniel LaPlante, who murdered a wife and her two kids.

[uncommon]

46. Lizzie Borden :)