Friday, August 17, 2007

What's up with Wayne?

I saw this on news of the weird (want to give them proper credit here), and it struck me that the three name killer phenomonon is really strange (to say the least). Anyway, here is the link and a preview. There is a "Wayne" list at the end, with state's included.

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

It only occurred to me in the early 1990s that "Wayne" was a popular middle name among a few of the most heinous murderers of our time, e.g., the clown John Wayne Gacy (who killed almost three dozen boys and young men in the late 1970s and buried most of them beneath the floorboards of his Des Plaines, Ill., home) and Elmer Wayne Henley (sentenced to six consecutive life terms in 1974 in Houston for his role, with ringleader Dean Allen Corll, in the murders of 27 young men). I began to publish periodic lists in 1996, and soon readers made sure I never missed a one that made the news.

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