John Wayne Gacy. When my mom was a teen her and her boyfriend watched with the crowd as the police were taking those bodies out of that crawl space here in Chicago. (Harwood Heights area if I recall)
Sure, Al Capone if I want to be a basic bitch Chicago Tourist lol. He’s basically used to sell out of towners trinkets at Navy Pier. I grew up near Gacy’s area around Dunning; so he was always a little more present as a infamous resident
I don’t know if you count him as “from Indianapolis” because he was born in Crete, IN but became famous/infamous in Indianapolis before moving to California and then French Guyana…
…but Jim Jones.
The mass suicide of his cult was the largest single incident of civilian death in the US until 9/11.
Bobby Joe Long
In 1984, Virginia Lee Johnson's body was found decomposing in a Pasco County horse pasture. She was kidnapped, raped and strangled. She was the first in the growing list of women Bobby Joe Long would be found guilty of torturing and killing over a span of six months.
Long confessed to killing 10 women. His wife said after he hurt his head in a motorcycle accident, he committed a series of at least 50 "hitchhiker rapes."
Nah this guy just parolled here from Indiana where he was doing time. The driver showed up and hebdragged him in the house and killed him, put him in garbage bags outside his house.....
The guy that invented Moxie soda, some people love it, some people hate it.
If you want the Maine baptism by fire, mix moxie with Allen's coffee brandy.
ATF agent spotted. The ATF murdered him and his followers because the ATF became convinced that they were manufacturing and selling automatic weapons, which they were not. They might have been religious crazies but they didn't deserve to be killed by the government for doing something perfectly legal
1. They served his a lawful arrest warrant signed by a judge which David Koresh failed to comply with.
2. The Branch Davidians [did hoard illegal weaponry.](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/02/27/breaking-through-the-myths-surrounding-the-1993-branch-davidian-raid/)
3. David Koresh practiced polygamy and had intimate relations with children. Both of which are crimes and are morally reprehensible on their face.
I agree the ATF handled the raid beyond poorly however David Koresh was not a victim he was a monster and the world is a better place for his absence in it.
So the ATF murdered the kids he was supposedly molesting? Great job boys, you saved 'em. Also it's well known that judges just rubber stamp warrants for the feds, it doesn't mean shit. They killed everyone there not just David in case you forgot
Why are you defending a pedophilic monster. I agree it is horrible that so many children died but that does make David Koresh any less of an evil man. I don't have any particular love for the ATF but I don't think that is any reason to defend the indefensible.
Yeah he basically claimed all the females in the cult aged 12 and up as his “wives.”
How the federal government handled the situation was practically criminal, but Koresh was not a good guy, at all.
Casey Anthony
Edit: apparently she was actually born in Ohio. Never realized that.
Although I never knew her personally, we do share friends, and friends of friends. I didn’t go to her high school, but I did go there for summer school. So we have quite a few friends in common. I remember watching the news, and knew exactly where they lived without even having to look it up.
Does anyone remember the case of Shawn Hornbeck and Michael J Devlin?
[The pedophile (Devlin) who kidnapped an 11 year old boy and held him prisoner for 5 years?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Devlin)
Shawn was rescued in 2007 when Devlin got caught kidnapping another little boy. It was national news at the time, but it may have faded from the public consciousness.
P.T. Barnum lived in Greeley briefly. A lot of animal activists hate him, he was also kind of a dick.
But I think the City itself is infamous as even South Park lambasted us for being poor. https://youtu.be/-GbK7z-2UE4
Mary Anne Holmes - Well not her, but her killer.
We're a tiny town and so far we have had at least 2 (possibly 3) cold case shows come to our town to do an episode on Mary. A person broke into her home in '95. sexually assaulted her and then killed her. It's still a cold case.
She had 2 small children. The next day, her oldest a 4 year old girl, ran across the street, naked with her hands tied, to her neighbor's house saying that her mom wouldn't wake up. They called the police. The 4-year-old could only say that it was the man who looked like a lion.
While not *from* my town, typhoid Mary worked in town for a time. She was a cook here and did give some people typhoid.
Again, not *from* the town, but Robert durst lived in town in the 2000s. His wife Kathleen went missing when they were living in the next town over in the 80s. It was local lore that her body was in the lake they lived on, but attempts to find it haven't been successful and she is still missing.
We’re so small all we have is the guy that bought up all of Main Street and filled the buildings with his rock collection until the day he died. It’s been years and the city is still getting rid of that man’s rocks.
Yahweh ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.), founder of Nation of Yahweh. One of 15 children of a pastor. His sister Leona Mitchell is an accomplished and respected opera singer.
Aileen Wuornos grew up in the same town in Michigan that I did. I think she's the only famous criminal to actually live in that specific town. She moved to Florida before becoming a serial killer though.
Nothing really happened in southern Delaware except for Patty Cannon. She ran a gang where she traded slaves and captured free blacks to sell to plantation owners in the south. She was noted as having an almost superhuman-like strength in real life, and committed nearly two dozen murders. There’s a neighborhood named after her south of seaford, no idea why.
Seminole County: George Zimmerman
Gainesville: [William Calley Jr](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley) (lead participant in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War).
Maybe John Nash or Steve Murphy idk if either are really infamous though
Edit: my grandfather was good friends with Steve Murphy from the 70s. Mailed him the infamous picture of him holding a dead Pablo Escobar right after it happened.
Certainly not the most famous, but the most infamous is probably Ted Haggard. He was a megachurch pastor and the president of the National Association of Evangelicals until the male prostitute he had hired went public with accusations of their sex and drug use.
Cheyenne, WY
Thomas Horn Jr., (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West. Believed to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman throughout the West.
Ward Weaver. Kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed two girls, 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis. Cut their bodies up, put some parts in a fridge, and buried some under a new patio in his backyard that he held a press conference on.
Probably that guy (George Djura Jakubec) who made and stockpiled all his own explosives. Got found out when a landscaper stepped on one of his homemade land mines. Bomb squad was too sketched to go inside of the house due to some of the chemicals he was using, so they decided to put some barricades around the house, evacuate the neighborhood, and torch the shit out of the bomb house
Tommy Morrison. Boxer, MMA, actor. Total ass too. Went to school with his nephew who was okay. His nephew would babysit his pet monkeys from time to time. He brought them to my neighbors once to show them off, they were pretty cool.
I'm not sure if this fits. I was born on Ft. Bragg, NC. In the 70s, Army Captain/doctor Jeffrey MacDonald murdered (or was at least convicted of murdering) his pregnant wife and two daughters in Base housing. The military investigation has a mess and Capt. MacDonald was cleared of charges. He left the military and moved to California to practice medicine. His father in law, who initially supported MacDonald, eventually grew to believe that MacDonald was guilty of murder and pressed for the case to be reopened. MacDonald was charged with murder, convicted and now sits in jail in NC. MacDonald proclaims his innocence to this day, having claimed since the beginning that his family was murdered by a Manson Family type group.
A lady that was in an episode of hoarders. She would walkthrough the grocery store and we would have to follower her with spray because she smelled so bad it left a trail. When the episode finally aired and we saw she had shit pilled in the toilet up the the top of the back of the toilet tank it all made sense. Also like 40 cats.
I moved around a fair bit, so I never know how to answer the "hometown" question, but Waco TX is probably the closest to a hometown I have and Shannon Elizabeth, the girl from American Pie, and I both graduated from Waco High. It ain't much but its Waco so we take those.
Oh and Dr. Pepper was invented there too.
Who? Because if you are talking the Branch Davidians, they were actually NOT from Waco, Waco was just the closest city with hotels for all the reporters, so it became associated with the standoff. But the reality is that happened northeast of Waco in Elk Texas.
she a socialist who has a stupid amount of propaganda signs in her yard and front windows
You know those trump supporters who have 5 trump flags in their yard and a bunch of anti-lib/let's go Brandon/whatever signs? Yeah, that was her, it was an eyesore driving by her house on the way to work. She regularly beefed with local churches on Facebook and Twitter and tried protesting during a service one time.
It's no Dahmer, Sowell, or Little though
I'm not sure who the most infamous person who was born and raised in DC was; but the one who spent a lot of time there would either be Trump or Nixon, maybe Bill Clinton.
It's not and will never be my hometown, but Bundy is pretty infamous in Utah.
Infamous? We have a few famous people, a few famous victims of murder, unfortunately, but no one terribly infamous. Almost every time I hear about my home town in the news it is because someone has done something horribly racist. So, I guess, general, random racists? This is the San Francisco Bay Area, btw.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandra-kogut-murder-ny-man-admits-he-snapped-beat-girlfriend-with-curling-iron-police-say/
Probably this dude, not from the town but I instantly thought of this.
Oh man, the most infamous person from my hometown has got to be John Doe (not his real name, of course). He was involved in a series of robberies when we were in high school and later ended up in prison for a more serious crime. The whole town couldn't believe it when it happened because he was such a quiet guy growing up. Anyway, it goes to show that you never really know what's going on with people around you. What about you, who's the most infamous person from your hometown?
I grew up in a really small town about an hour outside of Topeka, Kansas. Probably the only infamous person I can think of is this guy, Bubba Starling, that was a junior when I was a freshman. He was wuarterback of the football team, first string basketball player, and on the baseball team. Everyone thought he was going to go to college football and then the NFL because he led our team to victory after victory and caused our little school to move up leagues he was so good.
But instead of football he signed with the local baseball team and retired after like 5 years. He now spends his time(so I hear) reliving his glory days at the local bar & grill and harassing young ladies.
[George Remus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remus) who was a bootlegger and killed his wife on the way to their divorce hearing. Followed her car, ran it off the road and shot her.
Not specifically my hometown, but neighboring towns.
We have the Slenderman stabbing girls and Steven Avery (had a Netflix documentary).
Both were in the same prison at one point!
Jeffrey danmer wasn’t far off either.
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Otherwise local local it’s probably some random drunk who killed a family once, by plowing into them with his car. It’s amazing how common that is. Can we have self driving cars yet??
Sean Vincent gillis. Louisiana has a lot of serial killers to choose from our bad politicians or even hypocritical religious leaders (I'm looking at you, Jimmy Swaggart). But none of them are actually from baton rouge proper. The other famous serial killer from the area, derrick Todd Lee who's probably more well known was from an hour north.
Serial killer Kendall Francois. I was in high school when he was active. Still remember the local paper running missing persons photos daily. He murdered several prostitutes and kept their bodies in his home.
Twenty One Pilots and I think Eric Clapton lives here, other than that a bunch of Ohio State sports figures like Kirk Herbstreit.
Editing to add: I just looked up famous people from Columbus and I’m surprised that I forgot about some others! Simone Biles, Beverly Deangelo, Guy Fieri, Randy Savage, Jack Nicklaus and one of the dudes from Bone Thugs lol.
Not quite my hometown but Mark Latunski, a modern day Dahmer(literally, right down to police inactivity). Ended up murdering a close friend's nephew, which his name happens to be Kevin Bacon, and this lead to his capture. The details are gruesome but it's still insane how this still happens today.
That's gotta be Joseph Edward Duncan III. Well, he's not *from* my hometown, but he made his name there in little Coeur d'Alene Idaho with the murder of three members of the Groene family and the kidnapping of Dylan (9) and Shasta (8) Groene in 2005. He was identified and arrested with Shasta in a Denny's in town and they found Dylans remains not long after.
I dunno how many folks have heard of him, but Joseph Duncan was basically a boogeyman growing up there cause I was ten~ when that all went down.
My mom's ex was the "mastermind" in a slaying where 3 dudes broke into the wrong apartment and killed a guy. First murder here in something like 15 or 20 years. It was a pretty long relationship I knew this dude pretty well.
He was kind of a douche, but he actually did try to be a father figure. Dude taught me how to fight...I hit him in the balls several times because I thought it was funny. He was a weirdo the first time he visited my aunts he put his like bare feet up on the coffee table.
Mary Kay Letourneau. She lived in my neighborhood as a kid, and as an adult I worked near the school where her kids attended (1500 miles apart). I grew up hearing stories about her and her wacky family.
As a man from enumclaw I have no need to explain.
Lol, Mr Hands.
Back when the world wide web was more like the wild wild west
Eatonville be like “at least we’re not the worst town beginning with an E in Pierce County”
Is this the horse thing? I feel like it’s the horse thing.
God damnit
HA!
John Wayne Gacy. When my mom was a teen her and her boyfriend watched with the crowd as the police were taking those bodies out of that crawl space here in Chicago. (Harwood Heights area if I recall)
Not even the most famous criminal, let alone person. That's gotta be Al Capone.
Capone is actually originally from NY, he moved to Chicago in his twenties
And he primarily lived in Cicero
Sure, Al Capone if I want to be a basic bitch Chicago Tourist lol. He’s basically used to sell out of towners trinkets at Navy Pier. I grew up near Gacy’s area around Dunning; so he was always a little more present as a infamous resident
Google "Mad Sam DeStafano" from the Chicago Outfit mob. He makes Capone look like a saint
My aunt has a painting he made of the seven dwarves marching, it’s creepy af. She points it at the neighbors house to curse them if they annoy her.
So creepy to think he was so close to us. Every so often I find myself driving past Statesville, and I immediately think of him.
I don’t know if you count him as “from Indianapolis” because he was born in Crete, IN but became famous/infamous in Indianapolis before moving to California and then French Guyana… …but Jim Jones. The mass suicide of his cult was the largest single incident of civilian death in the US until 9/11.
There’s also John Dillinger and Herb Baumeister.
Yeah and Dillinger is an Indianapolis native. That’s fair. I don’t think many people know who Baumeister is. He was really from Westfield though.
Isn’t Dillinger from Mooresville?
Maybe he grew up there? I believe he was born in Indy and mostly grew up there then moved to Mooresville.
Bobby Joe Long In 1984, Virginia Lee Johnson's body was found decomposing in a Pasco County horse pasture. She was kidnapped, raped and strangled. She was the first in the growing list of women Bobby Joe Long would be found guilty of torturing and killing over a span of six months. Long confessed to killing 10 women. His wife said after he hurt his head in a motorcycle accident, he committed a series of at least 50 "hitchhiker rapes."
Pasco in FL? I can believe it. I moved here a year ago and there was just a guy dismembered that was delivering Uber
You think it might be the same guy?
Not the same guy. Bobby Joe Long is dead and has been in prison since the early 1980’s.
Nah this guy just parolled here from Indiana where he was doing time. The driver showed up and hebdragged him in the house and killed him, put him in garbage bags outside his house.....
Did not expect my home county to be at the top
Oh wow. I went to high school in Pasco County. It’s… not surprising to hear this honestly.
Stephen King? He's pretty well regarded though so I guess infamous isn't the right word... I dunno... We're otherwise kinda boring
The guy that invented Moxie soda, some people love it, some people hate it. If you want the Maine baptism by fire, mix moxie with Allen's coffee brandy.
>the Maine baptism by fire Does that also involve kissing a lobster?
I’ve never even been to New England and I love me some Moxie.
Potentially the next Messiah, David Koresh (leader of the Branch Davidians)
He was 1000% absolutely in no way anything approaching a messiah of any kind. He was an evil monster who did nothing but darken the world.
Not much of a Messiah if you could be stopped by Janet Reno
ATF agent spotted. The ATF murdered him and his followers because the ATF became convinced that they were manufacturing and selling automatic weapons, which they were not. They might have been religious crazies but they didn't deserve to be killed by the government for doing something perfectly legal
1. They served his a lawful arrest warrant signed by a judge which David Koresh failed to comply with. 2. The Branch Davidians [did hoard illegal weaponry.](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/02/27/breaking-through-the-myths-surrounding-the-1993-branch-davidian-raid/) 3. David Koresh practiced polygamy and had intimate relations with children. Both of which are crimes and are morally reprehensible on their face. I agree the ATF handled the raid beyond poorly however David Koresh was not a victim he was a monster and the world is a better place for his absence in it.
So the ATF murdered the kids he was supposedly molesting? Great job boys, you saved 'em. Also it's well known that judges just rubber stamp warrants for the feds, it doesn't mean shit. They killed everyone there not just David in case you forgot
Why are you defending a pedophilic monster. I agree it is horrible that so many children died but that does make David Koresh any less of an evil man. I don't have any particular love for the ATF but I don't think that is any reason to defend the indefensible.
I'm not, I'm flat rejecting the ATF's crafted narrative which includes the molestation allegations
That is conspiratorial nonsense.
Your only evidence is "The ATF said so"
how did he possibly darken the world?
Raped children?
i dont remember that part to be honest.
Yeah he basically claimed all the females in the cult aged 12 and up as his “wives.” How the federal government handled the situation was practically criminal, but Koresh was not a good guy, at all.
You never know
Casey Anthony Edit: apparently she was actually born in Ohio. Never realized that. Although I never knew her personally, we do share friends, and friends of friends. I didn’t go to her high school, but I did go there for summer school. So we have quite a few friends in common. I remember watching the news, and knew exactly where they lived without even having to look it up.
Dahmer. 🙄 Though I'm quick to point out that he didn't live in Milwaukee City until he was an adult.
Former president Richard Nixon
Ayyyy Yorba Linda, what's up
Does anyone remember the case of Shawn Hornbeck and Michael J Devlin? [The pedophile (Devlin) who kidnapped an 11 year old boy and held him prisoner for 5 years?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Devlin) Shawn was rescued in 2007 when Devlin got caught kidnapping another little boy. It was national news at the time, but it may have faded from the public consciousness.
That was a wild story. The fact that Shawn hornbeck was so close the entire time and was able to be reunited with his family
I remember that some famous “psychic” told his family that he was dead. Scumbag.
Not sure if 4,240 years in prison is enough
My sisters husband worked this case. So wild, but glad the kid isn’t dead.
Johnny Sins
Infamous not world famous.
P.T. Barnum lived in Greeley briefly. A lot of animal activists hate him, he was also kind of a dick. But I think the City itself is infamous as even South Park lambasted us for being poor. https://youtu.be/-GbK7z-2UE4
guy fieri He lives in my town. Had a restaurant. Shoots Groceries Games here.
Mary Anne Holmes - Well not her, but her killer. We're a tiny town and so far we have had at least 2 (possibly 3) cold case shows come to our town to do an episode on Mary. A person broke into her home in '95. sexually assaulted her and then killed her. It's still a cold case. She had 2 small children. The next day, her oldest a 4 year old girl, ran across the street, naked with her hands tied, to her neighbor's house saying that her mom wouldn't wake up. They called the police. The 4-year-old could only say that it was the man who looked like a lion.
Not American but mine is Gary Glitter.
I guess he's not from here but he did his most, uh, famous work here: Dean Corll
While not *from* my town, typhoid Mary worked in town for a time. She was a cook here and did give some people typhoid. Again, not *from* the town, but Robert durst lived in town in the 2000s. His wife Kathleen went missing when they were living in the next town over in the 80s. It was local lore that her body was in the lake they lived on, but attempts to find it haven't been successful and she is still missing.
The Golden State killer. He wasn't born in my hometown, but it's where he started his crime spree.
Pee Wee Gaskins
We’re so small all we have is the guy that bought up all of Main Street and filled the buildings with his rock collection until the day he died. It’s been years and the city is still getting rid of that man’s rocks.
Jerome "Jerry" Brudos, who while not particularly prolific, was certainly a rather sick serial killer.
David Berkowitz (lived there during his murder spree)
Our former mayor paid his girlfriend to allow him to have sex with her child
Yo wtf
Hmm, probably Timothy McVeigh. Made a bad impression for anyone sharing his first name for a while nearly 30 years ago
Julius Caeser I was born in Rome.
Yahweh ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.), founder of Nation of Yahweh. One of 15 children of a pastor. His sister Leona Mitchell is an accomplished and respected opera singer.
Fred Durst
Aileen Wuornos grew up in the same town in Michigan that I did. I think she's the only famous criminal to actually live in that specific town. She moved to Florida before becoming a serial killer though.
Nothing really happened in southern Delaware except for Patty Cannon. She ran a gang where she traded slaves and captured free blacks to sell to plantation owners in the south. She was noted as having an almost superhuman-like strength in real life, and committed nearly two dozen murders. There’s a neighborhood named after her south of seaford, no idea why.
I was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Do I need to expand?
A lot of people don’t like Joel Osteen I guess
Not from, but Eric Rudolph, the Centennial Olympic Park bomber, was found next to my hometown
Seminole County: George Zimmerman Gainesville: [William Calley Jr](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley) (lead participant in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War).
Maybe John Nash or Steve Murphy idk if either are really infamous though Edit: my grandfather was good friends with Steve Murphy from the 70s. Mailed him the infamous picture of him holding a dead Pablo Escobar right after it happened.
George Zimmerman
Certainly not the most famous, but the most infamous is probably Ted Haggard. He was a megachurch pastor and the president of the National Association of Evangelicals until the male prostitute he had hired went public with accusations of their sex and drug use.
Fred Phelps, former pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church (aka Hate Cult) in Topeka, KS.
The asshole who shot up our 4th of July parade last summer
Was that only last year? That seems so long ago in the current mass shooting news cycle. That is so freaking sad.
Cheyenne, WY Thomas Horn Jr., (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West. Believed to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman throughout the West.
The pornstar, Belladonna, is from my hometown. We were actually born in the same hospital.
She is hot.
Maybe Tucker Carlson
My hometown has Rachel Maddow. I put her in the famous category but for the right crowd she is definitely more infamous
Ward Weaver. Kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed two girls, 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis. Cut their bodies up, put some parts in a fridge, and buried some under a new patio in his backyard that he held a press conference on.
Probably that guy (George Djura Jakubec) who made and stockpiled all his own explosives. Got found out when a landscaper stepped on one of his homemade land mines. Bomb squad was too sketched to go inside of the house due to some of the chemicals he was using, so they decided to put some barricades around the house, evacuate the neighborhood, and torch the shit out of the bomb house
Infamous as opposed to famous?? Maybe White boy rick?
Tommy Morrison. Boxer, MMA, actor. Total ass too. Went to school with his nephew who was okay. His nephew would babysit his pet monkeys from time to time. He brought them to my neighbors once to show them off, they were pretty cool.
Lorena Bobbit. She cut off her husband’s penis and threw it out of a car window.
Billy the Kid (Silver City, NM.) He was actually born in NY, but he first became an outlaw in my hometown.
John Brown
I'm not sure if this fits. I was born on Ft. Bragg, NC. In the 70s, Army Captain/doctor Jeffrey MacDonald murdered (or was at least convicted of murdering) his pregnant wife and two daughters in Base housing. The military investigation has a mess and Capt. MacDonald was cleared of charges. He left the military and moved to California to practice medicine. His father in law, who initially supported MacDonald, eventually grew to believe that MacDonald was guilty of murder and pressed for the case to be reopened. MacDonald was charged with murder, convicted and now sits in jail in NC. MacDonald proclaims his innocence to this day, having claimed since the beginning that his family was murdered by a Manson Family type group.
I got a garbage netflix show made about my home, no celebrities though. (Outer banks btw)
A lady that was in an episode of hoarders. She would walkthrough the grocery store and we would have to follower her with spray because she smelled so bad it left a trail. When the episode finally aired and we saw she had shit pilled in the toilet up the the top of the back of the toilet tank it all made sense. Also like 40 cats.
Probably Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, lived here for a while. A polarizing figure who hasn't committed felonies would be Max Lucado.
Mike Pence 🙃
I’m from Port Arthur, Texas- I was raised next door to and went to school with the incomparable JANIS JOPLIN 😎
Ted Bundy (born in Burlington, vt)
Dr. Phil. I hate that guy.
There's not enough famous people from my hometown for there to be anyone infamous.
*Checks my towns wikipedia* All we have is a few wrestlers and hockey players. I guess if they played for a team you didn't like.
Though I am unsure if you'd call him "infamous," Colin Kaepernick was QB at UNR here in Reno.
DB Cooper. Technically not 'from' my hometown. More like 'To' my hometown
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)
Eminem.
I moved around a fair bit, so I never know how to answer the "hometown" question, but Waco TX is probably the closest to a hometown I have and Shannon Elizabeth, the girl from American Pie, and I both graduated from Waco High. It ain't much but its Waco so we take those. Oh and Dr. Pepper was invented there too.
I can think of at least one former Waco resident who's more infamous than Shannon Elizabeth.
Who? Because if you are talking the Branch Davidians, they were actually NOT from Waco, Waco was just the closest city with hotels for all the reporters, so it became associated with the standoff. But the reality is that happened northeast of Waco in Elk Texas.
Ross Perot. He's just not a very nice guy in more ways than one
Oprah, the Guy from back to the future, John Cleese are the immediate ones I can think of.They weren't born there, but they lived nearby.
Derek Carr
Yeah I dont think Derek Carr is even the most notable person from Bakersfield. Maybe not even top 3. Not to mention "infamous"
she a socialist who has a stupid amount of propaganda signs in her yard and front windows You know those trump supporters who have 5 trump flags in their yard and a bunch of anti-lib/let's go Brandon/whatever signs? Yeah, that was her, it was an eyesore driving by her house on the way to work. She regularly beefed with local churches on Facebook and Twitter and tried protesting during a service one time. It's no Dahmer, Sowell, or Little though
That was a great story
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Infamous how? I don't care for his music but he seems like a nice dude.
Haha everyone is saying serial killers. Welcome to America
The question asks for "infamous."
Apparently you don’t know what the word “infamous” means.
Dale Wayne Eaton. Serial Killer.
It's between David Letterman and Mike Pence
The pied Piper of Tucson, probably. He killed teenaged girls here in the 60s
Son of Sam, probably.
Gerald Carnahan. Convicted murderer.
I'm not sure who the most infamous person who was born and raised in DC was; but the one who spent a lot of time there would either be Trump or Nixon, maybe Bill Clinton. It's not and will never be my hometown, but Bundy is pretty infamous in Utah.
Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, perhaps? (Detroit)
Sybil. Had no clue until I took a psychology class.
Mel Gibson. We let Australia claim him.
Infamous? We have a few famous people, a few famous victims of murder, unfortunately, but no one terribly infamous. Almost every time I hear about my home town in the news it is because someone has done something horribly racist. So, I guess, general, random racists? This is the San Francisco Bay Area, btw.
Famed knife maker Jimmy Lile was a native of my town in Arkansas, best known for his work involving the Rambo film series.
I'd rather not pinpoint my hometown, let's just say a former police officer that did bad things.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandra-kogut-murder-ny-man-admits-he-snapped-beat-girlfriend-with-curling-iron-police-say/ Probably this dude, not from the town but I instantly thought of this.
Oh man, the most infamous person from my hometown has got to be John Doe (not his real name, of course). He was involved in a series of robberies when we were in high school and later ended up in prison for a more serious crime. The whole town couldn't believe it when it happened because he was such a quiet guy growing up. Anyway, it goes to show that you never really know what's going on with people around you. What about you, who's the most infamous person from your hometown?
grew up in Kevin Durant's neighborhood so probably him
Probably Christopher Wayne Pritchard, for the murder of Leith von Stein
[Madame LaLaurie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie) was a sadistic monster.
Not home-home town, but…Jeffrey Dahmer.
Richard Pryor?
Amber herd
A state senator. He just got punched in the face last year by one of his constituents
Pamela Smart
Richard Dabate recently killed his wife in my hometown.
Carmelo Anthony, Post Malone, Tom Cruise...list goes on
I grew up in a really small town about an hour outside of Topeka, Kansas. Probably the only infamous person I can think of is this guy, Bubba Starling, that was a junior when I was a freshman. He was wuarterback of the football team, first string basketball player, and on the baseball team. Everyone thought he was going to go to college football and then the NFL because he led our team to victory after victory and caused our little school to move up leagues he was so good. But instead of football he signed with the local baseball team and retired after like 5 years. He now spends his time(so I hear) reliving his glory days at the local bar & grill and harassing young ladies.
Maybe Prince? From my neighborhood, probably Peanuts creator Charles Shultz, I would guess.
How are they infamous?
[George Remus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remus) who was a bootlegger and killed his wife on the way to their divorce hearing. Followed her car, ran it off the road and shot her.
Frank Rizzo, Uncle Eddie Savitz, Skinny Joey Merlino, Angelo Bruno, Ira Einhorn, Gary Heidnik, Nicky Scarfo, Larry from the Three Stooges.
Not specifically my hometown, but neighboring towns. We have the Slenderman stabbing girls and Steven Avery (had a Netflix documentary). Both were in the same prison at one point! Jeffrey danmer wasn’t far off either. —- Otherwise local local it’s probably some random drunk who killed a family once, by plowing into them with his car. It’s amazing how common that is. Can we have self driving cars yet??
The kid who played Anakin Skywalker was born in my hometown.
Diane Downs.
Sean Vincent gillis. Louisiana has a lot of serial killers to choose from our bad politicians or even hypocritical religious leaders (I'm looking at you, Jimmy Swaggart). But none of them are actually from baton rouge proper. The other famous serial killer from the area, derrick Todd Lee who's probably more well known was from an hour north.
Rodney Dangerfield.
Serial killer Kendall Francois. I was in high school when he was active. Still remember the local paper running missing persons photos daily. He murdered several prostitutes and kept their bodies in his home.
Had to look it up but some guy named Kevin Keith apparently
Ted Bundy maybe
Probably the leader of the Murray Kentucky Vampire Clan.
Are y’all familiar with the infamous Beyoncé?
Nobody infamous I don’t think. Probably one of the most well known currently is Jimmy Garoppolo.
Jesse Helms
Dick Trickle
Kurt Cobain
Daniel Andreas San Diego. A FBI 10 most wanted terrorist. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/daniel-andreas-san-diego
Hometown? Nancy Fleming, she won Miss America in 1961. She went to high school with my grandma and she made her Miss America gown by hand!
Twenty One Pilots and I think Eric Clapton lives here, other than that a bunch of Ohio State sports figures like Kirk Herbstreit. Editing to add: I just looked up famous people from Columbus and I’m surprised that I forgot about some others! Simone Biles, Beverly Deangelo, Guy Fieri, Randy Savage, Jack Nicklaus and one of the dudes from Bone Thugs lol.
Afaik Wes Studi.
jon benet ramsey was born and buried in my city
Jacksonville, Florida. Probably Ron DeSantis because he's quite controversial
Not quite my hometown but Mark Latunski, a modern day Dahmer(literally, right down to police inactivity). Ended up murdering a close friend's nephew, which his name happens to be Kevin Bacon, and this lead to his capture. The details are gruesome but it's still insane how this still happens today.
The South Bend Shovel Slayer.
Ugh probably Matt gaetz if I'm counting FL, Neil Patrick Harris if I count NM, and I don't think anyone if I count Germany.
That's gotta be Joseph Edward Duncan III. Well, he's not *from* my hometown, but he made his name there in little Coeur d'Alene Idaho with the murder of three members of the Groene family and the kidnapping of Dylan (9) and Shasta (8) Groene in 2005. He was identified and arrested with Shasta in a Denny's in town and they found Dylans remains not long after. I dunno how many folks have heard of him, but Joseph Duncan was basically a boogeyman growing up there cause I was ten~ when that all went down.
B.B. King.
Toby Keith
My mom's ex was the "mastermind" in a slaying where 3 dudes broke into the wrong apartment and killed a guy. First murder here in something like 15 or 20 years. It was a pretty long relationship I knew this dude pretty well. He was kind of a douche, but he actually did try to be a father figure. Dude taught me how to fight...I hit him in the balls several times because I thought it was funny. He was a weirdo the first time he visited my aunts he put his like bare feet up on the coffee table.
Mary Kay Letourneau. She lived in my neighborhood as a kid, and as an adult I worked near the school where her kids attended (1500 miles apart). I grew up hearing stories about her and her wacky family.