Friday Fun - The Day I Found Out that I Was A Serial Killer
What is in a name? Quite a bit apparently. My name is Anthony Wayne Allen Mannor. That’s a mouthfull. My middle name, Wayne, is my grandfather’s first name. Yes, Wayne Mannor - Like Batman’s house. I talked about this on Tim McAlpine’s blog a little.
Well, when you are familiar with something - things pop out at you. You know when you buy a car, you see hundreds of other people who bought the exact same car. It’s not that there are more of them on the road. No one is in charge of a phone tree to notify everyone to buy the same car that you bought. Your awareness is just more hightened to that because it is familiar. And for me, such is the awareness of people with the same middle name as me.
Now, loving Batman as a kid, Wayne Manor (Batman’s house) always tickled me. But in real life there were no other people with my name that weren’t relatives. We are a fun crow and there are some neat historical facts - but nothing too psycho. So imagine my interest in finding out that so many serial killers share my middle name.
Now don’t get me wrong. It isn’t a happy coincedence. But one of those things that catches your attention. Like people who have the same name as famous people or products (Dr. Pepper, please come to OR3. Dr. Pepper OR3 Please).
I have always known about John Wayne Gacy but apparently there are a lot of “Waynes” out there going crazy! I came across this list and thought I would share it.
Herewith is the list, as of News of the Weird 883, January 9, 2005 (* deceased):
[This list of names is (as with everything else on NewsoftheWeird.com) copyrighted by Chuck Shepherd, with All Rights Reserved]
Timothy Wayne Adams (Texas)
Shannon Wayne Agofsky (Texas)
Thomas Wayne Akers (North Carolina)
Stephen Wayne Anderson (California)*
Joshua Wayne Andrews (Virginia)
David Wayne Arisman (California)
Timothy Wayne Barnett (Alabama)
Gerald Wayne Bivins (Indiana)
Scott Wayne Blystone (Pennsylvania)
Elvis Wayne Botley (California)
Steven Wayne Bowman (South Carolina)
Ricky Wayne Brown (Florida)
Michael Wayne Brown (Oklahoma)
Dennis Wayne Bryant (Virginia)
Edward Wayne Bryant (Oklahoma)
Estell Wayne Buck (Ohio)
Bradley Wayne Cagle (Texas)
Seth Wayne Campbell (Texas)
Darren Wayne Campbell (Oregon)
Mark Wayne Campmire (Connecticut)
Michael Wayne Carter (Indiana)
Rodger Wayne Chastain (California)*
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. (Florida)
Douglas Wayne Clark (Texas)
Darryl Wayne Claughton (Alberta)
Kevin Wayne Coffey (Texas)
Michael Wayne Cole (North Carolina)
Joseph Wayne Cook (North Carolina)
Billy Wayne Cope (South Carolina)
Alvin Wayne Crane (Texas)*
David Wayne Crews (Tennessee)
Donald Wayne Darling II (Alabama)
Christopher Wayne Davis (Louisiana)
Gary Wayne Davis (Kentucky)
Jerry Wayne Dean (Kentucky)
Aryan Wayne Duntley (California)
John Wayne Duvall (Oklahoma)
Dennis Wayne Eaton (Virginia)*
Dale Wayne Eaton (Colorado)
Michael Wayne Eggers (Alabama)
Gary Wayne Etheridge (Texas)
Michael Wayne Farmer (Maryland)
Ellis Wayne Felker (Georgia)*
Matthew Wayne Ferman (Ohio)
Michael Wayne Fisher (Pennsylvania
Terry Wayne Freeman (Illinois)
Percy Wayne Froman (Alabama)
Ronald Wayne Frye (North Carolina)*
Morris Wayne Givens (Alabama)
Richard Wayne Godwin (Oregon)
Arthur Wayne Goodman, Jr. (Texas)
Richard Wayne Gorrie (New Zealand)
Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (Michigan)
Keith Wayne Graham (California)
Coleman Wayne Gray (Virginia)*
Charles Wayne Green (Arkansas)
Christopher Wayne Gregory (Texas)
Kenneth Wayne Gregory (Florida)
Ralph Wayne Grimes (Kentucky)
Anthony Wayne Grimm (Illinois)
Randall Wayne Hafdahl (Texas)*
Conan Wayne Hale (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Hall Sr. (South Carolina)
Michael Wayne Hall (Texas)
Steven Wayne Hall (Alabama)
Jerald Wayne Harjo (Oklahoma)*
Robert Wayne Harris (Texas)
Jerald Wayne Harvel II (Oklahoma)
Mark Wayne Hauseur (California)
Carl Wayne Heath (Maine)
Brandon Wayne Hedrick (Virginia)
Michael Wayne Henry (Texas)
Rodney Wayne Henry (Kansas)
Donald Wayne Holt (Maryland)
Bryant Wayne Howard (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Jackson (Texas)
Allen Wayne Jenecka (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Jennings (Virginia)
Robert Wayne Jiles (New York)
Jason Wayne Johnson (Texas
Terry Wayne Johnson (Florida)
Timothy Wayne Johnson (North Carolina)
Mark Wayne Jones (Ohio)
Bruce Wayne Koenig (Maryland)
Derrick Wayne Kualapai, Sr. (California)
Dudley Wayne Kyzer (Alabama)
Monty Wayne Lamb (Texas)
Robert Wayne Lambert (Oklahoma)
Jonathan Wayne Larrabee (South Dakota)
Jeffrey Wayne Leaf (Oklahoma)
Christopher Wayne Lippard (North Carolina)
Kenny Wayne Lockwood (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Lomax (Texas)
Shelly Wayne Martin (Maryland)
Donald Wayne Martin (Texas)*
Steven Wayne McBride (Minnesota)
George Wayne McBroom (Arizona)
David Wayne McCall (Texas)
Rocky Wayne McGowan (Kentucky)
Robert Wayne McMillion (Florida)
Jason Wayne McVean (Colorado)
David Wayne Mears (Michigan)
Wesley Wayne Miller (Texas)
Jimmy Wayne Miller (Texas)
John Wayne Moore, Jr. (Missouri)
John Wayne Moses (North Carolina)
Jack Wayne Napier (Kentucky)
Danny Wayne Owens (Alabama)
Bryan Wayne Padd (Arizona)
David Wayne Pallister (England)
Jeffrey Wayne Paschall (Utah)
Michael Wayne Perry (Tennessee)
Jason Wayne Petershagen (Texas)
Curtis Wayne Pope (Texas)
Donald Wayne Rainey (Mexico)
Randy Wayne Richards (Canada)
Barry Wayne Riley (British Columbia)
Robert Wayne Rotramel (Oklahoma)
David Wayne Satterfield (Texas)
Christopher Wayne Scarber (Kentucky)
Michael Wayne Sears (Virginia)
Kenith Wayne Sherrill (Washington)
Dallas Wayne Shults (Tennessee)
Mark Wayne Silvers (South Carolina)
David Wayne Smith (Virginia)
Daryl Wayne Smith (West Virginia)
Richard Wayne Smith (Texas)*
Richard Wayne Snell (Arkansas)*
Richard Wayne Spicknall (Alabama)
Randall Wayne Stevens (Illinois)
John Wayne Stockdall (Missouri)
Michael Wayne Summers (Missouri)
Gary Wayne Sutton (Tennessee)
Bobby Wayne Swisher (Virginia)*
Michael Wayne Thompson (Indiana)
Andrew Wayne Toler (Texas)
Robert Wayne Vickers (Arizona)*
Billy Wayne Waldrop (Alabama)*
Anthony Wayne Walker (Ohio)
Jerry Wayne Walker (Kentucky)
Jessie Wayne Walker (North Carolina)
Chadwick Wayne Wallace (Illinois)
Daniel Wayne Warfield (Virginia)
John Wayne Warrener (Colorado)
Alexander Wayne Watson Jr. (Maryland)
Louis Wayne Watters, Jr. (Texas)
Coy Wayne Wesbrook (Texas)
Larry Wayne White (Texas)*
Michael Wayne Williams (Virginia)
Richard Wayne Willoughby (Maryland)
Kenneth Wayne Woodfin (Virginia)
Bobby Wayne Woods (Texas)
Darrell Wayne Wright (Texas)
Jerry Wayne Wright (Tennessee)
William Wayne Wright (Texas)
So. It seems clear that I because of my middle name that I must have the FBI watching me or something. Oh well, I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tony Bologna Mannor. For now I will accept being Anthony Wayne Allen Mannor, or as my neice likes to call me “Uncle Tony Macaroni”
Have a great weekend!
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Tony, I am slowly learning all of these different parts of your personality profile by the pieces left all over the credit union blog-o-sphere.
From what I can gather, you are well-over six feet and a multi-business-owning entrepreneur with serial-killer tendencies who thinks he is the long-lost brother of Trey Reeme from Trabian and you can’t stand fluorescent paper.
Let me just say I think your blog is great and if I ever meet you, please don’t kill me. By the way, Trey is not over six feet tall, so you may want to call of the search.
Tim, you actually brought a tear to my eye.
You missed your calling as a profiler… unless you DO actually work for a secret and clandestine pseudo-government agency that has been monitoring my every move. This whole CU Blogger persona cover you have could just be clever ploy to lure me out into the open.
I’m on to you Agent McAlpine - if that is your REAL name…
You will not find me until my CU Manifesto is complete.
Sincerely yours,
The UniBlogger
I’ve seen something about that before on the Freakonomics blog. (If you haven’t read that book, BTW, you should definitely check it out.)
My totally uninformed opinion is that the prevalence has something to do with Wayne being a common middle name. The same way that if you get a group of Gen X women together, some absurd proportion of them will have the middle name Marie; same thing with Boomer women & Ann, IIRC. Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be any statistics available on the prevalence of middle names…I looked once a while ago.
My father-in-law’s middle name is Wayne, BTW, and my mine is Marie. So there we are.
Another “Marie” here. And I work for Tony.
It is strange how I just spotted the large Scooby Doo on the roof top of a house I drive by every day. This weekend I’m going as the characters from the TV show for Halloween. If I didn’t select this costume, would I have ever noticed the extremely strange roof top Scooby?
Yes, my mom is a “Marie” and so is my wife and niece. I think that has to do more with catholocism/chritianity more than anything else. Then once the name was established it became one of those things you do to pay tribute to a relative (mom, aunt, grandmother).
Thats my guess though.
I just bought my wife a Honda Pilot… Guess what I see on the road a milion times a day now? Yeah… you know.. 
Oh Kristen… I am really thinking about posting the picture of bella that you sent me (dressed as Scooby Doo).
Very cool
Go for it. I am not only a graphic designer but also a accomplished dog collar costume maker! Everyone loved it at the party.
you mention the fact that all these individuals that share the middle name of wayne are serial killers and that is un-true to be a serial killer you have to murder more than one individual and I know for a fact that one of these men did not murder more than one person. I mean come on its bad enough that one murder crime was committed and now you try to accuse him of murding several people. These men have families that have done nothing wrong and you put them on lists for all to constintly be reminded of their acts. get over yourself and get a life a name is only a name and that is it.
The only times people use your middle name:
1. Ceremonies like graduation, baptisms and weddings.
2. By your mother when you’re in trouble.
3. By the news media when you’re in BIG trouble.