The Year's Weirdest News (Beware the Waynes)

WashPost (excerpt) ^ | 12/29/02 | Chuck Shepherd

[Archangelsk]

THE CLASSIC MIDDLE NAME (ALL-NEW!) Executed for murder in 2002: Stephen Wayne Anderson (inmate, San Quentin, Calif.), Randall Wayne Hafdahl (inmate, Huntsville, Tex.)

• Sentenced for murder: Darren Wayne Campbell (Coquille, Ore.), Mark Wayne Campmire (Litchfield, Conn.), Michael Wayne Cole (Goldsboro, N.C.), Gary Wayne Davis (Louisville, Ky.), Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (Flint, Mich.), Mark Wayne Silvers (Anderson, S.C.)

• Charged with murder: Timothy Wayne Adams (Houston), Joshua Wayne Andrews (Woodbridge, Va.), Seth Wayne Campbell (Houston), Douglas Wayne Clark (Austin), David Wayne Crews (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ralph Wayne Grimes (Russell Springs, Ky.), Anthony Wayne Grimm (Springfield, Ill.), Kenneth Wayne Hall Sr. (Gaffney, S.C.), Mark Wayne Lomax (Houston), Shelly Wayne Martin (Randallstown, Md.), Jeffery Wayne Paschall (Draper, Utah), Jason Wayne Petershagen (La Marque, Tex.), David Wayne Satterfield (Mesquite, Tex.)

• Murder conviction overturned after 18 years and new trial ordered: Michael Wayne Jennings (Concord, Calif.)

Sources -- Anderson: Associated Press, Jan. 28; Hafdahl: Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 31; Darren Campbell: The World (Coos Bay, Ore.) May 4; Campmire: Hartford Courant, Jan. 26; Cole: Goldsboro News-Argus, March 8; Davis: Courier-Journal (Louisville), Nov. 22; Gorton: Detroit Free Press, Sept. 20; Silvers: Anderson Independent-Mail, April 12; Adams: Houston Chronicle, May 2; Andrews: Washington Post, Jan. 13; Seth Campbell: Houston Chronicle, July 11; Clark: News8Austin.com (Time Warner cable channel, Austin), Oct. 22; Crews: Knoxville News-Sentinel, June 8; Grimes: Associated Press, Nov. 25; Grimm: State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.), Aug. 21; Hall: Spartanburg Herald-Journal, March 7; Lomax: Houston Chronicle, April 12; Martin: the Sun (Baltimore), May 8; Paschall: Salt Lake Tribune, July 10; Petershagen: Houston Chronicle, Aug. 29; Satterfield: Dallas Morning News, March 8; Smith: Associated Press, Oct. 3; Jennings: San Mateo County Times, May 11

[Archangelsk]

Evil Waynes.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wayne's World... Wayne's World... Killing TIme, Excellent...

[headsonpikes]

My middle name is Wayne, FWIW.

I have friends in Vorkuta, Mr. Archangelsk.

We have ways of tracking our...prey.

;^)

[D. Miles]

UH, any info on Wayne as a first name?

[Archangelsk]

Nope, what you see is what you get.

[Rebelbase]

The Wayne Lee Ray syndrome strikes again.

[spanky_mcfarland]

Let's not forget the ultimate Wayne...John Wayne Gacy.

The twisted contractor/birthday clown had 33 kids buried in his suburban-Chicago crawlspace and backyard.

[LiteKeeper]

My first name is Wayne. The word means a wagon maker, as in wainwright. Nothing sinister in it, that I know of. BTW - I am a retired Army chaplain, and Viet Nam veteran (field artillery officer in those days.)

[D. Miles]

Thank you Wayne for your service to our country. I was looking for stats on Wayne as a first name of prisoners, just wondering the ratio between Wayne as a first name rather than a middle name. I'm sure we could do stats on alot of names and come up with some mighty strange facts.

Not sure a name has much to do with the misguided landing in jail.