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Once again this year, as a public service, we release this crucial homicide data, all-new in 2005.<br /><br />Arrested in 2005, and charged with murder:<br /><br />Darrell Wayne Maness, 19, Wilmington, N.C. (January)<br /><br />Timothy Wayne Ebert, 40, Cleveland, Texas (February)<br /><br />John Wayne Blair, 49, Sevier County, Tenn. (April)<br /><br />Derek Wayne Jackson, 18, Norristown, Pa. (April)<br /><br />Nathaniel Wayne Hart, 34, Austin, Texas (April)<br /><br />Kenneth Wayne Keller, Denton, Texas (August)<br /><br />Ronald Wayne Lail, Burke County, N.C. (September)<br /><br />Timothy Wayne Condrey, Caroleen, N.C. (September)<br /><br />Roy Wayne Russell, Vancouver, Wash. (December)<br /><br />Jeremy Wayne Hopkins, 22, Denton, Texas (November)<br /><br />Reginald Wayne Thomas, 23, Huntsville, Texas (November)<br /><br />Matthew Wayne Almand, 18, Melbourne, Fla. (November)<br /><br />Convicted of murder:<br /><br />Donald Wayne Shipe, 37, Winchester, Va. (May)<br /><br />Sentenced for murder:<br /><br />Emmanuel Wayne Harris, 28, Bisbee, Ariz. (February)<br /><br />Tyler Wayne Justice, Alice, Texas (September)<br /><br />Douglas Wayne Pepper, 44, Greensboro, N.C. (November)<br /><br />Executed for murder:<br /><br />Dennis Wayne Bagwell, 41, Huntsville, Texas (February)<br /><br />Lonnie Wayne Pursley, 43, Huntsville, Texas (May)<br /><br />Melvin Wayne White, 55, Hunstsville, Texas (November)<br /><br />Committed suicide while suspected of murder:<br /><br />Eric Wayne Jacobs, 27, Castroville, Calif. (April)<br /><br />Michael Wayne Baxter, Edgewater, Md. (October)<br /><br />Died of a drug overdose while serving two life terms for murder:<br /><br />Russell Wayne Wagner, Jessup, Md. (February) (but buried at Arlington National Cemetery based on Army service in Vietnam, prompting Congress to propose to ban capital criminals from having military burials at Arlington)<br /><br />One final note: Police in New Scotland, N.Y., arrested Corianna Thompson for the murder of her mother. Thompson's birth name was Corey Wayne Balashek, and before his sex change, he had served nine years in prison for another killing. Authorities believe Thompson/Balashek is the first American, let alone the first middle-name-Wayne, to be arrested for homicide in both genders.<br /><br />SOURCES FOR CLASSIC MIDDLE NAME<br /><br />Maness: Asheville Citizen-Times, Jan. 20<br /><br />Ebert: Houston Chronicle, Feb. 22<br /><br />Blair: WBIR-TV (Knoxville), April 28<br /><br />Jackson: Pottstown Mercury, April 21<br /><br />Hart: Austin American-Statesman, April 12<br /><br />Keller: Dallas Morning News, Aug. 13<br /><br />Lail: Charlotte Observer, Sept. 22<br /><br />Condrey: Daily Courier (Forest City, N.C.), Sept. 22<br /><br />Russell: The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.), Dec. 4<br /><br />Hopkins: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov. 22<br /><br />Thomas: Houston Chronicle, Nov. 23<br /><br />Almand: Orlando Sentinel, Nov. 30<br /><br />Shipe: Winchester Star, May 4<br /><br />Harris: Sierra Vista Herald, Feb. 18<br /><br />Justice: Alice (Texas) Echo-News Journal, Sept. 15<br /><br />Pepper: Austin American-Statesman-AP, Nov. 8<br /><br />Bagwell: Austin American-Statesman, Feb. 18<br /><br />Pursley: Houston Chronicle, May 3<br /><br />White: Houston Chronicle-AP, Nov. 3<br /><br />Jacobs: Houston Chronicle, April 14<br /><br />Baxter: The Capital (Annapolis), Oct. 8<br /><br />Wagner: Washington Post, Aug. 5<br /><br />Thompson/Balasek: Times Union (Albany, N.Y.),<br />April 12<br /><br />Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679
