# Criminals With Apt Names... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365 "2017-06-07T15:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/1 "2017-06-07T15:51:30Z")
Maybe it’s just coincidence (or [is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440124&goto=newpost) it?;)). But some criminals have some very appropriate names. Back when I was going to U of M Dearborn-Michigan, my college professor matter of factly mentioned, that some people thought Charles Manson’s name was ironic, because I guess he was in many ways the wayward son of mankind. Okay, that one wasn’t the best. But what about Bernie Madoff? He literally made-off with his investors money. Sounds fitting, doesn’t it? Anyways, that is all I can think of for now. I am sure some of you can come up with some better examples. What famous criminals have ironic names? :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/2 "2017-06-07T15:52:50Z")
I know two convicted felons who have the surname of **Outlaw**. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/3 "2017-06-07T16:04:11Z")
Joey Buttafuoco - Sodomy (among other charges) ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/4 "2017-06-07T16:42:00Z")
I thought these were going to be criminals with apartments named for them. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/5 "2017-06-07T16:53:46Z")
I know a guy who has been in all sorts of trouble, mostly DUI related. He did his full three years in prison for a DUI (refused to do things that would have halved his time in prison). His name? Bud Light Billy. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/6 "2017-06-07T18:10:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I know a guy who has been in all sorts of trouble, mostly DUI related. He did his full three years in prison for a DUI (refused to do things that would have halved his time in prison). His name? Bud Light Billy. This may be urban legend, but I’ve heard stories about a man arrested for DUI whose name was Al Cohol. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/7 "2017-06-07T18:33:54Z")
Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/8 "2017-06-07T18:45:31Z")
My favorite, John Dillinger. Sounds like derringer (the pistol). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/9 "2017-06-07T19:40:46Z")
Real life Walter White meth dealer. > **[Real-life Walter White gets 12 years in prison for dealing meth](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-life-walter-white-gets-12-years-in-prison-for-dealing-meth/)** > > A Mont. man with the same name as the lead character of "Breaking Bad" has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for possession of over 32 pounds of meth ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/10 "2017-06-07T20:01:55Z")
The Krays. Because it sounds like _craze_, and they were both mad. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/11 "2017-06-07T20:06:46Z")
[Moderating] Unless one of these criminals was named Art and stole from a museum, I think I’m going to have to move this to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/12 "2017-06-07T20:37:48Z")
I was going to post the old chestnut about Sir Edmund Godfrey being murdered at Greenberry Hill by three men named Green, Berry and Hill, but it appears that it’s all a bit of a contemporary folk etymology. The hill was actually known as Primrose Hill and after the (possible) murderers were hanged there, it was know for a time as Greenbury Hill. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/13 "2017-06-07T21:18:10Z")
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**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/14 "2017-06-07T22:47:58Z")
[Pat Swindall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Swindall#Legal_troubles), former US Representative. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/15 "2017-06-08T01:19:06Z")
Lorena Bobbitt ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/16 "2017-06-08T01:39:19Z")
Anthony Weiner ---
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/17 "2017-06-08T07:29:22Z")
Gotta love Johnny Stompanato. Can it get much better than this? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/18 "2017-06-08T12:05:58Z")
The aptness may be debatable, but it’s hard to beat an (alleged) criminal named [Reality Winner](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reality-winner-alleged-nsa-leaker-will-plead-not-guilty-lawyer-n769526). ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/19 "2017-06-08T12:46:28Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The aptness may be debatable, but it’s hard to beat an (alleged) criminal named [Reality Winner](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reality-winner-alleged-nsa-leaker-will-plead-not-guilty-lawyer-n769526). Those headlines have been throwing me for days now. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/20 "2017-06-08T12:52:18Z")
I’ve also had patients with the last name of Badboy and Killer. true. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365.md?page=2)