List of People From Michigan - Infamous Michiganders

Infamous Michiganders

• Jim Bakker, scandal-ridden televangelist (born in Muskegon)
• Abe Bernstein, Prohibition-era gangster (born in New York; moved to Detroit)
• Ivan Boesky, inside trader (born in Detroit)
• Tony Chebatoris (1898–1938), murderer, bank robber and the only person executed for a crime in Michigan's history
• Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), anti-Semitic, pro-Hitler priest (born in Hamilton, Ontario; moved to Birmingham)
• Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer (and first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless communication (born in Michigan, caught in England)
• Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901), assassin of President William McKinley (born in Detroit)
• Sile Doty (1800–1876), burglar, horse thief (born in Vermont, spent later years in Michigan)
• Andrew Kehoe (1872–1927), Bath School disaster bomber
• Jack Kevorkian, physician infamous for assisted suicides (born in Pontiac)
• John List, mass murderer (born in Bay City)
• John Mitchell, conspiratorial Attorney General during Watergate under President Richard Nixon (born in Detroit)
• Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator (born in Michigan)
• The Purple Gang, 1920s organized crime group in Detroit

• Reed Slatkin, perpetrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in the United States since that conducted by Ponzi himself (born in Detroit)
• Eddie Slovik - last U.S. soldier executed for desertion (born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn)
• Aileen Wuornos, murderer made famous as the subject of the 2003 film "Monster" starring Charlize Theron (born in Rochester)
• John Norman Collins "co-ed killer". Lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan