I was about to post a thread asking if anyone went to school with a murder....

I don't know if it counts, Jarrod Cooper was a safety for KSU that repeatedly got burned in the '98 Big XII Title Game, much to my amusement.

He's probably infamous to a few Wildcat fans, at least.

Like ended up in prison for something newsworthy?

Dave Elmendorf got run off Aggie broadcasts for being part of that Aggie Traditions thing. That's pretty infamous.

I did have a story about a classmate, but I'll save it as a "top this" for later.

A guy who I used to hang around with got life in a Florida prison for hiring a guy to kill the wife of his golfing budding (she was the mother of triplets...y'all may have heard of this... the husband finally got convicted about 3 years later... his name was blackburn or something like that).

tom hicks

Alex McLeod

No one famous ever comes from my town.

Did ya'll ever hear about the lady from Carthage who was killed by her younger, homosexual caretaker, then was stuffed in her freezer for a year before the police found her? It was on A&E last week. Well, that took place down the street from my house.

A guy I grew up with was killed on death row last year.

The Falcon & The Snowman went to my HS, as well as Bill Lambeer ... I'm not sure which of them cheated more...

Also had Pete Sampras in my class... but he's a good guy

Unfortunatly, I went to the same high school as Richard Simmons.

vanilla Ice Ice baby

I went to the same high school as Donte Hawkins. He did great for the A&M football team. Only not

I opened a show for Vanilla a couple years ago

Not me, but my when my dad was coaching HS football in the 70's at Garland High, there was a defensive back on the team named Vernon Howell.

You may know him as David Koresh.

Funny that this question should be asked today. I was just discussing it with a co-worker. Actually, my best friend from the time I was 8 until 19 (our friendship ended after our first year in college) ended up serving time for 12 felonies. She actually did some of her time at an "institution" in Bryan Texas - even though she was found guilty for crimes commited in Oregon. Her husband was also found guilty of the same 12 felonies, but he promptly went home and shot himself...leaving her to face their four young children and years in prison ALONE. Very, very sad!

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I lived the next street over from the lady that drowned all her kids...

Pete Gardere went to my HS. Dumb-ass actually tried cheating off of me in chemistry (only an idiot would have tried that b/c I was no good in chemistry).

Rec - that must have been a beating

i'm so sorry

The kicker that shanked the final field goal that lost Nebraksa the National Championship in the '94 Orange Bowl was one of my HS football coaches.

Homsar,

I went to GHS, graduated in '78. Vernon was in my class (of course he dropped out his freshman year).

I never knew Tom Hicks was from Port Arthur. That pisses me off.

I found out that a guy I went to high school with (and whom I hated) got arrested last year for molesting little kids. Like, 10 little kids. I think the trial is set for the near future, he's facing 51 counts and looking at life in prison.

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Chicago Tribune

Desperate to find a job, an Aurora gymnastics coach suspected of molesting several students pleaded with a judge Wednesday to ease conditions of his bond.

Michael Cardamone said he has been unable to find work since he was accused of improperly touching 10 girls, nine of them his students at the American Institute of Gymnastics.

DuPage County Judge Michael Burke had set several restrictions as a condition of his bond.

Cardamone, 26, who is wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, must remain in his home, except to attend court, church and meetings with his attorneys. He may work, the judge said, if it isn't at a public place. Cardamone also can't work at the institute, which is owned by his mother.

Burke is expected to rule June 4 on Cardamone's request to work for his stepfather, Tom Lynch, who is moving his art business into an industrial office in Aurora.

Prosecutor Justin Fitzsimmons asked Burke to hold off on a ruling until prosecutors can investigate the proposal. The industrial site is a half-mile from the gymnastics school.

Cardamone argues that only his family will hire him. A judge denied his earlier requests to work at his father's restaurant, because it would entail working with the public, including minors. His lawyers, Jack Donahue and Joseph Laraia, said Cardamone's need to work has increased since his wife recently became pregnant with their first child.

"There's no way he can get other employment with these charges hanging over him," Laraia said. "No one is going to hire him."

Cardamone is accused of inappropriately touching the girls, ages 5 to 14, underneath their clothing during their lessons between January 2000 and November 2002. He also is accused of molesting a young girl at Aurora's Rush-Copley Health Plex.

The popular coach had worked at his mother's institute at 881 Shoreline Drive for nine years. Cardamone has pleaded innocent. His attorneys maintain the criminal charges are unsubstantiated and reflect a mob mentality. Several parents have either filed lawsuits or have lawyers preparing such legal action.

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Serves him right. The guy was a major tool.

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This is more of a stupid famous than infamous.A kid was deer hunting and had always been told to take along a rope to lower his rifle to the ground before climbing out of the tree..he lowers it and climbs down and his left foot slipped and the gun went off taking most of his left hand with it. He is a deputy sheriff now and is in charge of teaching gun safety.

Thomas Jefferson, Port Arthur.

Janis Joplin was a few years ahead of me and I didn't know her. Her brother was in my class. I remember him being OK in Jr. High, but got weird in HS.

Jimmy Johnson (Cowboys Coach)

bobcat - Dante, you moran

combat - pete gardere is still an idiot - he gets to do a little one minute sports blurb about the Longhorns on KEYE here in Austin, i dont think he has been speaking English for very long

Mark Murdoch was a sucky quaterback for texas and he went to westwood.

Irving MacArthur -

Brian Bosworth

Peter MacNichol (John Cage a.k.a. 'The Biscuit' on Ally McBeal)

Kerry Wood (Cubs pitcher) went to MacArthur before moving to Grand Praire to play for a better high school team.

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You want stupid? A kid in my class was packing black powder into a piece of pipe. (No we never found out what his intentions were). So, said black powder goes off and takes off a couple of fingers and shatters his thumb. I saw him a few years later and his thumb, after the skin grafts was this ballooned out hairy thing that looked like it'd scare small children. Maybe that's why they left it on.

A guy from my high school and family friend was the Texas Tech QB that fumbled the ball against A&M in 1995 that the refs said was "down by contact" after A&M picked up the ball and ran it back for a TD. Proof showed that he did indeed fumble, and the Aggies got shafted. They went on to lose because of a Zach Thomas interception return for a TD.

Yeah, Sone Cavazos.

a guy i went to HS with (and played soccer with) killed his ex gf (who also went to my HS).

him and his new gf were jealous about the kid he had with the first girl. so they killed her, tried to cut off her head, but found out that was too difficult, so they left her in her vehicle and attempted to burn it.

some of you Golden Triangle people probably heard about this case a few years back. I always knew he was a timebomb waiting to go off.

Did anyone else have orangejello and lemonjello go to their school. I think they went to half the high schools in Texas.

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One of my pregnant friends father's killed her boyfriend on her front lawn and was put in jail. I never saw her again.

I don't know about infamous, but as for famous, Renee Zellweger (sp?) went to the same high school as me. But of course not at the same time.