The Most Infamous Criminal From Every Florida County

A Key West man kept a woman's corpse in his home for seven years and never spent a single day in prison for it. And he is not even the worst name in Florida. This is the most infamous criminal from every Florida county, the real version. Not the made-up list everybody else runs, but the ones with court records, mugshots, and bodies that actually turned up. The thing nobody likes to say out loud is that these monsters never came from far away. They came from the same strip malls, two-lane roads, and sleepy little towns you would drive straight through on your way to the beach. And almost every one of them left a warning behind that somebody ignored. We drive the whole state, county line to county line. Ma Barker's four-hour shootout with the FBI on Lake Weir, and the mastermind myth J. Edgar Hoover invented after she was already dead. Bobby Joe Long, and the 17-year-old girl who survived him and grew up to become a cop. Oba Chandler, undone by his own handwriting on a tourist brochure. Aileen Wuornos and the central Florida highways. The Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, and the campus panic that inspired the movie Scream. Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega murders in Tallahassee. Griselda Blanco, the Cocaine Godmother, and the Dadeland Mall massacre in Miami. Jeffrey Epstein and the Palm Beach deal that money bought. Ottis Toole and the Adam Walsh case that changed how America hunts for missing kids. Casey Anthony and the Orlando verdict half the country still argues about, all the way up to 2018 and the warnings that went unheard. Fifteen counties, fifteen names, one Florida. Which of these shook you the most? Tell me in the comments.