Enema bandit

Michael Hubert Kenyon (born c. 1945 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American criminal nicknamed the Enema Bandit. He pleaded guilty to a decade-long series of armed robberies of female victims, some of which involved sexual assaults where he would give them enemas. He is also known as the "Champaign Enema Bandit," the "Ski Masked Bandit", and "The Illinois Enema Bandit". Kenyon became the subject of Frank Zappa's song "The Illinois Enema Bandit", first... more

Michael Hubert Kenyon (born c. 1945 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American criminal nicknamed the Enema Bandit. He pleaded guilty to a decade-long series of armed robberies of female victims, some of which involved sexual assaults where he would give them enemas. He is also known as the "Champaign Enema Bandit," the "Ski Masked Bandit", and "The Illinois Enema Bandit". Kenyon became the subject of Frank Zappa's song "The Illinois Enema Bandit", first released on Zappa in New York. He was also the inspiration for the 1976 adult film Water Power starring Jamie Gillis (later reissued as Enema Bandit). The term "enema bandit" came into wider use following the incidents. His earliest attacks were on two teenage sisters in March 1966 in Champaign, Illinois. Kenyon graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1967 and left the state. The attacks thus ended in Champaign but started anew in Manhattan, Kansas; Norman, Oklahoma; and Los Angeles, California. Kenyon returned to... less