Michael H. Kenyon

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Michael Hubert Kenyon, (born c. 1944 [1] in Elgin, Illinois) also known as the "Illinois Enema Bandit", is an American criminal. He pleaded guilty to a decade-long series of armed robberies of female victims, some of which involved sexual assaults in which he would give them enemas. He is also known as the "Champaign Enema Bandit", the "Ski Masked Bandit", and/or simply the "Enema Bandit". [2]

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Attacks and convictions

The earliest attacks Kenyon was accused of having committed were on two teenage sisters in March 1966 in Champaign, Illinois. [3] Kenyon graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1967 and subsequently left the state. The attacks thus ended in Champaign but started anew in Manhattan, Kansas; Norman, Oklahoma; and Los Angeles, California. [2]

Kenyon returned to Champaign, and the attacks resumed, in 1972. [4] In May 1975, Kenyon took a job as an auditor for the Illinois Department of Revenue in Lincolnwood, Illinois. [5] He then committed additional attacks, including on three Cook County flight attendants. [6] He also attacked four women in an Urbana sorority house, one of whom was administered an enema. [1] [7] [8] He was involved in a minor traffic accident later that night, but was not arrested.

Kenyon was eventually apprehended in suburban Chicago a few weeks later in connection with a number of robberies there. [9] During questioning he began to talk about the enema bandit. After his arrest he was judged to be legally sane; in December 1975, he pleaded guilty to six counts of armed robbery [10] and was sentenced to six to twelve years in prison for each count, but was never charged for the enema assaults. [11] He was paroled in 1981 after serving six years. [12]

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  4. ↑ Staff report (April 20, 1972). Enema Bandit Assaults Two More U. I. Coeds. Chicago Tribune
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