Fbis Most Wanted Serial Killers
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The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and William Kinsey Hutchinson,[1]International News Service (the predecessor of the United Press International) editor-in-chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the FBI's 'toughest guys'. This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced the list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives.[2]
Individuals are generally only removed from the list if the fugitive is captured, dies, or if the charges against them are dropped; they are then replaced by a new entry selected by the FBI. In ten cases, the FBI removed individuals from the list after deciding that they were no longer a 'particularly dangerous menace to society'. Machetero member Víctor Manuel Gerena, added to the list in 1984, was on the list for 32 years, which was longer than anyone else.[1] Billie Austin Bryant spent the shortest amount of time on the list, being listed for two hours in 1969.[3] The oldest person to be added to the list was Eugene Palmer on May 28, 2019, at 80 years old. On rare occasions, the FBI will add a 'Number Eleven' if that individual is extremely dangerous but the Bureau does not feel any of the current ten should be removed.[4] Despite occasional references in the media, the FBI does not rank their list; no suspect is considered '#1 on the FBI's Most Wanted List' or 'The Most Wanted'.[1]
The list is commonly posted in public places such as post offices. In many cases, fugitives on the list have turned themselves in on becoming aware of their listing. On May 19, 1996,[5]Leslie Isben Rogge became the first person on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list to be apprehended due to the Internet.[6] The FBI maintains other lists of individuals, including the Most Wanted Terrorists,[7] along with crime alerts, missing persons, and other fugitive lists.
On June 17, 2013, the list reached a cumulative total of 500 fugitives having been listed.[8] As of October 2019, 523 fugitives had been listed, ten of them women, and 488 of them were captured or located (93%), 162 (31%) of them due to public assistance.[9]
New additions[edit]
The Criminal Investigative Division (CID) at FBI Headquarters calls upon all 56 Field Offices to submit candidates for the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' list.[10] The nominees received are reviewed by special agents in the CID and the Office of Public Affairs.[10] The selection of the 'proposed' candidate(s) is forwarded to the Assistant Director of the CID for his/her approval and then to the FBI's Director for final approval.[10] This process takes some time, which is why James Joseph 'Whitey' Bulger Jr., who was arrested in Santa Monica, California on June 22, 2011,[11] remained on the list until May 9, 2012[12] despite no longer being at large. Osama bin Laden similarly remained on the list for almost a year after his death at the hands of U.S. forces on May 2, 2011.[13]
List as of October 2019[edit]
Rewards are offered for information leading to capture of fugitives on the list; the reward is a minimum of $100,000 for all fugitives, currently exceeded in the cases of Jason Derek Brown at $200,000, and Rafael Caro Quintero at $20,000,000.
| Photo | Name | Date added | Sequence number | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert William Fisher | June 29, 2002 | 475 | Fisher is wanted for the 2001 murder of his wife Mary and their two children, Robert Jr. and Brittney, and then blowing up the Scottsdale, Arizona, house in which they lived. Investigators believe he murdered his family because he felt threatened by his wife's intent to divorce.[14][15] | |
| Alexis Flores | June 2, 2007 | 487 | Flores is wanted for the kidnapping, rape and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2000. He was deported to his native Honduras in 2005 after serving a prison term for forgery in Arizona. He was added to the list after deportation when his DNA was matched to the DeJesus crime.[16][17] | |
| Jason Derek Brown | December 8, 2007 | 489 | Brown is wanted for murder and armed robbery in Phoenix, Arizona. Authorities allege that in November 2004, he shot and killed an armoured car guard outside a movie theatre and fled on a bicycle with $56,000 in a duffel bag. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $200,000 for information leading to his capture.[18][19] Authorities believe he may have fled the country and could be living in France or Thailand.[20] | |
| Yaser Abdel Said | December 4, 2014 | 504 | Said is wanted for the double murder of his daughters in Irving, Texas, on January 1, 2008.[21][22] | |
| Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel | April 18, 2017 | 514 | Patel allegedly stabbed and killed his wife in a doughnut shop in Hanover, Maryland on April 12, 2015. He was last seen taking a shuttle to Pennsylvania Station in Newark. According to authorities, he has connections to Canada, India, New Jersey, Kentucky, Georgia and Illinois.[23][24] | |
| Santiago Villalba Mederos | September 25, 2017 | 515 | Mederos, a member of the violent Eastside Lokotes Sureños gang, is wanted in connection with two separate shootings in Tacoma, Washington, that resulted in the death of a young woman and the serious wounding of her brother, and a month later, the murder of a young man. Mederos was a teenager at the time of the killings.[25] | |
| Alejandro Castillo | October 24, 2017 | 516 | Castillo is wanted in connection with the 2016 murder of a 23-year-old woman, Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le, whom he had previously dated. The two became acquainted while working together in a Charlotte restaurant.[26] | |
| Rafael Caro Quintero | April 12, 2018 | 518 | Caro Quintero, a Mexican cartel leader, is wanted for his role in the kidnapping and murder of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, American writer John Clay Walker and dentistry student Alberto Radelat in 1985. He spent time in jail in Mexico before being released in 2013; a new arrest warrant was issued shortly after his release.[27] | |
| Arnoldo Jimenez | May 8, 2019 | 522 | Jimenez is wanted for the murder of his wife on May 12, 2012. Jimenez allegedly stabbed his wife to death just hours after their wedding. Her body was found in a bathtub at her apartment in Burbank, Illinois.[28] | |
| Eugene Palmer | May 28, 2019 | 523 | Palmer is wanted for the murder of his daughter-in-law on September 24, 2012 in Stony Point, New York.[29] |
See also[edit]
- The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, a list published by Forbes
References[edit]
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- ^'This Day in History 1950: The FBI debuts 10 Most Wanted'. History.com. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^McCabe, Paul (2001-03-21). 'Ask the FBI.: The Ten Most Wanted list'. USA Today.
- ^Douglas, John; Mark Olshaker (July 1999). The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals. Mindhunters, Inc. ISBN0-671-02393-4.
- ^'U.S. Fugitive Surrenders in Guatemala After Photo Is Seen on Internet'. Associated Press. 1996-05-19.
- ^'Biography – Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Isben Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals from Nish Publishing Company'. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27.
- ^'FBI Most Wanted Terrorists'. FBI.gov. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^'Alleged rapist, killer added to FBI's 'Most Wanted' list'. NBC News. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^'Wanted by the FBI: Another Milestone for the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List'. FBI.gov. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
- ^ abc'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program'. FBI. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
- ^Melley, Brian and Greg Risling (2011-06-23). 'FBI arrests mob boss Whitey Bulger in Calif.' Associated Press.
- ^'FBI Ten Most Wanted'. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^Pelofsky, Jeremy (2012-04-10). 'FBI replaces bin Laden on Ten Most Wanted list'. Yahoo! News. Reuters.
- ^Zoellner, Tom (August 7, 2002). 'Report portrays suspect in family killing as cruel, controlling'. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^'Fisher's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert'. FBI. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^'Flores' FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert'. FBI. Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^'AMW Fugitive Data File for Alexis Flores'. AMW.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^'Brown's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert'. FBI. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ^'AMW Fugitive Data File for Jason Derek Brown'. AMW.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^The Nation April 4, 2013 1:00 am (2013-04-04). 'Tarit: Thailand is region's No 1 terror target – The Nation'. Nationmultimedia.com. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
- ^'Yaser Abdel Said Wanted for Alleged Murder of His Two Daughters Amina and Sarah in Irving, Texas Fugitive Watch'. Fugitive Watch. 16 April 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^'FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives'. CBS News. CBS Interactive Inc. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^'Patel's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert'. FBI. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ^Bui, Lynh (April 18, 2017). 'Latest on FBI's most wanted list: Man accused of killing wife in Md. doughnut shop'. The Washington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ^'New Top Ten Fugitive'. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- ^'New Top Ten Fugitive'. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- ^'New Top Ten Fugitive'. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- ^'New Top Ten Fugitive'. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- ^'Eugene Palmer Added to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List'. FBI.gov. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
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The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1990s is a list, maintained for a fifth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1990s[edit]
Fbi Most Wanted Serial Killers
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.
The following fugitives made up the top Ten list to begin the 1990s:
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 | • Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of cerebral vascular hypertension on June 16, 1991.[1] |
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 | • Removed from the list on March 31, 2007.[2] On July 14, 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth, Massachusetts home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999.[3] |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 | • Still at large in the theft of $7 million from a Connecticut securities firm, but removed from the list on December 15, 2016. |
| Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | 1987 | • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean Willmott[1] |
| Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | 1987 | • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel Marks[1] |
| Armando Garcia | #423 | 1989 | • Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on America's Most Wanted.[4] |
| Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | 1989 | • Arrested March 9, 1995[5] |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 | • Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria.[6] |
| Wardell David Ford | #429 | 1989 | • Arrested September 17, 1990[7] |
One spot on the list of ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the last year of the decade in 1990.
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1990s[edit]
Fbi Most Wanted List History
The list of the most wanted fugitives listed during the 1990s fluctuated throughout the decade with some fugitives making reappearances on the list. In 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. As before, spots on the list were occupied by fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and still remained at large. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):[8][9]
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Isben Rogge | #430 | January 24, 1990 | Six years |
| Leslie Isben Rogge surrendered May 19, 1996 to Guatemalan authorities. Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries.[10] | |||
| Kenneth Robert Stanton | #431 | October 24, 1990 | Seven days |
| Kenneth Robert Stanton was captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department.[11] Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries | |||
| Patrick Michael Mitchell | #432 | November 23, 1990 | Four years |
| Patrick Michael Mitchell was captured February 22, 1994 in Southhaven, Mississippi and was imprisoned in the U.S. from 1994 until his death from cancer in 2007. He robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994.[12] | |||
| Jon Preston Steele | #433 | August 9, 1991 | Never published |
| Jon Preston Steele was arrested August 6, 1991 (before being published to the list) in Los Angeles. | |||
| Robert Michael Allen | #434 | September 13, 1991 | One year, 3 months |
| Robert Michael Allen was found dead on December 23, 1992 in the California desert by three hikers. | |||
| Mir Qazi | #435 | February 9, 1993 | Four years |
| Mir Qazi, known by the FBI under the name Mir Aimal Kansi, was executed on November 14, 2002 by lethal injection in a Virginia state prison. Qazi was a fugitive in Afghanistan and Pakistan before being arrested after he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan on June 17, 1997. He was wanted in the murder case of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia on January 25, 1993, during which three others were also shot and injured in their cars at the intersection. | |||
| Ramzi Ahmed Yousef | #436 | April 21, 1993 | Two years |
| Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is imprisoned at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was convicted on November 12, 1997; sentenced to life January 8, 1998 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing. He was arrested in Pakistan February 7, 1995. Yousef had fled Manila, Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot February 6, 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners. He is the nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit | |||
| Joseph Martin Luther Gardner | #437 | May 25, 1994 | Five months |
| Joseph Martin Luther Gardner was arrested on October 19, 1994 in Philadelphia. He remained incarcerated until he was executed on December 5, 2008.[13] | |||
| Gary Ray Bowles | #438 | November 19, 1994 | Three days |
| Gary Ray Bowles was arrested on November 22, 1994 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as a suspect in multiple murders. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in Atlanta in August 1986. He was executed for his crimes on August 22, 2019 at Florida State Prison. | |||
| Gerald Keith Watkins | #439 | March 4, 1995 | Two months |
| Gerald Keith Watkins has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1995. Arrested in Harlem on May 5, 1995. | |||
| Juan García Ábrego | #440 | March 9, 1995 | Nine months |
| Juan García Ábrego has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996 imprisoned in Houston, Texas sentenced to 11 life terms on January 31, 1997; Convicted in Houston United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas October 16, 1996 of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges; Expelled to US by Mexico January 15, 1996; Arrested January 14, 1996 in Monterrey, Mexico; Indictment amended in 1996; Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995; Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston; Indicted in Dallas, Texas federal United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in 1990. Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986. He was the founder and drug boss of the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, before in arrest. | |||
| Abdelbaset al-Megrahi | #441 | March 23, 1995 | Four years |
| Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Scotland prisoner, whose murder conviction was upheld by appeals court in March 2002. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted January 31, 2001; arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999. He was charged in part with 'Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States'; was wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; Libyan intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for Libyan Arab Airlines. He was released on August 20, 2009 and allowed to return to Libya by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds following doctors reporting on the August 10, 2009 that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live,.[14][15] He died in Tripoli, Libya on May 20, 2012. | |||
| Lamin Khalifah Fhimah | #442 | March 23, 1995 | Four years |
| Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was acquitted in Scotland January 31, 2001. He was arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999; charged in part with 'Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States' and wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States. | |||
| O'Neil Vassell | #443 | July 15, 1995 | One year |
| O'Neil Vassell is a US prisoner arrested on October 16, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York. He was wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the 'RATs' Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.[16] | |||
| Rickey Allen Bright | #444 | December 15, 1995 | Three weeks |
| Rickey Allen Bright is a US prisoner who was arrested on January 7, 1996 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was wanted in the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old Wilkes County, North Carolina girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1979 | |||
| Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | #445 | August 3, 1996 | Four years |
| Agustín Vásquez Mendoza has been imprisoned since 2000 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was arrested in Mexico July 9, 2000 for unlawful flight after being indicted in Phoenix, Arizona July 11, 1994 in murder of an undercover DEA special agent in Glendale, Arizona on June 30, 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy | |||
| Thang Thanh Nguyen | #446 | August 3, 1996 | One year |
| Thang Thanh Nguyen has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998 after being extradited to Rochester, New York January 6, 1998 from Bangkok, Thailand He was turned over to the FBI and transported from Vietnam; was arrested December 22, 1997 in Bac Lieu, Vietnam. Nguyen was charged by FBI with unlawful flight July 14, 1992 following an arrest warrant for his indictment in Monroe County, New York July 9, 1992; for an in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in Irondequoit, New York January 26, 1992. | |||
| Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | December 7, 1996 | Still at large but removed from the list |
| Glen Stewart Godwin is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987. He was convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico in 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30, 1987 through a storm drain.[17] As of May 19, 2016 he was no longer on the list. | |||
| David Alex Alvarez | #448 | December 14, 1996 | Five months |
| David Alex Alvarez is a Mexican prisoner who was arrested on May 20, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico. He was wanted in murder of four people, including two young girls, and wounding of three other people, at Baldwin Park, California September 29, 1996. He was also wanted in a kidnapping in California, August 1996. He was paroled in 1994 after being sentenced to five years in 1992 following a conviction of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992.[18] | |||
| Andrew Phillip Cunanan | #449 | June 12, 1997 | One month |
| Andrew Phillip Cunanan committed suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on Indian Creek Canal in Miami Beach, Florida July 23, 1997. He was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach house July 15, 1997. Arrived in Miami Beach on May 10, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of Finn's Point Cemetery worker in Pennsville, New Jersey May 9, 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of Chicago, Illinois real-estate developer Lee Miglin at his home May 3, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near Duluth, Minnesota around April 29, 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 27, 1997. | |||
| Paul Ragusa | #450 | September 6, 1997 | Four months |
| Paul Ragusa has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on January 30, 1998 in New York. He had cosmetic surgery in 1997 following an indictment on racketeering charges June 14, 1996. He was wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23, 1993; beating a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, New York in 1990 (charges were dropped in the beating case); beating a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, New York in March 1989. | |||
| Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix | #451 | September 18, 1997 | Five years |
| Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix was killed in a gun battle with police at Mazatlán February 10, 2002. He was wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in the mass murder of 19 people in Ensenada September 17, 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in United States District Court for the Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), which is also known as the Tijuana Cartel. | |||
| Tony Ray Amati | #452 | February 21, 1998 | Four days |
| Tony Ray Amati has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on February 25, 1998 in Marietta, Georgia; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May–July 1996. | |||
| Harry Joseph Bowman | #453 | March 14, 1998 | One year |
| Harry Joseph 'Taco' Bowman has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1999 after being arrested June 7, 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of an Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in Cook County, Illinois in 1994; wanted in the murder of rival club member in Edgewater, Florida in 1991; wanted in the murder of an Outlaws member in Ormond Beach, Florida in 1982; former international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries.[19] | |||
| Eric Robert Rudolph | #454 | May 5, 1998 | Five years |
| Eric Robert Rudolph, a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in Murphy, North Carolina, May 31, 2003. He was charged on October 14, 1998 in a series of southeastern US bombings. Before being arrested, his last known contact was with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina February 8, 1998; wanted in a bombing murder and maiming at a Birmingham abortion clinic January 29, 1998; wanted in a double bombing at a nightclub in Atlanta February 21, 1997; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29, 1997; wanted in adouble bombing at office building in north Atlanta on January 16, 1997; wanted in a bombing murder at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, July 27, 1996.[20] | |||
| James Charles Kopp | #455 | June 7, 1999 | Two years |
| James Charles Kopp,[21] a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in Dinan, Brittany, France, March 30, 2001. He was wanted for the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian at his home in Amherst, New York, October 23, 1998 and for non-fatal shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1994, 1995 and 1997.[22] Kopp was indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force and indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier was found abandoned at Newark International Airport December 18, 1998 after he initially disappeared on November 3, 1998. | |||
| Usama Bin Laden[23] Full name: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن | #456 | June 7, 1999 | 11 years, 10 months, 23 days |
Osama bin Laden[a] was the leader of al-Qaeda and was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda is alleged to be responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. Although bin Laden later appeared on the first publicly released FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on October 10, 2001, he was listed there for his alleged role in the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Osama bin Laden was the subject of a $50 million[24] reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice program.[a][25][26] Osama bin Laden was killed during Operation Neptune Spear[27] in Abbottābad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011.[28]
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| Ángel Maturino Reséndiz | #457 | June 21, 1999 | Three weeks |
| Ángel Maturino Reséndiz a.k.a. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez was executed June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas by lethal injection. He was arrested July 13, 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as 'The Railway Killer' in Jackson County, Illinois, June 15, 1999; murder in Houston, Texas, June 5, 1999; murder in Fayette County, Texas, June 4, 1999; double murder in Weimar, Texas, April 30, 1999; murder in West University, Texas, December 17, 1998; murder in Lexington, Kentucky, August 29, 1997. | |||
| James J. Bulger | #458 | August 19, 1999 | 11 years, 10 months, 3 days |
| James J. Bulger was wanted for his role in 19 murders committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an Irish organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He has a violent temper and was known to carry a knife at all times. Arrested June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, California.[29][30] | |||
End of the decade[edit]
As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
| Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 |
| Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | #445 | 1996 |
| Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | 1996 |
| Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix | #451 | 1997 |
| Eric Robert Rudolph | #454 | 1998 |
| James Charles Kopp | #455 | 1999 |
Usama Bin Laden[23] | #456 | 1999 |
| James J. Bulger | #458 | 1999 |
FBI directors in decade of 1990s[edit]
- William S. Sessions (1987–1993)
- Acting Director: Floyd I. Clarke (1993)
- Louis J. Freeh (1993–2001)
FBI headlines in decade of 1990s[edit]
As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. In 1993 and 1994, the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. In 1999, the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, was added to the list for the 1998 embassy attacks.
Although many 1990s terrorists have appeared on the top 10 list of fugitives, it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI began maintaining a separate list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^Maskaly, Michelle (2008-10-27). 'Wanted: Donald Eugene Webb for the Murder of a Pennsylvania Police Chief'. FOX News. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- ^Victoria Warren, Remains found in Dartmouth yard are those of fugitive wanted for killing police chief, The Associated Press via WHDH News, July 14, 2017
- ^'FBI Top Ten Fugitive Arrested In Columbia'. America's Most Wanted. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- ^Anderson, Sean; Stephen Sloan (2002). Historical Dictionary of Terrorism. Scarecrow Press. p. 440. ISBN978-0-8108-4101-7.
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