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.
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.
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 |
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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. He is currently still at large, though has been presumed to be deceased. [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.
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 |
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Leslie Isben Rogge | #430 | January 24, 1990 | Six years |
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Kenneth Robert Stanton | #431 | October 24, 1990 | Seven days |
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Patrick Michael Mitchell | #432 | November 23, 1990 | Four years |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Jon Preston Settle | #433 | August 9, 1991 | Never published |
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Robert Michael Allen | #434 | September 13, 1991 | One year, 3 months |
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No one was added to the list in 1992.
Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Mir Qazi | #435 | February 9, 1993 | Four years |
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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef | #436 | April 21, 1993 | Two years |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Joseph Martin Luther Gardner | #437 | May 25, 1994 | Five months |
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Gary Ray Bowles | #438 | November 19, 1994 | Three days |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Gerald Keith Watkins | #439 | March 4, 1995 | Two months |
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Juan García Ábrego | #440 | March 9, 1995 | Nine months |
Juan García Ábrego has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996. Currently imprisoned at Hazelton USP in West Virginia. 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 |
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Lamin Khalifah Fhimah | #442 | March 23, 1995 | Four years |
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O'Neil Vassell | #443 | July 15, 1995 | One year |
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Rickey Allen Bright | #444 | December 15, 1995 | Three weeks |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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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 |
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Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | December 7, 1996 | Still at large but removed from the list |
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David Alex Alvarez | #448 | December 14, 1996 | Five months |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Andrew Phillip Cunanan | #449 | June 12, 1997 | One month |
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Paul Ragusa | #450 | September 6, 1997 | Four months |
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Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix | #451 | September 18, 1997 | Five years |
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Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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Tony Ray Amati | #452 | February 21, 1998 | Four days |
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Harry Joseph Bowman | #453 | March 14, 1998 | One year |
Harry Joseph "Taco" Bowman was imprisoned in the U.S. from 1999, after being arrested June 7, 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan, until his death in 2019. [31] 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. [32] | |||
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 a double 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. [33] |
Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
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James Charles Kopp | #455 | June 7, 1999 | Two years |
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Usama Bin Laden [36] 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 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 [37] reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice program. [a] [38] [39] Osama bin Laden was killed during Operation Neptune Spear [40] in Abbottābad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. [41] | |||
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz | #457 | June 21, 1999 | Three weeks |
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James J. Bulger | #458 | August 19, 1999 | 11 years, 10 months, 3 days |
![]() After his arrest on June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, California, [42] [43] Bulger was detained in Federal prison until his death in 2018. [44] |
As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
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Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | May 4, 1981 |
Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | May 14, 1984 |
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | Oct 18, 1989 |
Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | #445 | Aug 3, 1996 |
Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | Dec 7, 1996 |
Ramón Arellano Félix | #451 | Sep 18, 1997 |
Eric Robert Rudolph | #454 | May 5, 1998 |
James Charles Kopp | #455 | Jun 7, 1999 |
Usama Bin Laden [36] | #456 | Jun 7, 1999 |
James J. Bulger | #458 | Aug 19, 1999 |
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