1952 fugitives
The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1952 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
Gerhard Arthur Puff
January 28, 1952 #30 - was added soon after his partner George Arthur Heroux, #28
Six months on the list
Gerhard Arthur Puff - EXECUTED by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York August 12, 1954; was a US PRISONER; was convicted of murder in the first degree May 15, 1953, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; was wounded July 26, 1952, during a gunbattle, after he shot and fatally wounded an FBI Agent waiting to arrest him in the lobby of a hotel in New York City while staying in room 904; had been charged with George Arthur Heroux (Fugitive #28) on December 3, 1951, for the bank robbery and both men were added to the Top Ten fugitives list; with Heroux, he robbed the Johnson County National Bank and Trust Company of Prairie Village, Kansas, on October 25, 1951; had been bailed out (probably by Heroux) on October 17, 1951, to report for trial on November 15, but he did not appear; had met Heroux while in Milwaukee County Jail, after he was arrested May 2, 1951, by the Milwaukee Police Department for armed robbery; had been released on April 25, 1951; had again been sent to the Wisconsin State Penitentiary in June, 1948, after he was found guilty of breaking and entering a warehouse at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and also charged with his 1945 prison escape, received concurrent terms of one to four years and twelve to seventeen months, respectively; had been discharged on November 19, 1947; was apprehended September 21, 1945, in a stolen car and again returned to prison, after he had escaped September 6, 1945; had returned to the penitentiary December 28, 1942, on a sentence of one to nine years, after convicted of assault with intent to commit armed robbery; was discharged on May 24, 1939; had been sentenced to an additional term of one to ten years for assaulting a guard, and was sent back to the State Penitentiary in February, 1937; was transferred in late 1935 to the State Reformatory at Green Bay, Wisconsin; was sentenced August 22, 1935, to serve three concurrent terms of one to five years each in the Wisconsin State Penitentiary for stealing animals
Thomas Edward Young
February 21, 1952 #31
Seven months on the list
Thomas Edward Young - U.S. prisoner was arrested September 23, 1952, in the Boise National Forest, Idaho, without incident after citizens recognized his photograph on Identification Orders and in newspaper articles
Kenneth Lee Maurer
February 27, 1952 #32
Eleven months on the list
Kenneth Lee Maurer - U.S. prisoner was arrested January 8, 1953, while working at a local cabinet shop in Miami, Florida, after several customers saw his published photograph and contacted the FBI. Because of Mauer's fear of flying, he was allowed to return to Detroit by train to face murder charges.
Isaie Aldy Beausoleil
March 3, 1952 #33
One year on the list
Isaie Aldy Beausoleil - U.S. prisoner arrested June 25, 1953, by a park policewoman while he was spotted dressed as a woman and acting suspicious in a women's restroom in Chicago, Illinois
Leonard Joseph Zalutsky
August 5, 1952 #34
One month on the list
Leonard Joseph Zalutsky - U.S. prisoner arrested September 8, 1952, by local police in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, after he was recognized by two citizens from an FBI wanted poster in a post office
Nick George Montos
September 8, 1952 #37
Two years on the list, and also as #94 in 1956
Nick George Montos - reappeared as Fugitive #94 in 1956; was a U.S. prisoner arrested August 23, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois, when his automobile was identified by two Special Agents, as he and a companion waited for a freight train to pass at a railroad crossing
Theodore Richard Byrd, Jr.
September 10, 1952 #38
Six months on the list
Theodore Richard Byrd, Jr. - U.S. prisoner arrested February 21, 1953, in El Reno, Oklahoma, after an off-duty FBI clerk recognized Byrd from a Wanted Flyer and notified the local police
John Joseph Brennan
October 6, 1952 #40
Four months on the list
John Joseph Brennan - U.S. prisoner arrested January 23, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois, because of a tip from an FBI informant
In the 1950s, the United States FBI began to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1950s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual fugitives whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1950s, under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
In 1951, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a second year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1953, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fourth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1954, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fifth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1955, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a sixth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1959, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a tenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1960, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for an eleventh year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1961, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a twelfth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1962, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a thirteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1963, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fourteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1964, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fifteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1965, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a sixteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1966, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a seventeenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1967, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for an eighteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1968, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a nineteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1969, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a twentieth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Fleet Robert Current was an American bank robber and listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1953.
Gilbert James Everett was an American bank robber whose crime spree in the Southeastern United States during the early 1980s resulted in him being listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for over four years.
Nicholas George Montos was an American criminal, associate of the Chicago Outfit and a fugitive. Montos was the first person to be placed twice on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. At his death in 2008 aged 92, Montos was the oldest inmate in the state of Massachusetts.
The Holden–Keating Gang was a bank robbing team, led by Thomas James Holden and Francis Lawrence Keating, which was active in the Midwestern United States from 1926 to 1932. Holden was described by a spokesman for the FBI as "a menace to every man, woman, and child in America" and was the first fugitive to be officially listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List in 1950.
