At only five new additions that year, 1956 became the shortest list of new Top Tenners added by the FBI in a single year up to that time. 1956 is also notable as the first year in which a Top Tenner made a second appearance on the list. That fugitive, Nick George Montos, the first new addition in 1956 as Fugitive #94, had also appeared four years earlier as Fugitive #37 on the 1952 list. Such second appearances on the FBI list were to become, curiously, not highly unusual in the early decades of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. However, although some fugitives were adept at repeated prison escapes, and some were repeat offenders upon release, none has yet managed to become a third timer to be listed on the FBI Ten list.
1956 fugitives
The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1956 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
Nick George Montos
March 2, 1956 #94 One month on the list Nick George Montos - U.S. prisoner arrested March 28, 1956, in his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, after being recognized by a citizen; until his earlier capture in 1954 at Chicago, Illinois, he had also been listed as Fugitive #37 in 1952, at large for two years
James Ignatius Faherty
March 19, 1956 #95 Two months on the list James Ignatius Faherty - U.S. prisoner arrested May 16, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, together with Thomas Francis Richardson (Fugitive #96)
Thomas Francis Richardson
April 12, 1956 #96 One month on the list Thomas Francis Richardson - U.S. prisoner arrested May 16, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, together with James Ignatius Faherty (Fugitive #95)
May 28, 1956 #98 Two years on the list Carmine DiBiase - U.S. prisoner surrendered August 28, 1958, to the FBI through a New York City attorney. Following his surrender, DiBiase reportedly made the following statement: "I am getting older and accomplishing nothing having to stay away from my wife and children, mother and father. I am glad it is over. I had to come in."
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 1952, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a third 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 1957, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for an eighth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
In 1958, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a ninth 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.
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.
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