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This is a list of notable fugitives from justice who were sought by law enforcement agencies in connection with a crime and were either caught or their deaths were substantiated, etc. Listing here does not imply guilt and may include persons who are or were wanted only for questioning.
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1554 | Iacob Heraclid | 27 | Kingdom of France | Greek Maltese soldier, adventurer and intellectual sentenced to death for allegedly killing a rival's child in order to marry his wife. He was never captured and continued his escapades across Europe until his death in 1563, [1] |
1578 | Andronikos Kantakouzenos | 45 | Ottoman Empire | Andronikos Kantakouzenos was an Ottoman Greek entrepreneur and political figure who was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire for anti-Ottoman rhetoric. He fled to Istanbul, where he was briefly detained as a galley slave before he was released. He then went on to rebuild his business and involve himself in Wallachian and Moldavian politics before his disappearance and likely execution in 1601. [2] |
1724 | Jack Sheppard | 22 | Great Britain | Jack Sheppard, nicknamed "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early-18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter, but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. Sheppard was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724, but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. He escaped from a prison in October 1724 for the last time. Sheppard disguised himself as a beggar and returned to the city. Sheppard broke into the Rawlins brothers' pawnbroker's shop in Drury Lane on the night of 29 October 1724, taking a black silk suit, a silver sword, rings, watches, a wig, and other items. [3] [4] Sheppard dressed himself as a dandy gentleman and used the proceeds to spend a day and the following evening on the tiles with two mistresses. Sheppard was arrested a final time in the early morning on 1 November, blind drunk, "in a handsome Suit of Black, with a Diamond Ring and a carnelian ring on his Finger, and a fine Light Tye Peruke", and was convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, ending his brief criminal career after less than two years. [5] |
1790s | Samuel Mason | 50s | United States | Former Old West militia captain who later formed a gang of river pirates and highwaymen, active along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River. Known for associating with other contemporary infamous outlaws, Mason was mortally wounded in 1803. [6] |
1806 | Fra Diavolo | 34 | France | Diavolo whose real name was Michele Pezza and was nicknamed "Brother Devil" was a famous guerrilla leader from Itri, Kingdom of Naples who was wanted for crimes [7] and in August 1806 while running from the law had fled eastwards over the mountains. Diavolo was captured in November 1806 and then sentenced to death. [8] |
1817 | Samuel Green | 21 | United States Canada | American robber and serial killer responsible for committing an undetermined amount of murders across New England and Canada between 1817 and 1821, for which he was dubbed "American's first Public Enemy Number One". He was captured in 1821 and executed in Boston a year later. [9] |
1823 | Roberto Cofresí | 32 | Spanish Empire | Puerto Rican pirate active in the Caribbean, known for capturing vessels belonging to various countries and engaging in naval battles. In 1825, he and his crew were captured and shipped off to San Juan, whereupon they were executed. [10] |
1843 | Bristol Bill | 41 | United States | English-American burglar and counterfeiter active in New England from 1845 to 1865, but is best known for his attempted stabbing of Vermont State Attorney Bliss N. Davis in 1850. Following his last arrest for burglary in 1865, his life becomes unclear and his ultimate fate unknown. [11] |
1847 | Robert H. Birch | 20 | United States | Member of the Banditti of the Prairie who was allegedly involved in the 1845 torture-murder of George Davenport. [12] While the other members involved were hanged, Birch managed to escape from jail in 1847, later resurfacing in the New Mexico Territory as a reformed citizen, later volunteering for the Confederate States Army. |
1848 | Salomón Pico | 27 | United States | Leader of a bandit gang operating in California's central coast, considered a patriot by Californios. Pico and other outlaws were arrested and hanged for murder in 1860. [13] |
1853 | Jack Powers | 26 | United States | Irish-born American professional gambler, horseman and outlaw famous among the gold camps of the California Gold Rush. He was implicated as the leader of a violent robbery gang between 1853 and 1858, he fled to Mexico for two years, but was murdered in 1860 by vaqueros in the Arizona Territory. [14] |
1856 | Richard H. Barter | 22 | United States | Known as "Rattlesnake Dick", Barter was a member of a stagecoach robbery gang active during the California Gold Rush, between 1855 and 1856. After the initial group was brought down, Barter fled to Auburn, where he soon formed a new posse. On 12 July 1859, his bullet-riddled body was found outside Auburn, after having been caught in a firefight with police the day before. [15] [16] |
1856 | Juan Flores | 22 | United States | Californio bandit and leader of the Flores Daniel Gang, which operated in Southern California between 1856 and 1857. He was captured and executed in 1857, and is now regarded as a folk hero by Mexican-Americans. [17] |
1856 | Tom Bell | 30 | United States | Member of an outlaw gang which were among the firsst to organize a stagecoach robbery in the United States. During one such robbery on August 12, 1856, a woman was accidentally killed, and in response, Bell and his fellow gang members were tracked down by angered citizens and hanged. [18] |
1857 | Jose Antonio Garcia | 21 | United States | Californio bandit and member of the Pio Linares gang suspected of murdering two cattlemen during a robbery in 1857. After his arrest in 1858, he made a full confession and exposed fellow gang members, but was nonetheless hanged by vigilantes in San Luis Obispo. [19] |
1862 | Fredericka Mandelbaum | 37 | United States | German-born entrepreneur who sheltered goods for street and criminal gangs in New York from 1862 to 1884. Following an investigation by an undercover Pinkerton detective, she was arrested, but released on bail and fled to Canada, where she died before extradition. [20] |
1863 | Henry Plummer | 31 | United States | Controversial lawman and sheriff of Bannack, Montana thought to be the ringleader of a gang of highwaymen who robbed and murdered in the vicinity of Virginia City. Plummer and two associates were later arrested by vigilantes and hanged in 1864. [21] |
1863 | Felipe Espinosa | 37 | United States | Mexican-American serial killer who murdered white settlers in Fremont County, Colorado, initially with his brother Vivian and later with a nephew, Jose, after the former was killed. In response, tracker Tom Tobin was enlisted by the US Army to hunt them down, successfully tracking and killing both. [22] |
1863 | Thomas Hines | 25 | United States | Confederate spy who conducted the Hines' Raid in June 1863. Although arrested for that crime, he escaped from prison in November of that year [23] and was never recaptured by the Union authorities, but is known to have died on 23 January 1898. |
1864 | Harrison Carroll Hobart | 49 | United States | Union Army officer who was captured during the Battle of Chickamauga, but escaped captivity in Virginia together with his regiment only a year later. He later returned to serving the Union, later serving as a politician in Wisconsin until his death. [24] |
1865 | Hank Vaughan | 16 | United States | Outlaw and gunfighter responsible for the murders of two marshals in Oregon on May 1, 1865. He briefly escaped but was recaptured and sentenced 8 years imprisonment. After his release, he settled down with a local tribe before his death during an accident in 1893. [25] |
1866 | Moondyne Joe | 39–40 | Australia | Moondyne Joe whose real name was Joseph Bolitho Johns was an English convict who had escaped from jail multiple times and was also the best-known bushranger in Western Australia. Joe's last escape occurred when after being sent to jail in April 1866 from crimes, he later escaped in early August and was captured on 5 September 1866 and was sent back to jail. [26] |
1867 | William McWaters | 23 | United States | Gunfighter and associate of William Quantrill responsible for a dozen murders across the Midwest, and is a suspect in the 1867 murder of Gen. Joseph Bailey in Nevada, Missouri. He was captured in 1874 and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, where he was killed by a prison guard in 1875. [27] |
1868 | Bill Longley | 17 | United States | Old West gunfighter and outlaw who killed 32 people, predominantly freed slaves, in Texas until his arrest in 1877. He was sentenced to death for the 1875 murder of his childhood friend, and subsequently hanged in 1878. [28] |
1869 | Thomas D. Carr | 23 | United States | Child killer and habitual arsonist convicted for the murder of a 13-year-old girl in Ohio, who later confessed to have killed 14 other people throughout the 1860s, which has never been conclusively verrified. He was hanged for his crime in 1870. [29] |
1871 | Elbert A. Woodward | 33–34 | United States | Woodward was a major member in the Boss Tweed corruption scandal in 1871 that took place in New York City. Woodward and others defrauded New York City between $25 and $45 million. Woodward was indicted and tried, but fled to Spain to escape punishment. [30] Woodward was sent back to Chicago and later to New York. Woodward avoided jail time by repaying $151,779 of stolen money. In his later years, Woodward became a farmer in Norwalk. [31] Woodward died on 29 September 1905. [32] |
1872 | Davy Crockett | 23 | United States | Crockett was a younger relative of the famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett, [33] [34] but unlike the hero Davy Crockett this Davy Crockett was an outlaw. He was sent to jail for criminal acts that he committed, but escaped in 1872 after which he fled to a ranch. Crockett was killed four years later in 1876. [35] |
1875 | William M. Tweed | 53 | United States | William M. Tweed was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. Tweed was imprisoned in the Ludlow Street Jail for a corruption scandal in 1871, although he was allowed home visits. During one of these, on 4 December 1875, Tweed fled to Spain [36] and got a job working as a common seaman on a ship. The U.S. government later discovered his whereabouts and arranged for his arrest once he reached the Spanish border; he was recognized from Thomas Nast's political cartoons. He was turned over to an American warship, which took him to authorities in New York City on 26 November 1876, and he was sent back to prison. [37] [38] Tweed died in Ludlow Street Jail on 12 April 1878. |
1875 | Pony Diehl | 27 | United States | Old West outlaw who committed numerous crimes as a member in various gangs, but is most prominently known for being accused as a suspect in the attempted murder of Virgil Earp, brother of infamous outlaw Wyatt Earp. He was never tried due to lack of evidence, and died sometime in 1888, after his final release from prison. [39] |
1876 | Seven Rivers Warriors | Various | United States | Gang of disgruntled ranchers-turned-outlaws best known for their participation in the Lincoln County War, where they sided with main instigator Lawrence Murphy. After the war came to an end in 1878, the group disbanded, with some members even killing one another in disputes. [40] |
1876 | Wood Hite | 26 | United States | Member of the James–Younger Gang and cousin of outlaw Jesse James. [41] He was shot and killed in a gunfight with fellow outlaw Robert Ford in 1881. |
1877 | Frank Stilwell | 21 | United States | Outlaw and later deputy sheriff in the Arizona Territory acquitted on charges of killing two men in 1877 and 1882, as well as for robbery. A main suspect in the murder of Morgan Earp, Stillwell would be killed by the former's brother, Wyatt. [42] |
1878 | John Selman | 39 | United States | Lawman and later and outlaw of the Old West who was charged with desertion from the Confederate States Army and several murders, including that of outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Selman himself was later killed by George Scarborough in 1896. [43] |
1878 | George Leonidas Leslie | 36 | United States | Former architect who became the leader of a bank robbery gang, active along the USA's West Coast from May to October 1878. Mainly active in planning the heists, he disappeared in May, with his body found in a bush in Yonkers. [44] He was shot to death, and his killer was never identified. |
1879 | Rummu Jüri | 23 | Russian Empire (modern day Estonia) | Rummu Jüri whose birth name was "Jüri Rummo" was an Estonian [45] fugitive, [46] who was compared to Robin Hood as he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. While being on the run from the law, [47] Jüri was captured on 15 December 1879 and in 1894 was then sentenced to 15 years in prison. |
1879 | Dick Liddil | 27 | United States | Outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang who participated in their various raids and train robberies from 1879 until his surrender to authorities in January 1882. Liddil was found guilty of robbery, but later pardoned in exchange for testifying against a fellow gang member. He then returned to civilian life and became a prominent figure in the Midwest racehorse scene until his death in 1901. [48] |
1879 | José Chavez y Chavez | 28 | United States | Mexican-American outlaw associated with Billy the Kid, responsible for the murders of several people from 1879 to 1894. He was sentenced to death for a murder and was due to be hanged, but pardoned in 1909, retiring from criminal life after the pardon. [49] |
1881 | Billy the Kid | 21 | United States | Billy the Kid, who was born Henry McCarty and also known as William H. Bonney, was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed. [50] [51] He took part in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. After being jailed he escaped from the jailhouse in Lincoln, New Mexico on 28 April 1881. [52] He evaded law enforcement until 14 July 1881, when he was ambushed and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at a ranch house. |
1881 | Billy Claiborne | 21 | United States | Outlaw and gunfighter who killed a man in 1881, which was ruled to be in self-defense. He later participated at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but fled, and was later killed by fellow gunfighter Buckskin Frank Leslie in Tombstone, Arizona in 1882. [53] |
1881 | Dave Rudabaugh | 27 | United States | Outlaw and gunfighter known for his association with numerous of the notorious outlaws of the Old West and participating in their criminal activities. While awaiting execution for the murder of a Las Vegas police officer, Rudabaugh escaped from prison and fled to Mexico, where he found work as a rustler. He was killed during a dispute over a card game in Parral, Chihuahua in 1886. [54] |
1882 | Pugsey Hurley | 45–46 | United States | Hurley, also known as "Pugsey Reilly" or "Pugsey Hanley", was an American burglar of English descent, who was a river pirate and underworld figure in New York City during the mid-to-late 19th century. [55] After doing multiple crimes he was sent to jail after 15 August 1874 and broke out in April 1882. [56] He was captured in New York City by the police on 1 August 1882, and was returned to jail. |
1885 | Frank M. Canton | 36 | United States | Fugitive who served as a marshal conducting extrajudicial killings in Johnson County, Wyoming. Following the subsequent war, Canton fled the state and moved to Oklahoma, where he worked under judge Isaac Parker for a time before retiring from his job due to old age in 1925, and died on 27 September 1927. [57] |
1886 | Rube Burrow | 30 | United States | Outlaw and leader of a train robbery gang active in several southern states from 1886 to 1890, subject to a massive manhunt by the Pinkertons. In October 1890, shortly after escaping prison, Burrow was mortally wounded by a planter in Linden, Alabama, whom he believed was a detective. [58] |
1887 | Pas-Lau-Tau | unknown | United States | Army scout and cohort of the Apache Kid who murdered rivals and rival gang members in the Arizona Territory. Tau and his gang were tracked down by lawmen and killed in March 1890. [59] |
1887 | Brack Cornett | 46 | United States | Outlaw and member of the Bill Whitley gang active in Goliad County, Texas between 1887 and 1888. Following the death of his leader in Floresville, Cornett fled, [60] and was then supposedly gunned down by authorities in January 1888. |
1890 | Thomas Hamilton Blanck | 20 | United States | Thomas Hamilton Blanck was a Old West criminal responsible for numerous robberies and several murders of law enforcement officers across the Pacific Northwest between 1890 and 1895. He was briefly captured and sentenced to death, but managed to escape from prison. Blanck was located four days later near Kent, Washington and killed in a shooutout with law enforcement. [61] |
1890 | Augustine Chacon | 29 | United States | Known as "El Peludo", Chacon was a Mexican outlaw responsible for more than 30 murders in the Arizona Territory until his arrest and execution in 1902. Despite his actions, he is considered a folk hero by some. [62] |
1890 | Thomas Andrew Williamson | 59 | United States | Thomas Andrew Williamson was a Serial killer responsible for the murders of his wife and two men in Missouri in 1890, in addition to having served time for a previous murder in Illinois. After being sentenced to death for the Missouri murders, Williamson was hanged in 1891. [63] |
1891 | Bill Doolin | 33 | United States | Old West outlaw who founded the Wild Bunch, which specialized in bank, train and stagecoach robberies in several states during the 1890s. On August 24, 1896, Doolin was tracked to his wife's home in Lawson, Oklahoma Territory, where he was gunned down by a deputy marshal. [64] |
1892 | Bob and Emmett Dalton | 22 (Bob) and 21 (Emmett) | United States | Brothers who led the Dalton Gang, [65] known for their bank, stagecoach and train robberies through the Kansas and Oklahoma Territories. Along with several other gang members, they were cornered by townsfolk and policemen in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, whereupon Bob and three others were killed. Emmett survived, served a 14-year sentence, was pardoned, and later two books about his experiences. |
1892 | John Sontag and Christopher Evans | 31 (Sontag) and 45 (Evans) | United States | Leaders of the Sontag-Evans gang known for their train robberies along the Southern Pacific Railroad in California between 1889 and 1892. Sontag was killed in Fresno in 1893, while Evans was imprisoned for several years and later banished from the state after release. [66] |
1892 | Tom Ketchum | 29 | United States | Outlaw and member of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang responsible for numerous train robberies across the Old West from 1892 until 1901. He was captured and executed by hanging in 1901 in New Mexico, the only in American history to be hanged for train robbery. [67] |
1893 | William Blake | 34 | United States | Known as "Tulsa Jack", Blake was a member of the Wild Bunch outlaw gang and key figure in 1893 shootout in Ingalls, Oklahoma, where three Deputy Marshals were killed. He himself would later be shot dead after attempting to escape custody in Major County. [68] |
1894 | H. H. Holmes | 33 | United States | H. H. Holmes, born "Herman Webster Mudgett" and also known as "Dr. Henry Howard Holmes" was an American serial killer, [69] as well as a trigamist and con artist. He committed most of his murders in "The Castle", the nickname for his hotel in Chicago, where he would later sell the victims' skeletons and organs for money. While a search was conducted to find Holmes for suspected insurance fraud, he stole horses from Fort Worth, Texas before planning to flee for Britain. Pinkertons apprehended him in Boston on 17 November 1894. After being convicted of four murders, H. H. Holmes was executed by hanging on 7 May 1896, only nine days before he would have turned 35. [70] |
1894 | Harvey Logan and George Curry | 27 (Logan) and 23 (Curry) | United States | Outlaws and members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, known for robbing various banks across the Midwest. Curry was killed by sheriffs in 1900, while on June 17, 1904, the rest of the gang were cornered by sheriffs in Parachute, Colorado, with one of them wounding Logan, who then opted to kill himself. [71] |
1894 | Septimiu Albini | 33 | Austria-Hungary | Romanian journalist for the Tribuna newspaper given a prison sentence for signing the Transylvanian Memorandum in 1892. He fled the country in exile to the Romanian Old Kingdom, returning only decades later. Albini died on 7 November 1919. [72] |
1894 | Crawford Goldsby | 18 | United States | Known as "Cherokee Bill", Goldsby was an outlaw and gang leader who terrorized the Indian Territory territory in 1894, killing eight men in the process. He was arrested for murder and later attempted to escape from jail, but was prevented from doing so and executed by hanging at Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1896. [73] |
1893 | Jack Dunlop | 23–24 | United States | Known as "Three Fingered Jack", Dunlop was an outlaw and train robber known for associating with several prominent gangs active in Arizona during the final decades of the Old West. He was wounded by lawman Jeff Milton during a 1900 train robbery, and later succumbed to his injuries. [74] |
1895 | Little Britches | 16 | United States | Old West outlaw, horse thief and associate of the Wild Bunch known for her activity in the Oklahoma Territory. She was arrested and ordered to serve two years imprisonment, before she was released and returned to her parents, where she supposedly lived a normal life until her death. [75] |
1896 | William Carver | 27 | United States | Outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch who aided the gang in bank robbery. In 1901, he was cornered by sheriffs and subsequent killed in a gunfight in Sonora, Texas. |
1896 | Edward Walton | unknown | United States | Serial killer who confessed to killing five people across five states between 1896 and 1908. Tried and convicted for his final murder, which occurred in Gypsy, West Virginia, Walton was sentenced to death and executed in 1908. [76] |
1897 | Elzy Lay | 28 | United States | Outlaw and member of the Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, [77] who aided with their numerous robberies, and most prominently with the murder of a sheriff and his two deputies in New Mexico in 1899. Lay was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for this crime, but later pardoned by the state's governor in 1906, officially retiring from life of crime. |
1898 | Harry Tracy | 23 | United States | Outlaw who was initially jailed at the Oregon State Penitentiary for killing a man in Colorado in March 1898, but became a fugitive after he and another convict escaped in June 1902, killing corrections officers in the process. Tracy was later cornered by a posse in Creston, Washington, whereupon he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. [78] |
1898 | William Walters | 28–29 | United States | Walters was a cowboy from in Fort Sill, in Oklahoma Territory who later turned to crime when he became involved in both train robberies and stagecoaches. Walters had fled from the law in July 1898 [79] after a unsuccessful robbery attempt in Grants, New Mexico during which Walters' gang was driven off by heavy gunfire, Walters was tracked down by the guards and then shot and captured, [80] after which he was sent to jail. Walters was later released from jail in 1917 and in 1921 he died from an accidental fall. |
1899 | Pearl Hart | 28 | United States | Canadian-born outlaw who committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States. She briefly escaped from prison after being sentenced to 5 years for the crime, but was recaptured two weeks later. After her release, she disappeared from public life and died in obscurity in 1955. [81] |
1899 | Ben Kilpatrick | 25 | United States | Member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, which committed robberies in the Midwest from 1899 to 1901. Kilpatrick was arrested for robbery and served a 10-year sentence, and shortly after his release, he was killed by a hostage while attempting a train robbery in Sanderson, Texas in 1912. [82] |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1902 | Jack and Ed Biddle | 30 (Jack) and 26 (Ed) | United States | Brothers and gang leaders who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison on January 29, supposedly killing a shopkeeper and a detective during the subsequent manhunt for them. Both were fatally wounded by pursuing authorities a few days after their escape. [83] |
1904 | Pedro Rosa da Conceição | unknown | Brazil | On 22 April 1904, after disembarking from a train at Dona Clara station in Brazil Pedro Rosa da Conceição began stabbing everyone in sight, killing three and injuring five. He then hid in some nearby bushes, where he was discovered the next day. He later killed two more people in prison in 1911, and claimed to have killed a family of twelve in a letter sent to a newspaper. He died in Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados at the hospital where he was detained in 1919. [84] |
1909 | Bill Miner | 61–62 | United States Canada | Known as "The Gentleman Bandit", Miner was responsible for stagecoach and train robberies through the US and Canada, in addition to several prison escapes. He died on a prison farm in Georgia in 1913, from a disease caught after a failed escape attempt. [85] |
1909 | Marion Hedgepeth | 36 | United States | Known as "The Handsome Bandit", Hedgepeth was an outlaw and member of a notorious highway robbery gang active in the Old West, responsible for an undetermined amount of murders in several states. He was killed on 31 December 1909 during a botched robbery of a saloon in Chicago. [86] |
1911 | Elmer McCurdy | 31 | United States | Bank and train robber active for several months in 1911, predominantly in the Midwest. He was shot and killed by police in October 1911 in Osage Hills, Oklahoma, with his mummified body later serving as a carnival attraction from the 1920s until the 1960s. [87] |
1913 | Ilie Cătărău | 25 | Romania | Ilie Cătărău was a Bessarabian soldier, adventurer and double agent who was known for committing two bomb attacks in the country to worsen relations between Romania and Austria-Hungary. He was later deposed by the communist regime and forced into exile, he later returned upon a regime change, whereupon he become a Romanian Orthodox monk. [88] Cătărău died in 1952. |
1913 | Red Lopez | 27 | Mexico United States | Mexican outlaw responsible for at least thirty murders in both Mexico and the American Southwest, who also fought in the Mexican Revolution. He was killed by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in 1921. [89] |
1914 | Avram Imbroane | 34 | Austria-Hungary | Austro-Hungarian businessman and politician labelled a "dangerous agitator" by his native's country authorities for his stances of incorporating Transylvania and the Banat into Romania. Because of this, he fled to the Kingdom of Romania, where he lived for the rest of his life until his death on 23 September 1938. [90] |
1915 | Frederick Mors | 24 | United States | The Austrian-American serial killer Frederick Mors (born as Carl Menarik) murdered at least eight people in an Odd Fellows' home, where he was employed as a porter. Mors was declared to be criminally insane and was committed to an insane asylum. In May 1915 he escaped from the asylum grounds [91] and in 1923 his remains were found and identified and it was revealed that he had committed suicide. [92] |
1916 | Joseph Henry Loveless | 45 | United States | Loveless was an American bootlegger and is believed to also have been a murderer as he is thought to have killed his wife on 5 May 1916. After Loveless was sent to jail on 18 May 1916 he then later escaped. In 1979 Loveless' remains were found in Buffalo Cave in a burlap sack in Dubois, Idaho [93] by a family who were searching for arrowheads. |
1920 | Roy Gardner | 36 | United States | Known as "The Smiling Bandit", Gardner was a prolific bank and mail robber during the 1920s across the Pacific Coast, who escaped custody on several occasions before being imprisoned in Alcatraz. He was later released and worked as a tour guide in San Francisco until his suicide in 1940. [94] |
1920 | Carl Panzram | 29 | United States | Prolific career criminal, rapist and serial killer found guilty of murdering at least 5 people across several states from 1920 until 1929, but claimed to have killed over a 100 people in both the US and Portuguese Angola, in addition to more than 1,000 rapes. Panzram was sentenced to death and executed at Fort Leavenworth in 1930 for the murder of a prison guard [95] |
1921 | Edward J. Adams | 34 | United States | Adams was a notorious American fugitive and spree killer in the Midwest. [96] After being convicted for crimes and sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri by a train, he later escaped custody and being sent to jail by jumping off the train and a few days later joined fellow fugitive Julius Finney helping him with a robbery of a bank and general store in Cullison, Kansas on 11 February 1921. He was captured six days later on 17 February 1921 near Garden Plain, Kansas. After Adams came in contact with the police and was surrounded, he was then killed after a shootout. [97] |
1921 | Harvey Bailey | 34 | United States | Known as "The Dean of American Bank Robbers", Bailey was a prolific bank robber who amassed more than $1 million over his career, spanning from 1921 to 1933. While he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, his sentence was later commuted and he was released in 1964.Bailey died in Joplin, Missouri on 1 March 1979 at the age of 91. [98] |
1921 | Roy Daugherty | 51 | United States | Known as "Arkansas Tom Jones", Daugherty was an ex-member of the Wild Bunch sentenced to life imprisonment for a 1892 murder in Oklahoma. He was later pardoned and temporarily lived a norma life, but later turned to bank robbery, for which he was tracked and gunned down by authorities in Joplin, Missouri in 1924. [99] |
1923 | George Anderson | 42–43 | United States | Member of an early Prohibition-era gang responsible for numerous robberies and bootlegging operations in Ohio and Michigan. He and his associate Gerald Chapman were arrested in 1922 and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, but escaped the Atlanta Federal Prison a year later. In 1925, Anderson was ambushed by a police officer in Muskegon, Michigan and died in the ensuing firefight. [100] |
1923 | Tommy O'Connor | 40–41 | United States | O'Connor was a gangster who escaped from the Chicago, Illinois, courthouse in 1923, only four days before he was to have been executed at the Historical Gallows [101] for the murder of a policeman. It is unknown how O'Connor died, though there is a tombstone of him at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Worth, Illinois. [102] His year of death is accepted as being 1951 and therefore is no longer sought by the police. |
1923 | Frank Nash | 36 | United States | Dubbed "the most successful bank robber in American history", Nash was responsible for numerous robberies in major cities in the 1920s and 1930s. He was arrested in 1933, and later killed during a botched rescue attempt by his gang in what became known as the Kansas City massacre. [103] |
1924 | Gerald Chapman | 36 | United States | Known as "The Gentleman Bandit", Chapman was an armed robber and early Prohibition-era gangster who repeatedly escaped prison during the 1920s. In 1924, he shot and killed an officer in Connecticut, and when he was later arrested in 1925, he was tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed. [104] |
1924 | Bugs Moran | 31 | United States | Prohibition-era gangster based in Chicago, whose gang ran bootlegging operations in the city. Following the end of Prohibition, turned towards mail fraud and robbery, for which he was repeatedly convicted and imprisoned, dying in USP Leavenworth while serving one such sentence. [105] |
1924 | Harry Pierpont | 22 | United States | Prohibition-era gang leader and mentor to John Dillinger, whose crew was responsible for numerous robberies in Indiana between November 1924 and March 1925. He was later broken out of prison, murdering a guard in the process, and continued robbing banks with Dillinger until his re-capture and subsequent execution in 1934. |
1924 | Earl Northern | 21 | United States | Prohibition-era bank robber and early associate of Harry Pierpont, responsible for numerous robberies throughout the Midwest until 1925. Northern was arrested and sentenced to a short prison term, released and later returned for a new robbery in 1932, dying behind bars in the Indiana State Prison. [106] |
1925 | Ted Skeer | unknown | United States | Prohibition-era bank robber and early associated of Harry Pierpont who was known for robbing two banks in Indiana in 1925. He was arrested in Toledo, Ohio in 1929 and served a 5-to-10 year prison term. He was later released, and killed in his pub in 1959. |
1925 | Febrônio Índio do Brasil | 30 | Brazil | Mentally-ill rapist who molested and killed at least five children in Rio de Janeiro between 1926 and 1927, but is generally believed to have been responsible for the murders of other people, starting with a doctor in 1925. [107] Found not guilty by reason of insanity and imprisoned in a mental hospital, where he lived until his death in 1989. |
1925 | Clara Green Carl | 48 | United States | Convicted murderer sentenced to life imprisonment for the poisonings of her husband and his father in 1921. She managed to escape from prison by climbing over a chicken coop, eluding the authorities for a week before being recaptured. [108] |
1925 | Fred Goetz | 28 | United States | Fred Goetz was a Chicago Outfit [109] mobster implicated in various crimes throughout the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from child molestation to bank robberies with the Barker–Karpis gang. He was killed in a drive-by shooting in Cicero, Illinois in 1934, allegedly on the orders of a rival mob boss. |
1926 | José Augusto do Amaral | 55 | Brazil | Known as 'Preto Amaral', he was suspected of having murdered three men in São Paulo between 1926 and 1927, having sex with the corpses post-mortem. He was arrested in 1927, but died of tuberculosis before trial. To this day, it is unclear whether he truly was the culprit or not. [110] |
1926 | Pavel Tcacenco | 34–43 | Romania | Russian-born communist activist and leading member of local communist movements who was repeatedly forced into exile by government authorities. On 15 August, 1926, he was wounded during a meeting with other communist leaders, managing to evade capture for a day before being arrested. A month later, he was killed by the secret police while awaiting trial. [111] |
1926 | Wilbur Underhill Jr. | 25 | United States | Burglar, bank robber and partner-in-crime of Harvey Bailey, who jointly ran the Underhill-Bailey gang, active in several southern states between the 1920s and 1930s. Pursued by the FBI due to his violent crimes, [112] which included murder, Underhill was surrounded at his rented cottage at Shawnee, Oklahoma in December 1933 and mortally wounded by agents, dying later on from his wounds. |
1929 | Lawrence DeVol | 26 | United States | Lawrence DeVol was a Bank robber and Depression-era outlaw known for his violent robberies, killing at least 11 people over his career. Devol had escaped from prison in 1929 and following a bank robbery in Kansas, he fled towards Enid, Oklahoma, where he was gunned down by authorities in July 1936. [113] |
1929 | Fred Burke | 36 | United States | Armed robber and contract killer of the Prohibition Era, considered a prime suspect in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. [114] He was arrested in 1931, convicted for the murder of a police officer and sentenced to life at the Marquette Branch Prison. |
1930 | William Miller | 24 | United States | Outlaw and bank robber who escaped from prison while awaiting trial for a string of bank robberies in several Midwestern states, joining forces with other robbers like George Birdwell and Pretty Boy Floyd. The trio were tracked down by authorities in Bowling Green, Ohio, where Miller was killed in the ensuing firefight. [115] |
1930 | Baby Face Nelson | 21 | United States | Bank robber and partner-in-crime to John Dillinger, who achieved notoriety with their gang for numerous robberies, with Nelson in particular for having killed more FBI agents than any other known criminal. [116] [117] He was shot and killed by law enforcement during the The Battle of Barrington. |
1930 | Vernon C. Miller | 34 | United States | Prohibition-era bootlegger and freelance gunman who killed several people under orders from various gangs. He later became the only identified gunman in the Kansas City massacre, but was never arrested, as he was apparently killed in a gangland slaying months later. [118] |
1931 | Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Arthur Barker and Ma Barker | 30 (Fred), 24 (Karpis), 32 (Arthur) and 58 (Ma) | United States | Leaders of the Barker–Karpis gang, responsible for numerous robberies and murders of police officers in the 1920s and 1930s. [119] Fred and Ma were killed during an FBI raid in Ocklawaha, Florida in 1935; Arthur and Karpis were both captured and sent to Alcatraz, where the former was killed in 1939 and the latter was paroled from in 1969. |
1931 | Pretty Boy Floyd | 27 | United States | Infamous bank robber known for his criminal activities involving robbery and murder during the 1930s, [120] as well as the extensive media coverage of his crimes. Floyd would later be gunned down by federal agents in 1934 in East Liverpool, Ohio. |
1932 | Albert Johnson | unknown | Canada | Johnson who was nicknamed the "Mad Trapper of Rat River", was a fugitive who was behind a trapping dispute that had eventually led to a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories and Yukon located in Northern Canada. [121] He became wanted on 16 January 1932 and was shot dead after being located during an altercation with the police on 17 February 1932. |
1932 | Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow | (Bonnie) 21 (Clyde) 23 | United States | Known by the moniker "Bonnie and Clyde", the pair were the leaders of the notorious Barrow Gang, known for their numerous robberies in the Midwestern United States between 1932 and 1934, during which at least nine police officers and four civilians were killed. Bonnie and Clyde were both killed in an ambush set by law enforcement near Gibsland, Louisiana on May 23, 1934. [122] |
1932 | Albert Bates | 39 | United States | Prolific burglar who later joined Machine Gun Kelly's bank robbery gang, participating in numerous violent kidnappings, robberies and shootout with police between 1932 and 1933. [123] On 12 August 1933, he was arrested in Denver for passing bad checks and later sentenced to life for his role in the kidnapping of an oil tycoon in Oklahoma. Bates was sent to Alcatraz, where he died of heart disease in 1948. |
1932 | Ed Davis | 32 | United States | Burglar, bank robber and outlaw who was jailed for a murder in Oklahoma, but escaped with another prisoner in May 1932. He ran with the Bailey–Underhill gang until his recapture in 1933, whereupon he was sent to a prison in California. There, he and four others were sentenced to death following a failed prison escape that killed two wardens and two prisoners, and Davis was executed in 1938. |
1932 | Raymond Hamilton | 18 | United States | Member of the Barrow Gang, who was involved in the killing of a deputy sheriff in 1932. When he was arrested in 1934, [124] he was convicted of the death and later executed for it in 1935, despite protesting that he had never personally killed anyone. |
1932 | Verne Sankey | 42 | United States | Depression-era outlaw who, together with accomplice Gordon Alcorn, became notorious for kidnapping the son of a refrigrator magnate from St. Paul, Minnesota in June 1932, inspiring numerous other crimes in the process. He was arrested for another kidnapping in 1934 and sent to the South Dakota State Penitentiary, where he committed suicide. [125] |
1932 | Robert Brady | 28 | United States | Bank robber and associated of Harvey Bailey who escaped imprisonment in Oklahoma in July 1932, going on a crime spree across five states. After aiding the Bailey-Underhill gang in some robberies, for which he was imprisoned and later broken out of prison, he was tracked and gunned down by police near Paola, Kansas in January 1934. |
1932 | Eddie Bentz | 38 | United States | Bank robber, outlaw and associate of several notorious criminals during the Great Depression, whom he aided in their bank heists. He was arrested by federal agents in 1936 and sent to serve a 20-year sentence in Alcatraz, from where he was paroled in 1948. |
1932 | John Paul Chase | 31 | United States | John Paul Chase was a bank robber, outlaw and associate of the Dillinger Gang since March 1932, responsible for numerous robberies until John Dillinger's death. He later returned to his native California, where he imprisoned at Alcatraz [126] for three decades before his parole in 1966. |
1933 | John Hamilton | 34 | United States | Hamilton was a Canadian criminal and was a close sidekick of fellow fugitive John Dillinger and had committed multiple bank robberies during 1920s–1930s. Hamilton was later charged and convicted and on 16 March 1933 he was sent to the Indiana State Prison located in Michigan City and on 16 September 1933 he and many of his cellmates escaped. [127] After Hamilton resumed his life of crime he was later rumored to be dead. This was proven to be true when his remains were discovered on 28 August 1935 and they matched with Hamilton's prison dental records. [128] |
1933 | Aussie Elliott | 18–19 | United States | Elliott was a fugitive wanted for bank robbery during the Great Depression. He was captured four months after robbing $3,000 from a bank in Ash Grove, Missouri on 12 January 1933. He later escaped jail on 28 October 1933, and was killed in a subsequent police shootout. [129] |
1933 | Eddie Green | 35 | United States | Depression-era outlaw and member of the Dillinger Gang, who picked out heist locations for fellow gang members. He was tracked and mortally wounded by federal agents in St. Paul, Minnesota in April 1934, dying from his injuries a week later. [130] |
1933 | Tommy Carroll | 33 | United States | Former boxer and career criminal with numerous robberies under his belt, Carroll later became a member of the Dillinger Gang. [131] He was shot and killed by police in June 1934. [132] |
1933 | Buck and Blanche Barrow | 30 (Buck) and 32 (Blanche) | United States | Members of the Barrow Gang. Buck, who was personally responsible for killing three police officers, would be gunned down by authorities in Perry, Iowa in June 1933, while Blanche was arrested [133] A photograph shows a distraught Blanche moments after she was pulled away from Buck, who is lying yards to the right. [134] and sentenced to six years imprisonment, returning to civilian life after her release. |
1933 | Homer Van Meter | 27 | United States | Bank robber and criminal associate of John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson who aided them in robberies during 1933. He was later cornered and gunned down by police officers in St. Paul, Minnesota in August 1934. [135] |
1933 | Jim Clark | 31 | United States | Bank robber and criminal associated of Harvey Bailey who was designated as Kansas' public enemy number 1 for his crimes in their states. He was arrest in August 1934 [112] and sentenced to 99 years imprisonment, but paroled in 1969, living out the rest of his days in Oklahoma. |
1933 | Machine Gun Kelly | 38 | United States | Prohibition-era gangster best known for being the leader behind the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles F. Urschel in July 1933. He and another criminal would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for this crime, with Kelly spending many years at Alcatraz before being transferred to USP Leavenworth, where he died in 1954. [136] |
1933 | Ford Bradshaw | 27 | United States | Depression-era bank robber based in Oklahoma active since the 1920s, described as a rival to the notorious Pretty Boy Floyd. Following a 1933 drive-by shooting of a restaurant, Bradshaw was actively sought by police, who cornered and killed him in Ardmore in March 1934. [137] |
1933 | Russell Clark | 35 | United States | Thief who later became a member of John Dillinger's gang, helping them in hold-ups and bank robberies from October 1933 until his capture in January 1934. Clark was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the crimes, but paroled in 1968, dying from cancer four months later. |
1934 | Volney Davis | 32 | United States | Outlaw and bank robber who went on the run after receiving temporary leave from prison, later joining his girlfriend Edna Murray in criminal activities conducted by the gangs run by John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Ma Barker. [112] He was finally captured on 1 June 1935 and sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping, spending two decades in Alcatraz before being released in the late 1950s. |
1934 | John Dillinger | 31 | United States | Dillinger was an American gangster who was active during the Great Depression and was the head of a group called the Dillinger Gang. Dillinger was last seen on 8 July 1934 [138] as he was evading the law and was located and shot dead on 22 July 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. [139] |
1935 | Clyde Lamb | 22 | United States | Armed robber responsible for various robberies in the Midwest since 1932, repeatedly escaping from prison. Following his last arrest in July 1935, he turned towards painting while in prison, finding himself a job as a cartoonist after his release from prison. [140] |
1936 | Yoshie Shiratori | 29 | Japan | Yoshie Shiratori was a Japanese fisherman who had initially been sentenced to serve time in the Aomori Prison for allegedly killing someone in a robbery. Over more than a decade, he escaped from prison several times, earning him status as an anti-hero in the country. His sentence would eventually be commuted and he was released in 1961, dying a free man in 1979. [141] |
1937 | Al Brady | 26 | United States | Armed robber and leader of the "Brady Gang", initially active in Indiana, but then moved to commit their robberies in Maine. He and an accomplice were killed by FBI agents in Bangor in October 1937. [142] |
1939 | Joseph Paul Cretzer | 28 | United States | Co-founder of the Cretzer–Kyle Gang, a bank robbing gang active during the mid-1930s. Arrested and put on trial, he and his accomplice killed a Marshal during the trial, for which Cretzer received a life sentence and was sent to Alcatraz, where he was either killed or committed suicide during the Battle of Alcatraz. |
1942 | Basil Banghart | 41 | United States | Career criminal best known for being wrongfully convicted in the fake kidnapping of mobster John Factor in July 1933, for which he and Roger Touhy were sentenced to 99 years imprisonment. Together with several other inmates, the pair escaped from prison in October 1942 [143] [144] and remained on the run until December of that year. Both were eventually exonerated of the crime, and were released. |
1943 | André Devigny | 27 | France (under Nazi occupation) | Soldier and member of the French resistance, André Devigny was imprisoned at the Montluc prison, where he would be tortured by Klaus Barbie and his men in an effort to extrapolate information from him. When this failed, Devigny was sentenced to death, but before he could be executed, he and another inmate managed to escape. Devigny first fled to Switzerland and then to Spain, where he was rearrested and escaped again. He eventually rejoined the French army after the war, and was awarded the Order of Liberation for his efforts during the war. He continued serving with the French army until his retirement, and died in 1999. [145] |
1943 | Valerian Trifa | 29 | Romania | Affiliate of the Iron Guard who helped provoke the Legionnaires' rebellion in Bucharest, which led to numerous pogroms against the Jewish community. Shortly after he was indicted by the new communist regime, Trifa fled to the US, where he lived peacefully for several decades as an archbishoper before being exposed and fleeing to Portugal. He died from a heart attack there while awaiting extradition. [146] |
1943 | Søren Kam | 22 | Denmark | Danish junior officer of the Waffen-SS who, together with two accomplices, murdered newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in August 1943. He fled to West Germany after the war, and lived as a free man until his death in 2015, as a German court later ruled that he couldn't be extradited, as Clemmensen's murder was considered manslaughter and the statute of limitations had expired. [147] |
1945 | Adolf Eichmann | 39 | Nazi Germany | A Gestapo colonel during World War 2, Adolf Eichmann personally oversaw the deportation of millions of Jews to numerous Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Although captured by U.S. forces in 1945, Eichmann escaped captivity and eventually fled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was granted asylum. The Israeli government made it a top priority to bring him to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes. He was located by agents of the Mossad in 1960, being captured and spirited to Israel. In August 1961, after a three-month trial, Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. He was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged on 1 June 1962. [148] |
1945 | Ion Buzdugan | 58 | Romania | Bessarabian-Romanian politician and poet who was repressed by the Communist regime, which forced him into exile between 1945 and 1955. Following a shift in anti-Soviet sentiment, he was allowed to return, but his writing was censored and reduced to translations from Russian literature. Buzdugan died of cancer in Bucharest on 27 January 1967. [149] |
1945 | Karl Linder | 45 | Nazi Germany | Karl Linder, a Nazi Party official who held many governmental positions around Frankfurt am Main, he fled to Thuringia after 29 March 1945 when the American forces invaded during the Battle of Frankfurt. In March 1950, Linder surrendered to authorities and was interned for a year, but was later released due to insufficient evidence to convinct him as a major offender during the war. [150] |
1945 | Martin Bormann and Ludwig Stumpfegger | Bormann (44) Stumpfegger (34) | Nazi Germany | Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, and Stumpfegger, who was Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon were both fugitives who had fled Germany on 2 May 1945 to escape being captured. In 1972 their remains were discovered near the Reichstag, but not confirmed conclusively until 1998. [151] |
1945 | Eyvind Mehle | 50 | Norway | Radio personality and Nazi collaborator who broadcast pro-fascist propaganda during his tenure at the NRK. Following the end of the war, he fled to Sweden in May 1945, where he is said to have drowned later that year. [152] |
1945 | Josef Mengele | 34 | Nazi Germany | Nicknamed the "Angel of Death" by his victims, Josef Mengele was a German physician and SS officer stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp to conduct human experimentation on inmates. He personally decided the fate of countless Jews and others, as he also partook in sending newly arrived prisoners to the gas chambers or forcing them into slave labor. However, Mengele would also select certain inmates (especially twins) to undergo human experimentation. Many of his victims died as a result of the brutality of the tests he performed. [153] As Auschwitz was evacuated, Mengele was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp before going into hiding and ultimately fleeing to South America in 1949 under the false name "Fritz Hollmann". Despite numerous efforts of countless Nazi hunters and multiple government agencies, including operations by the Mossad in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil to arrest Josef Mengele, he evaded capture for the rest of his life. In 1979, Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming and drowned off the coast of Bertioga. His remains were exhumed and identified in 1985, a discovery which was later confirmed by DNA testing in 1992. [154] |
1945 | Ante Pavelić | 56 | Independent State of Croatia | Ante Pavelić was a dictator (official title: Poglavnik) who established the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in 1941, a puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. He also founded the Ustaše movement, which served Pavelić as a military and police force. It also committed genocide in compliance with the Poglavnik's order to exterminate Serbs, Jews and other "undesirables" based on Fascist ideology. His racial policies led to the death of at least 100,000 people throughout the numerous death camps which existed in the NDH. After the war, Ante Pavelić first fled to Austria, then he fled to Italy, before he hid inside the Vatican. There, he succeeded in obtaining a false passport and a false identity, which allowed him to flee to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he found work as a brick layer. On 10 April 1957, Pavelić was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt as he got off a bus and was shot twice from behind by Blagoje Jovović. Although he initially survived, he refused to stay in an Argentine hospital, because Yugoslavia was in the process of signing extradition forms to bring him back for trial. Ultimately fleeing to Spain, Ante Pavelić succumbed to his wounds on 28 December 1959, dying in Madrid. [155] |
1945 | Ljubo Miloš | 26 | Independent State of Croatia | A Croatian public official hanged for war crimes. Miloš had been a commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II. He had fled Yugoslavia in May 1945, but was captured two years later. Found guilty of multiple war crimes on 20 August 1948, he was hanged in Zagreb the same day. [156] |
1945 | Jakob Denzinger | 21 | Germany United States Croatia | Croatian member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände who served as a concentration camp guard at five different locations in Nazi Germany. After the war, he moved to the US in 1956, he returned to Croatia in 1989 after his past history was discovered. He officially indicted by his native country in 2014, but died before he could stand trial in 2016. [157] |
1946 | William Nesbit | 37 | United States | Nesbit was an American fugitive who was both a murderer and a jewel thief. Nesbit was charged with killing another thief who was his partner in crime named Harold Baker on 31 December 1936 in Minnehaha County. [158] On 29 May 1937, Nesbit was sent to jail for life and on 4 September 1946 after becoming a personal chauffeur of the warden, disappeared after he failed to return from duties that were given to him. On 15 March 1950, Nesbit became the third member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's first-ever FBI ten most wanted fugitives list. Nesbit was arrested in Saint Paul, Minnesota in a cave just three days later. [159] [160] |
1946 | Pierre Daye | 50 | Belgium | Journalist and member of the Rexist Party who was sentenced to death in absentia for his work at the Nouveau Journal, a pro-Nazi newspaper during the war. Daye fled to Argentina to avoid prosecution, and remained a free man until his death. [161] |
1948 | Eduard Roschmann | 24 | Germany | Roschmann was a member of the Schutzstaffel and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943 and was responsible for multiple murders and atrocities. Roschmann fled to Argentina after escaping from custody in 1948 and became a citizen there in 1968 under the name "Frederico Wagner". Roschmann died in Asuncion, Paraguay on 8 August 1977. [162] |
1948 | Ovidiu Cotruș | 29 | Romania | Ovidiu Cotruș was a Romanian essayist and literary critic who was indicted for treason and falsifying documents by the communist regime in 1948. He was arrested in Bucharest three years later, convicted and sent to prison where he remained until 1955, when he was released under amnesty. [163] Cotruș died on 12 September 1977. |
1948 | Max Auschnitt | 60 | Romania | Romanian businessman and political figure who was indicted on charges of high treason by the communist authorities. Because of this, Auschnitt was forced into exile and relocated to the US, where he lived until his death in 1957. [164] |
1949 | Omar August Pinson | 29 | United States | Pinson who also went by the name of "John Omar Pinson" who after being convicted for doing burglaries and bank robberies and then first becoming wanted on 30 May 1949 after escaping prison with a cellmate, and was later added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for six months in 1950. [165] [166] He was caught on 18 August 1950 and then sent back to jail. Pinson died on 20 October 1997 at the age of 79. |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1950 | Thomas James Holden | 54–55 | United States | Holden was an American fugitive and a member of the Holden–Keating Gang which included fellow fugitive Francis Keating who were operating in the Midwestern United States from 1926 to 1932. Gang had made history by becoming the first official fugitive to be listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List in 1950. [167] [168] Holden was captured on 23 June 1951 in Beaverton, Oregon after he was seen. [169] Holden is now deceased. |
1951 | Joseph Franklin Bent | 20 | United States | Bent was an American fugitive who was also known by the aliases "Charles 'Hap' Rayborn" and "Coal Frederick Raymond" amongst others. He was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1951 [170] for crimes which included attempted murder and robberies. On 29 August 1952, Bent was captured in Texas City, Texas and sent to jail. Bent died in California in 2004. [171] |
1951 | Kenneth Parnell | 23 | United States | Kenneth Parnell who was American convicted sex offender, child rapist, and had committed multiple kidnapping who in March 1951 was arrested for sodomizing a young boy [172] and had been impersonating a police officer he was then sent to prison, and after had escaped, but was recaptured sometime after. After Parnell was again sent to jail In January 2003. [173] and died on 21 January 2008, while he was at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California. [174] [175] |
1951 | Gerhard Arthur Puff | 46–47 | United States | Puff was a German gangster and murderer who while he was evading the law was added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List" on 3 December 1951. [170] Puff was later located in New York on 26 July 1952 and more than two years later was executed on 12 August 1954 for the murder that he had committed. |
1952 | David Dallas Taylor | 25 | United States | Taylor was an American fugitive who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1953. [176] [177] for being both a murderer and robber. After escaping from prison while being transported from Chicago, Illinois back to Alabama on 1 September 1952 by train he was caught in Chicago while "caught in a traffic jam" [178] on 26 May 1953 by the police and was sent back to jail. |
1953 | Charles E. Johnson | 43 | United States | Johnson was a burglar from New York who was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted on 2 November 1953. [179] [180] and was imprisoned for 9 years before that. [181] He was captured on 28 December 1953 and was later sent to jail. He is now deceased. |
1954 | Alois Brunner | 42 | West Germany France | Austrian Schutzstaffel officer and commander at the Drancy internment camp in Paris between 1943 and 1944. In 1954, he successfully escaped West German detention, fleeing first into Egypt and then into Syria, where he lived for the rest of his life until his confirmed death. [182] |
1954 | Ben Golden McCollum | unknown | United States | McCollum was an bank robber who operated in Oklahoma and was nicknamed the "Sheik of Boynton". [183] [184] After McCollum was charged and convicted for crimes that he had done he was sent to prison in 1954, but later escaped. He was then added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list shortly afterwards and was caught in 1958. [185] He was later released on parole in 1961 and them he moved to Marcum, Kentucky and on the night of 12 August 1963 he was shot dead in his home by two young burglars, [186] whose identities are unknown. |
1955 | Edward Edwards | 21–22 | United States | Edwards was a convicted American serial killer [187] who after being sent to from jail in 1955 in Akron, Ohio later escaped and fled across the country during which held up gas stations. In 1961, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. On 20 January 1962 Edwards was captured in Atlanta, Georgia and sent back to jail. Edwards died of natural causes on 7 April 2011 at the Corrections Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. [188] [189] |
1956 | Nick George Montos | 39 | United States | Montos was an American fugitive who was an associate of the Chicago Outfit and was also the first person to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list [190] two times. After being wanted by the police for the second time on 2 March 1956 he was captured on 28 March 1956. Montos died on 30 November 2008 at the age of 92 after suffering a heart attack [191] a few weeks earlier. |
1957 | Alfred Loritz | 55 | Germany | Loritz was a German lawyer who founded the political party Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung; however, he fled Germany in 1957 due to incitement to perjury. He was granted political asylum in Austria, and died in a hospital on 4 April 1979 and therefore is no longer sought. [192] |
1957 | Ken Leishman | 26 | Canada | Leishman, known as "The Flying Bandit", was a prolific Canadian robber active since 1957 and the man responsible for the "Great Gold Heist", the largest gold theft in the country's history. He was arrested and served time for the crime, and in 1975, he was released and lived as a model citizen until his death in 1979. [193] |
1958 | Hans Eisele | 45 | West Germany | SS- Hauptsturmführer who served as a concentration camp doctor at several camps controlled by the Nazis. While initially detained, he was temporarily released in 1952, but after new allegations were brought against him in 1958, Eisele fled to Egypt, where he spent the remainder of his life until his death in 1967. [194] |
1958 | Elmer Burke | 34–35 | United States | Burke was an infamous contract killer and extortionist who had been a supporting player of the 1950 Great Brink's Robbery. He was arrested after eluding authorities for more than eighteen months following the 1952 murder of 26-year-old Edward Walsh. Burke was executed at Sing Sing Prison in January 1958. [195] |
1958 | Carmine Galante | 21–22 | United States | Galante was the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family as well as an American mobster. Galante while evading the law after he was indicted on drug conspiracy charges and then had gone into hiding in 1958 and was located on 3 June 1959 by the New Jersey State Police officers when he that was found hiding in a house on Pelican Island off the South Jersey shore. [196] Galante died on 12 July 1979. |
1958 | Frederick Grant Dunn | 52–53 | United States | Dunn was an American burglar with a criminal career that started in 1919. The press called him "the modern John Dillinger", and he was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted in 1958. [112] He was found dead in 1959. [197] |
1959 | Frank Freshwaters | 23 | United States | Freshwaters is an American criminal and former fugitive who was arrested in 1957 for the death of Eugene Flynt, whom he struck and killed while speeding. He had been on the run for 56 years after he escaped from an honor farm in 1959. [198] In the intervening years, Freshwaters lived under an assumed name and sought work as a truck driver. He was extradited back to Ohio, and served at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. According to Gallop, "more than 2,000 people from half a dozen states" wrote in to the parole board to support him. On 25 February 2016, it was voted to release Freshwaters after his attorney argued he had caused no harm in his years evading officials. Freshwaters was placed on parole with five years' supervision, and was released on 16 June 2016 and is no longer wanted. |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1960 | Joseph Corbett Jr. | 48 | United States | Corbett, an American, kidnapped and murdered Adolph Coors III on 9 February 1960. Corbett Jr. disappeared on 30 March 1960 and was captured on 29 October 1961. [199] |
1961 | Joe "Pegleg" Morgan | 31–32 | United States | Morgan was an American fugitive and was the first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia, [200] and had a prosthetic leg who had been sent to jail for murder, but was later paroled. After Morgan was sent to prison for an armed robbery at a West Covina bank after stealing $17,000 he later escaped in 1961. Morgan was sent jail for life and on 27 October 1993, he was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer [201] and later died on 9 November 1993 at the age of 64. |
1962 | Aribert Heim | 47–48 | Austria (born in Austria-Hungary and had allegiance to Nazi Germany) | Heim was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor and fugitive who was nicknamed "Dr. Death" and "Butcher of Mauthausen". He served in the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in northern Finland. Heim disappeared in 1962 and a massive manhunt was conducted to find him. In 2012, a regional court in Baden-Baden declared that Heim died while using the false identity of Tarek Hussein Farid in Egypt in 1992 [202] and therefore is no longer sought. |
1962 | Albert Frederick Nussbaum | 33 | United States | Nussbaum, a bank robber from Buffalo, New York, was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 3 April 1962. [203] He was caught on 4 November 1962. After being tried and convicted in February 1964, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison and became eligible for parole in 1971. Nussbaum passed away on 7 January 1996 at the age of 61. [204] |
1962 | David Stanley Jacubanis | 52 | USA | David Stanley Jacubanis was a Russian-American criminal who was added on the 171st fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on 21 November 1962 [205] after robbing two banks whilst on parole. He was recaptured eight days after being placed on the list and is no longer sought. |
1963 | Bernardo Provenzano | 30 | Italy | Provenzano was an Italian mobster and chief of a clan known as the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that had is roots in the town of Corleone. Provenzano disappeared in September 1963 and was caught in April 2006 after nearly 43 years on the run. [206] On 13 July 2016 he died from bladder cancer at San Paol Prison Hospital in Milan, Italy at age 83 [207] [208] after being sick since 2014. |
1963 | Winnie Ruth Judd | 58 | United States | Medical secretary who was accused of committing the 1933 Phoenix Trunk Murders. Remanded to a mental asylum, she escaped on six occasions, [209] with her final attempt in 1963 lasting six years, when she lived under an assumed identity in California as a live-in maid for a wealthy family before being re-arrested and extradited back to Arizona. |
1964 | Ludolf von Alvensleben | 63 | West Germany | Former SS and police leader who was indicted by German authorities for his activities during the war, specifically for the murders of more than 4,247 Poles orchestrated by him and his commandos. Von Alvensleben was never brought to trial, as he had fled to Argentina, where he died prior to any potential arrest or extradition. [210] |
1965 | Lucien Rivard | 40–41 | Canada | Rivard was a Canadian fugitive who was known for a 1965 prison escape in Montreal that was seen as sensational. [211] Four months after escaping he was captured and extradited to the United States". [212] Rivard died on 3 February 2002. |
1965 | Duane Earl Pope | unknown | United States | Duane Earl Pope is an American murderer [213] who when committing the 1965 Farmers State Bank robbery on 4 June in Big Springs, Nebraska, had killed three people and left one person injured who died in 2012. Pope became a wanted fugitive for one day was added to the FBI 10 Most Wanted List. After the killings Pope then fled Big Springs, Nebraska. Pope has traveled to multiple states in the U.S. and was captured in Kansas City, Missouri, [214] and is now in jail. |
1965 | John William Clouser | 54–55 | United States | Clouser is a former police officer and detective in Orlando, Florida who later became a fugitive, [215] and on 7 January 1965 was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He had once been committed to a mental hospital after being arrested for armed robbery and kidnapping, but escaped. [216] [217] Clouser was removed from the most wanted list in 1972 after a federal process against him was dismissed. [218] He later became an author. |
1966 | Robert Van Lewing | 44 | United States | Van Lewing was an American fugitive and had a long criminal career during which he committed many armed robberies. Van Lewing was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list from 1966 to 1967. [219] [220] Upon entering a St. Louis bank in March 1966 and then threatening the bank teller with a pistol, Van Lewing escaped with $2,456 and fled St. Louis, though he did remain in Missouri. After being identified by three eyewitnesses, Van Lewing was eventually traced to Kansas City on 6 February 1967, where the FBI agents arrested him. Van Lewing was convicted on multiple charges and sentenced to prison. Van Lewing died in 1983. |
1967 | Donald Richard Bussmeyer | 31 | United States | Bussmeyer is an American criminal and a former member of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1967. [221] He became a career criminal and drug addict with convictions for auto theft, attempted burglary, assault with intent to kill, and armed robbery. On 2 March 1967, he and two accomplices, James Alaway and Russell Jones, robbed $75,000 from a Los Angeles bank and went on the run. [222] Due to large media coverage and publicity, [223] Bussmeyer was traced to a safehouse in Upland, California [224] within two months, and on 24 August he was captured along with his wife Hallie and associate Gene Harrington. |
1968 | Benjamin Hoskins Paddock | unknown | United States | Paddock was an American bank robber and con man. After escaping prison in 1968, he was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1969 and remained on it to 1977. [225] [226] [227] He was captured and arrested in early September 1978 in Springfield, Oregon and returned to prison, but was eventually released on parole. [228] Paddock died of a heart attack on 18 January 1998 in Arlington, Texas. |
1968 | Francisco Antonio García López | 25 | United States | Puerto Rican criminal originally jailed for killing his wife with a machete, but gained for his repeated escapes and subsequent kidnappings and murders spanning from the 70s until his death in 1995, when he was killed by an arresting officer. Owing to the repeated news coverage of his crimes, García López has garnered folk legend status under his nickname "Toño Bicicleta". [229] |
1968 | Robert DePugh | 45 | United States | Anti-communist activist and founder of the militant Minutemen organization, who was indicted in February 1968 on charges of conspiring to commit bank robbery and federal firearms violations. He was arrested a year later in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and served time until May 1973. He later became involved with the Christian Identity movement, retired from activism and died peacefully at his home in Missouri in 2009. [230] |
1969 | Salvatore Riina | 39 | Italy | Riina was a notorious Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia responsible for multiple murders and assassinations. Riina lived as a fugitive for 23 years before he was captured at his villa in January 1993 following a tip-off to police. Riina died in the prison unit of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma in November 2017 at the age of 87. [231] [232] |
1969 | Marie Dean Arrington | 35 | United States | Arrington was an American criminal. On 1 March 1969, Arrington escaped from Florida Correctional Institution in her pajamas by cutting a window screen and jumping out. In May 1969 she was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List, making her the second woman ever placed on the list. [233] [234] Arrington was recaptured in March 1972 after having fled to New Orleans, where she worked as a waitress. Arrington died on 10 May 2014 in Lowell Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida, the same institution from which she escaped. |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1970 | Bernardine Dohrn | 28 | United States | Dohrn, a member of the radical Marxist terrorist group Weather Underground with previous convictions for anti-government protests and drug offenses, was added to the FBI's Most Wanted List as a member of the Weather Underground, whereupon she went into hiding under an assumed name with her husband, Bill Ayers, residing in Chicago. Both of them surrendered to authorities in 1980, but by then, the charges were dropped and Dohrn served only seven months for aggravated battery and bail jumping. After her release, she was employed at a law firm until 2013, and now focuses on activism. [235] |
1970 | Susan Edith Saxe | 26 | United States | Saxe who charged with Bank robbery is one of the ten women ever to make the FBI's most wanted list. Saxe was on the list on from 17 October 1970, [236] until March 1975 after she was caught in Philadelphia. [237] |
1970 | Katherine Ann Power | 26 | United States | Power was involved in the same bank robbery as Susan Edith Saxe, the second of two who initially evaded capture from the police. Power was subsequently added on the FBI's most wanted list on 17 October 1970; [238] however, she was removed from the list in 1984. Power turned herself in to the police in 1993. |
1970 | Donald Henry Gaskins | 37 | United States | Serial killer and rapist responsible for at least 9 confirmed murders committed from 1953 until his final arrest in 1982, but claimed to have killed 110 people overall across South Carolina. Sentenced to death for the murder of a cellmate, he was executed in 1991. [239] |
1971 | John Svahlstedt | 24 | Sweden | Known as "Hagamannen", Svahlstedt is a serial rapist active in several major cities from the 1970s until the 1980s. After serving a lengthy prison sentence in a mental institution, he was rearrested for possession of child pornography in 2013, for which he served another four years before being re-released. [240] |
1971 | Ulaş Bardakçı | 24 | Turkey | Communist terrorist and founding member of the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey, imprisoned in May 1971 for kidnapping the Israeli ambassador to Turkey in exchange for his imprisoned comrades. He escaped in November and resumed his group's activities in Istanbul. Authorities discovered the hideout on February 19, 1972, and in the ensuing battle, Bardakçı was shot and killed. [241] |
1971 | John List | 46 | United States | List was an American mass murderer [242] and long-time fugitive who disappeared on 9 November 1971 after he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey. List was captured on 1 June 1989 [243] and was sent back to jail and died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82. |
1971 | Patrick Critton | unknown | Canada | American bank robber who hijacked an Air Canada flight on 26 December, 1971, travelling with it to Havana, Cuba, where he was sentenced to 8 months in prison. After his release, Critton lived under the radar in Tanzania before returning to the US, where he was arrested in 2001 and extradited to Canada. In order to prevent prejudice due to the recent September 11 attacks, he was given a 3-year sentence and then deported back to the US after he served it out in full. [244] |
1972 | Garrett Brock Trapnell | 34 | United States | Prolific con man, bank robber, aircraft hijacker and bigamist known for robbing several banks and hijacking aircraft in both the US and Canada. Using the insanity defense, he was repeatedly released or fled from mental institutions, but was caught in 1972 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Several attempts were made to break him out of prison, but all were unsuccessful. Died in a federal penitentiary in 1993. [245] |
1972 | George Wright | 39 | United States | Wright is a Portuguese citizen of American origin [246] who in 1961, graduated from Mary Bethune High School in Halifax, Virginia. [247] Wright was originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. Wright escaped from prison in 1970 and hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight in 1972 with a number of accomplices. On 26 September 2011, he was arrested in Portugal [248] and taken into custody. [249] |
1973 | Samuel Christian | 43–44 | United States | Christian became a wanted fugitive when he added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted as number 321 [250] he was suspected of killing Tyrone "Fat Ty" Palmer in 1972 at Club Harlem, and was also suspected of killing Major Coxson and other people as well where Coxson lived in 1973. Christian who in hiding was captured and charged. It was never proven that Christian was guilty of the murders since there were there were no witnesses willing to testify against him. Christian died on 6 March 2016. |
1973 | Donald DeFreeze | 29 | United States | Leader of the far-left Symbionese Liberation Army who escaped detention from the Correctional Training Facility on March 5, 1973. He was sought after by law enforcement until he was cornered in a Los Angeles safehouse occupied by five other group members. When the house began to catch on fire, DeFreeze was affected by the flames and opted to end his life by shooting himself in the head. [251] |
1974 | Elmer Edward Solly | 29 | United States | Escaped from Leesburg State Prison in June 1974, where he had been incarcerated on a manslaughter charge regarding the 1969 death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son. Over the next 27 years, Solly lived under assumed identities, most prominently posing as an alleged former member of the band Sha Na Na. He was arrested in 2001, but paroled in August 2003 for time served and good behavior. [252] |
1974 | Thomas Knight | 23 | United States | Knight was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 12 December 1974. He was wanted for a prison escape from the Miami-Dade County Jail in September 1974. He had been awaiting trial for two murders at the time. Knight was captured on 31 December 1974 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. [253] He was later executed on 7 January 2014 in Florida. [254] |
1975 | Benedetto Santapaola | 37 | Italy | Catania-based mafioso who took part in various illegal activities, including the murders of several rival mafia members. He was captured in 1993, convicted on multiple charges and sentenced to several life terms. [255] |
1975 | Squeaky Fromme | 27 | United States | Member of the Manson Family who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento on September 5, 1975. She was arrested on the scene, brought to trial and sentenced to life imprisonment, but paroled in 2009. [256] |
1975 | Sara Jane Moore | 45 | United States | FBI informant who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco on September 22, 1975. She failed to kill him, and was immediately subdued by bystander Oliver Sipple. She later plead guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was paroled in 2007. [257] |
1975 | Anthony Michael Juliano | 53 | United States | Juliano was an American fugitive who had robbed 27 banks in Boston and New York between 1973 and 1975, which let to two warrants being issued for his arrest in November 1975. On 15 March 1976 Julianothe was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. [258] [259] and was captured a week later. [260] Juliano died on 20 August 2001 at the age of 78. |
1975 | Sara Jane Olson | 28 | United States | Symbionese Liberation Army member responsible for a bank robbery, a murder and bomb detonation in California. After her indictment for the bombing case, she fled to Minnesota, where she lived undetected until 1999, whereupon she was arrested and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment on various charges. She was paroled in 2009. [261] |
1976 | Joachim Kroll | 35 | Germany | Kroll was a German cannibal, serial killer, and necrophiliac whose crimes took place in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until 3 April 1976 when he was captured and arrested. [262] After being convicted in 1982 Kroll was sentenced to life imprisonment. Kroll died in the prison of Rheinbach of a heart attack in 1991. |
1976 | Hervé de Vathaire | 50 | France | Vathaire was a private financial director of Marcel Dassault and founder of an aerospace company, the Dassault Group. He had just become a widower after his wife had committed suicide. [263] On 6 July 1976, Vathaire disappeared after he went to a BNP Paribas branch [264] and withdrew 8 million francs (800 million old francs; 1.2 million euros; $1.6 million at the time) [265] from Marcel Dassault's account. [266] [267] A manhunt that was conducted to find him ended on 26 September 1976, when Vathaire returned to Paris. [268] |
1976 | Safiya Bukhari | 26 | United States | Black Panther Party member who escaped from prison in Virginia, [269] where she was serving a 40-year sentence for felony murder. She was recaptured and returned two months later, serving until August 1983. After her release, she became a prominent political activist and later the vice president of the Republic of New Afrika, a black nationalist movement. |
1977 | Ted Bundy | 28 | United States | Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults, [270] including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. For the Florida homicides, he received three death sentences in two separate trials. Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on 24 January 1989. [271] |
1977 | Larry Pusateri | 34 | United States | Pusateri, who also went by the aliases "Luis R. Archuleta" and "Ramon C. Montoya", is a convicted felon and former Colorado resident who was wanted by the FBI since 1977 following his escape from a Colorado prison. On 5 August 2020 he was located and captured in Española, New Mexico after successfully evading law enforcement and living there for almost 47 years. [272] [273] |
1978 | Dursun Karataş | 26 | Turkey | Communist terrorist and founder of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, responsible for numerous attacks against the Turkish state since its founding in 1978. After spending several years in prison in Western Europe, he died in hospital in the Netherlands in 2008. [274] |
1978 | George Feigley | 37–38 | United States | Feigley was an American church leader and has been described as a sex cult leader. Feigley served over 32 years in prison for sex crimes against children, from 1975 to 2008. Feigley was sent to the Taylor County Jail in Grafton in 1978, but escaped less than a month later while awaiting extradition back to Pennsylvania. [275] After this he was free for two months before he was captured, hiding on another farm near Sneedville, Tennessee. [276] Feigley became eligible for parole in 1990, but parole was denied then and at each subsequent annual review. Having served the full-time for all his convictions, Feigley was released from prison on 15 August 2008. Feigley's health which was already bad got worse and he died on 13 April 2009. |
1978 | Jerry Balisok | 22–23 | United States | Balisok was an American professional wrestler who used the name Mr. X. He was indicted on multiple counts of check forgery in 1977, but skipped bail, stole the identification documents of his girlfriend's cousin Ricky Allen Wetta, assumed his identity and fled with her via Florida to the Caribbean. After he failed to appear for his trial in 1978, FBI investigators were misled into believing that they had died in the Jonestown mass suicides that year. He returned to the United States and in 1989 was arrested for attempted murder. Fingerprinting revealed his identity. He was found guilty and served 13 years in prison. [277] Balisok died in prison in 2013 of a heart attack that was caused by a heat stroke. |
1978 | Michael Thevis | 46 | United States | Thevis was a millionaire businessman renowned for running what was, at the time, the nation's most profitable business in the pornography business. Aside from pornography, he was also involved in music recording and building the Lion's Gate mansion in Atlanta. After it was discovered that he had associations with the New York mafia and had ordered a hit on somebody due to testify against him, he escaped from an Indiana prison in July 1978, but was caught in Connecticut four months later. He was found guilty and imprisoned for life, dying in 2013. [278] |
1979 | Idi Amin | 54 | Uganda | Idi Amin was the third President of Uganda and chairman of the Organization of African Unity. Under his leadership, ethnic minorities and political dissidents were brutally executed, giving Amin his nickname, "The Butcher of Uganda". [279] When Kampala fell to Tanzanian forces, Idi Amin fled by helicopter into exile. He died in Saudi Arabia on 16 August 2003 from kidney failure before he could ever be extradited back to Uganda. [280] |
1979 | Earl Edwin Austin | unknown | United States | Bank robber who went on a five-month bank robbing spree after being paroled from prison, for which he was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was captured by federal agents in Tucson, Arizona in March 1980 and imprisoned. |
1979 | Forrest Tucker | 59 | United States | A career criminal and escape artist, [281] believed to have escaped from prison approximately 18 times throughout his life, Tucker's most infamous escape occurred in the summer of 1979, when he and two confederates built a kayak and paddled away from San Quentin State Prison in full view of guards. Tucker was not apprehended for four years, during which he embarked on a further crime spree. He died in May 2004. [282] |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1980s | Imre Arakas | с. 22 | Estonia | Nicknamed "The Butcher", Arakas' was an Estonian criminal first put on a wanted list after escaping the courthouse pending trial for a shooting club. Although arrested after a few months and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, he would later be released and embark on a prolific career as a hitman, thought to be responsible for numerous murders across continental Europe and the UK. As of July 2020, he is due to be extradited to Lithuania to face murder charges there. [283] |
1980s | Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo | c. 35 | Mexico | A convicted Mexican drug lord and a founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, which controlled much of the drug trafficking activities within Mexico and across the Mexico–United States border. Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence officer Enrique Camarena. Convicted of both drug trafficking offenses and murder, Gallardo is currently incarcerated in a medium-security prison in Guadalajara, where he was first transferred from a higher security facility in 2014. [284] |
1980s | Antonio Cárdenas Guillén | c. 18 | Mexico United States | Drug lord and co-leader of the Gulf Cartel, which he ran together with Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez. Sought by both Mexican and American authorities, Cárdenas Guillén was killed during a stand-off between his cartel and the Mexican Navy in November 2010. [285] |
1980 | Christopher John Boyce | 26 | United States | Former defense industry employee and Soviet spy who escaped from prison while serving a 40-year sentence for espionage. While on the run, he committed 17 bank robberies in Idaho and Washington, allegedly to finance his escape to the USSR. He was arrested the following year and returned to serve his sentence, before being released in 2002. [286] |
1980 | Mark DeFriest | 20 | United States | Known as "The Houdini of Florida", DeFriest, initially jailed for theft, attempted to escape prison on 13 different occasions, seven of which were successful. Due to his escapades and odd behavior, his case garnered considerable public interest. He was paroled in 2019, but then remanded to a mental facility where he remains to this very day. [287] |
1980 | Gilbert James Everett | 42 | United States | Everett was an American bank robber from Kansas who had committed 86 bank robberies who disappeared in November 1980 after escaping custody a month after being convicted. On 13 May 1981 Everett was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted [288] list and remained on it for over four years until his capture in 1985. After Everett was sent to jail for 20 years and serving 18 years of his sentence he was then released in 2003 and died two years later in 2005. [289] |
1980 | Murray Riley | 55 | Australia | Former rowing athlete and police officer implicated in the Nugan Hand Bank scandal, fleeing the country in June 1980. Over the years, he was implicated in numerous other criminal activities in the 1990s, before settling in Queensland after all the previous charges expired. [290] |
1980 | Donald Eugene Webb | 50 | United States | Webb was an American career criminal and fugitive wanted for attempted burglary and the murder of police chief Gregory Adams in the small community of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania on 4 December 1980. [291] The last confirmed sighting of him was in July 1981, reported by an anonymous tipster. [292] On 4 May 1981, Webb was named as the 375th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. [293] On 14 July 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999 after suffering multiple strokes. [294] |
1981 | Nehanda Abiodun | 37 | United States | Abiodun, born "Cheri Laverne Dalton," was an African American hip hop activist, black revolutionary, and fugitive who had fled to Cuba. [295] Abiodun was wanted by the FBI in connection of the 1981 robbery of a Brink's truck that resulted in the killing of a Brink's guard and two police officers. [296] The United States federal government also charged Abiodun in connection with Assata Shakur's escape from prison, along with Susan Rosenberg. [297] She was wanted since 17 November 1982. She died on 30 January 2019. |
1981 | Mohammad-Reza Kolahi | 23–24 | Iran | Kolahi, a member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran, was suspected of planting a bomb that killed more than 70 government officials in the Hafte Tir bombing. He fled to the Netherlands, claiming to be a refugee under a false name, and was assassinated in Almere in 2015. [298] |
1981 | Jack Abbott | 37 | United States | Criminal, initially arrested for manslaughter in 1981, who later wrote memoirs, In the Belly of the Beast , about his life in prison. Shortly after his parole in 2002, he was jailed for a new murder and sent back to prison, where not long after, he committed suicide. [299] |
1981 | Claude Dallas | 31 | United States | Trapper indicted for the killings of two game wardens in Idaho on January 5, 1981. He eluded authorities until April 1982, when he was arrested by authorities near Winnemucca, Nevada. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, but released in 2005. [300] |
1982 | Charles Ray Hatcher | 22 | United States | Hatcher, a prolific criminal, murderer and self-confessed serial killer, who first escaped detention in Missouri, where he had been detained for forgery. Hatcher was recaptured shortly after, and after his release, he would embark on three-decade long crime spree, during which he allegedly killed 16 people across Missouri, California and Illinois. After being convicted of two murders in 1984, but wasn't given the death penalty as he requested, he committed suicide by hanging himself at the Missouri State Penitentiary. [301] |
1982 | Johannes-Andreas Hanni | 24–25 | Estonia | Andreas Hanni was an Estonian serial killer and had committed many crimes as a youth, [302] and with the help of his wife murdered three people in 1982 in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. After being involved with an attempted murder involved his wife on 2 September 1982 Hanni and his wife were sought and arrested on 2 October 1982. [303] Although his wife was convicted and sent to jail, Andreas Hanni committed suicide in November 1982 before he could be charged. |
1982 | Chhota Rajan | 23 | India | Criminal and later crime syndicate leader based in Mumbai, known for initiating gang wars with rival crime groups and crimes such as extortion, kidnapping and murder. He left the country in 1989, living across various countries in Asia until his final capture in Bali, Indonesia in 2015. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018, and is currently awaiting trial for numerous other cases. [304] |
1983 | Santo Araniti | 36 | Italy | High-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and ally of the De Stefano 'ndrina, responsible for the murder of politician Lodovico Ligato in 1989. He was arrested in Rome in 1994 and sentenced to life imprisonment. [305] |
1983 | Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson | (Michael) 32–33 (Suzan) 41–42 | United States | James Clifford Carson and Susan Barnes Carson who are also known are "Michael Bear Carson" and "Susan Bear Carson" are an American married couple and are also serial killers [306] who killed three people between 1981 and 1983 in California. The Carsons had gone into hiding, but were later caught, charged, and convicted, [307] are now both in jail. |
1983 | Marc Rich | 29–30 | United States | Rich was an international financial criminal and was also a trader, commodities, hedge fund manager, financier and a businessman. [308] Because he was wanted for these crimes Rich fled to Switzerland and never returned home. [309] Rich was later questionably pardoned by President Clinton, and is known to have died on 26 June 2013 of a stroke at a hospital in Lucerne at the age of 78, and therefore is no longer sought. |
1983 | Wang Zongfang and Wang Zongwei | (Zongfang) 26 (Zongwei) 28 | China | Known as "Er Wang", the two brothers were responsible for a seven-month long crime wave of robberies, during which 19 people were killed in various provinces. They were both killed by security forces on 18 September 1983. [310] |
1984 | Tam McGraw | 32 | United Kingdom | Known as "The Licensee", McGraw was a Scottish gangster involved in organized crime, mostly for extortion and drug trafficking. Considered one of the wealthiest men in Glasgow, he died of a suspected heart attack in 2007. [311] |
1984 | Christopher Wilder | 39 | United States | Wilder was an Australian serial killer [312] who had kidnapped and raped multiple woman in multiple U.S. states and had been on the run from the law since 22 March 1984. After Wilder was located in New Hampshire he committed suicide during a altercation with the police on 13 April 1984. |
1984 | Carmine Alfieri | 41 | Italy | Boss of the Naples Camorra, part of the Alfieri clan, who engaged mainly in protection rackets. He was arrested in 1992, and during his imprisonment, he became a pentito, informing about numerous hits and rackets conducted by the mafia in conjunction with several politicians. [313] |
1984 | Carmine Persico | 51 | United States | On 14 October 1984, Persico and the rest of the Colombo family leadership were indicted on multiple racketeering charges as part of the "Colombo Trial". [314] After the indictment was published, Persico went into hiding. On 26 October, the FBI began a national manhunt for Persico, [315] and soon named him as the 390th fugitive to be added to their Ten Most Wanted list. [316] Persico hid in the home of his cousin, mob associate Fred DeChristopher, in Hempstead, New York. Unbeknownst to Persico, DeChristopher had been relaying information to the FBI for the previous two years after being caught up in a sting operation, and had already told the Bureau of Persico's whereabouts. The FBI concocted the fake "manhunt" to shield DeChristopher, who would later provide damning testimony against Persico as a key witness for the prosecution. Persico was arrested on 15 February 1985. [317] On 14 June 1986, Persico was convicted of racketeering in the Colombo Trial. [318] On 17 November, he was sentenced to 39 years in prison. [319] The sentencing judge, John F. Keenan, nonetheless praised Persico's performance as his own lawyer in the Commission Trial and said, "Mr. Persico, you're a tragedy. You are one of the most intelligent people I have ever seen in my life." [320] On 19 November Persico and the other Commission Trial defendants were convicted on all charges. [321] On 13 January 1987, Keenan sentenced Persico to 100 years in prison, to run consecutively with his 39-year sentence in the Colombo trial. [322] On 7 March 2019, Persico died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. [323] |
1985 | Mustafa Setmariam Nasar | 23 | Spain | Suspected Syrian-Spanish Al-Qaeda member sought by police as a suspect in the El Descanso bombing in Madrid and as a witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2005 and moved to a Syrian prison, where, as of April 2014, he was reportedly still incarcerated. [324] |
1985 | Ricky Lee Green | 25 | United States | Serial killer responsible for the sexually-motivated murders of at least four people in Texas between 1985 and 1986, at least two of which were committed with his wife. Green was sentenced to death for one of the murders and subsequently executed in 1997. [325] |
1985 | Richard Ramirez | 24 | United States | Ramirez who was nicknamed the "Night Stalker" and the "Valley Intruder" [326] was an American kidnapper, pedophile, serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and fugitive who after committing a series of vicious and highly publicized home invasion which took place in the Greater Los Angeles area and after in the San Francisco Bay Area as well. Ramirez' last crime took place on 24 August 1985 and after which he had fled to East Los Angeles where he was recognized and captured by a crowd on the street on 31 August 1985. [327] Ramirez was later convicted for his crimes and sentenced to death and on 12 June 2013 he died from complications that was caused from B-cell lymphoma, while he was on death row. [328] |
1985 | Muhammad Zaidan | 37 | United States Italy | Zaidan was the leader Palestinian Liberation Front, a political faction aiming to separate Palestine from Israeli control via violent means. In 1985, he and his followers hijacked the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro, during which an American hostage, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed. Fearful of retaliation from the US, Zaidan and his followers surrendered in Egypt and were flown back to Italy, but managed to escape and flee to Iraq, where they protected under Saddam Hussein. Despite a public apology issues in 1996, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by Italy and wanted on charges of piracy, murder and terrorism by the USA. He was caught in 2003 during the Invasion of Iraq, but died in detention the following year. [329] |
1986 | Allan Legere | 38 | Canada | Known as "The Monster of the Miramichi", initially imprisoned for killing a man with accomplices in 1986, he later escaped from prison and proceeded to kill at least four more women near the Miramichi River Valley. He was arrested on November 24, 1989 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the chance of parole. [330] |
1986 | Ángel Maturino Reséndiz | 27 | United States | Known as "The Railroad Killer", Reséndiz was an itinerant Mexican serial killer found guilty of 16 murders across the USA from 1986 to 1999, but later confessed to additional murders, including several in Mexico. He was arrested on July 13, 1999, sentenced to death and executed in 2006. [331] |
1986 | Pedro Padilla Flores | unknown | Mexico | Known as "The Rio Bravo Assassin", Flores was initially detained for three muders in Ciudad Juárez in 1986, but later escaped detention in 1990 and remained a fugitive until 2014, when he was arrested in New Mexico. He was returned to serve his life imprisonment sentence, and is a prime suspect for many of the unsolved Femicides in Ciudad Juárez. |
1986 | DMX | 16 | United States | Famous rapper, songwriter and actor who was first jailed for stealing a dog from a junkyard, for which he was given a 2-year sentence in juvenile prison. He and another inmate successfully escaped, but were quickly recaptured and returned to prison. After his release, he began his musical career, but continued to amass criminal convictions over the years. [332] |
1986 | Antonio Imerti | 39 | Italy | Imerti who is nicknamed "Nano feroce" ("fierce dwarf"), is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia who disappeared on 7 July 1986, after he became a fugitive, he was captured on 23 March 1993 in Reggio Calabria, while he was with his brother-in-law Pasquale Condello who is also a fugitive formerly wanted by the police. [333] [334] |
1986 | Joseph James DeAngelo | 40 | United States | On 24 April 2018, authorities charged Joseph James DeAngelo with eight counts of first-degree murder, as DNA evidence linked him to crimes of the Golden State Killer, AKA The Original Nightstalker, a serial killer and rapist who terrorized California from the 1970s to mid-1980s. [335] He confessed to the crimes and others in exchange for a sentence of life without parole, as opposed to facing the death penalty. [336] |
1987 | Rodney Halbower | 39 | United States | Sex offender who raped, assaulted and kidnapped several women during the 1970s and 1980s, finally caught in Oregon in early 1987 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. In November 2013, he was implicated in two of the Gypsy Hill killings, of which he was later convicted, and remains a suspect in the other three. [337] |
1987 | Diane Downs | 32 | United States | Sentenced to life for the May 1983 murder of her daughter and attempted murder of her two other children in Oregon, which she claimed was done by a carjacker, Downs briefly escaped confinement on July 11, 1987, resulting in a 14-state wide manhunt. She was recaptured ten days later, and has been incarcerated ever since. [338] |
1987 | Ted Jeffrey Otsuki | 36 | United States | Otsuki was an American fugitive from Harlingen, Texas who had committed multiple robberies and had been placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list as number 415 [339] in January 1988 after he had killed a police officer in Boston, Massachusetts on 2 October 1987 after which he had fled town. Otsuki was captured and arrested on 4 September 1988 in Jalisco, Guadalajara by both the FBI and Mexican Federal agents. [340] and was later sentenced to life in prison, [341] without any chance of parole. [342] |
1987 | Gary Ridgway | 37–38 | United States | Gary Ridgway who is nicknamed the "Green River Killer", is an American serial killer [343] from Salt Lake City, Utah who has been charged with 48 murders. Ridgway became wanted in 1987, but was not apprehended until 2001. Initially being charged with 7 murders, facing a probable sentence of death, Ridgway cooperated with authorities by confessing to more killings and leading them to undiscovered bodies. As part of a plea bargain, Gary Ridgway was given 48 life sentences without parole. [344] |
1988 | Vincent Walters | unknown | United States | Vincent Walters is a Mexican-American fugitive and a former U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives. [345] who is also suspected of murder. Walters became wanted by the police in September 1988, [346] but was later captured. |
1988 | Dorothea Puente | 59 | United States | Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California where she was reputed for housing drug addicted, abusive or mentally-ill tenants. In 1988, after neighbors reported that a hired worker had mysteriously disappeared, her house was raided and excavations revealed several bodies buried under the property. During the initial investigation, Puente was not arrested and managed to flee to Los Angeles, but was quickly identified and returned to stand trial. She would be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, dying behind bars in 2011. [347] |
1989 | Costabile Farace | 25 | United States | Costabile "Gus" Farace, Jr. was a criminal with the Bonanno crime family who murdered a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in New York City who disappeared shortly after 28 February 1989. [348] A manhunt was set up to find Farace, Jr., and at 11:08 p.m. on 17 November 1989, police dispatchers received a 9-1-1 emergency call about a car parked at 1814 81st Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, and Farace, Jr. was found dead. [349] |
1989 | Domenico Libri | 55 | Italy | Libri who was also known as "Don Mico" was an Italian fugitive was wanted by the police since June 1989 and was listed on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy as number one [350] and also a member of the 'Ndrangheta located in Calabria. Libri was captured on 17 September 1992 in Marseille, France. [350] [351] and died in prison on 1 May 2006. |
1989 | Yip Kai Foon | 37 | Hong Kong | Foon, also known as "Teeth Dog" and "Goosehead", was an infamous Chinese illegal immigrant turned gangster who was most active in Hong Kong from the early 1980s to 1990s. He and his gang specialised in robbing jewellery stores with assault rifles. Their weapon of choice was the AK-47 assault rifle, which they acquired from black markets hosted by triads. He is also the first person to have used an AK-47 during an armed-robbery in Hong Kong. He had escaped from jail on 24 August 1989. His career finally came to an end on 13 May 1996 when he was arrested following a Kennedy Town gunfight with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force that left him paralyzed from the waist down. At the time he had a HK$1 million reward on his head, [352] On 1 April 2017, he was hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital for cancer treatment. He died on 19 April 2017 of lung cancer. [353] [354] |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1990 | Keith Hunter Jesperson | 35 | United States | Jesperson, nicknamed "The Happy Face Killer", is a Canadian-American serial killer and rapist who killed at least 8 women across several American states between 1990 and 1995. Following his arrest on 30 March 1995, he claimed to have committed as many as 185 murders, including some in his native Canada. He was convicted of the 8 confirmed murders and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. [355] |
1990 | Pasquale Condello | 39–40 | Italy | Condello is an Italian criminal known as a member of the 'Ndrangheta and is also known as Il supremo ("the supreme one") for his role at the top of the crime syndicate. [356] [357] He became a wanted fugitive in 1990 has been included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in February 2008. [358] Investigators called him the "Provenzano of Calabria" – a reference to Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian "boss of bosses" who was arrested in 2006 after some 40 years as a fugitive |
1990 | Umberto Ammaturo | 49 | Italy | Member of the Camorra responsible for several murders, but was mostly engaged in the cocaine smuggling business in South America. He was arrested in Peru in May 1993, and shortly afterwards, provided evidence that led to the arrests of 40 mafia members. In exchange for his cooperation, he was entered into witness protection and provided with a new identity. [359] |
1990 | Laurie Bembenek | 32 | United States | Former police officer convicted for killing her husband's ex-wife in her Milwaukee home in 1981, who later escaped from prison with the help of her new lover. Both were arrested in October abroad in Canada, and Bembenek was returned to serve out the rest of her sentence. [360] |
1990 | Donald Dillbeck | 27 | United States | Convicted murderer serving a sentence for the murder of a police officer in 1979, who managed to escape from prison on June 24, 1990. Less than two days after his escape, he stabbed and killed a woman at the Tallahassee Mall, for which he would later be convicted and sentenced to death following his final arrest. [361] |
1990 | Filiberto Ojeda Ríos | 57 | United States | Militant Puerto Rican independence activist and co-founder of the Boricua Popular Army, responsible for numerous bombings and retaliations in the territory. On September 23, 1990, he was designated a fugitive by the FBI for his role in the 1983 Águila Blanca heist, remaining on the run until 2005, when he was cornered and gunned down by FBI agents in Hormigueros. [362] |
1990 | Paddy Mitchell | 51 | United States | On 23 November 1990, Mitchell was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list for bank robbery charges. [363] Finally, on 22 February 1994, he was arrested just after a solo robbery in Southaven, Mississippi, convicted of bank robbery, and sentenced to a 65-year prison sentence. [364] [363] |
1991 | Leoluca Bagarella | 49 | Italy | Member of the Sicilian Mafia, responsible for the murders of several journalists in the 1970s and a series of terrorist attacks in the 1990s. By the time of his arrest in 1995, he had been elevated to the rank of capo dei capi . He was sentenced to multiple life terms for his crimes. [365] |
1991 | Anthony Casso | 65–66 | United States | Casso who nicknamed "Gaspipe" and was known as a "homicidal maniac" [366] was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family, who is both suspected of having committed dozens of murders, and has also confessed to being involved in between 15 and 36 murders. Casso became a wanted fugitive in early 1991 and on 19 January 1993 he was arrested at a mistress' home in Mount Olive, New Jersey. [367] On 15 December 2020, Casso died from multiple complications which included COVID-19, at the age of 78. [364] [368] |
1991 | David Everett | 29 | Australia | Everett, an Australian criminal, writer and former member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and Karen National Liberation Army who disappeared in 1991. He turned to armed robbery, and during his manhunt he was regarded as the most wanted man in the history of Australian criminals. [369] Everett was released in 2002 following ten and a half years in prison. He apparently maintained good relations with his children and married Australian Commonwealth government lawyer Darryl Wookey. He was diagnosed with suprabulbar palsy, the disease that killed his father. He died aged 51 on 13 May 2013 after a year long battle with cancer. [370] [371] |
1991 | Allan Patterson Newman | 40 | United States | Serial killer responsible for a crime spree across three states from February 1991 until his arrest in 1993, during which four people were killed. Newman would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Maryland, but died at the Jessup Correctional Institution in 2000 under unclear circumstances. [372] |
1992 | Jeffrey Shuman | 30 | United States Canada | Known as "The Vaulter", Shuman was an American-French bank robber who began robbing banks in the USA in 1992, but was arrested and served a sentence until 2004. He then moved to Canada, where he continued robbing banks, but was finally arrested and extradited from France in 2016, ultimately receiving a 15 year prison sentence for his crimes in Canada. [373] |
1992 | Joseph Gardner | 22 | United States | Gardner was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 25 May 1994. He was wanted for the 1992 murder of a 25-year-old woman in North Charleston, South Carolina. Gardner was captured on 19 October 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after nearly 2 years on the run. [374] Gardner was later executed for the crime on 5 December 2008 in South Carolina. [375] |
1992 | Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim | unknown | Egypt | Qasim who was also known as "Abu Talal al-Qasimi" was the leader of Egypt's militant al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (Gama'a Islamiyya) organization until he obtained political asylum in Denmark. Qasim was not seen from 1992 after being convicted in absentia by a military tribunal in 1992; however, he was located and captured in 1995 [376] and later was executed by Egyptian authorities. |
1992 | Mariano Tullio Troia | 53 | Italy | Boss of the Sicilian Mafia thought to have ordered hits on multiple politicians opposing organized crime, with the most prominent being Salvo Lima. He was arrested in Palermo in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment, dying behind bars in the Viterbo prison hospital in 2010. [377] |
1992 | Paul Bernardo | 28 | Canada | Bernardo, known as "The Scarborough Rapist", was a notorious rapist active between 1987 and 1990 in Toronto's Scarborough suburb, raping at least 13 women before killing three others with the help of his wife, Karla Homolka. The pair had been repeatedly questioned before, but it wasn't until December 1992 that Bernardo's DNA was matched to the crime scenes, with his subsequent arrest occurring in February 1993. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a chance of parole for his respective crimes. [378] |
1993 | Alexandru Drăghici | 80 | Romania | Communist politician who was indicted for multiple crimes committed during the regime over his decades-long career as Interior Minister and State Security Minister, including incitement to murder. He was convicted in absentia , but died before he could be extradited from Hungary to serve his sentence. [379] |
1993 | Girolamo Molè | 32 | Italy | Member of the 'Ndrangheta who was personally responsible for 49 murders over the 1970s and 1980s, in addition to charges of drug and arms trafficking. He was arrested in 1997 and sentenced to 11 life terms for his crimes. [380] |
1993 | Mir Aimal Kansi | 45–46 | Pakistan | Mir Aimal Kansi who was convicted of the Langley, Virginia 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters was a Pakistani national. The event resulted with two people being killed. After the incident Kansi fled to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Kansi was sought by the FBI who were aided by the Pakistani Police forces while they were in Pakistan. Kansi later went back to the US, and was later captured in 2002 and was put to death by means of lethal injection. [381] [382] Their identity remains unknown and they have never been captured. |
1993 | Antonino Giuffrè | 57–58 | Italy | Giuffrè, is an Italian mafioso from Caccamo in the Province of Palermo, Sicily who was wanted since 1993. [383] Giuffrè was trained as an agricultural sciences specialist. His rise in the Mafia ran parallel to the ascension of the Corleonesi clan headed by Salvatore Riina. He became the head of the mandamento of Caccamo. Giuffrè was captured by the police on 16 April 2002. [384] |
1993 | Omar Abdel-Rahman | 55 | United States | Leader of al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian terrorist organization responsible for numerous terroristic acts in Egypt. Following the uncovering of the New York City landmark bomb plot, Abdel-Rahman was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities. He died in prison in 2017. [385] |
1993 | Peter Gibb | 48 | Australia | Peter Gibb an Australian fugitive who was sent to the Melbourne Remand Centre in 1993 for crimes that he committed later escaped on 7 March 1993 and was captured only a few days later. Gibb later died on the morning of 23 January 2011 at Frankston Hospital [386] from injuries caused by three unknown men. |
1994 | Rocco Morabito | 27 | Italy | He was on the run since October 1994, after police, keeping him under surveillance, discovered him paying 13 billion lire ($8m) to import nearly a tonne of cocaine. [387] After 23 years on the run, Morabito was captured in a hotel in Montevideo in Uruguay on 4 September 2017, where he had moved after an argument with his wife. [388] |
1994 | Pasquale Tegano | 39 | Italy | Along with his brother Giovanni, Pasquale was considered a high-ranking member of the Italian 'Ndragheta mafia, participating in the Second 'Ndrangheta war during which several rival mob bosses were killed. He was indicted for murder, extortion and organized crime associations in 1994, but went on the run, resulting in him being marked as one of the county's most wanted fugitives. He was finally captured on 6 August 2004, and sentenced to life imprisonment. [389] |
1994 | Félicien Kabuga | 62 | Rwanda | Kabuga was a businessman from Rwanda who was wanted because of his involvement with the Rwandan genocide. [390] which caused him to become a fugitive. In 1994 Kabuga had fled Rwanda and at first had attempted to enter Switzerland, but could not make it in. Kabuga was finally captured on 16 May 2020 in Asnières-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, after 26 years on the run. [391] |
1994 | Syed Abdul Karim Tunda | 49 | India | Syed Abdul Karim, alias "Tunda", was an alleged bomb maker of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, and was accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in India. [392] He was arrested by the Delhi Police on 16 August at the India-Nepal border. However, the exact timing of this arrest is disputed with various versions being reported. [393] |
1994 | Giuseppe Giorgi | 35 | Italy | Giorgi is an Italian criminal belonging to the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization in Calabria. After having been a fugitive for 23 years and been included on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy he was captured in his home town San Luca on 2 June 2017. [395] [396] |
1994 | Whitey Bulger | 65 | United States | Bulger was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. [397] [398] On 23 December 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for 16 years. Bulger was finally apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California on 22 June 2011. Bulger was given two life sentences and sent to jail and then transferred to different jails. By then he was in a wheelchair, and was found dead on 30 October 2018, at the age of 89. He was killed by inmates within hours of his arrival at Hazelton. [399] [400] [401] |
1995 | Michele Zagaria | 37–38 | Italy | Zagaria who nickname is "Capastorta" meaning "Twisted head" [402] is an Italian fugitive as well as a Camorrista boss of the Casalesi clan who are from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta, which is located in the northwest of Naples. Zagaria was placed on the "most wanted list" from Italy in 1995 for multiple crimes that he committed, [403] [404] as he had gone into hiding and had stayed on the list until 2011, until he was captured on 7 December 2011. |
1995 | Sebastiano Pelle | unknown | Italy | Pelle, an Italian criminal belonging to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria (Italy). Pelle was wanted since 1995 for membership of a criminal association aimed at trafficking weapons and drugs internationally, as well as for other crimes. Pelle has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 2006, investigations were extended internationally for his extradition. [405] [406] Pelle was on the "list of most wanted fugitives in Italy" of the ministry of the Interior, until his arrest on 9 November 2011, in Reggio Calabria. [407] |
1995 | Christopher Jeburk | 19 | United States | Jeburk was a bank robber who, together with his accomplices, successfully robbed multiple banks on the eastern coast of the United States. He has escaped confinement a total of four times, the first being in March 1995, but has since been incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Thomson. [408] |
1996 | Chang An-lo | 48 | Taiwan | Originally a leader of the Bamboo Union triad group, he fled to China in 1996, where he formed the Chinese Unification Promotion Party, advocating for Chinese unification. He returned to Taiwan in 2013, and arrested in 2019 for embezzlement and tax fraud. [409] |
1996 | Ted Kaczynski | unknown | United States | Kaczynski, known as "The Unabomber", is a domestic terrorist responsible for several bombings across the USA spanning from 1978 to 1995, during which three people were killed and 23 were injured. He was arrested on 3 April 1996 at his isolated cabin in Montana, where he was living a primitivist lifestyle. He later plead guilty to the attacks and was sentenced to life imprisonment. [410] |
1996 | Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | 21–22 | Mexico | Mendoza is a Mexican citizen [411] who was sought for four years in the late 1990s [412] by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the 445th FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive [413] for his alleged participation in a drug conspiracy which led to the death of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent. Mendoza was captured in Puebla by Mexican authorities in the summer of 2000. [413] [414] |
1996 | Raúl Lucio Hernández Lechuga | unknown | Mexico | Founder of the Los Zetas cartel, known for trafficking drugs and money laundering between Mexico and the United States. He was apprehended in Córdoba, Veracruz in December 2011. [415] |
1996 | Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes | unknown | Mexico | Known as "El Canicón", Talamantes was a drug lord and high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel, arrested in March 2009. He was sent to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, where he died from a heart attack in 2015. [416] |
1996 | Leslie Isben Rogge | 54 | United States | Rogge is an American bank robber. He was the first FBI Top Ten criminal to be apprehended due to the Internet. [417] Rogge was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 1970s for car theft and grand larceny. He was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida. In September 1985, he bribed a corrections officer and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho. Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank robberies, including one at an Exchange Bank branch in El Dorado, Arkansas, and at a bank in High Point, North Carolina, in 1986. [418] On 19 May 1996, Rogge surrendered at the United States Embassy in Guatemala, after Guatemalan authorities had launched a manhunt upon being tipped off by someone who saw Rogge's photo on the FBI website, [419] and is now in jail. |
1996 | David McMillan | 40 | Thailand | British–Australian drug smuggler and the only Western to have successfully escaped Thailand's high-security Klong Prem Central Prison in August 1996. He was repeatedly arrested in several other countries over the next years, and was finally extradited to Thailand in 2014. He was released when the authorities in September 2016. [420] |
1996 | Robert Francis Van Wisse | 31 | United States | Van Wisse had a warrant issued for his arrest after his DNA was matched to the 1983 cold case sexual assault and murder of Laurie Stout in Austin, Texas. Over the course of the years, Van Wisse would be given additional warrants, and eventually placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. In January 2017, he finally surrendered to the authorities in Laredo, Texas, plead guilty to the murder and received a 30-year sentence. [421] |
1996 | Anatoli Neželski | 44–45 | Estonia | Neželski was a serial killer responsible for three robbery-murders committed in Tallinn between 1994 and 1996. Following his final murder, he was initially sheltered by an acquaintance, before he switched to moving around various hiding places to avoid arrest. He was arrested on 17 March 1998 while collecting bottles and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He served out the entirety of his sentence, and as of March 2013, he lives freely in Tallinn. [422] |
1996 | Man Haron Monis | 32 | Iran | Monis was an Iranian-born refugee and Australian citizen who took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney [423] on 15 December 2014, lasting for 17 hours, until the early hours of the following morning. The siege resulted in the death of Monis and two hostages. While Monis had a warrant out for his arrest in Iran, he sought political asylum in Australia in 1996, which was granted in 2001. [424] Monis died on 16 December 2014. |
1997 | Andrew Cunanan | 27 | United States | Cunanan was an American serial killer who murdered five people over a period of three months in the middle of 1997. [425] He disappeared on 15 July and was found dead on 23 July after he committed suicide after using the same gun that he used to kill three of his victims. [426] |
1997 | Ramón Arellano Félix | 33 | United States | Félix was a Mexican drug lord and was the leader of a group called the Tijuana Cartel [427] who became wanted by the police on 18 September 1997 for crimes he had committed in California. After Félix was located on 10 February 2002 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico [428] he was shot dead. |
1998 | Frederico Cunha | 48 | Portugal | Cunha was a Brazilian Catholic priest who was serving a 13-year sentence for killing a 15-year-old boy near Caniçal in 1992, as well as sexually assaulting numerous others during his tenure. In 1998, while on day leave, he fled to Madrid by car with the help of his mother, from where he returned to his native Brazil. His arrest warrant expired in 2018, and he can no longer be extradited back to serve his sentence. [429] |
1998 | Eric Robert Rudolph | 31 | United States | Rudolph is an American domestic terrorist. In 1996, he started a bombing campaign that would claim three lives and 123 injuries. [430] After five bombings throughout the Southern United States, including 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he went into hiding in 1998. In 2003, he was arrested while he was rummaging through garbage bins for food. He was convicted of murder and terrorism and sentenced to life in prison. |
1998 | James Charles Kopp | 44 | United States | Kopp is an American fugitive who in 1998 had killed Dr. Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions, and then had gone into hiding. On 7 June 1999 The FBI placed Kopp on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. After Kopp had fled the country he was located on 29 March 2001 and then captured. [431] |
1998 | Ronny Rieken | 30 | Germany | Child killer who killed two young girls in Cloppenburg, one in 1996 and another in 1998. He was arrested in Easter 1998 as a result of the country's first mass DNA screening, and the first criminal to be convicted because of it. Rieken was sentenced to life imprisonment with a chance of parole after 15 years. [432] |
1998 | J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree | 86 | United States | Belived to be the world's active bank robber, Rountree was responsible for three bank robberies in the Southern United States from 1998 and 2004. Following his last arrest, he was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, where he died in 2004. [433] |
1998 | Yusef al-Ayeri | 24 | Saudi Arabia | Islamist militant who was appointed as the first leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula by Osama bin Laden, masterminding two canceled cyanide gas attacks on American compounds as well as writing strategic documents for Al-Qaeda. He was gunned down by Saudi authorities in June 2003. [434] |
1998 | Steven Jay Russell | unknown | United States | Con artist who was arrested for fraud after impersonating a supposed millionaire from Virginia. He escaped on multiple occasions prior to his final arrest in April 1998, and was sentenced to 114 years imprisonment for his crimes. [435] |
1998 | Kenneth Raulerson | 35 | United States | Bank robber who successfully robbed the Dowling Park Barnett/Nations Bank on May 18, 1998, by claiming that he had a bomb strapped to his chest. [436] After the robbery, Raulerson initially fled to Alaska before returning to live in rural Florida until his arrest in 2007. He served a 7-year sentence, and was paroled in 2014. |
1998 | Hank Earl Carr | 30 | United States | Initially arrested for shooting his girlfriend's 4-year-old son with a rifle, Carr later managed to kill two detectives and a Florida state trooper before fatally shooting himself in the head. The incident prompted a national controversy over the way authorities handcuffs criminals. [437] |
1998 | Paulo Sérgio Guimarães da Silva | 23 | Brazil | Dubbed "The Cassino Maniac", Guimarães attacked couples along the coast of Praia do Cassino between December 1998 and March 1999, killing seven in the process. After committing the final murders, he went to the authorities and confessed to his crimes, claiming he had been inspired by Francisco de Assis Pereira and wanted to surpass him. He would later be convicted and sentenced to 184 years imprisonment. [438] |
1999 | Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi | 26 | Saudi Arabia USA | Suspected Saudi Arabian militant who was held extrajudically at Guantanamo Bay. He was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in 2008, where he briefly defected to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula before surrendering. [439] |
1999 | Abu Qatada | 40 | Jordan | Salafi cleric sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for alleged links to terrorist plots against the Jordanian government, including the 2000 millennium attack plots. After being held in detention without trial in the UK for many years, his sentence was overturned in 2014 and he was released. [440] |
1999 | Yang Xinhai | 31 | China | Dubbed "The Monster Killer", Yang Xinhai roamed around various Chinese provinces and broke into the homes of peasant families, which he proceeded to murder using various tools, raping some of his victims as well. Active from 1999 to 2003, he was finally captured in November 2003 in Cangzhou during a routine police inspection, and would later confess to 67 murders and 23 rapes. Xinhai was executed in 2004. [441] |
1999 | Ty Conn | 32 | Canada | A bank robber with a history of escaping from prison institutions, Conn's 1999 escape from Kingston Penitentiary, considered one of the country's most secure prisons, was notable for being one of the rare instances an inmate had successfully escaped. Two weeks later, Conn was located in an apartment in Toronto, where he died in disputed circumstances (reported as either having committed suicide or accidentally dying from discharging his shotgun while speaking to law enforcement over the phone). [442] |
1999 | Sanjay Sharma | 30 | India | Sanjay Sharma, also known by the alias Juan Carlos Sánchez Pinto Clasen, is an Indian serial killer convicted of killing three people. He was declared a fugitive in India after escaping the country to Denmark in 1999 after bribing two police officers to drive him to his mother's house. [443] After committing a double murder in Denmark, he escaped the country and was declared an international fugitive via Interpol. [444] He was arrested in Brooklyn on 18 May 1999 and extradited to Denmark, where he was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
1999 | Fidel Urbina | 23–24 | Mexico | Fidel Urbina is a Mexican national former fugitive who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in June 2012. [445] Urbina had been the subject of a manhunt since 1999 despite reported sightings in Mexico. A $100,000 reward was offered for information leading to Urbina's arrest. Urbina was captured on 22 September 2016 in Chihuahua, Mexico after 17 years on the run. [446] [447] [448] |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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2000 | Abd al Razaq Abdallah Hamid Ibrahim al Sharikh | 16 | United States | Would-be Saudi terrorist who was wanted for vowing to commit jihad as an enemy combatant. He was arrested in December 2001 and held at Guantanama Bay, but later repatriated to his home country after his detention was deemed illegal. [449] |
2000 | Michele Antonio Varano | 49 | Italy | Suspected member of the 'Ndrangheta repeatedly accused of tobacco smuggling and other crimes, but never convicted. After several failed attempts to extradited him from abroad, Varano surrendered himself to authorities in 2014 and is currently serving a sentence for identity theft. [450] |
2000 | Joseph C. Palczynski | 31 | United States | Spree killer who murdered four people in a 4-day span in March 2000 in Baltimore. Palczynski was later killed in a standoff with police, following a kidnapping where he held a family hostage. [451] |
2000 | Francesco Mallardo | 49 | Italy | Mallardo is an Italian fugitive, [452] who is nicknamed "Ciccio 'e Carlantonio", who was wanted since April 2000 after escaping custody. [453] Mallardo was captured on 29 August 2003 and is now in jail. |
2000 | Zhang Jun | 33 | China | Serial killer who, together with several associates, robbed 22 stores across China from 1993 to 2000, killing 28 and wounding 23. He was arrested on September 19, 2000 and executed the following year. [454] |
2000 | Erminia Giuliano | 45 | Italy | Giuliano, a member of the Giuliano crime family, became the boss of the local family branch after her brother was arrested, specializing in counterfeiting banknotes. On 23 December 2000, she was arrested by authorities and served time until 2019, when she was released. [455] |
2000 | Catt family | Various | United States | Family of bank robbers responsible for robbing a dozen banks in Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas between 2000 and 2012. All were captured in November 2012, and each given various prison sentenced for their respective crimes. [456] |
2001 | Said Ali al-Shihri | 30 | Saudi Arabia Yemen USA | Saudi Arabian deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula possibly response for organizing numerous kidnappings and murders in Yemen. Repeatedly detained and reported to have been killed on multiple occasions, his death was finally confirmed in 2013 by AQAP, succumbing to injuries sustained from an airstrike. [457] |
2001 | Terje Larsen | 42 | Norway | Larsen was a prolific serial burglar known as The Wanderer who committed a minimum of 664 burglaries—typically within log cabins and ski lodges—across Norway in a span of crimes lasting over thirty years. His true number of burglaries remains unknown. Larsen first escaped from prison in April 2001, but was recaptured several months later. Released on probation in 2005, he again embarked on a series of burglaries, but was recaptured two months later. Larsen eluded custody a third time in 2013; on this occasion, he was arrested after just eight days. Larsen died on 10 May 2018. [458] |
2001 | Edelio López Falcón | 35–36 | Mexico | Known by his nickname "El Yeyo", López, a suspected high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel thought to be involved with their drug trafficking operations, was blamed for the arrest of kingpin Gilberto García Mena in April 2001, after which he was forced to flee to Nuevo León. He survived an attempt on his life there a month later, but was later successfully assassinated in May 2003. His murder remains unsolved, but it's believed to have been carried out by members of Los Zetas. [459] |
2001 | Michael Alfonso | 32 | United States | A felon with a history of sex offences, Alfonso fled to Mexico in 2001 after he was charged with two murders committed in 1992 and 2001, respectively. While on the run, he would be placed as a Top Ten Fugitive by the FBI, and was chased across Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. In July 2004, he was arrested with the help of the Mexican authorities and extradited back to the USA. He was later sentenced to three life imprisonment terms. [460] |
2001 | Ahlam Tamimi | 21 | Israel | Jordanian Hamas operative who helped with plotting the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israel. She was captured, convicted and sentenced to 11 life sentences for her role in the attack, but was later released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. As of 2017, however, she is being actively pursued by the FBI, but cannot be legally extradited, as Jordan and the USA have no extradition treaty. [461] |
2001 | Osama bin Laden | 44 | Saudi Arabia | Bin Laden, also rendered Usama bin Ladin, was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda . He was a Saudi Arabian until 1994 (stateless thereafter), a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. [462] From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the United States, as the FBI offered a $25 million bounty in their search for him. [463] He had gone into hiding after 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. [464] On 2 May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed [465] by United States Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan, during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama. [466] |
2001 | Zubayr Al-Rimi | 27 | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabian Al-Qaeda militant accused as an accomplice in the Riyadh compound bombings. He was killed in a shootout with police in September 2003. [467] |
2001 | Said Bahaji | 26 | Germany | Electrical engineer and alleged member of the Hamburg cell, a purported network of radical Islamists who provided financial support for the September 11 attacks in the USA. While he was never apprehended, Bahaji was later confirmed to have been killed in somewhere along the Durand Line in September 2013. [468] |
2001 | Abdul Subhan Qureshi a.k.a. India's Osama Bin Laden a.k.a. Tauqeer | 29 | India | A most wanted Islamist bomb-maker and one of the most wanted terrorists in India and has been called India's Osama Bin Laden . [469] [470] He is suspected to be associated with the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), and is thought to have been responsible for participating in the Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi bombings. [471] [472] He is also a suspect in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. He is more commonly known as Tauqeer and is believed to be the signer in the Indian Mujahideen terror email as al-Arabi. [473] Abdul Subhan Qureshi was arrested by Delhi Police in January 2018. [474] He was listed on the NIA Most Wanted list. |
2001 | Robert Durst | 56 | United States | Durst is an American real estate heir, the son of New York City mogul Seymour Durst, and the elder brother of Douglas Durst, head of the Durst Organization. He is suspected of having murdered three individuals in different states who includes Kathleen McCormack Durst, his first wife, who disappeared in New York in 1982. On 9 October 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston shortly after body parts belonging to his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay. [475] He was released on $300,000 bail the next day. Durst missed a court hearing on 16 October 2001 and a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of bail jumping. On 30 November 2001, he was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after trying to shoplift Band-Aids, a newspaper and a chicken-salad sandwich with roasted red peppers on a pumpernickel baguette, even though he had $500 cash in his pocket. He was later sent to jail. [476] |
2001 | Christian Longo | 26 | United States | Longo is an American murderer who committed his crimes in the U.S. state of Oregon. [477] He was married to Mary Jane Baker at age 19 and they had three children together. He and his family often encountered financial difficulties due to his reckless spending habits. [478] After the body of Longo's four-year-old son, Zachery, was found on 19 December 2001, divers located that of his three-year-old daughter, Sadie. Those of Mary Jane and their two-year-old daughter, Madison, were found five days later. By that time, Longo was wanted in connection with the murder of Mary Jane and their three children. He later disappeared and was captured on 13 January 2002. He was taken into U.S. custody at George Bush Intercontinental Airport a day later. [479] He was sentenced to death in 2003, [480] but has not yet been executed. |
2002 | Eddie Davidson | 30 | United States | Known as "The Spam King", Davidson ran a spamming business throughout 2002 to 2007, promoting false products on various companies and websites. He was indicted and imprisoned at a federal prison in July 2007. He escaped from Federal Correctional Complex a year later, killing himself, his wife and child in a murder-suicide four days after his escape. [481] |
2002 | Paolo Di Lauro | 49 | Italy | Crime boss of the Di Lauro clan, a branch of the Camorra, who was predominantly engaged in scams and drug trafficking from South America. He was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the latter charges of drug trafficking. [482] |
2002 | Mickey Green | 71–72 | United Kingdom | Green was an English gangster and drug lord who also held Irish nationality. [483] A convicted armed robber, he was allegedly one of Britain's leading drug dealers for many years [484] and was said to be worth at least £75 million. [485] In 2002, Green was sought by authorities in Ireland, who suspected Green of tampering with a jury at a prior inquest, and his assets in the Republic of Ireland were seized by the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau. Green lived in Estepona, Spain for the last twenty years of his life, and reportedly died of skin cancer on 13 July 2020, [486] and is therefore no longer sought. |
2002 | Khalid al-Juhani | unknown | Saudi Arabia | Saudi member of Al-Qaeda and former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden who had previously fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya. He was posthumously identified via DNA as one of the perpetrators of the Riyadh compound bombings in 2003. [487] |
2002 | Amjad Farooqi | c. 30 | Pakistan | A Pakistani militant active within both Indian-administered Kashmir, Afghanistan and Pakistan and believed to have been involved in terrorist activities dating back to at least 1995. Farooqi is also alleged to have been a participant in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and attempted assassinations of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf the following year. Farooqi was killed in a dawn raid by security forces on 26 September 2004. [488] |
2002 | Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani and Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi | 25 (Albidani) and 26 (al-Nahdi) | Yemen United States | Briefly named as fugitives for the FBI's Most Wanted Suspected Terrorists List for a failed bombing plot in Yemen for February 12, 2012. He was removed from the list after it was discovered he was already in jail. They briefly escaped in 2006 during a mass escape, but was later recaptured. [489] |
2002 | Fawaz al-Rabeiee | 23 | Yemen United States | Saudi Arabian-born Al-Qaeda terrorist and ringleader of a failed bombing plot in Yemen, and later sentenced to death for the bombing of the Maritime Jewel in 2004. He escaped along with 22 other inmates during a mass escape in 2006, but was later killed by police in Sanaa. [490] |
2002 | Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev | (Ustimenko) 21 (Medvedev) 20–21 | Estonia | Russian deserters who killed five people during a crime spree across Estonia spanning from March to May 2002. On 5 May 2002, Medvedev was killed by police during a firefight in Valka, Latvia; Ustimenko was arrested three days later in Poland, extradited back to Estonia and sentenced to life imprisonment. [491] |
2002 | Kemar Jarrett | 19–20 | Jamaica | Jarrett, a Jamaican criminal who is a member of a gang called the Yardies [492] and who in 2002 was listed as the number one criminal on the top ten most wanted list of criminals in Jamaica by the Jamaica Constabulary Force. [493] He disappeared in April 2002 and was captured on 18 February 2004 after being deported from the United Kingdom as a result related drug charges that he was charged with, and is now in prison. [494] |
2002 | Velupillai Prabhakaran | 48 | Sri Lanka | Prabhakaran was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. [495] Wanted by the Sri Lankan government in 2002, and is known to have been killed on 18 May 2009. [496] |
2003 | George Robert Johnston | 49–50 | United States | Johnston was an American burglar whose latest robberies took place in 2003 in California. [497] Rather than continue to evade the police during the time he was in hiding he committed suicide by shooting himself. [498] After the police found his dead body it took them over a year before they could finally identify him. |
2003 | Faris al-Zahrani | 26 | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabian militant who was designated as a 'most-wanted terrorist' in 2003, often writing speeches on behalf of Al-Qaeda and participating in their videos. He was arrested in August 2004 and later executed, along with 46 others terrorists, in 2016. [499] |
2003 | Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah | 27 | United States | Gulshair el Shukrijumah was a senior member of al-Qaeda who was wanted since March 2003. After being located, in 2014 Shukrijumah was killed in a military manhunt operation by the Pakistan Army Special Forces in South Waziristan. [500] |
2003 | Genero Espinosa Dorantes | 33 | United States | Dorantes was wanted by the FBI [501] for his alleged participation in the burning, beating, torture and murder of his four-year-old stepson in Nashville, Tennessee in February 2003. He was located and arrested on 25 February 2006 [502] in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. |
2003 | Saddam Hussein | 69 | Iraq | Hussein was President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. [503] A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq. He went into hiding, but was captured and on 5 November 2006, Saddam Hussein stood trial and was found guilty of the Dujail massacre. He was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on 30 December 2006. [504] |
2003 | Andrew Luster | 39 | United States | Luster was an American fugitive who was convicted of sexual assault. In 2000, he was arrested when a student at a local college told police that she had been raped at Luster's home, and later disappeared in January 2003. Upon investigation, police charged Luster with drugging three women with the date-rape drug GHB, sexually assaulting them, and video-taping the assaults, having found videotapes of the assaults when they searched his home. [505] After paying $1 million bail, Luster failed to appear in court to defend himself against the charges in January 2003. Luster was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 124 years in prison, which was later reduced to 50 years [506] in June 2003, after he was captured by American bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. |
2003 | Karim el-Mejjati | 36 | Saudi Arabia | Moroccan-Frenct terrorist and member Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group thought to have aided in several prominent terrorist attacks, including the Riyadh compound bombings and other attacks across Europe. He was killed together with his son during the Ar Rass raids in April 2005. [507] |
2003 | Faisal Abdulrahman Abdullah Aldakheel | unknown | Saudi Arabia | Saudi deputy of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who designated as a Most Wanted Terrorist in May 2003, after helping orchestrate the Riyadh compound bombings. He was killed by police in April 2004. [508] |
2003 | Khaled Ali Hajj | 30 | Saudi Arabia | Alleged leader of Al-Qaeda who was among the organizers of the Riyadh compound bombings. He was killed by Saudi security forces in March 2004. [509] |
2003 | Othman Hadi Al Maqboul al-Amri | 34 | Saudi Arabia | Suspected terrorist who was named as on the list of most wanted suspected terrorists in Saudi Arabia for December 2003. He surrendered in June 2004, after he was offered partial amnesty. [510] |
2004 | Gilbert Paul Jordan | 34 | Canada | Known as "The Boozing Barber", Jordan was thought to be responsible for the alcohol-related deaths of 10 women in Vancouver from 1965 to 2004. He was arrested and convicted of manslaughter on one count, receiving a sentence of 15 years imprisonment. He died in prison in 2006. [511] |
2004 | Marco Di Lauro | 24–25 | Italy | Di Lauro is an Italian Camorrista and member of the Di Lauro clan from Naples. He was listed on "Italy's most wanted list" since 2004, for Camorra association and other crimes. On 17 November 2006, an international warrant was issued against him, to be arrested for extradition. [512] After having been a fugitive for 14 years and been included on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy, he was captured in Naples on 2 March 2019. [513] |
2004 | Saleh al-Oufi | unknown | Saudi Arabia | Leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula between June 2004 and August 2005. He was killed during a police raid at a hideout in Riyadh. [514] |
2004 | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi | 37 | United States Jordan Iraq | Al-Zarqawi was a Jordanian jihadist who was the founder and leader of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad which pleaded allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda in 2004 and changed its name to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI will become ISIL in 2013). The Bush Administration in February 2003 in the U.N. Security Council used al-Zarqawi's alleged presence in Iraq to justify the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. [515] On 17 December 2004, the U.S. State Department added al-Zarqawi and the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad group to its "list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations" and ordered a freeze on any assets that the group might have in the United States. [516] By May 2005, al-Zarqawi was the most wanted man in Jordan and Iraq, has claimed scores of attacks in Iraq against Iraqis and foreigners, and being blamed for perhaps even more. [517] The U.S. government then offered a $25m reward for information leading to his capture, the same amount offered for the capture of bin Laden before March 2004. On 24 February 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's FBI also added al-Zarqawi to the "Seeking Information – War on Terrorism" list, the first time that he had ever been added to any of the FBI's three major "wanted" lists. [518] Al-Zarqawi was killed in a targeted killing by a joint U.S. force in June 2006, while attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse in Hibhib. [519] [520] |
2004 | Dr. No (serial killer) | unknown | United States | Dr. No is the nickname given to a suspected American serial killer [521] who operated in Ohio and in between 1981 and 2004 is believed to be been behind the killings of multiple females. It also suspected that in between 1986 and 1988 that Dr. No may have been behind other murders in the other U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York as well, but this is not known for certain. In February 2019 the police arrested a man that they have stated is in fact Dr. no due to evidence that has been given. [522] [523] |
2004 | Raffaele Diana | 65–66 | Italy | Diana, an Italian Camorrista and senior boss of the Casalesi clan from Caserta, who was eventually arrested on 2 May 2009, after having been on the run for five years. He was captured by officers of the mobile team of Caserta in an apartment in Casal di Principe, near Caserta, where he was hidden in a bunker of cement produced in the stairwell. [524] He was found in possession of two loaded pistols and some ammunition. A copy of the Gospel, a book of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a copy of The Godfather and Il Capo dei Capi were also found. Diana's arrest was believed by law enforcement to have delivered a huge blow to the Casalesi. [525] |
2005 | Roneys Fon Firmino Gomes | 30 | Brazil | Known as "The Tower Maniac", Firmino Gomes was a serial killer active in Paraná from 2005 to 2015, strangling at least six prostitutes and dumping their bodies near power plants. He was arrested in Maringá on July 30, 2015 and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment. [526] |
2005 | Patrizio Bosti | 46 | Italy | Bosti is the leader of the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate based in Naples. He was initially wanted on murder charges, for ordering the killings of two rival mobsters in 1984, but went on the run. He was listed as one of Italy's most wanted fugitives until his arrest in Girona, Spain in August 2008. He was brought back to Italy and sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for the murders. In May 2020, he was released early due to supposed "inhumane treatment" from prison authorities, but was later returned and ordered to serve another six years following a recalculation of his sentence. [527] |
2005 | Mohammad Munaf | 53 | Romania Iraq USA | Iraqi–American terrorist responsible for the March 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists, who were kept as hostages for three months before being released. Munaf was arrested shortly afterwards and is presumably still detained in Iraq on terrorism charges. [528] |
2005 | Joseph Lombardo | 76 | United States | On 25 April 2005, Lombardo, along with 13 other defendants, was indicted as part of the federal government's Operation Family Secrets investigation, which lifted the veil on 18 killings since the 1970s that federal investigators had attributed to the Chicago Outfit, an Italian-American Mafia organization. Lombardo was indicted for his role in at least one murder, as well as for running a racket based on illegal gambling, loan sharking and murder. [529] As federal agents rounded up the 14 defendants in April 2005, they realized that Lombardo had disappeared and become a fugitive after they issued a federal arrest warrant. [530] The FBI then offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Lombardo's capture. [530] On 13 January 2006, after over eight months at large, a bearded, unkempt Lombardo, was captured by FBI agents outside the Elmwood Park, Illinois home of his longtime friend Dominic Calarco. [531] Federal agents had been tipped off to Lombardo's whereabouts after Lombardo had visited dead Outfit mobster Tony Spilotro's dentist brother, Patrick Spilotro, for an abscessed tooth. [532] [533] On 10 September 2007, Lombardo was convicted of racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and murder. [534] On 27 September 2007, the same jury found Lombardo guilty of the 1974 Seifert murder. In 2009, Lombardo, seated in a wheelchair, was sentenced to life in prison for the convictions. [535] [536] He served his sentence at ADX Florence supermax prison, where he died on 19 October 2019, at the age of 90. [537] |
2005 | Malcolm Naden | 32 | Australia | Naden, who would be the most wanted criminal in Australia until his capture, was wanted in New South Wales for the murders of two women (committed in January and June 2005, respectively), as well as the indecent assault of a 14-year-old in 2004. Over the years, he narrowly escaped capture on multiple occasions, and in 2011, injured a police officer who had attempted to apprehend him. Naden was finally arrested in March 2012 near Gloucester, brought to trial for the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. [538] |
2005 | Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari | 36 | Saudi Arabia | Moroccan Al-Qaeda member and alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who the Saudi government suspected of involvement in several planned attacks against the country. He was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Riyadh on 3 July 2005. [539] |
2006 | Ernesto Fazzalari | 37 | Italy | Fazzalari, a member of the 'Ndrangheta, was put on a wanted list for his participation in the Taurianova Feud, a gang war with the rival Asciutto-Neri-Grimaldi mafia which left 32 people dead. He was convicted and sentenced to life in absentia in 1999, and finally captured in Molochio in 2016. [540] |
2006 | Nazario Moreno González | 36 | United States Mexico | Drug lord and leader of the La Familia Michoacana and later the Knights Templar Cartel, known for operating his cartels like a religious cult. Erroneously reported as deceased in 2010, he was tracked down by federal agents in 2014 and subsequently killed. [541] |
2006 | Khadaffy Janjalani | 30 | Philippines | Janjalani was a fugitive from the Philippines who was nicknamed "Daf" and "Pek" and became wanted by the police after he was added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on 24 February 2006. [542] Janjalani is known to have been shot dead in Patikul, Sulu on 4 September 2006 as his remains were found over two months later. |
2006 | Richard Lee McNair | 47 | Canada | McNair, an American convicted murderer known for his multiple escapes and avoiding being captured. [543] His most recent escape was on 5 April 2006 when he escaped from a United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. Moore was captured on 24 October 2007, when was seen near Nash Creek, New Brunswick, [544] and is now serving two life sentences in prison. |
2006 | Abu Ayyub al-Masri | 39 | USA Iraq | Egyptian militant who served as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency, and later as a war and then prime minister for ISI from 2006 to 2010. Al-Masri was killed during a joint raid conducted by American and Iraqi authorities on 18 April 2010. [545] |
2006 | Sergio Peña Solís | 33 | Mexico | Suspected drug lord and former leader of Los Zetas who escaped from prison in June 2006, after being imprisoned on drug trafficking charges since 2003. Following his escape, he continued his criminal activities and killing various people until his final arrest in March 2009. [546] |
2006 | John Parsons | 35 | United States | Parsons was serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Officer Larry R. Cox, who was trying to apprehend him during a robbery in Chillicothe, Ohio. He escaped from Ross County Jail on 29 July 2006, but was later captured by an assault team on 19 October. [547] |
2006 | Gianni Nicchi | 24–25 | Italy | Nicchi, who is nicknamed 'u picciutteddu ("the little boy"), is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is considered to be one of the leading mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo regardless of his young age. Before his arrest on 5 December 2009. [548] he was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 2006. [549] He is currently locked up in a special security prison in L'Aquila under the strict Article 41-bis prison regime regulation. |
2006 | Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad al-Rubaysh | 27 | United States Yemen Saudi Arabia | Former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who escaped custody shortly after his repatriation to Saudi Arabia on December 13, 2006. Al-Rubaysh later joined Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, becoming a senior mufti for the group. He was killed by a drone strike during the Battle of Mukalla. [550] |
2006 | Wang You-theng | 79 | Taiwan | Chinese-born Taiwanese entrepreneur and founder of Rebar, an industrial company which later expanded into other ventures, who was indicted for fraud and embezzlement in late December 2006. Together with his wife, he fled to the United States, where he was eventually detained in February 2007. He died in an automobile crash in 2016, before he could be extradited to Taiwan. [551] |
2007 | Rafik Khalifa | 41 | Algeria France | Algerian businessman sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for corruption and bribery, for which he was also wanted in France. He was arrested in London in August of that year and extradited to Algeria in December 2013, where his sentence was reduced to 18 years. [552] |
2007 | Giovanni Strangio | 28 | Italy | Strangio was wanted for his participation in the Duisburg massacre on 15 August 2007, [553] and was added to list of most wanted fugitives in Italy as well as in Germany. Strangio was captured on 12 March 2009 after being arrested in Amsterdam. [554] [555] |
2007 | Liu Sung-pan | 75 | Taiwan | Liu was a Taiwanese politician who served as the President of the Legislative Yuan from 1992 to 1999. In July 2003 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and NT$30 million fine for corruption. [556] After being declared a fugitive Liu Sung-pan had then fled to Mainland China in 2007 and died in 2016. |
2007 | Ronald Lee Moore | 40 | United States | Moore, a convicted felon serving time in jail for burglary, was accidentally released from the Baltimore City Correctional Center due to a clerical error, on 21 November 2007. He went on the run as a fugitive and fled from Maryland to Louisiana. He was featured on the television series, America's Most Wanted . Moore was captured on 24 December 2007 by police in Louisiana. [557] Moore later committed suicide by hanging and died on 5 January 2008. [558] |
2008 | Yaser Abdel Said | 50 | United States | Abdel Said, an Egyptian resident of the United States, was wanted for the murder of his two teenage daughters in Irving, Texas, on 1 January. Prior to his capture, he was last seen in 2008, and was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted List in 2014. [559] He was located and taken into federal custody on 26 August 2020 in Justin, Texas. [560] Indicted on capital murder charges, Said potentially faces the death penalty if convicted. |
2008 | Edward Porta | 54 | USA | Argentine textile trader who was convicted of attempting to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture of $400,000, in addition to swindling other business in the area of Spartanburg, South Carolina. On February 25, 2008, he escaped from the minimum security area of United States Penitentiary, Lee in Virginia and remained at large until his capture in Seattle on May 28, 2016. He was returned to prison to serve the rest of his sentence and then released on October 1, 2019. [561] |
2008 | Mas Selamat Kastari | 47 | Singapore | Indonesian-born terrorist initially arrested for plotting to bomb the Changi Airport in 2002, but escaped imprisonment on February 27, 2008. He was the country's most-wanted fugitive until his arrest in Malaysia on April 1, 2009. He is currently being detained without trial under the Internal Security Act (Singapore). [562] |
2008 | Eduardo Ravelo | 41 | United States | Ravelo, leader of the Barrio Azteca gang, and also a fugitive wanted on several charges related to drugs and organized crime, was last seen in 2008. [563] On 20 October 2009, he was named by the FBI as the 493rd fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most-Wanted list. [564] On 26 June 2018, the FBI announced that Ravelo and several other Barrio Azteca gang members had been arrested during a police raid in Mexico. [565] |
2008 | Fredrick Töben | 64 | Germany | German–Australian citizen who founded the Adelaide Institute, a Holocaust denial group, who also published works on political science, history and education. Töben was detained in the UK on 1 October 2008, on charges of violating Germany's Holocaust Law, but was later released since Holocaust denial wasn't considered a crime in the UK and thus, cannot be extradited. [566] |
2008 | Teodoro García Simental | 34 | Mexico | Former high-ranking member of the Tijuana Cartel, who later formed his own gang, allied with the Sinaloa Cartel, known for its numerous kidnappings, extortions and liquidations of rival cartel members. He was arrested in January 2010, and moved to a maximum-security prison. [567] |
2008 | Arturo Beltrán Leyva | 50 | Mexico | Founding member of the Beltrán-Leyva Organization, responsible for numerous instances of drug trafficking and violent crimes including kidnapping, torture and murder. Indicted for the May 2008 murder of politician Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, he was killed in a gunfight with the Mexican Navy in December 2009. [568] |
2008 | Lady Bardales | 25–26 | Peru | Bardales is a Peruvian police officer, [569] who in 2008 became a fugitive [570] [571] for a few months as she was wanted for alleged crimes. Bardales decided to turn herself into the police, and was later released due to the fact that no proof was found that she was guilty of the crimes that she was thought to have committed and now lives freely in Peru. |
2008 | Gaetano Fidanzati | 73 | Italy | Fidanzati was the boss of the Resuttana mandamento of the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, mostly involved in the drug trafficking operatings. In December 2008, he and other mafiosi were indicted for drug trafficking, but he was arrested only a year later at his home. He later died in prison. [572] |
2009 | Saad bin Laden | 29–30 | Saudi Arabia | Saad bin Laden who was a son of Osama bin Laden was a terrorist just like his father. After being retained in Iranian custody he had gone into hiding in January 2009 and most likely fled for Pakistan and was killed by an American drone strike in July 2009 after being located. [573] |
2009 | Obaida Abdul-Rahman Al Otaibi | unknown | Saudi Arabia | Journalist who was accused of being a terrorist planning to "target viral infrastructure within Saudi Arabia", for which he was added to the country's list of most wanted suspected terrorists. The charges were presumably dropped due to lack of evidence, and since then, Al Otaibi is presumed to live in the United Arab Emirates. [574] |
2009 | Nasir al-Wuhayshi | 32 | USA Yemen Saudi Arabia | Former leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, active since 2011. Considered one of the most wanted fugitives by both Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it was confirmed by AQAP representatives that he had been killed by a drone strike in Mukalla in 2015. [575] |
2009 | Saleh Al-Qaraawi | unknown | Saudi Arabia USA | Jihadist militant identified as a leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the late 2000s. He was captured on June 9, 2012 while returning to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan, where he had been wounded in a drone strike. [576] |
2009 | Christopher Daniel Gay | 34 | United States | Gay, who is nicknamed "Little Houdini", [577] is an American habitual car thief and repeat escapee from custody. In 2007 he made major news after he stole the tour bus of country music singer Crystal Gayle after an escape. [578] [579] Gay's last escape was on the afternoon of 3 March 2009 while being transported from Orlando, Florida to Coffee County, Tennessee by the police, after he was able to free himself of his restraints after which he had fled for the car that he was being held captive in. Before this took place he had been arrested and held for larceny of a Wal-Mart truck. [580] Gay was captured in 2019. [581] |
2009 | Dionisio Loya Plancarte | 54 | Mexico | Drug lord and high-ranking member of the Knights Templar Cartel who ran the organization's narcotics trafficking operations and finances, as well as acting as their spokesperson. He was arrested by federal agents in January 2014 and moved to a maximum security prison. [582] |
2009 | Servando Gómez Martínez | 43 | Mexico | Drug lord and former leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, and later on the La Familia Michoacana, indicted after his cartel murdered 12 federal officers in 2009. He was arrested in 2015, and sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for the 2011 kidnapping of a businessman. [583] |
2009 | Joe Saenz | 34 | United States | Saenz is an American fugitive who was gangster and had committed multiple murders, rape, kidnapping and had violated his parole conditions by taking part in an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On 19 October 2009 Saenz was added the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. [584] Saenz was located and caputured on 22 November 2012 in Guadalajara, Mexico by the Federal Police, [585] and is now in jail. |
2009 | Rayed Abdullah Salem Al Harbi | 20 | Saudi Arabia | A prominent individual upon a 2009 list of Saudi Arabia's list of most wanted terrorist suspects, having been wanted since February 2009, Al Harbi was killed in a confrontation with police on 18 October 2009 at at Jizan, close to Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen. He and Yussef al-Shihri—also killed in the incident—had been planning a terrorist attack, and both had been wearing suicide vests. [586] |
2009 | Semion Mogilevich | 63 | Russia | Semion Mogilevich, a Ukrainian-born, Russian organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world. [587] Mogilevich is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as "the most dangerous mobster in the world." [588] He has been accused by the FBI of "weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale," [589] had disappeared and was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives on 23 October 2009. [590] Mogilevich was removed from the list on 17 December 2015 and now lives freely in Moscow as he is no longer wanted by the police. |
2009 | Mohamed Abul-Khair | 35 | Saudi Arabia | Abul-Khayr Who was also known as "Abu Abdallah al-Halabi" was a citizen of Saudi Arabia notable for being named on its 2009 list of most wanted suspected terrorists and he was also notable for being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and his son-in-law and an al-Qaeda financial official. [591] On August 24, 2010, the Long War Journal reported that both the United States and United Nations had entered "Muhammad Abdallah Hasan Abu al Khayr" on their lists of terrorist suspects whose financial assets should be frozen, world-wide. [592] [593] The Long War Journal describes him as "a top financial official in the terror organization." The Long War Journal also noted the Treasury called Abul-Khayr "a key leader of the terrorist organization's finance section" who "also acts for al Qaeda in a leadership role on the media committee." [592] On July 29, 2011, a poster on an al-Qaeda-linked forum claimed that Abul-Khayr was killed on an unspecified date. [594] A letter retrieved from the compound where Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan confirmed that Abul-Khayr was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on September 18, 2010. [595] |
2009 | Qasim al-Raymi | 30 | Saudi Arabia | Qasim al-Raymi was the Emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was initially added to a list of most wanted people in Saudi Arabia on 3 February 2009, before being designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S State Department on 11 May 2010. [596] [597] He was killed by a US airstrike on 29 January 2020, his death was confirmed by AQAP. [598] |
2009 | Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri | 34 | Yemen Saudi Arabia | Former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who later became Al-Qaeda's Emir for the Lahij Governorate. He was killed by Yemeni authorities in November 2014. [599] |
2009 | Jabir Jubran Al Fayfi | 34 | Yemen Saudi Arabia | Former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who later joined Al-Qaeda shortly after his repatriation. He was designated was a wanted terrorist by Saudi authorities on February 3, 2009, and surrendered to them a year later. [600] |
2009 | Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi | 30 | United States Yemen Saudi Arabia | Former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who allegedly joined Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula after his repatriation to Saudi Arabia. He was listed as a wanted terrorist by Saudi authorities on February 3, 2009, and allegedly appeared in militant video a year later. Al-Ghamdi was killed by a drone strike in Yemen in February 2015. [601] |
2009 | Phillip Arnold Paul | unknown | United States | Paul, a mental patient acquitted for a 1987 by reason of insanity and with a history of previous escapes, escaped during a field trip on September 17, 2009, but was recaptured only three days later. [602] |
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2010 | Santiago Mederos | 18 | United States | Mederos was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 25 September 2017. [603] He disappeared from Tacoma, Washington after committing two murders in early 2010. He murdered 20-year-old Camille Love in a case of mistaken identity and killed 25-year-old Saul Lucas-Alfonso as he fled the scene of a robbery. Mederos was captured in Tenancingo, Mexico on 5 June 2020. [604] |
2010 | Mario Ramírez Treviño | 48 | United States | Suspected drug lord and former leader of the Gulf Cartel responsible for trafficking drugs and killing several rival cartel leaders from the late 2000s to 2013. He was captured by the Mexican Army on August 13, 2013, and then extradited to serve his sentence in the US in 2017. [605] |
2010 | Enrique Plancarte Solís | 39 | Mexico United States | Drug lord and former leader of the La Familia Michoacana who later became a top ranking member of the Knights Templar Cartel, known for smuggling methamphetamine into the USA. In March 2014, Plancarte Solís was killed in a shoot-out with Mexican soldiers. [606] |
2010 | Edgar Valdez Villarreal | 37 | United States Mexico | Drug lord and high-ranking member of the Beltrán-Leyva Organization who headed a chapter of the Los Negros death squad, responsible for inciting a gang war that resulted in over 100 deaths. He was arrested by Mexican federal agents in August 2010, and is currently serving a 49-year sentence in an American federal prison. [607] |
2010 | Flavio Méndez Santiago | 35 | Mexico | Drug lord and high-ranking member of Los Zetas who was captured in January 2011. [608] |
2010 | Colton Harris Moore | 19 | United States | Moore, an American former fugitive, was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager. [609] Moore had fled Bloomington, Indiana for the Bahamas. While on the run Moore was captured in July 2010, but years later he was released on parole. |
2010 | Christopher Coke | 41 | United States | Coke, who also went by the alias "Dudus", [610] is a Jamaican drug lord and former leader of the Shower Posse, a violent drug gang founded by his father. The US issued a warrant for his arrest on 17 May 2010, [611] and Coke was located and arrested [612] on 23 June 2010. Coke was later extradited to the US, and he was convicted to 23 years in prison on 8 June 2012. [613] |
2011 | Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias | unknown | El Salvador | Gracias is a Salvadoran fugitive who was formerly wanted for first-degree murder in the stabbing and killing [614] of a 63-year-old who was resident of Denver on 17 August 2011, [615] after which he became sought by the police. Two years later, Gracias was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list and was then arrested [616] on 27 March 2013 in El Salvador, surrenderring after being identified to avoid a struggle. |
2011 | Anna-Maria Galojan | 29 | Estonia | Galojan was sentenced to 22 months' imprisonment in 2011 for document forgery and embezzlement of €60,000 from the non-profit organization European Movement Estonia, of which she was the CEO. Five months of Galojan's sentence was real jail time and the rest conditional with a probationary period of four years. [617] She fled to London where she was arrested on 14 February 2012. [618] |
2011 | Peter Scully | 48 | Australia | Since 2009, Scully had been investigated in numerous fraud and deception cases, and the year of his disappearance, he was about to be charged with a property scheme in Melbourne which cost investors $2.68 million. He fled to Manila in the Philippines, and thereafter to the island of Mindanao, from where he established an international child abuse ring, recording himself sexually abusing young children and allegedly killing at least one. Sentenced to life imprisonment, and is pending charges in similar crimes. [619] |
2012 | Boris Berezovsky | 66 | Russia | Berezovsky, also known as "Platon Elenin", [620] was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. [621] In 2012, Berezovsky lost a London High Court case he brought over the ownership of the major oil producer Sibneft, against Roman Abramovich, in which he sought over £3 billion in damages. The court concluded that Berezovsky had never been a co-owner of Sibneft. [622] After that he disappeared and became a fugitive who was wanted by Russia. He was found dead on 23 March 2013, [623] in what was speculated to have been a suicide, and is no longer sought by the police. |
2012 | Eric Justin Toth | 31 | United States | Toth is an American former fugitive convicted of possessing and producing child pornography. On 10 April 2012, Toth replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list as the 495th fugitive to be placed on that list by the FBI. Toth was captured by the Nicaraguan police in April 2013 in Estelí, a northern city of Nicaragua. He was immediately extradited to the United States to face trial, [624] [625] and in March 2014, Toth was sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison. [626] |
2012 | Ediel López Falcón | 39–40 | United States | Also known by the nicknames "La Muela" and "Metro 5", López was drug lord and associate of the Gulf Cartel, responsible for coordinating drug trafficking operatins across South America. On 7 May 2012, he was indicted by the USA on charges of drug trafficking, but upon learning this, he went into hiding. He was arrested on 18 September 2015 at the PlainsCapital Bank in Pharr, Texas, and later convicted and sentenced to serve 18 years in prison. [627] |
2012 | Zhou Kehua | 42 | China | Robber who killed at least nine people during robberies in several provinces from 2004 to 2012. Following a manhunt, he was tracked and gunned down by security forces on August 14, 2012. [628] |
2012 | Monsters of Ecatepec | 27 (Hernández) 32 (Martínez) | Mexico | Consisting of couple Juan Carlos Hernández and Patricia Martínez, the "Monsters of Ecatepec" were responsible for killing between 10 and 20 girls and women from 2012 to 2018 in Ecatepec de Morelos. They were finally arrested in October 2018, while transporting human remains in a baby stroller. [629] |
2013 | Christopher Dorner | 33 | United States | Dorner was a Los Angeles police officer who began a series of shootings against members of the police whom he was aggrieved towards on 3 February 2013 in Orange County, California. [630] He then disappeared, leading multiple police departments on an extensive manhunt. This concluded on 13 February 2013 after a standoff with police, with confirmation that human remains found in a fire destroyed cabin were his. [631] |
2013 | Vicente Zambada Niebla | 38 | United States | Jesús Vicente Zambada Niebla was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Niebla was charged with trafficking more than a billion dollars' worth of cocaine and heroin, and eventually pleaded guilty before a US district court. [632] Niebla was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019. |
2013 | José Manuel García Guevara | 25 | Mexico | Guevara is a Mexican fugitive who was involved with second-degree murder, aggravated rape, and aggravated burglary and was one placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and had offered a $100,000 for his capture. After Guevara became wanted on 17 June 2013 he was captured in July 2014, the FBI and was sent to the Calcasieu Parish jail. [633] |
2014 | Denis Zubov | 33 | Russia | Zubov is a serial killer who murdered three people in the Volgograd Oblast between 2013 and 2014. The first two victims, his ex-girlfriend's suitor and an elderly pensioner, had their genitalia severed; his ex-girlfriend would later be strangled during an argument. He would later be identified as a person of interest in the last murder, but by then, he had fled to the Saratov Oblast. He returned to Volgograd in 2016, whereupon he was immediately arrested. He would later be found guilty and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment. [634] |
2014 | Abu Ali al-Anbari | 57–59 | USA Syria Iraq | Senior member of ISIL and potential successor to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who governed the group's occupied territories in Syria. After several false reports of his death, he was confirmed deceased following a raid conducted in Eastern Syria. [635] |
2014 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | 43 | United States Iraq | Al-Baghdadi was the leader of ISIL since his declaration as a caliph in June 2014. Under his command, the militant group doubled down on suicide bombings and mass executions of hostages, in addition to al-Baghdadi personally keeping and raping sex slaves. He killed himself and two children via suicide bombing in October 2019, during the Barisha raid. [636] |
2014 | Yuriy Kolobov | 36 | Ukraine | Former Minister of Finance indicted on July 3, 2014, for allegedly illegally transferring to a Russian company. He was arrested on March 4, 2015 at a luxury flat in Valencia, Spain, but was not extradited, as the Spanish court ruled that his charges were politically motivated. [637] |
2014 | Raisa Bogatyrova | 61 | Ukraine | Politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine who fled the country after she was indicted in a large-scale embezzlement scheme in August 2014. She remained a fugitive until August 27, 2019, when she returned to Ukraine and was arrested, but never tried, as businessman Vadym Novynskyi paid for her bail. [638] |
2014 | Guy Madjo | 30 | United Kingdom | Cameroonian footballer sentenced in absentia in January 2016 for a sexual assault in his home in Grayshott on August 17, 2014. At the time, Madjo went into hiding in West Africa, and as he was unwilling to return to the UK, was never imprisoned for the offense. [639] |
2014 | Lamont Stephenson | 42 | United States | Stephenson was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 11 October 2018. Stephenson was wanted for the murder of his fiancée, Olga DeJesus, on 17 October 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Stephenson was the 521st fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Police say that he was also wanted in a second homicide committed 6 March 2019. [640] He was captured in Maryland on 7 March 2019, as authorities were investigating a suspicious vehicle. |
2015 | Salah Abdeslam | 25 | France | Abdeslam is a French National who was born in Belgium. Abdeslam was part of a group who was behind the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 [641] and is believed to be the sole surviving member. After being on the run for four months, Abdeslam was captured during a police raid that was conducted in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, on 18 March 2016. Abdeslam was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 23 April 2018. [642] |
2015 | Richard Matt | 48 | United States | Matt was an American murderer who escaped from prison on 6 June 2015, and was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol Supervisory Agent Chris Voss in Franklin County, New York, near the town of Malone on 26 June 2015. [643] [644] [645] |
2015 | Luis Macedo | 27 | United States | Macedo is a former American fugitive wanted for questioning in connection with the 1 May 2009 murder of 15-year-old Alex Arellano in Chicago, Illinois. He is thought to have fled the Chicago area soon after the murder, and was last seen on 24 November 2015. [646] In 2016, Macedo was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was captured on 27 August 2017 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico without incident. [646] |
2015 | Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah | 52 | Egypt | Abdullah who was also known as "Abu Mohammed al-Masri" was an Egyptian member who held a high rank in al-Qaeda was became wanted in 1998 as he was believed to have a part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in multiple African countries. [647] Abdullah was last known to have lived in Iran in 2015, and is known to have been killed on 7 August 2020 as on 12 January 2021 when his death was officially confirmed. [648] [649] |
2016 | Aslan Byutukayev | 46 | Iraq | Byutukayev who also known as "Emir Khamzat" and "Abubakar" was a Chechen fugitive who was wanted by the United States on 13 July 2016. [650] as he was list as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. In 2016, Byutukayev was believed to have was hiding in Turkey, although this was not know for certain, [651] and in January 2021, he and five militants were killed in Katyr-Yurt, Chechnya after being located, which was a result of a special operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya. [652] |
2016 | Javier Duarte de Ochoa | 43 | Mexico | Politician who served as the Governor of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016, who was later indicted for corruption. He was labeled a fugitive, and later arrested in April 2017, receiving a 9-year prison sentence in 2020. [653] |
2016 | Terry A. D. Strickland | 24 | United States | Strickland is a former American fugitive who was wanted for the murder of two men in July 2016. On 15 December 2016, Strickland was added to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list. Strickland was arrested in El Paso, Texas on 15 January 2017. [654] [655] [656] The FBI's public tip line was contacted earlier in the month suggesting that Strickland was living in the city. [657] He was apprehended without incident during a traffic stop and booked into the El Paso county jail. |
2017 | César Duarte Jáquez | 54 | Mexico | Politician, Governor of Chihuahua, member of the Chamber of Deputies and former two-time federal deputy indicted on corruption and misuse of public funds. He was arrested in Miami, Florida in 2020, and as of January 2021, is awaiting extradition to Mexico. [658] |
2017 | José Antonio Yépez Ortiz | unknown | Mexico | Suspected drug trafficker and huachicolero who served as the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel from 2017 to 2020. He was arrested in August 2020, and is currently awaiting trial for his crimes. [659] |
2017 | Eric Franklin Rosser | 65 | United States | Rosser who is also known as "Doc Rosser", was a keyboardist for John Mellencamp from the years 1979–1981, and is widely known for being on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. [660] While Rosser was on federal probation, he fled to Washington state in July 2017 on a bus, with $10,000 strapped to each of his legs, a bag containing $50,000, and $1,000 worth of cannabis. Rosser was noticed after he was seen watching child pornography and was then arrested. He is now serving time in jail. [661] |
2017 | Petro Dyminskyi | 62 | Ukraine | Politician, businessman and former footballer for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih currently sought after for escaping the scene of a fatal car crash on August 18, 2017, during which a 31-year-old woman was killed. He is believed to have fled the country. [662] |
2018 | Valtònyc | 25 | Spain | Rapper convicted of inciting terrorism due to song lyrics criticizing the Spanish royal family. He fled to Belgium before he could be imprisoned, and so far hasn't been extradited to face charges. [663] |
2018 | Antwan Mims | 40 | United States | Mims, an American criminal who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 27 June 2018. [664] [665] Mims was wanted for 25 March 2018 murders of Cortez Lamont Miller and Michael Canthrell Johnson [666] while they were attending a house party in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was captured on 31 July 2018. [667] and was sentenced to life in prison in March 2019. [668] |
2018 | Rédoine Faïd | 46 | France | Faïd, a French gangster and serial jailbreaker known for his multiple prison escapes, was named France's most wanted criminal since 2013. [669] Faïd's most recent escape was on 1 July 2018 when he broke out of a prison in Réau with the help of three armed accomplices and a helicopter. [670] Faïd was caught on 3 October 2018 in Creil [671] and was sent back to jail. |
2019 | Greg Alyn Carlson | 47 | United States | Carlson was an American criminal formerly on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 27 September 2018 to 13 February 2019. [672] Carlson was an alleged sexual predator involved in multiple armed sexual assaults in Los Angeles, California, and was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for assault with intent to commit rape. He was also wanted by the FBI on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and was shot dead by FBI agents in Apex, North Carolina on 13 February 2019. [673] Authorities found him hiding at a hotel and upon entering his room a violent altercation occurred, resulting in Carlson's death. |
2019 | Bryer Schmegelsky & Kam McLeod | Schmegelsky 18 McLeod 19 | Canada | The 2019 Northern British Columbia homicides were a spree killing that took place on the Alaska Highway and Stewart–Cassiar Highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia between July 14–19, 2019. Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky are alleged to have killed Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese, before killing Leonard Dyck within a six-day time frame. [674] By July 23, 2019, McLeod and Schmegelsky had reportedly traversed 3,200 km (2,000 mi) stretching across four Canadian provinces in ten days. A Canada-wide manhunt for the suspects was initiated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Between 23 July and 7 August, McLeod and Schmegelsky used firearms to kill themselves near the Nelson River, northeast of Gillam, Manitoba. [675] |
2019 | Abu Muhsin al-Masri | 60 | Egypt | Muhsin al-Masri was an Egyptian fugitive who was added to FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List in 2019, [676] as he was hiding from the law. It was later revealed that Muhsin al-Masri had been killed in Central Ghazni Province in 2020. [677] |
2019 | Rocco Morabito | 52 | Italy | On 24 June 2019, Morabito escaped from the central penitentiary (Cárcel Central) of Montevideo with three other inmates "through a hole in the roof of the building". [678] Morabito was arrested again in Brazil on May 24, 2021, after being two years on the run. [679] |
2019 | Francesco Pelle | 42–43 | Italy | Pelle, who has been given the nickname "Ciccio Pakistan", is a mobster from Italy who is a member of the Pelle 'ndrina, a criminal and mafia-type group operating in Calabria. Pelle is considered very dangerous. [680] Pelle was arrested in Pavia in 2008. He was released in 2018 and fled, becoming a fugitive. [681] In 2021 he was recaptured at a hospital in Lisbon, where he was being treated for COVID-19. [682] |
2019 | Alex Saab | 46 | Colombia United States | Saab has been investigated by Colombian authorities for alleged money laundering, due to his relationship with the Venezuelan government between 2004 and 2011, and on 8 May 2019 the Colombian prosecutors office indicted Saab with charges of money laundering, concert to commit crimes, illicit enrichment, exports and fictitious imports and an aggravated fraud for events related to his Shatex company. [683] During a fuel stop at Cape Verde, Alex Saab was arrested while on his way from Iran to Venezuela on a business jet on 12 June 2020. Saab was arrested in accordance to an Interpol red notice in relation to his indictment in United States, accused of money laundering. [684] [685] |
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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2020 | Kenyel Brown | 40 | United States | Kenyel Brown was an American fugitive who is believed to have been behind series of murders that took place in three cities in Wayne County, Michigan in between 7 December 2019 and 22 February 2020. [686] After Brown was located by the police he then shot himself in the head, [687] and died four days later. |
The FBI Most Wanted Terrorists is a list created and first released on October 10, 2001, with the authority of United States President George W. Bush, following the September 11 attacks on the United States. Initially, the list contained 22 of the top suspected terrorists chosen by the FBI, all of whom had earlier been indicted for acts of terrorism between 1985 and 1998. None of the 22 had been captured by US or other authorities by that date. Of the 22, only Osama Bin Laden was by then already listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer known to have murdered five people during a three-month period in mid-1997 from April 27 to July 15. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin. Cunanan committed suicide by gunshot on July 23, 1997, eight days after murdering Versace.
The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's 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, International News Service 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.
America's Most Wanted is an American television program whose first run was produced by 20th Television, and second run is under the Fox Alternative Entertainment division of Fox Corporation. At the time of its cancellation by the Fox television network in June 2011, it was the longest-running program in the network's history, a mark since surpassed by The Simpsons, although the program was revived ten years later. The show started off as a half-hour program on February 7, 1988. In 1990, the show's format was changed from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. The show's format was reverted to 30 minutes in 1995, and then back to 60 minutes in 1996. A short-lived syndicated spinoff titled America's Most Wanted: Final Justice aired during the 1995–96 season.
Donald Eugene Webb was an American career criminal wanted for attempted burglary and the murder of police chief Gregory Adams in the small town of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1980. It was only the second murder in the town's nearly 150-year history; the first murder occurred in 1942.
The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 2000s is a list, maintained for a sixth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. At any given time, the FBI is actively searching for 12,000 fugitives. During the 2000s, 36 new fugitives were added to the list. By the close of the decade a total of 494 fugitives had been listed on the Top Ten list, of whom 463 have been captured or located.
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.
The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1980s is a list, maintained for a fourth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Glen Stewart Godwin is an American fugitive and convicted murderer who was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on December 7, 1996, nine years after he escaped from Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California where he was serving a 26-years-to-life sentence. He replaced O'Neil Vassell on the list. However, he was dropped from the list on May 19, 2016.
Michael J. Coppola, also known as "Mikey Cigars", is an American mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family. He has been a key figure in the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction. It is unknown if he is related to Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, who was also a member of the Genovese family. He made national headlines when he went into hiding for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction.
The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 2010s is a list, maintained for a seventh decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. At any given time, the FBI is actively searching for 12,000 fugitives. During the 2010s, 29 new fugitives were added to the list. By the close of the decade a total of 523 fugitives had been listed on the Top Ten list, of whom 488 have been captured or located.
Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, burglar, and bank robber. He admitted to violent crimes as early as 1996, with the violent sexual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon, in a spree that lasted until his capture in 2012. In December 2012, Keyes died by suicide while awaiting trial for the murder of Samantha Koenig. The FBI believes he killed at least 11.
Yaser Abdel Said is an Egyptian-American former taxi driver accused of murder. For 12 years, Said evaded arrest for the January 1, 2008 fatal shootings of his two daughters, Amina (18) and Sarah (17). Their bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas on the property of the Omni Mandalay Hotel.
Terry A. D. Strickland is an American convicted murderer who was arrested for the murder of two men in July 2016. On December 15, 2016, Strickland was added to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list. Strickland was arrested in El Paso, Texas on January 15, 2017.
Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, mostly women, and convicted in 2012 for the murders of Carol Ilene Elford, Guadalupe Duarte Apodaca, and Audrey Nelson Everett. In 2018, he was convicted for the murder of Denise Christie Brothers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed Little's involvement in at least 60 of the 93 confessed murders, the largest number of proven cases for any serial killer in United States history. He allegedly murdered women across 19 states over 35 years ending around 2005. The number of murders he confessed to, if confirmed, would make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history, according to Ector County, Texas District Attorney Bobby Bland.
Santiago "Pucho" Villalba Mederos is a former American fugitive who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on September 25, 2017. He was wanted for two murders in Washington in 2010. Mederos was the 515th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The FBI offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to his capture. He was captured in Tenancingo, Mexico, on June 5, 2020.
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(help)One of those working behind the scenes to aid Cuba's rappers is Cheri Dalton, an American who goes by the name Nehanda Abiodun. She is a black militant who was wanted by the F.B.I. in connection with a string of robberies, including a 1981 holdup of an armored car near Nyack, N.Y. Now living in exile in Cuba, she has formed a Havana chapter of Black August, a grass-roots group that promotes hip-hop culture.
Two women, identified as Cheri Dalton and Susan Rosenberg, were added as defendants in the new Federal indictment. Arrest warrants were issued for Miss Dalton, also known as Nahanda, and Miss Rosenberg, also known as Elizabeth.
"The many victims of Eric Rudolph's terrorist attacks in Atlanta and Birmingham can rest assured that Rudolph will spend the rest of his life behind bars," [U.S. Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales said in press release.
...in terms of professionalism and news-reporting he was an ordinary journalist, but he had good writing ability. He was also one of the first journalists to add his email address to his articles at a time when the Saudi Arabians were new to the internet." Al Qasim reiterated "As I said, he was focused on social and local topics, and neither he nor his writing had anything to do with extremist ideology. There were also no black marks with regards to his personal discipline at work.
The US Treasury and the United Nations have sanctioned a top a Qaeda leader who also is Osama bin Laden's son-in-law for serving as a top financial official in the terror organization.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today further targeted the financial network of al-Qai'da by designating Muhammad Abdallah Hasan Abu-al-Khayr, a key leader of the terrorist organization's finance section. Al-Khayr was designated pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for acting for or on behalf of al-Qai'da. Executive Order 13224 freezes any assets al-Khayr has under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with him. The United Nations 1267 Sanctions Committee took similar action against Al-Khayr today.
Durante ese tiempo quien era gobernador del estado ordenó entregar pagos a diversas personas, siempre orientado a lograr el control de las instituciones y lograr beneficios económicos y políticos para él y muchos otros servidores públicos de aquella época.