List of fugitives from justice who are no longer sought
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.
Before 1900
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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1724 | Jack Sheppard | 22 | Great Britain | 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.[1][2] 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.[3] |
1806 | Fra Diavolo | 34 | France | Diavolo whose real name was Michele Pezza and was nicknamed "Brother Devil" was a famous guerrilla leader who wanted for crimes[4] 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.[5] |
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.[6] |
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 Chicago. Woodward and others defrauded Chicago between $25 and $45 million. Woodward was indicted and tried, but fled to Spain to escape punishment.[7] Woodward was later 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.[8] Woodward died on 29 September 1905.[9] |
1872 | Davy Crockett | 23 | United States | Crockett was a younger relative of the famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett,[10][11] 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.[12] |
1875 | William M. Tweed | 53 | United States | 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[13] 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.[14][15] Tweed died in Ludlow Street Jail on 12 April 1878. |
1879 | Rummu Jüri | 23 | Russian Empire (modern day Estonia) |
Jüri whose birth name was "Jüri Rummo" was an Estonian[16] fugitive,[17] 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,[18] Jüri was captured on 15 December 1879 and in 1894 was then sentenced to 15 years in prison. |
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.[19][20] 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.[21] He evaded law enforcement until 14 July 1881, when he was ambushed and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at a ranch house. |
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.[22] After doing multiple crimes he was sent to jail after 15 August 1874 and broke out in April 1882.[23] He was captured in New York City by the police on 1 August 1882, and was returned to jail. |
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,[24] 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.[25] |
1915–1949
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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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[26] and in 1923 his remains were found and identified and it was revealed that he had committed suicide.[27] |
1921 | Edward J. Adams | 34 | United States | Adams was a notorious American fugitive and spree killer in the Midwest.[28] 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.[29] |
1923 | Tommy O'Connor | 30–31 | 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[30] 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.[31] His year of death is accepted as being 1951 and therefore is no longer sought by the police. |
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.[32] He became wanted on 16 January 1932 and was shot dead after being located during an altercation with the police on 17 February 1932. |
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[33] as he was evading the law and was located and shot dead on 22 July 1934 in Chicago, Illinois.[34] |
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.[35] 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.[36] |
1946 | William Nesbit | 37 | United States | Nesbit was an American fugitive who was both a murderer and a jewel thief. He was charged with killing another thief who was his partner in crime whose name was Harold Baker on 31 December 1936 in Minnehaha County.[37] 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 placed on 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.[38][39] |
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.[40][41] He was caught on 18 August 1950 and then sent back to jail. He died in 1997. |
1950–1959
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.[42][43] Holden was captured on 23 June 1951 in Beaverton, Oregon after he was seen.[44] Holden is now deceased. |
1951 | Joseph Franklin Bent | 23 | United States | Bent was an American fugitive who was also known by the names such as "Charles 'Hap' Rayborn" and "Coal Frederick Raymond" (and also others as well) who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1951[45] for crimes as attempted murder and robberies. On 29 August 1952, Bent was captured in Texas City, Texas and was later sent to jail. Bent died in California in 2004.[46] |
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.[45] 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.[47][48] 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"[49] 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.[50][51] and was imprisoned for 9 years before that.[52] He was captured on 28 December 1953 and was later sent to jail. He is now deceased. |
1954 | Ben Golden McCollum | unknown | United States | McCollum was an bank robber who operated in Oklahoma and was nicknamed the "Sheik of Boynton".[53][54] 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.[55] 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,[56] whose identities are unknown. |
1955 | Edward Edwards | 21– 22 | United States | Edwards was a convicted American serial killer[57] 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.[58][59] |
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[60] 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[61] 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. He is no longer sought.[62] |
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.[63] 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. Dunn was labeled by the press as "the modern John Dillinger", and his crimes resulted in him being listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted in 1958.[64] In 1958 he disappeared and was found dead in 1959,[65] and is no longer sought by the police. |
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.[66] 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. |
1960–1969
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. He disappeared on 30 March 1960 and was captured on 29 October 1961.[67] |
1961 | Joe "Pegleg" Morgan | 31–32 | United States | Morgan was an American fugitive and was the first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia,[68] 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[69] 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[70] 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.[71] 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.[72] |
1963 | Bernardo Provenzano | 26 | 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. He disappeared in September 1963 and was caught in April 2006 after nearly 43 years on the run.[73] On 13 July 2016 he died from bladder cancer at San Paol Prison Hospital in Milan, Italy at age 83[74][75] after being sick since 2014. |
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.[76] Four months after escaping he was captured and extradited to the United States."[77] Rivard died on 3 February 2002. |
1965 | John William Clouser | 54–55 | United States | Clouser is a former police officer and detective in Orlando, Florida who later became a fugitive,[78] 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.[79][80] Clouser was removed from the most wanted list in 1972 after a federal process against him was dismissed.[81] 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.[82][83] 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.[84] 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.[85] Due to large media coverage and publicity,[86] Bussmeyer was traced to a safehouse in Upland, California[87] 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.[88][89][90] He was captured and arrested in early September 1978 in Springfield, Oregon and returned to prison, but was eventually released on parole.[91] He died of a heart attack on 18 January 1998 in Arlington, Texas. |
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.[92][93] 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. |
1970s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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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. She was on the list on from 17 October 1970,[94] until March 1975 after she was caught in Philadelphia.[95] |
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. She was subsequently added on the FBI's most wanted list on 17 October 1970,[96] however was removed from the list in 1984. Power turned herself in to the police in 1993. |
1971 | John List | 46 | United States | List was an American mass murderer[97] 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. He was captured on 1 June 1989[98] and was sent back to jail and died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82. |
1972 | George Wright | 39 | United States | Wright is a Portuguese citizen of American origin[99] who in 1961, graduated from Mary Bethune High School in Halifax, Virginia.[100] Wright was originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. He 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[101] and taken into custody.[102] |
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[103] 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. |
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.[104] He was later executed on 7 January 2014 in Florida.[105] |
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.[106][107] and was captured a week later.[108] Juliano died on 20 August 2001 at the age of 78. |
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.[109] On 6 July 1976, Vathaire disappeared after he went to a BNP Paribas branch[110] and withdrew 8 million francs (800 million old francs; 1.2 million euros; $1.6 million at the time)[111] from Marcel Dassault's account.[112][113] A manhunt that was conducted to find him ended on 26 September 1976, when Vathaire returned to Paris.[114] |
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,[115] 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.[116] |
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.[117][118] |
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.[119] After this he was free for two months before he was captured, hiding on another farm near Sneedville, Tennessee.[120] 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.[121] Balisok died in prison in 2013 of a heart attack that was caused by a heat stroke. |
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".[122] 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.[123] |
1980s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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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[124] 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.[125] |
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.[126] The last confirmed sighting of him was in July 1981, reported by an anonymous tipster.[127] On 4 May 1981, Webb was named as the 375th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.[128] 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.[129] |
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.[130] 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.[131] The United States federal government also charged Abiodun in connection with Assata Shakur's escape from prison, along with Susan Rosenberg.[132] She was wanted since 17 November 1982. She died on 30 January 2019. |
1982 | Johannes-Andreas Hanni | 24–25 | Estonia | Andreas Hanni was an Estonian serial killer and had committed many crimes as a youth,[133] 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.[134] Although his wife was convicted and sent to jail, Andreas Hanni committed suicide in November 1982 before he could be charged. |
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[135] who killed three people between 1981 and 1983 in California. The Carsons had gone into hiding, but were later caught, charged, and convicted,[136] 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.[137] Because he was wanted for these crimes Rich fled to Switzerland during the time that was wanted and never returned home.[138] Rich is known to have died on 26 June 2013 of a stroke at a hospital in Lucerne at the age of 78, and therefor is no longer sought. |
1984 | Christopher Wilder | 39 | United States | Wilder was an Australian serial killer[139] 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 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".[140] After the indictment was published, Persico went into hiding. On 26 October, the FBI began a national manhunt for Persico,[141] and soon named him as the 390th fugitive to be added to their Ten Most Wanted list.[142]
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.[143] On 14 June 1986, Persico was convicted of racketeering in the Colombo Trial.[144] On 17 November, he was sentenced to 39 years in prison.[145] 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."[146] On 19 November Persico and the other Commission Trial defendants were convicted on all charges.[147] On 13 January 1987, Keenan sentenced Persico to 100 years in prison, to run consecutively with his 39-year sentence in the Colombo trial.[148] On 7 March 2019, Persico died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.[149] |
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, but 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.[150][151] |
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[152] 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.[153] and was later sentenced to life in prison,[154] without any chance of parole.[155] |
1988 | Vincent Walters | unknown | United States | Walters is a Mexican-American fugitive and a former U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives.[156] who is also suspected of murder. Walters became wanted by the police in September 1988,[157] but was later captured. |
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.[158] 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.[159] |
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[160] and also a member of the 'Ndrangheta located in Calabria. Libri was captured on 17 September 1992 in Marseille, France.[160][161] 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 1996-05-13 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$1.00 million reward on his head,[162] On 1 April 2017, he was hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital for cancer treatment. He died on 19 April 2017 of lung cancer.[163][164] |
1990s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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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.[165][166] 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.[167] 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 | 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.[168] 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.[169][168] |
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.[170] 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.[171][172] |
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.[173] Gardner was later executed for the crime on 5 December 2008 in South Carolina.[174] |
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 was located and captured in 1995[175] and later was executed by Egyptian authorities. |
1993 | Antonino Giuffrè | 57–58 | Italy | Giuffrè, is an Italian mafioso from Caccamo in the Province of Palermo, Sicily who was wanted since 1993.[176] 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.[177] |
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[178] from injuries caused by three unknown men. |
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.[179] 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.[180] |
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.[182][183] |
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.[184][185] 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.[186][187][188] |
1995 | Michele Zagaria | 37–38 | Italy | Zagaria who nickname is "Capastorta" meaning "Twisted head"[189] 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,[190][191] 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.[192][193] 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.[194] |
1996 | Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | 21–22 | Mexico | Mendoza is a Mexican citizen[195] who was sought for four years in the late 1990s[196] by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the 445th FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive[197] 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.[197][198] |
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.[199] 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.[200] 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,[201] and is now in jail. |
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[202] 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.[203] 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.[204] 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.[205] |
1997 | Ramón Arellano Félix | 33 | United States | Félix was a Mexican drug lord and was the leader of a group called the Tijuana Cartel[206] 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[207] he was shot dead. |
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.[208] 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.[209] |
1999 | Fidel Urbina | 23–24 | Mexico | Urbina is a Mexican national former fugitive who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in June 2012.[210] 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.[211][212][213] |
2000s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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2000 | Francesco Mallardo | 49 | Italy | Mallardo is an Italian fugitive,[214] who is nicknamed "Ciccio 'e Carlantonio", who was wanted since April 2000 after escaping custody.[215] Mallardo was captured on 29 August 2003 and is now in jail. |
2001 | Osama bin Laden | 44 | Pakistan | 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.[216] 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.[217] He had gone into hiding after 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.[218] On 2 May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed[219] 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.[220] |
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.[221] 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.[222] |
2001 | Christian Longo | 26 | United States | Longo is an American murderer who committed his crimes in the U.S. state of Oregon.[223] 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.[224] 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.[225] He was sentenced to death in 2003,[226] but has not yet been executed. |
2002 | Mickey Green | 71–72 | United Kingdom | Green was an English gangster and drug lord who also held Irish nationality.[227] A convicted armed robber, he was allegedly one of Britain's leading drug dealers for many years[228] and was said to be worth at least £75 million.[229] 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 13th July 2020,[230] and is therefore no longer sought. |
2002 | Kemar Jarrett | 19–20 | Jamaica | Jarrett, a Jamaican criminal who is a member of a gang called the Yardies[231] 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.[232] 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.[233] |
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.[234] Wanted by the Sri Lankan government in 2002, and is known to have been killed on 18 May 2009.[235] |
2003 | George Robert Johnston | 49–50 | United States | Johnston was an American burglar whose latest robberies took place in 2003 in California.[236] Rather than continue to evade the police during the time he was in hiding he committed suicide by shooting himself.[237] After the police found his dead body it took them over a year before they could finally identify him. |
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.[238] |
2003 | Saddam Hussein | 69 | Iraq | Hussein was President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.[239] 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.[240] |
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.[241] 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[242] in June 2003, after he was captured by American bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. |
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.[243] 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.[244] |
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.[245] 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.[246] |
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.[247] 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.[248] The FBI then offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Lombardo's capture.[248] 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.[249] 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.[250][251] On 10 September 2007, Lombardo was convicted of racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and murder.[252] 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.[253][254] He served his sentence at ADX Florence supermax prison, where he died on 19 October 2019, at the age of 90.[255] |
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.[256] 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.[257] His most recent escape was on 5 April 2006 when he escaped from a United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. He was captured on 24 October 2007, when was seen near Nash Creek, New Brunswick,[258] and is now serving two life sentences in prison. |
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.[259] he was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 2006.[260] He is currently locked up in a special security prison in L'Aquila under the strict Article 41-bis prison regime regulation. |
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.[261] After being declared a fugitive he fled to Mainland China in 2007 and died in 2016. |
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.[262] He was captured on 26 August 2020 in Justin, Texas.[263] |
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.[264] On 20 October 2009, he was named by the FBI as the 493rd fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most-Wanted list.[265] 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.[266] |
2008 | Lady Bardales | 25–26 | Peru | Bardales is a Peruvian police officer,[267] who in 2008 became a fugitive[268][269] 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. |
2009 | Saad bin Laden | 29–30 | Pakistan | 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.[270] |
2009 | Christopher Daniel Gay | 34 | United States | Gay who is nicknamed "Little Houdini",[271] 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.[272][273] 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.[274] Gay was captured in 2019.[275] |
2009 | Semion Mogilevich | 63 | Russia | 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.[276] Mogilevich is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as "the most dangerous mobster in the world."[277] He has been accused by the FBI of "weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale,"[278] had disappeared and was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives on 23 October 2009.[279] He was removed from the list on 17 December 2015 and now lives freely in Moscow as he is no longer wanted by the police. |
2010s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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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.[280] 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.[281] |
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.[282] While on the run he was captured in July 2010, but years later was released on parole. |
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[283] of a 63-year-old who was resident of Denver on 17 August 2011,[284] 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[285] 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.[286] She fled to London where she was arrested on 14 February 2012.[287] |
2012 | Boris Berezovsky | 66 | Russia | Berezovsky, also known as "Platon Elenin",[288] was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician.[289] 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.[290] After that he disappeared and became a fugitive who was wanted by Russia. He was found dead on 23 March 2013,[291] 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,[292][293] and in March 2014, Toth was sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison.[294] |
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.[295] 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.[296] |
2013 | Vicente Zambada Niebla | 38 | United States | Jesús Vicente Zambada Niebla was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. He was charged with trafficking more than a billion dollars' worth of cocaine and heroin, and eventually pleaded guilty before a US district court.[297] He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019. |
2014 | Lamont Stephenson | 42 | United States | Stephenson was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 11 October 2018. He 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.[298] 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[299] 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.[300] |
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.[301][302][303] |
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 Nov 2015.[304] 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.[304] |
2015 | Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah | 52 | Africa | 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.[305] 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.[306][307] |
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.[308] 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,[309] 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.[310] |
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.[311][312][313] The FBI's public tip line was contacted earlier in the month suggesting that Strickland was living in the city.[314] He was apprehended without incident during a traffic stop and booked into the El Paso county jail. |
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,[315] which has given him a bad reputation. 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.[316] |
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.[317][318] Mims was wanted for 25 March 2018 murders of Cortez Lamont Miller and Michael Canthrell Johnson[319] while they were attending a house party in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was captured on 31 July 2018[320] and was sentenced to life in prison in March 2019.[321] |
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.[322] 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.[323] He was caught on 3 October 2018 in Creil[324] and was sent back to jail. |
2018 | 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.[325] 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.[326] Authorities found him hiding at a hotel and upon entering his room a violent altercation occurred, resulting in Carlson's death. |
2019 | Abu Muhsin al-Masri | 60 | Afghanistan | Muhsin al-Masri was an Egyptian fugitive who was added to FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List in 2019,[327] as he was hiding from the law. It was later revealed that Muhsin al-Masri had been killed in Central Ghazni Province in 2020.[328] |
2020s
Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
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2019 | Kenyel Brown | 40 | United States | 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 between 7 December 2019 and 22 February 2020.[329] After Brown was located by the police he then shot himself in the head,[330] and died just four days later. |
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