History of FBI Most Wanted List

1Message from the Director

For fifty years the FBI has sought the publics assistance in avery special way. Through the publication of fugitives in variousmedia, beginning with newspapers and magazines and now utilizingnew technology, such as the Internet, the FBI continues to seek pub-lic assistance in locating wanted fugitives. The FBIs Ten MostWanted Fugitives celebrates not only a FBI success story, but em-phasizes the need for cooperation in the fight against violent crime.

The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program gives a glimpse ofthe crime problems America has faced over five decades. While itbegan with bank robbers and murder suspects fleeing state jurisdic-tion, it progressed into seeking major crime figures, serial killersand terrorists. This last decade illustrated the transnational aspect ofcrime and the FBIs commitment to seeking international terroristsand drug traffickers who pose a significant problem to U.S. citizensboth home and abroad.

The success of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitive illustrates thehard work, dedication, and integrity of the people of the FBI, but italso demonstrates that public cooperation is vital to the efforts of theFBI to meet its mission.

Louis J. FreehDirector

2Front Cover:Pictured are the Past and Present. The computer displays the FBIs Internet web page www.fbi.gov

showing the current Top Ten fugitives. Between the keyboard and the monitor, the original handwrittenlog book is opened to page one. It was used by the Fugitive Publicity employees to record and track theTen Most Wanted Fugitives from 1950 until 1991.

Back Cover:Pictured is The Washington Daily News article, FBIs Most Wanted Fugitives Named, which ap-

peared on February 7, 1949. The piece generated so much interest that FBI Director J. Edgar Hooverinitiated the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program a year later.

Published by K&D Limited, Inc.P.O. Box 217 Lisbon, MD 21765-0217410-489-4967 [email protected]

Created, designed and compiled by Donna J. Doveand Jeffrey M. Maynard.

Identification Order(8x 8)

Wanted Flyer(10-1/2x 16)

Placard (8-1/2x 13)

Above are three examples of the printed materials used by the FBI to alert the public as to the identity ofTop Ten fugitives.

3FBIs TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVES PROGRAM

The BeginningOn February 7, 1949, an article entitled FBIs Most Wanted

Fugitives Named appeared in The Washington Daily News. The reporterfrom United Press International had contacted the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation and asked for the names and descriptions of the toughestguys the FBI wanted to capture. In hopes the publicity would lead totheir arrest, the FBI listed the names of ten fugitives it considered to bethe most potentially dangerous. The story generated so much publicityand public appeal, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover implemented the FBIsTen Most Wanted Fugitives program a year later on March 14, 1950.

This Top Ten program relied heavily on the nations news media.Recognizing the need for public assistance in locating fugitives, the TopTen program was designed to publicize particularly dangerousfugitives who might not otherwise merit nationwide attention. And itworked! Nine of the first twenty Top Tenners were arrested due tocitizen cooperation. This includes the very first Top Tenner, ThomasHolden, who was arrested after a citizen recognized his photograph inan Oregon newspaper.

TodayWith Top Ten postings on the FBIs Internet site, www.fbi.gov,

the FBI is able to reach across the country and the world for publicassistance in tracking Top Ten fugitives. Radio programs such as theABC Radio Network broadcast weekly series FBI, This Week attractpublic attention to the Top Ten program. Public spirited television pro-gramming, such as Americas Most Wanted: America Fights Back, providesadditional nationwide publicity for the Ten Most Wanted Fugitivesprogram.

In todays world, editors and news directors want the local anglewhich is not always present in a Top Ten story. The Top Ten programrelies on publicity from coast to coast. Now, with the popularity of theInternet, the FBI has begun to use cyberspace to keep the public betterinformed of fugitives status.

The ProgramSince its inception, 458 fugitives have been placed on the Top

Ten list and 429 have been apprehended or located. But just as thepriorities of the FBI have changed, so has the makeup of the Top Tenlist. Through the 1950s, the list was primarily comprised of bank robbers,burglars, and car thieves. Once into the turbulent 1960s, the list reflectedthe revolutionaries of the time. Destruction of government property, sabotage,and kidnapping dominated the list. In the 1970s, with the FBIs concentration onorganized crime and terrorism, the Top Ten included many fugitives withorganized crime ties or links to terrorist groups. This emphasis, alongwith serial murders and drug-related crimes, continues today.

On May 19, 1996 Leslie IsbenRogge, #430, was captured as adirect result of the Internet.Rogge had spent 6 years on theTop Ten List.

One hundred thirty-four of theTop Ten apprehensions havebeen the result of citizen rec-ognition.

As a result of the very firstairing of Americas MostWanted, David James Roberts,#409, was captured.

Most Top Tenners areapprehended an average ofapproximately 1,000 milesfrom the crime scene.

Top Ten apprehensions havebeen made in every stateexcept Alaska, Maine, andDelaware.

Two fugitives were appre-hended as a result of visitorson an FBI tour recognizing aTop Tenner on the Top Tenexhibit.

4The ListMany offices of the FBI are involved in selecting those fugitives

who will make the list. The Criminal Investigative Division (CID) atFBI Headquarters contacts all 56 Field Offices to submit candidates forthe FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The nominees received arereviewed by Special Agents in the CID and the Office of Public andCongressional Affairs. The selection of the proposed candidate(s) isforwarded to the Assistant Director of the CID for his/her approval andthen to the FBIs Deputy Director for final approval.

CriteriaThere are two primary criteria used to determine who should be

placed on the list. First, the fugitive must be considered a particularlydangerous menace to society and/or have a lengthy record of commit-ting serious crimes. Second, the FBI must believe nationwide publicitywill assist in apprehending the fugitive.

Removal from the ListUnless a Top Tenner is captured, found dead, or surrenders, Top

Tenners are only removed from the list when they meet one of twoconditions. First, the process against them is dismissed by a court of law.Second, they no longer fit Top Ten criteria.

When a fugitive is eliminated from the list, another is added to takehis or her place.

Special AdditionsOver the years, there have been occasions when the list exceeded

ten due to special additions. This has occurred eleven times to date. OnOctober 17, 1970, four additions were made bringing the Top Ten Listto an all-time high of 16.

StatisticsWhile it is not possible to isolate a specific criminal type, using the

information from the apprehended Top Tenners, the following TopTen statistics are available.

Average Height: 5'10"Average Weight: 168.5 poundsAverage Age at Addition: 37.4 yearsAverage Time on List: 316 daysLongest Time on List: 6,800+ days (and counting)Shortest Time on List: 2 hours

In the 1970s, Patty Hearstand her abductors werenever placed on the "TopTen" list. There was alreadyenough publicity surround-ing the crime

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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef,wanted for the World TradeCenter bombing, made theeleventh fugitive to becomea special addition.

There have been 458fugitives on the "Top Ten"list.

In 1968, Ruth Eisemann-Schier, wanted for kidnap-ping and extortion, was thefirst woman on the TopTen list.

Only 7 women have beenplaced on the Top Tenlist.

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The original Top Ten log book kept by the FBI. The first page, tattered and worn, shows the first 11 listed and theinformation recorded.

1 Thomas James HoldenPlaced on list 3/14/50; arrested 6/23/51

When Thomas Holden was placed on the list, the FBI was wellacquainted with him. Holden had been convicted of robbing a mail trainback in the late twenties. He was a product of the easy days before therampant, lawless gangs of the Midwest were curbed by federal statutesenlarging the FBIs authority to combat crime.

In 1930, Holden made an ingenious escape from Leavenworth andwas sought by the FBI as an escaped federal prisoner. He pushed hisluck too far, renewing his criminal contacts and associating with suchnotorious mobsters as Alvin Karpis, Verne Miller and Frank Nash.

While Holden was enjoying his precarious freedom fromLeavenworth, he is alleged to have been one of the outside crew re-sponsible for a sensational armed break from Leavenworth in December1931.

The FBIs two-year search for him ended on July 7, 1932, whenSpecial Agents and local police officers surrounded him and a fellowescapee on a golf course at Kansas City, Missouri. The pair was armed

6only with their golf clubs. Returned to prison, Holden did easy time,exempted from hard labor because of a rheumatic heart condition.

When Thomas Holden was released November 28, 1947, most ofthe prominent members of the underworld society he had known wereno longer around. A number of the more reckless desperadoes had electedto shoot it out with law enforcement officers and died in the attempt toescape. Others, luckier or smarter were in Alcatraz or similargovernment institutions.

Possibly Holden was impressed by the record. At any rate, foreighteen months he led a comparatively quiet life. Returning to Chicagowhere his wife, Lillian, and two sons resided, he spent most of his timearound various neighborhood taverns. He didnt have a steady job.

On June 5, 1949 at 3:15 in the morning, the Chicago police weredirected by radio to investigate a shooting on the West Side. In a fourthfloor apartment two men and a woman lay dead. A .38 revolver contain-ing four spent cartridges and two loaded shells was on a dresser.

The victims were Mrs. Lillian Holden and her two brothers. Theyhad been shot to death by her husband, Thomas James Holden, after adrinking party.

Holden was charged with murder and five days later was seen inthe vicinity of Cedar Lake, Indiana. With this evidence of his flightfrom the State of Illinois, the Chicago Police Department sought FBIassistance. A Federal complaint was issued on November 4, 1949 charg-ing him with unlawful flight across state lines to avoid prosecution forthe crime of murder.

On June 23, 1951, Thomas James Holden was apprehended by FBIagents near Beaverton, Oregon. The arrest was the result of a series ofstories carried by International News Service (INS) describing the nationsTen Most Wanted Fugitives. An alert citizen identified the fugitivefrom a picture carried in the INS series in the Portland Oregonian news-paper.

2 Morley Vernon KingPlaced on list 3/15/50; arrested 10/31/51.A steamer trunk containing the body of a woman was found July 9,

1947, under the back porch of a San Luis Obispo, California hotel. Thewoman had been strangled with a mans scarf. An autopsy revealed shehad been dead approximately one week.

Fingerprints of the victim were forwarded to the FBI IdentificationDivision, Washington, D.C., where they were identified as those of Mrs.Helen King. Local authorities investigating the murder ascertained King,husband of the victim, had been operating a dining room in the hotel forseveral months. King left San Luis Obispo on July 8, 1947, at about 3a.m.

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7THE FIRST TOP TENThe investigation also revealed King was working in the hotel din-

ing room on July 1, 1947 as usual, but the hotel maid found a Do NotDisturb sign on his door. King told the maid he did not want his roomdisturbed for a few days. The next day the house boy noticed a peculiarodor coming from Kings room and questioned him about it. King re-plied he was using perfume and a new type of shaving lotion. King hadapparently kept the body of his wife on the floor of a closet for six days.The trunk used to hide the victims body was identified as coming fromthe basement of the hotel.

On July 12, 1947, the authorities at San Luis Obispo secured a war-rant charging King with murder. On July 18, 1947, a complaint wasfiled before the U. S. Commissioner at Los Angeles, California, charg-ing the fugitive with violating Section 408e, Title 18, U. S. Code, byfleeing from the State of California to avoid prosecution for the crime ofmurder.

King, a native of West Virginia, ran away from home at the age of15. He had traveled extensively in Europe and for a number of yearslived at Casablanca, Morocco, where he met and married his wife in1931. The Kings returned to the United States in 1934 and spent a greatdeal of time in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they operated a restau-rant. Handicapped physically as his right leg was shorter than the left,King walked with a slight limp.

On October 31, 1951, King was arrested while shucking oysters ina restaurant in Philadelphia. King using the alias William Wilson hadbeen working at the restaurant for several weeks. He was returned toCalifornia and sentenced to life imprisonment.

3 William Raymond NesbitPlaced on list 3/16/50; arrested 3/18/50On December 22, 1936, William Raymond Nesbit, together with

three other men, including Harold Baker and his girlfriend, had burglar-ized a wholesale jewelry company at Sioux City, Iowa. The proprietorreported more than $37,000 worth of jewels had been stolen.

On the evening of December 31, 1936, all of the participants droveinto Minnehaha County, five miles east of Sioux Falls, in order to obtainsome dynamite for the purpose of making nitroglycerin. After gettingout of the car, three of the men became involved in a fight. The girl-friend got out of the automobile and attempted to stop the fight. As shedid so, Nesbit struck her on the head with a hammer several times andone of the other men shot her. She was dragged into a powder house.Baker was lying in the powder house apparently unconscious. One ofmen lit a fuse to some powder and fled from the scene. Bakers girl-friend, although severely beaten and wounded, remained conscious andwas able to crawl away.

8The fuse exploded 3,500 pounds of dynamite and 7,000 pounds ofblack powder, completely destroying Harold Baker. The explosion rockedthe country side, shattering windows, mirrors and glassware in SiouxFalls, five miles away.

While the police were conducting an investigation to determine thecause of the blast, the authorities at a hospital in Sioux Falls, South Da-kota, advised the Sioux City, Iowa police a woman had been brought tothe hospital by two men and she was suffering from two bullet wounds,exposure and shock.

Investigation revealed information concerning the three men, in-cluding Nesbit, who had been responsible for the murder of Baker andfor the shooting of Bakers girlfriend. Nesbit was apprehended at Okla-homa City, Oklahoma, on February 26, 1937. He was returned to SiouxFalls, South Dakota where he was tried and convicted for the murder ofHarold Baker and received life imprisonment in the South Dakota StatePenitentiary.

On February 18, 1946, Nesbits life term was commuted to 20 years.Nesbit, during this term had become a trusty and eventually was allowedto leave the prison to perform his prison duties doing housework, work-ing on the lawns and flowers, as well as a chauffeur. On September 4,1946, when the night check was made, Nesbit was missing.

On December 26, 1946, a federal complaint was filed before theUnited States Commissioner at Rapid City, South Dakota, charging Wil-liam Raymond Nesbit with unlawful flight to avoid confinement and awarrant was issued for his arrest. The FBI entered the search.

On March 16, 1950, a news article, which carried a picture of Nesbittogether with his description and the offense for which he was wanted,was published in a St. Paul Minnesota newspaper as well as in othernewspapers.

On Friday afternoon, March 17, 1950, James Lewis, age 14, ar-rived home from school and noted a newspaper on the kitchen floorwhich his mother had used to cover the floor after she had scrubbed it.As he glanced at the paper on the floor he noted a photograph of Nesbitand the accompanying article advising Nesbit was wanted by the FBI.

Lewis and his friend, James Radeck, 13, spent much of their timeplaying along the Mississippi River bank in St. Paul, Minnesota withother boys from the neighborhood. Over the past few months, they hadbecome acquainted with Ray, a man who lived in a cave in the riverbank. They had visited Ray about once a week from November 1949, toearly March 1950. He allowed them access to his cave, occasionallytelling them stories about his travels. Finally, in early March, 1950, Raytold the boys to stay away from the cave because they were liable to gethurt.

Lewis cut the article out of the newspaper believing the man in thephotograph was Ray. Lewis took the article to Radeck who felt the

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9THE FIRST TOP TENman in the photo was thinner than Ray. Lewis wanted to call the policethat night and inform them of their suspicions, but Radeck asked him towait until the next day when they could go down to the cave and makesure Ray was the man in the photograph.

On Saturday morning, March 18, 1950, just 2 days after WilliamRaymond Nesbit was placed on the Top Ten list, Nesbit was appre-hended by the St. Paul Police due to the ingenuity, intelligence and cour-age displayed by two young boys.

4 Henry Randolph MitchellPlaced on list 3/17/50; removed from list 7/18/58Three employees of a local bank in Wiliston, Florida, had just re-

turned from lunch on the afternoon of January 21, 1948. There were nopatrons at the tellers windows nor had the other employees returned totheir work. It was the custom of the bank to close at 12:00 noon andreopen at 1:00 p.m.

At approximately 1:00 p.m. two men entered the bank. Both woreseveral days growth of beard. One was tall and the other short. Theyclosed the front door and approached the tellers cages. Suddenly thetwo men drew pistols and ordered two employees to lie on the floorwhile covering the third. They proceeded to rob the cash boxes of$10,353.00. They placed the money in what appeared to be a laundrybag and walked out of the front door into the street where they entered aChrysler sedan parked at the curb.

The bank was a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora-tion and consequently the FBI joined with local law enforcement agen-cies in an immediate investigation. The robbers were soon identified asex-inmates of the Florida State Penitentiary. One of them, the tall one,has been apprehended. The other robber, the short one, was identified asHenry Randolph Mitchell.

Mitchells criminal record dated back to 1924 when he was arrestedin Tampa, Florida on a bad check charge. During the course of his ca-reer he was convicted in the states of Kentucky, Georgia, New York andFlorida for grand larceny, violation of narcotics laws, breaking and en-tering, and forgery.

Mitchell remained on the Top Ten list for eight years, until theFederal District Court at Jacksonville dropped the bank robbery chargeagainst Mitchell. Since more than 10 years had passed, prosecutors feltthe memory of witnesses would be too hazy for a successful prosecu-tion; thus, process was dismissed.

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THE FIRST TOP TEN5 Omar August Pinson

Placed on list 3/18/50; arrested 8/28/52

In January of 1936, Omar August Pinson was sentenced to 18 monthsin the Eldora, Iowa, State Reformatory on a charge of armed robbery.After his release he engaged in activity resulting in a sentence in 1941 tothe Missouri State Penitentiary for automobile tampering and in 1944,Pinson received a sentence to the Washington State Prison, Walla Walla,Washington for burglary.

Following his release from the Washington State Prison in 1945,Pinson, who had developed into one of the most accomplished houseburglars on the West Coast, resumed his criminal specialty. He pre-ferred early evening house burglaries and specialized in obtaining fire-arms wherever possible because of the ease with which he could disposeof them.

On April 15, 1947, in Hood River, Oregon, Pinson was returning tohis truck after a burglary. Armed with a .32-20 automatic with which hehad become proficient, he was approached by Oregon State Police Of-ficer Delmond Rondeau. Pinson drew his weapon and fired, fatallywounding Officer Rondeau. Pinson eluded apprehension by running astate police blockade and by riding on a freight train. He was capturedwithin 24 hours by the Oregon State Police and local officers at Ord-nance, Oregon. Sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted offirst degree murder, Pinson was sent to the Oregon State Penitentiary onMay 24, 1947.

At 1:15 a.m. on May 30, 1949, Pinson escaped from the OregonState Prison with a cellmate. Investigation by law enforcement officersthroughout the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1949 developedno clues to Pinsons whereabouts until September 4, 1949, when Pinsonsconfederate was arrested by police in Columbus, Ohio. After it hadbeen determined he and Pinson had left Oregon within 24 hours of theirescape, FBI assistance was requested. On September 7, 1949, processwas filed before the United States Commissioner at Portland, Oregon,charging Pinson with unlawful flight from Salem, Oregon, outside theState of Oregon to avoid confinement after conviction on the charge ofmurder.

When FBI Agents interviewed Pinsons confederate upon his ap-prehension at Columbus, Ohio, he claimed Pinson had died of gunshotwounds suffered during their escape. He stated he had buried Pinson afew miles east of Kellogg, Idaho. Incidental to this statement he advisedColumbus, Ohio, police officers he had buried Pinson near Salem, Or-egon, about June 8, 1949, when the convict succumbed to gangrene.

While Pinsons confederate was attempting to locate Pinsons gravefor police officers, Joseph Anthony Dorian became the object of a wide-spread search in eastern Washington and Idaho on charges of burglary.

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THE FIRST TOP TENDorian was subsequently identified as Pinson, and the search party

for the Pinson grave was called in from the Idaho hills.On January 30, 1950, the night police officer at Polson, Montana,

intercepted four individuals, including Elmer Lee Payton and SamCignitti, in the course of a burglary of a hardware store. After an ex-change of shots, the four burglars fled. Cignitti and Payton abandonedtheir transportation and fled. The remaining pair were captured in nearbyMontana towns within a few days. Cignitti was determined to be OmarAugust Pinson.

On July 1, 1950, Payton was located and apprehended nearRichwood, West Virginia, by a West Virginia State Police officer andreturned to Nebraska for prosecution for burglary.

The investigation revealed that an individual resembling Pinson hadpurchased a 1942 Ford on February 3, 1950 and registered it in BrownCounty, South Dakota as D. C. Audell. All law enforcement officials inthe State of South Dakota were alerted. As a result, Pinson was appre-hended at Pierre, South Dakota, on August 28, 1950 by an officer of theSouth Dakota Highway Patrol and an FBI National Academy graduateassigned to the South Dakota Attorney Generals Office as a law en-forcement agent. In Pinsons car at the time of his apprehension wasfound a quantity of burglary equipment, together with a rifle, a shotgunand two revolvers.

On September 5, 1950, Omar August Pinson was returned to theOregon State Penitentiary, where he was re-incarcerated. After his cap-ture he reportedly told a weird tale of having been buried alive in Idahoby his cellmate with whom he had escaped from prison. Pinson wasalleged to have stated, I went out of my head from a fever. . . The mantold me I was going to die and asked me what he should do. I remembertelling him to bury me. Pinson said he awoke to find himself in a ditchcovered with rocks and sticks. I dont know how long I laid there, heallegedly said.

6 Lee Emory DownsPlaced on list 3/20/50; arrested 4/7/50Lee Emory Downs penchant for detail is perhaps the very thing

that lead to his identification as one of the two men who entered androbbed a telephone company office in San Jose, California, June 3, 1948.

Downs had operated quite successfully for some time as an expertsafecracker and member of a loosely-knit gang of skilled holdup menand burglars in three Pacific Coast states. On toward midnight of June3, 1943, he and an accomplice walked into the telephone company of-fice, bound and gagged its two workers, broke into the safe and removedmore than $10,800.

The victims, when interviewed, said Downs and his accompliceplaced the money in a small metal wastebasket, carefully picked up their

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THE FIRST TOP TENtools and quietly walked out the front door and onto the street. Theysaid prior to the robbery they had observed a 1948 beige-coloredOldsmobile convertible parked outside the business office of the tele-phone company. It was readily identified as belonging to C. E. Gordon.C. E. Gordon was determined to be Downs.

On August 3, 1948, a complaint was filed with the United StatesCommissioner at San Jose, California charging Downs with violatingSection 408e, Title 18 of the U.S. Code by unlawfully fleeing from theState of California to avoid prosecution for the crime of burglary.

The FBI traced Downs to Daytona Beach, Florida where Downsand his wife had been residing at a local trailer park. Officers waited forDowns to leave the trailer and as he climbed into his car, the officersmoved in. Downs was apprehended without resistance. A search of thetrailer revealed two pistols, six rifles, nine sticks of dynamite, twelveelectric detonating fuses, and two leather briefcases filled with ammunition.

Downs was returned to San Jose, convicted for robbery and impris-oned. In 1968, he was paroled, but after attempting to burglarize theColombian consulate in San Francisco, he was returned to prison for aviolation of parole.

7 Orba Elmer JacksonPlaced on list 3/21/50; arrested 3/23/50A Missouri farm boy, self-respecting and hardworking, Orba Elmer

Jackson became dissatisfied with his familys way of life. In 1924, atthe age of eighteen, he was convicted on a charge of grand larceny of anautomobile in Joplin, Missouri. Convicted, he was sentenced to 6 yearsin the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City.

A few months after release from prison in 1928, Jackson violatedthe Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle Act by stealing acar. He was sentenced to three years in the United States Penitentiary atLeavenworth, Kansas.

After his release from Leavenworth, Jackson spent a few yearsworking as a barber and for a time, as a shoemaker. But, in 1936, Jack-son, with an accomplice, robbed a store near Poplar Bluff, Missouri.Jackson severely beat up the elderly man who operated the store, whichalso served as a United States Post Office.

On April 8, 1936, Jackson was convicted of assault and armedrobbery of a United States Post Office and sentenced to serve twenty-five years. Two days later he was back at Leavenworth Prison.

On the basis of good behavior, Jackson was transferred to an honorfarm outside the prison walls on September 3, 1947. Three weeks afterhis transfer, he was missing. Orba Jackson was indicted by the FederalGrand Jury at Kansas City, Missouri on March 18, 1949 charged withunlawfully and feloniously escape from the custody of the AttorneyGeneral at the Honor Farm of the United States Penitentiary,Leavenworth, Kansas.

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THE FIRST TOP TENIn 1950, a concerned citizen, suspicious of Jackson, wrote a letter

to the FBI office in Portland. Immediately afterwards, Jackson was placedon the "Top Ten" list and the story appeared in the Portland Oregonian.When the FBI contacted the citizen regarding the letter, he had in hispossession the story in the Portland Oregonian, which he said had veri-fied his suspicions.

Jackson had been working on a nearby poultry farm where he wasapprehended, surrendering without resistance. On a plea of guilty, Jack-son was sentenced to two years to run concurrently with his sentencebeing served. He was returned to Leavenworth on September 19, 1950.

8 Glen Roy WrightPlaced on list 3/22/50; arrested 12/13/50The names Alvin Karpis, Fred Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd and Adam

Richetti recall days when bloodthirsty, murderous gangs roamed, virtu-ally at will, through large areas in the United States. But the FBI, incooperation with local law enforcement agencies, in the early 1930ssmashed these criminal outfits.

Glen Roy Wright was a former associate of the Karpis-Barker Gang.His career of crime was marked by violence and deadly gunfire. On twooccasions he was involved in gun fights with arresting officers. He wasshot during his apprehension in Kansas, where he attempted to murderthe arresting officials with a sawed-off shotgun. Later he was woundedin a gun battle with police officers in Arkansas.

On September 14, 1948, Wright escaped from prison. Since 1934,he had been serving a life sentence for armed robbery at the OklahomaState Penitentiary. A complaint was filed before a United States Com-missioner, Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 8, 1949, charging Wright withviolating the Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution Statute by unlaw-fully fleeing from the State of Oklahoma to avoid prosecution for thecrime of robbery.

Only 9 months after Wright made the Top Ten list, he was recog-nized by concerned citizens who notified the FBI. Wright was appre-hended at Salina, Kansas on December 13, 1950. He was returned tocomplete a life sentence at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester,Oklahoma, where he died on May 7, 1954.

9 Henry Harland SheltonPlaced on list 3/23/50; arrested 6/23/50Henry Harland Shelton, prison escapee, added kidnapping and car

theft to his criminal repertoire on September 17, 1949. Shortly beforemidnight, an electrical worker stopping for a sandwich in Amasa, Michi-gan, walked out of the lunchroom to his car where two men with drawnknives forced him into the front seat. There, pinned between his kidnap-ers, under constant threat of death, the victim was forced to accompany

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the pair on a wild cross-country ride which lasted through the night, thefollowing day, and into the early morning of the second day.

The cruise extended from Michigan, to Illinois and into Wiscon-sin, then back to Illinois and Indiana. In route to Indianapolis the kid-napers stole a license plate from a parked car.

The victim learned from his captors they had escaped September 5,1949, from the Michigan House of Correction and Branch Prison, andhad been living in the woods twelve days.

On the morning of the second day, the kidnapers stopped for break-fast at a filling station in Kontmorenci, Indiana. While one ate his meal,the other guarded the victim. Constantly on the alert for an opportunityto break away, the victim sprang from the car and ran. His captor pur-sued him for a short distance, then returned to the car and blew his hornfor his partner. After the two kidnapers left, the victim returned to thefilling station and contacted the Indiana State Police.

The two men, identified as Henry Harland Shelton, and Sam Lieb,abandoned their victims car and stole three additional automobiles inrapid succession. In each instance the owner was threatened with a knifein the course of the theft.

Lieb was apprehended in the course of a holdup but Shelton, withhim at the time, made good his escape. On October 14, 1949, a FederalGrand Jury at South Bend, Indiana, returned an indictment chargingShelton with violating the Federal Kidnapping Statute and the InterstateTransportation of a Stolen Motor Vehicle Statute.

Three months after making the Top Ten list, Shelton was appre-hended. Special Agents learned Shelton patronized a neighborhood tav-ern regularly. On June 23, 1950 Special Agents of the FBI and officersof the Indianapolis Police Department took strategic positions outsidethe tavern to prevent Sheltons escape. As Shelton approached the tav-ern entrance a Special Agent moved in behind him at a distance to blockhis escape. Another Agent confronted Shelton and, calling to him byname, identified himself as an FBI Agent. He advised Shelton he wasunder arrest. Shelton stepped backwards and turned, grabbing a .45caliber automatic pistol which had been concealed in his belt. As hedrew the gun both Agents fired and Shelton fell to the ground.

Following Sheltons arrest, his automatic was determined to be fullyloaded with a cartridge in the chamber. On August 21, 1950, a recov-ered Henry Shelton entered a plea of guilty in United States DistrictCourt at Hoammond, Indiana, to charges of violating the Federal Kid-napping Statute and the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Ve-hicle Statute. He received a sentence of forty-five years on the kidnap-ping charge and five years on the car theft charge, sentences to run con-currently.

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THE FIRST TOP TEN10 Morris Guralnick

Placed on list 3/24/50; arrested 12/15/50A product of the slums of New York Citys east side, Morris

Guralnick was high on the list of most wanted men. Highly emotionaland violent, his vicious and apparently uncontrollable actions markedhim as an extremely dangerous fugitive.

A constant frequenter of burlesque theatres, Guralnick worked aspopcorn vender and candy butcher in such establishments in both Canadaand the United States.

In April 1948, Guralnick allegedly stabbed his former girlfriend.When he was taken into custody in connection with the stabbing, heresisted violently and, in the struggle which followed, bit off the fingerof an arresting officer.

Guralnick was confined in the Ulster County Jail at Kingston, NewYork. On July 11, 1948, while awaiting trial for assaulting the victim,this prisoner and four other inmates broke the jails plumbing fixtures,brutally assaulted two jail guards with broken pipes, and escaped. All,with the exception of Guralnick, were recaptured. One guard was hospi-talized with severe head injuries as a result of the jail break.

The grand jury at Kingston, New York, indicted Guralnick on sev-eral charges arising out of the jail break. Local authorities sought the aidof the FBI in locating Guralnick and on July 22, 1948, a complaint wasfiled before a United States Commissioner charging him with fleeingfrom the State of New York to avoid prosecution for the crime of aggra-vated assault.

In view of his emotional instability and previous vicious acts, hewas characterized as a wild-eyed person and a constant menace tosociety. From the publicity surrounding his addition to the Top Tenlist, Guralnick was finally apprehended.

Guralnick had fled to Madison, Wisconsin where he was workingat a clothing store. A customer recognized Guralnicks photo from anarticle in the Corornet magazine and contacted the local authorities. FBIAgents and local police cornered Guralnick at his place of business. Neverone to give up easily, Guralnick battled the arresting officers. Finallyapprehending him, Guralnick was extradited to New York.

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# Name Date Placed on List Date Arrested

1 Thomas James Holden 3/14/50 6/23/51Holden was arrested in Beaverton, Oregon following a tip from a citizen whoread the INS story in the Portland Oregon newspaper The Oregonian and con-tacted the FBI.

2 Morley Vernon King 3/15/50 10/31/51Due to the FBI investigation, King was apprehended in a Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania restaurant.

3 William Raymond Nesbit 3/16/50 3/18/50Nesbit was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota by local police following the INSstory in the St. Paul Dispatch.

4 Henry Randolph Mitchell 3/17/50 7/18/58Process dismissed. Mitchell was placed on the list two days after its inceptionand the only one of the original list still at large when process was dismissed.

5 Omar August Pinson 3/18/50 8/28/52Due to the FBI investigation, Pinson was arrested in Pierre, South Dakota bylocal police.

6 Lee Emory Downs 3/20/50 4/7/50Due to the FBI investigation, Downs was arrested by the FBI in Daytona Beach,Florida outside his trailer home. At the time of arrest, Downs was working onhis 1949 Lincoln automobile.

7 Orba Elmer Jackson 3/21/50 3/23/50A citizen saw Jacksons Identification Order in an Oregon Post Office and rec-ognized Jackson as a farm hand. Jackson was apprehended without incident.

8 Glen Roy Wright 3/22/50 12/13/50Due to the FBI investigation, Wright was arrested in Salina, Kansas by the FBI.

9 Henry Harland Shelton 3/23/50 6/23/50Shelton was arrested in Indianapolis by FBI Agents. Shelton was armed with a.45 caliber automatic weapon and drew it during the arrest. Agents shot andwounded Shelton.

10 Morris Guralnick 3/24/50 12/15/50Guralnick was arrested by an FBI Agent and a local police officer at a clothingstore where he was working as a night clerk in Madison, Wisconsin. Guralnickwas located as a result of a citizen seeing his picture in the Coronet magazineand then contacting authorities.

11 William Francis Sutton 3/20/50 2/18/52A bank robber, Sutton was arrested in Brooklyn, New York without incident.He was spotted by a citizen who had seen Suttons wanted flyer and notifiedthe local police after seeing Sutton on the subway in New York City.

12 Stephen William Davenport 4/4/50 5/5/50Due to the FBI investigation, Davenport was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada bylocal police.

13 Henry Clay Tollett 4/11/50 6/4/51Tollett was fatally wounded by a California Highway Patrol officer during theattempt to apprehend him. He was in a stolen car in Redding, California.

14 Frederick J. Tenuto 5/24/50 3/9/64Federal process was dismissed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by a U.S. Districtjudge.

A CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF THE FBIs TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVESMarch 14, 1950 - January 1, 2000

1950 A total of 7 TopTenners were located.Four were located due topublic assistance.

A total of 21 Top Tennerssurrendered to authorities.

Henry Randolph Mitchell(4) was placed on the FBIs"Top Ten" list just two daysafter its inception onMarch 15, 1950, and wasthe only member of theoriginal list still at largewhen process wasdismissed July 18, 1958.

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15 Thomas Kling 7/17/50 2/20/52Kling was arrested in New York by local police.

16 Meyer Dembin 9/5/50 11/26/51Dembin surrendered to the U. S. Attorney in New York City.

17 Courtney Townshend Taylor 1/8/51 2/16/51Taylor was apprehended in Mobile, Alabama after a jeweler recognized himfrom a wanted flyer. Sending his clerk to follow Taylor, the jeweler called theFBI and police. Within twenty-five minutes Taylor was in custody.

18 Joseph Franklin Bent 1/9/51 8/29/52Bent was arrested in Texas City, Texas after a citizen recognized his photo inPageant magazine. He was shot and wounded during the arrest when he at-tempted to draw his weapon.

19 Harry H. Burton 3/9/51 2/7/52Burton was arrested in Cody, Wyoming by the local sheriff and FBI. His arrestis attributed to the True Detective Mysteries Radio show. He was acquitted ofthe original murder charge when witnesses testified he was at his dying mothersbedside at the time of the murder.

20 Joseph Paul Cato 6/27/51 6/21/51Cato surrendered to the FBI in Cleveland, Ohio after seeing his own Identifica-tion Order. Although approved to be placed on the Top Ten list, he surren-dered prior to the press release date.

21 Anthony Brancato 6/27/51 6/29/51Brancato surrendered to the FBI in San Francisco, California after seeing theINS story in the San Francisco Call-Bulletin.

22 Frederick Emerson Peters 7/2/51 1/15/52Peters was arrested in a Washington, D. C. hotel lobby after two FBI agentsrecognized him from the Identification Order.

23 Ernest Tait 7/11/51 7/12/51Tait was arrested in Miami, Florida by the FBI as a direct result of an AssociatedPress story in the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily News. After being appre-hended, Tait said he had intended to shoot it out with the police but he hadread the AP story about himself stating he had been added to the Top Ten listand decided not to try to shoot it out with the FBI.

24 Ollie Gene Embry 7/25/51 8/5/51A citizen saw Embrys Identification Order in the Post Office and recognizedhim as a local filling station attendant. Embry was arrested by FBI Agentswhile Embry was in the process of fixing the radiator of their automobile.

25 Giachino Anthony Baccolla 8/20/51 12/10/51Due to FBI investigation, Baccolla was arrested in New York City.

26 Raymond Edward Young 11/12/51 11/16/51Due to FBI investigation, Young was arrested in Denver, Colorado. Young workednights at a bakery and was apprehended while loading bread trucks.

27 John Thomas Hill 12/10/51 8/16/52Due to FBI investigation, Hill was arrested in Hamtramck, Michigan after acitizen recognized him from a wanted flyer. FBI Agents raided his home find-ing Hill in bed, fast asleep. He offered no resistance.


1952 A total of twelveTop Tenners werelocated. Five werelocated due to publicassistance.


1951 A total of elevenTop Tenners werelocated. Four werelocated due to publicassistance.

Ernest Tait was on the "TopTen" list twice, (23) and(133).

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28 George Arthur Heroux 12/19/51 7/25/52Heroux was arrested in El Portal, Florida by local police following a policedepartment investigation.

29 Sydney Gordon Martin 1/7/52 11/27/53Martin was arrested in Corpus Christi, Texas by the FBI without incident fol-lowing publicity in the Saturday Evening Post.

30 Gerharde Arthur Puff 1/28/52 7/26/53Due to FBI investigation, Puff was arrested in New York City by the FBI.

31 Thomas Edward Young 2/21/52 9/23/52Young was arrested in the Boise National Forest, Idaho without incident fol-lowing an investigation of citizen reports recognizing Youngs photograph onIdentification Orders and in newspaper articles.

32 Kenneth Lee Maurer 2/27/52 1/8/53Maurer, working at a local cabinet shop, was arrested in Miami, Florida afterseveral customers saw his published photograph and contacted the FBI. Be-cause of Mauers fear of flying, he was allowed to return to Detroit by train toface murder charges.

33 Isaie Aldy Beausoleil 3/3/52 6/25/53At time of arrest, Beausoleil was dressed as a woman. The arrest occurred inChicago, Illinois when Beausoleil was spotted acting suspicious in the womansrestroom. A park policewoman responded and made the arrest.

34 Leonard Joseph Zalutsky 8/5/52 9/8/52Zalutsky was arrested by local police in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania after beingrecognized by two citizens from an FBI wanted poster in a post office.

35 William Merle Martin 8/11/52 8/30/52Martin was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri by local police due to a police inves-tigation.

36 James Eddie Diggs 8/27/52 12/14/61Federal process was dismissed in Norfolk, Virginia.

37 Nick George Montos 9/8/52 8/23/54Montos was arrested in Chicago, Illinois while he and a companion waited fora freight train to cross the path of their car. His automobile was identified bytwo Special Agents.

38 Theodore Richard Byrd, Jr. 9/10/52 2/21/53Byrd was arrested in El Reno, Oklahoma after an off-duty FBI clerk recognizedByrd from a Wanted Flyer and notified the local police.

39 Harden Collins Kemper 9/17/52 1/1/53Kemper was arrested in Glendale, Arizona after an Arizona Highway Patrolmanrecognized him from an Identification Order.

40 John Joseph Brennan 10/6/52 1/23/53Brennan was arrested in Chicago, Illinois because of a tip from an FBI infor-mant.

41 Charles Patrick Shue 1/15/53 2/13/53Shue was arrested in Los Angeles, California as a result of the FBI being noti-fied after an individual recognized Shues picture in a newspaper.

42 Lawson David Shirk Butler 1/22/53 4/21/53Due to the FBI investigation, Butler was arrested in Los Angeles, California.



Puff (30) was the partnerof Heroux (28). Both weresought for bank robberiesin Kansas and Missouri.

1953 A total of 25 TopTenners were located.Thirteen were located dueto public assistance.

Nick George Montos wason the "Top Ten" list twice,(37) and (94).

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43 Joseph James Brletic 2/8/53 2/10/53Brletic was arrested in Lancaster, California by the Los Angeles Sheriffs officeafter being recognized from a photograph in the Los Angeles Herald-Expressnewspaper.

44 David Dallas Taylor 3/3/53 5/26/53Due to the FBI investigation, Taylor was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

45 Perlie Miller 3/4/53 3/5/53Miller was arrested in Somersworth, New Hampshire. Working at a local diner,a customer recognized him from a published Top Ten photograph.

46 Fred William Bowerman 3/5/53 4/24/53Bowerman was mortally wounded by police officers while attempting to fleethe scene of a bank robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.

47 Robert Benton Mathus 3/16/53 3/19/53Mathus was arrested in Duson, Louisiana by the FBI and local police afterbeing recognized by a citizen from a wanted flyer.

48 Floyd Allen Hill 3/30/53 4/18/53Due to the FBI investigation, Hill was arrested in Dallas, Texas.

49 Joseph Levy 5/1/53 4/30/53Levy was apprehended in Louisville, Kentucky one day prior to the publicannouncement of being place on the "Top Ten" list. FBI Agents recognizedhim from the "Top Ten" material sent to the field office for the announcement.He is still to be considered officially on the list.

50 Arnold Hinson 5/4/53 11/7/53Hinson was apprehended by Special Agents in the downtown area of Memphis,Tennessee.

51 Gordon Lee Cooper 5/11/53 6/11/53Cooper was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri following an investigation based ona citizen tip. Cooper was recognized from newspaper publicity.

52 Fleet Robert Current 5/18/53 7/12/53Due to the FBI investigation, Current was arrested on an Omaha, Nebraskastreet corner.

53 Donald Charles Fitterer 6/8/53 6/21/53Fitterer was arrested in Oakland, California by FBI and California State Patrol.A citizen had reported him to FBI Headquarters after recognizing him fromTrue Detective radio broadcast.

54 John Raleigh Cooke 6/22/53 10/20/53Cooke was arrested in Detroit, Michigan as he descended for lunch from a roofon a construction project where he was working as a welder. Upon arrest,Cooke stated it was a relief to be caught as he knew from newspaper articles hewas on the FBIs list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and distance would not aidhim in his flight.

55 Jack Gordon White 7/6/53 8/27/53White was recognized by a police officer who recognized him from an Identifi-cation Order. FBI and police were called to the area of downtown Seattle,Washington. After determining the make of the vehicle he was driving, FBIAgents were able to locate him. A traffic stop was made without incident andWhite was apprehended.



A total of 48 arrests weredirect results of citizensrecognizing the fugitivefrom wanted notices.

A total of 10 Top Tennerswere found dead.

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56 Alex Richard Bryant 7/14/53 1/26/54Due to the FBI investigation, Bryant was arrested in Los Angeles, California.

57 George William Krendich 7/22/53 10/11/53Krendich was found dead in an abandoned Jeep in a lonely wooded area ofDunn County, North Dakota. The cause of death was suicide from asphyxiationof carbon monoxide fumes piped from the exhaust into the closed Jeep.

58 Lloyd Reed Russell 9/8/53 8/3/54Russell was killed during a gun battle with local police officers in Spokane,Washington.

59 Edwin Sanford Garrison 10/26/53 11/3/53Garrison was arrested in Detroit, Michigan without incident following citizenrecognition of Garrison from a newspaper photograph.

60 Franklin James Wilson 11/2/53 1/18/54During an interview following Wilsons arrest in Chicago, Illinois, Wilson de-cried the notoriety surrounding his addition to the "Top Ten" Most Wanted listand blamed the extensive publicity for his early capture.

61 Charles E. Johnson 11/12/53 12/28/54Johnson was apprehended in Central Islip, Long Island, New York after a citi-zen recognized him from a magazine article in the November 14, 1953 issue ofthe Saturday Evening Post.

62 Thomas Jackson Massingale 11/18/53 11/26/53Thomas was apprehended in Las Vegas, New Mexico after a citizen recognizedhim from a photograph in the November 24, 1953 issue of the Saturday EveningPost.

63 Peter Edward Kenzik 12/7/53 1/26/55Kenzik was arrested in San Diego, California for drunkenness. A gun wasfound in his possession and a routine fingerprint check identified Kenzik.

64 Thomas Everett Dickerson 12/10/53 12/21/53Due to the FBI investigation, Dickerson was arrested in Verdunville, West Vir-ginia by FBI and the West Virginia State Patrol.

65 Chester Lee Davenport 1/6/54 1/7/54Davenport was arrested near Dixon, California. The local veterinarian recog-nized Davenports photograph in a newspaper as being a dairy farm worker.Davenport was arrested while milking a cow.

66 Alex Whitmore 1/11/54 5/10/54Whitmore was arrested in Seattle, Washington after a citizen recognized himfrom a television broadcast.

67 Everett Lowell Krueger 1/25/54 2/15/54Krueger, after being arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico, told FBI Agents: Imglad its over. Im tired of running.

68 Apee Hamp Chapman 2/3/54 2/10/54Chapman was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland after a citizen saw his photoin the February 9, 1954 issue of the Washington Afro-American magazine.

69 Nelson Robert Duncan 2/8/54 2/21/54Duncan was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta patrolman were investigat-ing an open skylight in a local grocery store and discovered Duncan and anaccomplice attempting to burglarize the store safe.



A feature article on the"Top Ten" in The SaturdayEvening Post accounted forthe apprehensions ofMassingale (62) and Mar-tin (29) within 3 days af-ter the magazine reachedthe news stands.

1954 A total of 16 TopTenners were located. Sixwere located due to publicassistance.

Edwin Sanford Garrison wason the "Top Ten" list twice,(59) and (112).

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70 Charles Falzone 2/24/54 8/17/55Falzone was arrested in New Bedford, Pennsylvania by the FBI after a citizenrecognized his photograph from an Identification Order in a post office.

71 Basil Kingsley Beck 3/1/54 3/3/54Due to an FBI investigation, Beck was arrested in San Pablo, California by FBIAgents.

72 James William Lofton 3/16/54 3/17/54Due to an FBI investigation, Lofton was arrested in Morgan City, Louisiana bylocal police and the FBI.

73 Clarence Dye 3/8/54 8/3/55Dye was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by local police. During a routinecheck, Dyes former girlfriend told police Dye was wanted.

74 Sterling Groom 4/2/54 4/21/54Groom was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland by FBI after a citizen recognizedhim from an Identification Order in a post office.

75 Raymond Louis Owen Menard 5/3/54 5/5/54Menard was arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana by local police after a citizenrecognized a photograph in a local newspaper.

76 John Alfred Hopkins 5/18/54 6/7/54Hopkins was arrested near Beowawe, Nevada by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized Hopkins from a photo in a California newspaper.

77 Otto Austin Loel 5/21/54 1/17/55Loel was arrested in Sanford, Florida by local police. Loel had been hiding inthe Sanford city dump and living in a crude lean-to shack made of palmettoleaves.

78 David Daniel Keegan 6/21/54 12/13/63Federal process was dismissed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

79 Walter James Wilkinson 8/17/54 1/12/55Wilkinson was arrested in Los Angeles, California by the FBI after a citizenrecognized him from an Identification Order in a post office. He was workingat a country club as a busboy. During the arrest, Wilkinson commented: Itdidnt take too long. I know how you guys work.

80 John Harry Allen 9/7/54 12/21/54Allen was arrested in Fort Smith, Arkansas after being recognized by two po-lice officers from a wanted flyer.

81 George Lester Belew 1/4/55 1/24/55Belew was arrested at a motel near Champaign, Illinois after the motel ownerrecognized his photograph on a wanted flyer.

82 Kenneth Darrell Carpenter 1/31/55 2/4/55Carpenter was arrested near Arlington, Tennessee after an FBI Agent recog-nized him sitting in the vehicle next to his. Carpenter reached for the radiodial in his car and the Agent recognized a tattoo of the word love on thefingers of his right hand. The Agent radioed for assistance and Carpenter wasarrested an hour later.

83 Flenoy Payne 2/2/55 3/11/58Due to an FBI investigation, Payne was arrested in Crittenden County, Arkan-sas. Payne was working as an itinerant cotton picker and gambler.




A total of 2 arrests weredirect results of radiobroadcasts.

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84 Palmer Julius Morset 2/7/55 3/2/56Due to an FBI investigation, Morset was arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana.

85 Patrick Eugene McDermott 2/9/55 7/19/55McDermott was recognized by a police officer from an Identification Order.McDermott was working as a local ambulance driver in New York City..

86 Garland William Daniels 2/18/55 3/29/55Daniels was arrested in Los Angeles, California after a citizen recognized hisphotograph in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. The arrest was made asDaniels left his home accompanied by his 8-year-old daughter. A narcoticsaddict, Daniels was in poor physical condition and was given medical treat-ment before being jailed.

87 Daniel William OConnor 4/11/55 12/26/58To avoid arrest, OConnor dyed his hair red, grew a mustache, added a tattooand gained 58 pounds. OConnor was apprehended in El Cajon, California dur-ing an investigation of a neighborhood theft of a two-wheeled trailer valuedat $15. OConnor was a neighbor of the victim and a routine check of hisfingerprints identified him as OConnor.

88 Jack Harvey Raymond 8/8/55 10/14/55Due to an FBI investigation, Raymond was apprehended in Denver, Colorado.

89 Daniel Abram Everhart 8/17/55 10/9/55Due to an FBI investigation, Everhart was arrested in Denver, Colorado.

90 Charles Edward Ranels 9/2/55 12/16/56Ranels was arrested in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after neighbors recognized hisphoto on a wanted flyer.

91 Thurman Arthur Green 10/24/55 2/16/56Due to an FBI investigation, Green was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee. Greenhad sent his wife to stay with relatives and was home alone in bed recuperat-ing from a toothache. He told the officers, I was expecting you yesterday.

92 John Allen Kendrick 11/2/55 12/2/55Due to an FBI investigation, Kendrick was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

93 Joseph James Bagnola 12/19/55 12/30/56Due to an FBI investigation, Bagnola was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

94 Nick George Montos 3/2/56 3/28/56Montos was arrested in his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee after beingrecognized by a citizen.

95 James Ignatius Faherty 3/19/56 5/16/56Due to an FBI investigation, Faherty was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

96 Thomas Francis Richardson 4/12/56 5/16/56Due to an FBI investigation, Richardson was arrested in Boston, Massachu-setts, together with Faherty (95).

97 Eugene Francis Newman 5/28/56 6/11/65Federal process was dismissed in Buffalo, New York.

98 Carmine DiBiase 5/28/56 8/28/58DiBiase surrendered to the FBI through a New York City attorney. Followinghis surrender, DiBiase reportedly made the following statement: I am gettingolder and accomplishing nothing having to stay away from my wife and chil-dren, mother and father. I am glad it is over. I had to come in.



1956 A total of 7 TopTenners were located.

Nick George Montos was onthe "Top Ten" list twice,(94) and (37).

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99 Ben Golden McCollum 1/4/57 3/7/58McCollum was arrested in a rooming house in Indianapolis, Indiana.

100 Alfred James White 1/14/57 1/24/57White was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee by the FBI after being recognizedby a citizen from a wanted flyer.

101 Robert L. Green 2/11/57 2/13/57Green was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota by the FBI after a citizen recognizedhis photograph in the Minneapolis Star newspaper. Green was about to boarda bus en route to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

102 George Edward Cole 2/25/57 7/6/59Cole was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa by the FBI after a citizen recognizedColes female companion from a photograph on a wanted flyer.

103 Eugene Russell McCracken 3/26/58 3/27/58McCracken was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland by the FBI after McCrackensphoto was published in the Baltimore News-Post newspaper. Four separateindividuals called the FBI on the same day the newspaper article appeared.

104 Frank Aubrey Leftwich 4/4/58 4/18/58Due to an FBI investigation, Leftwich was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

105 Quay Cleon Kilburn 4/16/58 6/2/58Kilburn was arrested in Los Angeles, California by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized Kilburn from an Identification Order in a local post office.

106 Dominick Scialo 5/9/58 7/27/59Scialo surrendered to the FBI in Brooklyn, New York.

107 Angelo Luigi Pero 6/16/58 12/2/60Process was dismissed by the United States attorney in New York City.

108 Frederick Grant Dunn 6/17/58 9/8/59A farmer located skeletal remains along a stream bank near Ellsworth, Kansasand contacted the sheriff. The remains were sent to the FBI Lab and identifiedas Dunn.

109 Frank Lawrence Sprenz 9/10/58 4/15/59Due to an FBI investigation, Sprenz was arrested in Laredo, Texas.

110 David Lynn Thurston 1/8/59 2/6/59Thurston was arrested in New York City after attempting to rob a Broadwayrestaurant. He was apprehended by police after a chase through theater crowdson the streets.

111 John Thomas Freeman 2/17/59 2/18/59Freeman was arrested by the FBI in Hillside, Maryland after a citizen recog-nized his photograph in a newspaper article.

112 Edwin Sanford Garrison 3/4/59 9/9/60When Garrison was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri he told the FBI Agents: Imglad its over. I know the FBI. You cant fool the FBI for very long.

113 Emmett Bernard Kervan 4/29/59 5/13/59Due to an FBI investigation, Kervan was arrested in El Paso, Texas.

114 Richard Allen Hunt 5/27/59 6/2/59Hunt was arrested by the local sheriff in Thermopolis, Wyoming after a citizenrecognized Hunt from a wanted flyer.



1957 A total of 2 TopTenners were located. Allwere located due to publicassistance.

1958 A total of 7 TopTenners were located.Two were located due topublic assistance.

1959 A total of 14 TopTenners were located.Five were located due topublic assistance.

Quay Cleon Kilburn was onthe Top Ten list twice,(105) and (188).

Edwin Sanford Garrisonwas on the "Top Ten" listtwice, (112) and (59).

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115 Walter Bernard ODonnell 6/17/59 6/19/59ODonnell was arrested in Norfolk, Virginia by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized his photograph in a newspaper article. At the time of his apprehensionODonnell was posing as a retired U.S. Postal Inspector and was scheduled tospeak before a Norfolk citizen group that night.

116 Billy Owens Williams 7/10/59 3/4/60Due to an FBI investigation, Williams was arrested in New York City.

117 James Francis Jenkins 7/21/59 8/12/59Jenkins was arrested in a Buffalo, New York motel after an informant tippedoff the Bureau.

118 Harry Raymond Pope 8/11/59 8/25/59Due to an FBI investigation, Pope was arrested in Lubbock, Texas by the FBIand Texas Rangers.

119 James Francis Duffy 8/26/59 9/2/59Due to an FBI investigation, Duffy was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

120 Robert Garfield Brown, Jr. 9/9/59 1/11/60Brown was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio by the FBI after a citizen recognizedBrowns photograph on an Identification Order.

121 Frederick Anthony Seno 9/24/59 9/24/59Due to an FBI investigation, Seno was arrested in Miami, Florida in a roominghouse where he had been living under an assumed name. When approached byFBI Agents he shouted, Dont shoot! Dont shoot!

122 Smith Gerald Hudson 10/7/59 7/31/60Hudson was arrested in Cozad, Nebraska after a citizen recognized him from awanted flyer. Hudson refused to admit his identity and was identified throughfingerprints.

123 Joseph Lloyd Thomas 10/21/59 12/16/59Thomas was arrested in Pelzer, South Carolina by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized Thomas photograph on an Identification Order in a post office. Thomashad grown a mustache for a disguise. He had established himself in the usedcar business and had enrolled his children in a local school.

124 Kenneth Ray Lawson 1/4/60 3/17/60Due to an FBI investigation, Lawson was arrested in Laredo, Texas.

125 Ted Jacob Rinehart 1/25/60 3/6/60Rinehart was arrested in Granada Hills, California after a citizen recognizedhim from a wanted flyer. Rinehart told Agents he learned of his addition tothe "Top Ten" list while watching a local television show.

126 Charles Clyatt Rogers 3/18/60 5/11/60Rogers was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota while standing in a soup line ata Salvation Army center. He was recognized by a police officer who collectedFBI wanted posters.

127 Joseph Corbett, Jr. 3/30/60 10/29/60Corbett was apprehended in Vancouver, British Columbia by Canadian policeafter two Canadian citizens recognized Corbett from a November 1960 ReadersDigest article.

128 William Mason 4/6/60 4/27/60Due to an FBI investigation, Mason was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.



1960 A total of 21 TopTenners were located. Tenwere located due to publicassistance.

Joseph Lloyd Thomas wason the "Top Ten" list twice,(123) and (304).

A total of 40 arrests weredirect results from newspa-per articles.

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129 Edward Reiley 5/10/60 5/24/60Reiley was arrested in Rockford, Illinois by the local sheriff after an autosalesman recognized Reiley from a wanted flyer. Upon arrest he pleaded, Dontshoot! Im the guy you want.

130 Harold Eugene Fields 5/25/60 9/5/60Fields was arrested in Schererville, Indiana. Fields told arresting FBI Agentshis place on the "Top Ten" list convinced him his days of freedom were num-bered and his apprehension came as no surprise.

131 Richard Peter Wagner 6/23/60 6/25/60Wagner was arrested in Ray, Minnesota after a citizen recognized him from anewspaper article. An expert woodsman, Wagner had been serving as a guideat a hunting and fishing lodge where he was captured.

132 James John Warjac 7/19/60 7/22/60Due to an FBI investigation, Warjac was arrested in Los Angeles, California.

133 Ernest Tait 8/16/60 9/10/60Due to an FBI investigation, Ernest Tait was arrested in Denver, Colorado.

134 Clarence Leon Raby 8/19/60 8/28/60Raby surrendered to local authorities at his parents home in Heiskell, Tennes-see.

135 Nathaniel Beans 9/12/60 9/30/60Beans was arrested in Buffalo, New York by a police officer who recognizedBeans from a magazine photograph.

136 Stanley William Fitzgerald 9/20/60 9/22/60Fitzgerald was arrested in Portland, Oregon by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized him from a photograph in a newspaper.

137 Donald Leroy Payne 10/6/60 11/26/65Federal process was dismissed in Houston, Texas by local authorities.

138 Charles Francis Higgins 10/10/60 10/17/60Higgins was arrested in Kirkwood, Missouri by local police after an officerrecognized him from a newspaper photograph.

139 Robert William Schultz, Jr. 10/12/60 11/4/60Due to an FBI investigation, Schultz was arrested in Orlando, Florida.

140 Merle Lyle Gall 10/17/60 1/18/61Due to an FBI investigation, Gall was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona.

141 James George Economou 10/31/60 3/22/61Economou was arrested in Los Angeles, California after a tip from an infor-mant.

142 Ray Delano Tate 11/18/60 11/25/60Feeling cornered by the vast publicity accorded his fugitive status, Tate sur-rendered to the New York city editor of the New York Daily Mirror newspaper.He was taken into custody immediately by FBI Agents.

143 John B. Everhart 11/22/60 11/6/63Everhart was arrested in San Francisco, California. He was taken into custodywhile painting a house.

144 Herbert Hoover Huffman 12/19/60 12/29/60Huffman was apprehended in Cleveland, Ohio after a fellow worker recognizedhim from a wanted poster.



Ernest Tait was on theTop Ten list twice, (133)and (23).

A total of 13 arrests weredirect results of magazinearticles.

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145 Kenneth Eugene Cindle 12/23/60 4/1/61Cindle was apprehended in Cochran County, Texas after a local farmer sawCindles photograph on television. The farmer had picked up a hitchhikerearlier that day recognized him as Cindle, who had been hitchhiking acrossthe county and working odd jobs to avoid apprehension.

146 Thomas Viola 1/17/61 3/27/61Viola was arrested in Detroit, Michigan after a citizen recognized his photo inan article in American Weekly.

147 William Chester Cole 2/2/61 2/6/61Cole surrendered to FBI Agents in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Cole said the heat ofthe investigation was too much.

148 Willie Hughes 3/15/61 8/8/61Hughes was arrested in Pocatello, Idaho where he had been working as a farmlaborer.

149 William Terry Nichols 4/6/61 4/30/62Nichols was arrested near Homestead, Florida where he had started a commer-cial fishing business.

150 George Martin Bradley 4/10/61 5/1/61Bradley was arrested in Davenport, Iowa by local police officers after an at-tempted bank robbery. He was identified after routine fingerprinting.

151 Philip Alfred LaNormandin 4/17/61 4/17/61A few hours following the announcement to the "Top Ten" list, a local residentof recognized a LaNormandins photograph in the evening newspaper.LaNormandin was arrested in Jersey City, New Jersey that same day.

152 Kenneth Holleck Sharp 5/1/61 7/3/61Sharp was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after a citizen recognized hisphotograph in the Master Detective magazine.

153 Anthony Vincent Fede 5/22/61 10/28/61Fede was arrested in Los Angeles, California. Captured by FBI Agents, Fede wascarrying a toy pistol and a fake police badge. He said, I should have givenmyself up.

154 Richard Laurence Marquette 6/29/61 6/30/61Marquette was arrested in Santa Maria, California by the FBI after a citizenrecognized his photograph on a wanted flyer posted in a credit bureau.

155 Robert William Schuette 7/19/61 8/2/61Schuette was arrested in Chicago, Illinois. He had shaved his sideburns andmustache and changed his address 40 times to avoid being recognized. Hecongratulated the FBI saying You fellows sure did a good job. In his pocketwas a news clipping with picture telling of his addition to the Ten MostWanted Fugitives list two weeks prior.

156 Chester Anderson McGonigal 8/14/61 8/17/61McGonigal was arrested in Denver, Colorado by FBI after a citizen recognizedhis photograph in a newspaper.

157 Hugh Bion Morse 8/29/61 10/13/61Morse was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota the evening after a visitor to the FBITour in Washington, D. C. recognized his photo displayed on the "Top Ten"Exhibit.



1961 A total of 15 TopTenners were located.Seven were located due topublic assistance.

A total of 9 fugitives werekilled during capture.

Richard Laurence Marquettewas the first specialaddition.

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158 John Gibson Dillon 9/1/61 3/2/64Dillon was found dead in Chelsea, Oklahoma. His badly decomposed body waslocated at the bottom of a 15-feet, water-filled well on a remote farm. Wiredto his feet and body were 400 pounds of oil well drilling equipment.

159 John Robert Sawyer 10/30/61 11/3/61Sawyer was arrested in Wickendale, Arizona by a local police officer after herecognized Sawyers vehicle in an all points bulletin issued by the FBI.

160 Edward Wayne Edwards 11/10/61 1/20/62Edwards was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia by local police.

161 Franklin Eugene Alltop 11/22/61 2/2/62Due to an FBI investigation, Alltop was arrested in Kansas City, Kansas. Alltopgreeted the arresting Special Agents, Ive been expecting you, I know yourethe FBI.

162 Francis Laverne Brannan 12/27/61 1/18/62Brannan surrendered to the FBI in Miami, Florida. Calling from a phone at adowntown gas station, Brannan told them Come and get me, Im tired ofrunning from the FBI.

163 Delbert Henry Linaweaver 1/30/62 2/5/62Linaweaver was arrested in Floydada, Texas by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized him from a wanted flyer in a post office.

164 Watson Young, Jr. 2/5/62 2/12/62Young was arrested in Salina, Kansas driving a stolen ambulance. It had beenstolen from an area funeral home. In his pocket, Young had a his identifica-tion order.

165 Lyndal Ray Smith 2/14/62 3/22/62Smith surrendered in Baltimore, Maryland as a result of television and newspa-per publicity.

166 Harry Robert Grove, Jr. 2/19/62 1/26/63Grove was arrested in Uhrichsville, Ohio by the Ohio State Highway Patrol afterbeing observed loitering in a supermarket.

167 Bobby Randell Wilcoxson 2/23/62 11/10/62Due to an FBI investigation, Wilcoxson was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland.

168 Albert Frederick Nussbaum 4/2/62 11/4/62Nussbaum was arrested in Buffalo, New York by the FBI after a 20-minutechase through downtown streets.

169 Thomas Welton Holland 5/11/62 6/2/62Holland was arrested in La Harpe, Kansas by a police officer who recognizedHolland from a wanted flyer.

170 Edward Howard Maps 6/15/62 12/1/67Federal process was dismissed by local authorities in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

171 David Stanley Jacubanis 11/21/62 11/29/62Due to an FBI investigation, Jacubanis was arrested in Arlington, Vermont.

172 John Kinchloe DeJarnette 11/30/62 12/3/62Due to an FBI investigation, DeJarnette was arrested in Hollywood, California.

173 Michael Joseph OConnor 12/13/62 12/28/62OConnor was arrested in New York City restaurant by FBI Agents. He had beenhiding out in a New York hotel.



1962 A total of 14 TopTenners were located.Three were located due topublic assistance.

26 fugitives were capturedin foreign countries,several of them as a resultof a joint effort betweenforeign authorities and U.S.authorities.

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174 John Lee Taylor 12/14/62 12/20/62Due to an FBI investigation, Taylor was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

175 Harold Thomas OBrien 1/4/63 1/14/65Federal process was dismissed by federal and local authorities in Lake City,Illinois.

176 Jerry Clarence Rush 1/14/63 3/25/63Due to an FBI investigation, Rush was arrested in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.

177 Marshall Frank Chrisman 2/7/63 5/21/63Chrisman was arrested in Los Angeles, California by local authorities. Appre-hended after robbing a grocery store, Chrisman was identified after a routinefingerprint check.

178 Howard Jay Barnard 4/12/63 4/6/64Barnard was arrested in North Sacramento, California by local police after rob-bing a motel of $1,000. At the time of apprehension, Barnard was wearing twosets of clothes, actors makeup and gold hair. He had cotton stuffed in hisnose and mouth to disfigure his face. Officers had to remove glue from hishands so he could be fingerprinted.

179 Leroy Ambrosia Frazier 6/4/63 9/12/63Frazier was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio by FBI and local police after a citizenrecognized Frazier from media coverage.

180 Carl Close 9/25/63 9/26/63Close was apprehended in Anderson, South Carolina by local authorities afterrobbing a bank.

181 Thomas Asbury Hadder 10/9/63 1/13/64Hadder was arrested in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by FBI Agents shortly afterhe registered at the Salvation Army Center under a fictitious name.

182 Alfred Oponowicz 11/27/63 12/23/64Oponowicz was arrested in Painesville, Ohio by FBI Agents and local authori-ties. Captured in a railroad switching yard, he attempted to evade detectionby lying completely submerged in a pool of water while breathing through areed.

183 Arthur William Couts 12/27/63 1/30/64Due to an FBI investigation, Couts was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby FBI Agents. Attempting to disguise his appearance, Couts had grown aheavy mustache and dyed his hair.

184 Jesse James Gilbert 1/27/64 2/26/64Gilbert was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by FBI Agents. In order tohide his identity, he was wearing a wig, had on dark glasses, and had placedbandages over a tattoo on his left arm. After being apprehended by the Agents,Gilbert remarked, You men are real gentlemen, and if I had to be picked upIm glad it was by the FBI.

185 Sammie Earl Ammons 2/10/64 5/15/64Ammons was arrested in Cherokee, Alabama by local police after attempting topass a bad check in a Rome, Georgia store. A high-speed chase followed aslocal authorities pursued Ammons across the state line.

186 Frank B. Dumont 3/10/64 4/27/64Dumont was arrested in Tucson, Arizona by local police after committing aburglary in an apartment building.


1963 A total of 6 TopTenners were located. Onewas located due to publicassistance.


A total of 21 arrests weredirect results of televisioncoverage, such as AmericasMost Wanted, UnsolvedMysteries, and newsprograms.

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187 William Beverly Hughes 3/18/64 4/11/64Hughes was arrested in Bylas, Arizona by the Arizona Highway Patrol after acitizen recognized him from a description reported in a newspaper article.

188 Quay Cleon Kilburn 3/23/64 6/25/64Due to an FBI investigation, Kilburn was arrested in Odgen, Utah.

189 Joseph Francis Bryan, Jr. 4/14/64 4/28/64Bryan was arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana. While Bryan was driving astolen 1963 Cadillac, he was spotted by a lone FBI Agent. The Agent flaggeddown a second Agent and the two Agents followed Bryan into a nearby shop-ping center.

190 John Robert Bailey 4/22/64 5/4/64Bailey was arrested in Hayward, California where he had posed as a plumber fortwo years.

191 George Zavada 5/6/64 6/12/64Zavada was arrested in San Jose, California after a gun battle in which he wasshot in the chest and rushed to a hospital in Santa Clara to undergo surgery.

192 George Patrick McLaughlin 5/8/64 2/24/65Due to an FBI investigation, McLaughlin was arrested in Dorchester, Massachu-setts in his third floor apartment.

193 Chester Collins 5/14/64 3/30/67Federal process dismissed in West Palm Beach, Florida at the request of localauthorities.

194 Edward Newton Nivens 5/28/64 6/2/64Nivens was arrested in Tampa, Florida by the FBI after a citizen recognizedhim from a wanted flyer.

195 Louis Frederick Vasselli 6/15/64 9/1/64Vasselli was arrested in Calumet City, Illinois by the FBI after an old school-mate recognized him from a wanted flyer.

196 Thomas Edward Galloway 6/24/64 7/17/64Galloway was arrested at a golf course in Danville, Virginia by the FBI after acitizen recognized him from a newspaper article.

197 Alson Thomas Wahrlich 7/9/64 10/28/67Wahrlich was arrested in Treasure Island, Florida after a citizen recognized hisdescription in Argosy magazine.

198 Kenneth Malcolm Christiansen 7/27/64 9/8/64Christiansen was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland by local authorities afterattempting to rob a seafood restaurant.

199 William Hutton Coble 9/11/64 3/1/65Coble was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina by Charlotte police after anunsuccessful attempt to rob a bank.

200 Lloyd Donald Greeson, Jr. 9/18/64 9/23/64Greeson was arrested in Elsinore, California by the Chief of Police after a citi-zen recognized him from a photograph on the wanted flyer.

201 Raymond Lawrence Wyngaard 10/5/64 11/28/64Due to an FBI investigation, Wyngaard was arrested in a taxi cab in downtownMadison, Wisconsin.



1965 A total of 20 TopTenners were located.Nine were located due topublic assistance.

Quay Cleon Kilburn was onthe "Top Ten" list twice,(188) and (105).

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202 Norman Belyea Gorham 12/10/64 5/27/65Gorham was arrested in Los Angeles, California after a citizen recognized himfrom a television announcement.

203 John William Clouser 1/7/65 8/1/72Federal process was dismissed in Montgomery, Alabama.

204 Walter Lee Parman 1/15/65 1/31/65Parman was arrested in Los Angeles, California after a citizen recognized himfrom a newspaper article.

205 Gene Thomas Webb 2/11/65 2/12/65Webb was arrested in Chicago, Illinois after he was recognized by FBI Agents ashe walked along a road in Colonial Village.

206 Samuel Jefferson Veney 2/25/65 3/11/65Veney was arrested in Garden City, New York with his brother, Earl Veney (207)by the FBI and Federal Narcotics Agents. Both men were working as machineoperators in a manufacturing plant. A citizen cooperating with Federal Nar-cotics recognized Veney.

207 Earl Veney 3/5/65 3/11/65See above (206).

208 Donald Stewart Heien 3/11/65 2/3/66Heien was arrested in Newton Center, Massachusetts by the FBI after a citizenrecognized him from media coverage.

209 Arthur Pierce, Jr. 3/24/65 3/25/65Pierce was arrested in Spring Valley, New York after a citizen recognized himfrom a newspaper article. He had been working as a painting contractor.

210 Donald Dean Rainey 3/26/65 6/20/65Due to an FBI investigation, Rainey was arrested in Nogales, Arizona.

211 Leslie Douglas Ashley 4/6/65 4/23/65Ashley was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia while he was working in a carnival sideshow.

212 Charles Bryan Harris 5/6/65 6/17/65Harris was apprehended near Fairfield, Illinois, living in an old farm house.

213 William Albert Autur Tahl 6/10/65 11/5/65Tahl was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri by local authorities.

214 Duane Earl Pope 6/11/65 6/11/65Pope surrendered to local police in Kansas City, Missouri shortly after he wasadded to the "Top Ten" list.

215 Allen Wade Haugsted 6/24/65 12/23/65Haugsted was arrested in Houston, Texas after a citizen recognized him from aphoto in the Houston Chronicle newspaper. He was working as a baker in asuburban shopping center.

216 Theodore Matthew Brechtel 6/30/65 8/16/65Brechtel was arrested in Chicago, Illinois at his place of employment where hewas working as a painter. Although he had been using an alias, he admittedhis true identity to arresting Agents stating, I know what you want. Im it.

217 Robert Allen Woodford 7/2/65 8/5/65Woodford was arrested in Seattle, Washington by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized him from a wanted flyer.



Family Act SamuelJefferson Veney (206) andEarl Veney (207) were thefirst brothers to appeartogether on the "Top Ten"list.

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218 Warren Cleveland Osbourne 8/12/65 9/9/65Osbourne was killed in an automobile wreck near Mount Washington, Ken-tucky after a high speed chase by local police. He was positively identifiedthrough fingerprints.

219 Holice Paul Black 8/25/65 12/15/65Due to an FBI investigation, Black was arrested in Miami, Florida.

220 Edward Owens Watkins 9/21/65 12/2/66Watkins was arrested in Florence, Montana. FBI Agents displayed photos ofWatkins to stores selling western clothing and a salesman recognized him.

221 Joel Singer 11/19/65 12/1/65Singer was apprehended in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Montreal police. Hehad been the object of an intensive joint investigation by the FBI and Cana-dian authorities.

222 James Edward Kennedy 12/8/65 12/23/65Kennedy was arrested in Worcester, Massachusetts after a citizen recognizedhim from a newspaper article.

223 Lawrence John Higgins 12/14/65 1/3/66Higgins was arrested in Emigrant Gap, California by the California HighwayPatrol.

224 Hoyt Bud Cobb 1/6/66 6/6/66Cobb was arrested in Hialeah, Florida by the FBI after a citizen recognized himfrom a Front Page Detective magazine article.

225 James Robert Bishop 1/10/66 1/21/66Bishop was arrested in Aspen, Colorado by the FBI after a citizen recognizedhim from an Identification Order. He had been working as a kitchen helper.

226 Robert Van Lewing 1/12/66 2/6/67Lewing was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri by the FBI after a citizen recog-nized him in a feature story in This Week magazine.

227 Earl Ellery Wright 1/14/66 6/20/66Due to an FBI investigation, Wright was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio.

228 Jessie James Roberts 2/3/66 2/8/66Due to an FBI investigation, Roberts was arrested in Laredo, Texas.

229 Charles Lorin Gove 2/16/66 2/16/66Gove was arrested on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans,Louisiana.

230 Ralph Dwayne Owen 2/16/66 3/11/66Due to an FBI investigation, Owen was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri.

231 Jimmy Lewis Parker 2/25/66 3/4/66Due to an FBI investigation, Parker was arrested in Detroit, Michigan.

232 Jack Daniel Sayadoff 3/17/66 3/24/66Due to an FBI investigation, Sayadoff was arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana.

233 Robert Clayton Buick 3/24/66 3/29/66Buick was arrested in Pecos, Texas by a police officer who recognized him froma wanted poster.

234 James Vernon Taylor 4/4/66 4/4/66Taylor was found dead in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore Harbor Police.



Gove (229) and Owen (230)were added at the sametime. This marks the firsttime in the history of theTop Ten program twofugitives have been addedat the same time.


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235 Lynwood Irwin Mears 4/11/66 5/2/67Meares was arrested in Winston Salem, North Carolina by the FBI after a citizenrecognized him from an article in Twin City Sentinel newspaper.

236 James Robert Ringrose 4/15/66 3/29/67Ringrose was apprehended in Osaka, Japan by Japanese Police while attempt-ing to pass bad checks. He was arrested in Hawaii after his return to theUnited States from Japan. He told the FBI Agents he had been saving an itemfor several years and now he needed it. He then presented them with theMonopoly game card, Get out of jail free.

237 Walter Leonard Lesczynski 6/16/66 9/9/66Due to an FBI investigation, Lesczynski was arrested in Chicago, Illinois.

238 Donald Rogers Smelley 6/30/66 11/8/66Due to an FBI investigation, Smelley was arrested in Hollywood, California.

239 George Ben Edmonson 9/21/66 6/28/67Edmonson was arrested in Campbells Bay, Quebec, Canada by the Royal Cana-dian Mounted Police after a Canadian citizen recognized him from an Ameri-can magazine article.

240 Everett Leroy Biggs 11/21/66 12/1/66Due to an FBI investigation, Biggs was arrested in Broomfield, Colorado.

241 Gene Robert Jennings 12/15/66 2/14/67Jennings was arrested in Atlantic City, New Jersey by the FBI after a citizenrecognized him from an article in This Week magazine..

242 Clarence Wilbert McFarland 12/22/66 4/4/67McFarland was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore Police as a bur-glary suspect. He was identified from his fingerprints.

243 Monroe Hickson 2/17/67 1/30/68In Chapel Hill, North Carolina a couple recognized Hicksons photograph in a"Top Ten" display and identified him as a migrant worker who had died ofnatural causes. Positive identification was made by fingerprints.

244 Clyde Edward Laws 2/28/67 5/18/67Laws was arrested in Raytown, Missouri through cooperation of a relative.

245 Charles Edward Ervin 4/13/67 7/25/67Ervin was arrested in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada by the Royal CanadianMounted Police. He sported facial scars indicative of plastic surgery.

246 Gordon Dale Ervin 4/13/67 6/7/69Ervin was arrested in Winnipeg, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Policenearly two years after his brother (245).

247 Thomas Franklin Dorman 4/20/67 5/20/67Dorman was arrested in Grantsburg, Indiana by the FBI aided by local and statepolice.

248 Jerry Lynn Young 4/24/67 6/15/67Young was arrested in Akron, Ohio by the FBI and local authorities.

249 Joseph Leroy Newman 6/2/67 6/29/67Due to an FBI investigation, Newman was arrested in Jersey City, New Jersey.

250 Carmen Raymond Gagliardi 6/9/67 12/23/68Gagliardi was arrested in Medford, Massachusetts in his mothers home.



1967 A total of 17 TopTenners were located. Sixwere located due to publicassistance.

Family Act CharlesEdward Ervin (245) andGordon Dale Ervin (246)were brothers. They wereadded to the Top Ten listin 1967.

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251 Donald Richard Bussmeyer 6/28/67 8/24/67Bussmeyer was arrested in Upland, California clad only in shorts. A tattoo onhis chest Don Bussmeyer Loves Joyce gave away his identity.

252 Florencio Lopez Mationg 7/1/67 7/16/67Due to an FBI investigation, Mationg was arrested in Los Angeles, Californiawith his partner Victor Bono (253).

253 Victor Jerald Bono 7/1/67 7/16/67Due to an FBI investigation, Bono was arrested in Los Angeles, California withhis partner Florencio Lopez Mationg (252).

254 Alfred Johnson Cooper, Jr. 7/27/67 9/8/67Cooper was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. A visitor on the FBI Tour inWashington, D. C. recognized Coopers photograph on the "Top Ten" display.

255 John D. Slaton 8/2/67 12/1/67Due to an FBI investigation, Slaton was arrested in Harquahala Valley, Ari-zona.

256 Jerry Ray James 8/16/67 1/24/68James was arrested in Tucson, Arizona by FBI Agents and local police. Hispartner Donald Sparks (259) was arrested with him.

257 Richard Paul Anderson 9/7/67 1/19/68Anderson was arrested in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Canadian Police

258 Henry Theodore Young 9/21/67 1/9/68Young was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri after a citizen recognized himfrom an article in Inside Detective magazine.

259 Donald Eugene Sparks 8/3/67 1/24/68Sparks was arrested in Tucson, Arizona by FBI Agents and local police. Hispartner Jerry James (256) was arrested with him.

260 Zelma Lavone King 12/14/67 1/30/68Due to an FBI investigation, King was arrested in Phoen

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