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{{Short description|List of fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in the 1990s}}
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In the [[1990s]], for the fifth decade, the [[United States]] [[FBI]] continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the '''[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]]'''. Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1990's decade in context, and then an historical list of indivdual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1990s.


The '''FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1990s''' is a list, maintained for a fifth decade, of the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]] of the United States [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].
[[Image:FBIwantfug1990s.gif|360px|right|thumb|the 1990s version of the logo previously used by the FBI as the main title for the web site page of the group of ten fugitives. This version of the logo came into use by the FBI beginning sometime during the 1990s, and lasted at least through 1998. By 2005, it had been reworked into [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 2000's|the modern logo now seen]] at the top of the group of ten fugitives page. In contrast, this early 1990s logo had appeared in the center of the group of ten fugitives on the FBI's web page, with the 10 fugitive photos and names evenly spaced all around the logo. An example of the original placement of the logo on the fugitives page of the FBI can be seen as archived in this demo here:


==FBI headlines in the 1990s==
http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/tenlist.htm]]
As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. In 1993 and 1994, the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the [[Ruby Ridge]] and [[Waco]] incidents. In 1999, the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, was added to the list for the 1998 embassy attacks.


Although many 1990s terrorists have appeared on the top 10 list of fugitives, it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI began maintaining a separate list of [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists|Most Wanted Terrorists]].
==FBI directors in decade of 1990s==
*[[William S. Sessions]] ( -1993)
*''Acting Director'': [[Floyd I. Clarke]] (1993)
*[[Louis J. Freeh]] (1993– )
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==FBI headlines in decade of 1990s==
The [[1991]] film [[Silence of the Lambs]] starred [[Jodie Foster]] as an [[FBI Agent]] Trainee in pursuit of a serial killer. The blockbuster film may have been the first high profile portrayal of women agents in the Bureau.


==FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1990s==
In [[1993]] and [[1994]] the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the [[Ruby Ridge]] and [[Waco]] incidents.
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.


[[File:FBIwantfug1990s.gif|360px|right|thumb|The 1990s version of the logo previously used by the FBI as the main title for the web site page of the group of ten fugitives. This version of the logo came into use by the FBI beginning in the 1990s, and lasted at least through 1998. By 2005, it had been reworked into [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s|the modern logo now seen]] at the top of the group of ten fugitives page. In contrast, this early 1990s logo had appeared in the center of the group of ten fugitives on the FBI's web page, with the 10 fugitive photos and names evenly spaced all around the logo.]]
From 1993, [[Fox TV]] produced the highly popular television series [[The X-files]], for an oddly different historical angle on the FBI, as fictional Agents [[Dana Scully]] and [[Fox Mulder]] encountered the paranormal.


The following [[fugitive]]s made up the top Ten list to begin the 1990s:
As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. [[1999]] includes entry on the top 10 list of the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, for the 1998 embassy attacks. Of course, bin Laden's later attack on 9/11 three years later dwarfed that 1998 event.
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Though it may seem a bit peculiar that so many 1990s terrorists appear on this top 10 list of fugitives, it should be pointed out that it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in [[2001]] that the FBI also began to maintain a separate list of [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists|Most Wanted Terrorists]].
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==FBI Most Wanted Fugitives in decade of 1990s==
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.

As the new decade opened, of particular note were the two Fugitives from the prior [[1980s]] decade list, who still remain at large today:

* 1981 #375 (twenty-five years to date), '''Donald Eugene Webb'''
* 1984 #386 (twenty-two years to date), '''Victor Manuel Gerena'''

The following Fugitives made up the remainder of the top Ten list, at the opening of the new decade:

* 1979 #366 (eleven years), '''Leo Joseph Koury'''
* 1987 #411 (three years), '''Claude Daniel Marks'''
* 1987 #412 (three years), '''Donna Jean Willmott'''
* 1989 #423 (one year), '''Armando Garcia'''
* 1989 #424 (one year), '''Melvin Edward Mays'''
* 1989 #427 (three months), '''Arthur Lee Washington Jr.'''
* 1989 #429 (one month), '''Wardell David Ford''' arrested September 17, 1990

One spot on the list of Ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the new decade in 1990.

[[Image:FBItopten1990s.gif|250px|right]]

[[Image:Wantedbythefbi.gif|500px|right|thumb|red and black headers used by the FBI on 1990s top ten [[wanted poster]]s. These two headers were replaced by the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 2000's|modern blue border version]] of the poster header some time before 2002.

This red and black 1990s version of the headers appeared on FBI wanted posters with blue text in the upper left corner reading '''FBI FUGITIVE PUBLICITY'''. An example from 1998 of the original placement of the two headers and of the blue text on the 1990s wanted posters of the FBI can be seen as archived in this demo here:

http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/felix.htm]]

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The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1990s includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order): <ref name="50th">{{cite book|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation |title=FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program: 50th Anniversary 1950-2000 |publisher=K&D Limited, Inc. |year=2000}}</ref>

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===1990===
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====Leslie Isben Rogge====
[[Image:Rogge-surrendered.jpg|120px|left|Leslie Isben Rogge]]
January 24, 1990 #430<br>
Six years on the list<br>
'''[[Leslie Isben Rogge]]''' Imprisoned in U.S. since 1996
* Surrendered [[May 19]], [[1996]] to [[Guatemala]]n authorithies.
* was featured on [[Unsolved Mysteries]]
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[http://web.archive.org/web/19961022212527/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/rogge.htm Archive of FBI Ten Most Wanted poster of Rogge]

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{| class="prettytable" style="width:100%;"
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|-
! Name
! style="border:solid 3px;width:5%"|Seq.
! Sequence Number
! style="border:solid 3px;width:25%"|Name
! Date of Entry
! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! Notes
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
|-
|-
|height="40"|[[Leo Joseph Koury]]||#366||1979||{{•}}Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of [[Stroke|cerebral vascular hypertension]] on June 16, 1991.<ref name="Matera">{{cite book|last=Matera|first=Dary|title=FBI's Ten Most Wanted: From James Earl Ray to Osama Bin Laden|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2004|isbn=978-0-06-052435-7}}</ref>
||431
!|[[Kenneth Robert Stanton]]
||October 24, 1990
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Seven days
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Imprisoned in U.S. since 1990
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* Arrested October 31, 1990 in South Carolina by FBI and York County Sheriff's department
* was featured on Unsolved Mysteries
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||432
!|[[Patrick Michael Mitchell]]
||November 23, 1990
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Four years
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Imprisoned in U.S. since 1994
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* Arrested February 22, 1994 in Southhaven, Mississippi
* Robbed [[Deposit Guaranty Bank]] in Mississippi, February 1994
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===1991===
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|height="40"|[[Donald Eugene Webb]]||#375||1981||{{•}}Removed from the list on March 31, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444213,00.html|title=Wanted: Donald Eugene Webb for the Murder of a Pennsylvania Police Chief|last=Maskaly|first=Michelle|date=October 27, 2008|publisher=[[Fox News Channel|FOX News]]|access-date=December 2, 2008}}</ref> On July 14, 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth, Massachusetts home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999.<ref>Victoria Warren, [http://whdh.com/news/fbi-remains-found-in-dartmouth-yard-are-those-of-fugitive-wanted-for-killing-police-chief Remains found in Dartmouth yard are those of fugitive wanted for killing police chief], The Associated Press via WHDH News, July 14, 2017</ref>
! style="border:solid 3px;width:5%"|Seq.
! style="border:solid 3px;width:25%"|Name
! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
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||433
!|[[Jon Preston Settle]]
||August 9, 1991
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Never published
||Imprisoned in U.S. since 1991
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* Arrested August 6, 1991 (before published on list) in Los Angeles
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|height="40"|[[Victor Manuel Gerena]]||#386||1984||{{•}}Still at large in the theft of $7 million from a Connecticut securities firm, but removed from the list on December 15, 2016.
||434
|-
!|[[Robert Michael Allen]]
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||September 13, 1991
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|height="40"|Claude Daniel Marks||#411||1987||{{•}}Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean Willmott<ref name="Matera" />
One year
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||Deceased since 1992
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* Found dead: December 23, 1992 in the California desert by three hikers
|height="40"|Donna Jean Willmott||#412||1987||{{•}}Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel Marks<ref name="Matera" />
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|height="40"|Armando Garcia||#423||1989||{{•}}Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on ''[[America's Most Wanted]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=57627|title=FBI Top Ten Fugitive Arrested In Columbia|work=[[America's Most Wanted]]|access-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208111715/http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=57627|archive-date=February 8, 2009}}</ref>
|-
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|height="40"|Melvin Edward Mays||#424||1989||{{•}}Arrested March 9, 1995<ref>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Sean|author2=Stephen Sloan|title=Historical Dictionary of Terrorism|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0-8108-4101-7|page=440}}</ref>
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|height="40"|[[Arthur Lee Washington Jr.]]||#427||1989||{{•}}Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria. He is currently still at large, though has been presumed to be deceased.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/0111fbi.htm|title=Ask the F.B.I: An addition to the "Ten Most Wanted" list|author1=Robert Haley |author2=Thomas Larned |author3=Michael Heimbach |author4=Bradley Mendenhall |date=2002-01-11|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208140744/http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/0111fbi.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2009}}</ref>
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|height="40"|Wardell David Ford||#429||1989||{{•}}Arrested September 17, 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amw.com/captures/capture.cfm?id=57628|title=FBI Top Tenner Busted Working Under Alias|work=[[America's Most Wanted]]|access-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208112033/http://www.amw.com/captures/capture.cfm?id=57628|archive-date=February 8, 2009}}</ref>
|}
|}
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One spot on the list of ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the last year of the decade in 1990.
===1992===
Throughout the year 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. Once again, all ten spots remained filled from Fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and were still at large:


[[File:FBItopten1990s.gif|250px|left]]
* 1981 #375 (eleven years), '''Donald Eugene Webb'''
[[File:Wantedbythefbi.gif|500px|left|thumb|Red and black headers used by the FBI on 1990s top ten [[wanted poster]]s. This red and black 1990s version of the headers appeared on FBI wanted posters with blue text in the upper left corner reading "FBI Fugitive Publicity." These two headers were replaced by the modern blue border version of the poster header some time before 2002.
* 1984 #386 (eight years), '''Victor Manuel Gerena'''
[[File:FBITenheader.gif|150px]]
* 1987 #411 (five years), '''Claude Daniel Marks'''
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* 1987 #412 (five years), '''Donna Jean Willmott'''
{{Clear}}
* 1989 #423 (three years), '''Armando Garcia'''
* 1989 #424 (three years), '''Melvin Edward Mays'''
* 1989 #427 (three years), '''Arthur Lee Washington Jr.'''
* 1990 #430 (two years), '''Leslie Isben Rogge'''
* 1990 #432 (two years), '''Patrick Michael Mitchell'''
* 1991 #434 (one year), '''Robert Michael Allen''' found dead December 23, 1992
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==FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1990s==
===1993===
The list of the most wanted fugitives listed during the 1990s fluctuated throughout the decade with some fugitives making reappearances on the list. In 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. As before, spots on the list were occupied by fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and still remained at large. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):<ref name="50th">{{cite book|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation |title=FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program: 50th Anniversary 1950–2000 |publisher=K&D Limited, Inc. |year=2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |title=A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" March 14, 1950 – January 1, 2000|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=March 2, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020127071933/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |archive-date = January 27, 2002}}</ref>
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====Mir Aimal Kansi====
[[Image:Kanspic1.jpg|120px|left|Mir Aimal Kansi]]
February 9, 1993 #435<br>
Four years on the list<br>
'''[[Mir Aimal Kansi]]''' was executed on [[November 14]], [[2002]] by lethal injection in a [[Virginia]] state prison; convicted [[November 12]], [[1997]]; was a fugitive in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, arrested when he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in [[Dera Ghazi Khan]], central Pakistan on [[June 17]], [[1997]]; was wanted in murder case of two [[CIA]] employees outside CIA headquarters at [[Langley, Virginia]] on [[January 25]], [[1993]], during which three others were shot as well in their cars at the intersection.


===1990–1999===
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====Ramzi Ahmed Yousef====
[[Image:Ramzi_yousef.jpg|120px|left|Ramzi Ahmed Yousef]]
April 21, 1993 #436<br>
Two years on the list<br>
'''[[Ramzi Yousef|Ramzi Ahmed Yousef]]''' was imprisoned at the federal "[[supermax]]" prison in [[Florence]], [[Colorado]], sentenced to life [[January 8]], 1998; was convicted [[November 12]], 1997 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing; he was arrested in Pakistan [[February 7]], 1995; had fled [[Manila]], [[Philippines]] after the foiled [[Bojinka]] plot [[February 6]], 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners;<br>
* Nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind [[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]]
* aka Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit
* Basit may be a stolen [[Pakistan]]i identity in [[Kuwait]], and Yousef an [[Iraq]]i agent

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===1994===
{| class="prettytable" style="width:100%;"
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! Name
! style="border:solid 3px;width:5%"|Seq.
! Sequence Number
! style="border:solid 3px;width:25%"|Name
! Date of Entry
! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! Time Listed
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
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| height="10" | [[Leslie Isben Rogge]]
||437
|#430
!|[[Joseph Martin Luther Gardner]]
||May 25, 1994
|January 24, 1990
|Six years
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Five months
||Imprisoned since 1994
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* Arrested October 19, 1994 in Philadelphia
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Leslie Ibsen Rogge 1973 from Nish Publishing Company.jpg|85px|left]]'''Leslie Isben Rogge''' surrendered May 19, 1996 to [[Guatemala]]n authorities. Was featured on ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/rogge.htm |title=FBI Ten Most Wanted poster of Rogge |access-date=May 14, 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961022212527/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/rogge.htm |archive-date=October 22, 1996 }}</ref>
||438
!|[[Gary Ray Bowles]]
||November 19, 1994
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Three days
||Imprisoned on [[death row]] since 1999
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* Death sentence overturned August 28, 1998 by [[Florida Supreme Court]];
* Arrested November 22, 1994 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida in serial killings;
* Arrested in Atlanta in August 1986;
* A drifter in and out of prison since 1981
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===1995===
{| class="prettytable" style="width:100%;"
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|-
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|
! style="border:solid 3px;width:5%"|Seq.
! style="border:solid 3px;width:25%"|Name
! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
|-
|-
| height="10" | Kenneth Robert Stanton
||439
|#431
!|[[Gerald Keith Watkins]]
|October 24, 1990
||[[March 4]], [[1995]]
|Seven days
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Two months
||Imprisoned in U.S. since 1995
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* Arrested in Harlem [[May 5]], [[1995]]
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Kenneth Robert Stanton''' was captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department.<ref>{{cite news|title=South Carolina, Suspect Extradited To Georgia |date=November 4, 1990|work=[[The Charlotte Observer]]}}</ref> Was featured on ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''.
||440
!|[[Juan Garcia-Abrego]]
||[[March 9]], [[1995]]
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Nine months
||Imprisoned in U.S. since 1996
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* imprisoned in [[Houston, Texas]] sentenced to 11 life terms on [[January 31]], [[1997]];
* Convicted in Houston [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]] [[October 16]], [[1996]] of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges;
* Expelled to US by [[Mexico]] [[January 15]], [[1996]];
* Arrested [[January 14]], [[1996]] in [[Monterrey, Mexico]];
* Indictment amended in 1996;
* Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995;
* Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston;
* Indicted in [[Dallas, Texas]] federal [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas]] in 1990;
* Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986
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| height="10" |[[Paddy Mitchell|Patrick Michael Mitchell]]
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|#432
====Abdel Bassett Ali Al-Megrahi====
|November 23, 1990
[[Image:Abdelmegrahi.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
|Four years
[[March 23]], [[1995]] #441<br>
|-
Four years on the list<br>
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Paddymitchell.jpg|85px|left]]'''Patrick Michael Mitchell''' was captured February 22, 1994 in Southaven, Mississippi and was imprisoned in the U.S. from 1994 until his death from cancer in 2007. He robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=Top U.S. Bank Robber Faces 50 Years |date=August 28, 1995|work=[[Contra Costa Times]]}}</ref>
'''[[Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi]]''' - [[Scotland]] PRISONER, murder conviction upheld by appeals court in March 2002; sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted [[January 31]], 2001; arrested in [[Holland]] [[April 5]], 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in [[December 21]], 1988 mass murder bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over [[Lockerbie, Scotland]], which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; [[Libya]]n intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for [[Libyan Arab Airlines]]
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[http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/megrahi.htm Archive demo of Megrahi's FBI Ten Most Wanted poster]
| height="10" |Jon Preston Steele

|#433
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|August 9, 1991

|Never published
====Lamen Khalifa Fhimah====
|-
[[Image:Lamenkhalifafhimah.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Jon Preston Steele''' was arrested August 6, 1991 (before being published to the list) in Los Angeles.
[[March 23]], [[1995]] #442<br>
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Four years on the list<br>
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'''[[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]]''' - ACQUITTED in Scotland [[January 31]], 2001; was a Scotland prisoner, awaiting trial as of January 2000; arrested in Holland [[April 5]], 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in the [[December 21]], [[1988]] mass murder bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States
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| height="10" |Robert Michael Allen

|#434
[http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/fhimah.htm Archive demo of Fhimah's FBI top ten wanted poster]
|September 13, 1991
|One year, 3 months
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"| '''Robert Michael Allen''' was found dead on December 23, 1992 in the California desert by three hikers.
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| height="10" |[[Mir Qazi]]
|#435
|February 9, 1993
|Four years
|-
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Mir-aimal-kasi.jpg|85px|left]]'''Mir Qazi''', known by the FBI under the name '''Mir Aimal Kansi''', was executed on November 14, 2002 by [[lethal injection]] in a [[Virginia]] state prison. Qazi was a fugitive in Afghanistan and Pakistan before being arrested after he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in [[Dera Ghazi Khan]], central Pakistan on June 17, 1997. He was wanted in the murder case of two [[CIA]] employees outside CIA headquarters at [[Langley, Virginia]] on January 25, 1993, during which three others were also shot and injured in their cars at the intersection.
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| height="10" |[[Ramzi Yousef|Ramzi Ahmed Yousef]]
|#436
|April 21, 1993
|Two years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Ramzi Yousef.gif|85px|left]]'''Ramzi Ahmed Yousef''' is imprisoned at the federal [[supermax]] prison in [[Florence, Colorado]]. He was convicted on November 12, 1997; sentenced to life January 8, 1998 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing. He was arrested in Pakistan February 7, 1995. Yousef had fled [[Manila]], [[Philippines]] after the foiled [[Bojinka]] plot February 6, 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners. He is the nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind [[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]]. Also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit
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| height="10" |[[Joseph Gardner (murderer)|Joseph Martin Luther Gardner]]
|#437
|May 25, 1994
|Five months
|-
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Joseph Martin Luther Gardner.jpg|85px|left]]'''Joseph Martin Luther Gardner''' was arrested on October 19, 1994 in [[Philadelphia]]. He remained incarcerated until he was [[List of people executed in South Carolina|executed in South Carolina]], on [[List of people executed in the United States in 2008|December 5, 2008]].<ref>[http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/gardner1136.htm Joseph Martin Luther Gardner #1136]</ref>
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| height="10" |[[Gary Ray Bowles]]
|#438
|November 19, 1994
|Three days
|-
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Gary Ray Bowles.jpg|85px|left]]'''Gary Ray Bowles''' was arrested on November 22, 1994 in [[Jacksonville Beach, Florida]] as a suspect in multiple murders. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in [[Atlanta]] in August 1986. He was executed for his crimes on [[List of people executed in the United States in 2019|August 22, 2019]], at [[Florida State Prison]].
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| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|
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| height="10" |Gerald Keith Watkins
|#439
|March 4, 1995
|Two months
|-
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Gerald Keith Watkins''' has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1995. Arrested in Harlem on May 5, 1995.
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| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|
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| height="10" |[[Juan García Ábrego]]
|#440
|March 9, 1995
|Nine months
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Juan Garcia-Abrego.jpg|85px|left]]'''Juan García Ábrego''' has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996. Currently imprisoned at Hazelton USP in West Virginia. Sentenced to 11 life terms on January 31, 1997; Convicted in Houston [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]] October 16, 1996 of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges; Expelled to US by Mexico January 15, 1996; Arrested January 14, 1996 in [[Monterrey, Mexico]]; Indictment amended in 1996; Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995; Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston; Indicted in [[Dallas, Texas]] federal [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas]] in 1990. Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986. He was the founder and drug boss of the [[Gulf Cartel]], a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, before in arrest.
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| height="10" |[[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]]
|#441
|March 23, 1995
|Four years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Abdelbaset al-Megrahi''', a Libyan national imprisoned in Scotland, whose murder conviction was upheld by appeals court in March 2002. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted January 31, 2001; arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999. He was charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over [[Lockerbie]], [[Scotland]], which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; [[Libya]]n intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for [[Libyan Arab Airlines]]. He was released on August 20, 2009 and allowed to return to Libya by the Scottish Government on [[Compassionate release|compassionate grounds]] following doctors reporting on the August 10, 2009 that he had [[prostate cancer#Prognosis|terminal prostate cancer]] and had less than three months to live.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00603/Abdel_Baset_al_Megr_603477a.pdf |work = Times Online|title= Progress record |access-date=January 27, 2010|quote= The clinical assessment, therefore, is that a 3 month prognosis is now a reasonable estimate for this patient.}}</ref><ref name="wsj_100116">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126333597493626757?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories|title=Lockerbie Release Is Defended |last=Sonne|first=Paul|date=January 13, 2010|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=January 16, 2010}}</ref> He died in Tripoli, Libya on May 20, 2012.
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| height="10" |[[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]]
|#442
|March 23, 1995
|Four years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Lamin Khalifah Fhimah''' was acquitted in Scotland January 31, 2001. He was arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States" and wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States.
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| height="10" |[[O'Neil Vassell]]
|#443
|July 15, 1995
|One year
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''O'Neil Vassell''' is a US prisoner arrested on October 16, 1996 in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. He was wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]] area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the "[[RATs]]" Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/vassinfo.htm|title=O'Neil Vassell|access-date=October 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961022213139/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/vassinfo.htm|archive-date=October 22, 1996}}</ref>
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| height="10" |Rickey Allen Bright
|#444
|December 15, 1995
|Three weeks
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Rickey Allen Bright''' is a US prisoner who was arrested on January 7, 1996 in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. He was wanted in the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old [[Wilkes County, North Carolina]] girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in [[Gastonia, North Carolina]] in 1979
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| height="10" |[[Agustín Vásquez Mendoza]]
|#445
|August 3, 1996
|Four years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza.jpg|85px|left]]'''Agustín Vásquez Mendoza''' has been imprisoned since 2000 in [[Maricopa County, Arizona]]. He was arrested in Mexico July 9, 2000 for unlawful flight after being indicted in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] July 11, 1994 in murder of an undercover [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] special agent in [[Glendale, Arizona]] on June 30, 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy
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| height="10" |[[Thang Thanh Nguyen]]
|#446
|August 3, 1996
|One year
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Thang-Thanh-Nguyen.png|85px|left]]'''Thang Thanh Nguyen''' has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998 after being extradited to [[Rochester, New York]] January 6, 1998 from [[Bangkok, Thailand]] He was turned over to the FBI and transported from [[Vietnam]]; was arrested December 22, 1997 in [[Bạc Liêu|Bac Lieu, Vietnam]]. Nguyen was charged by FBI with unlawful flight July 14, 1992 following an arrest warrant for his indictment in [[Monroe County, New York]] July 9, 1992; for an in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in [[Irondequoit, New York]] January 26, 1992.
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| height="10" |[[Glen Stewart Godwin]]
|#447
|December 7, 1996
|Still at large but removed from the list
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"| '''Glen Stewart Godwin''' is being sought for his 1987 escape from [[Folsom State Prison]] in [[California]], where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987. He was convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico in 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30, 1987 through a storm drain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/godwin.htm|title=Glen Stewart Godwin|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=October 3, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004043541/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/godwin.htm|archive-date=October 4, 2008}}</ref> As of May 19, 2016 he was no longer on the list.
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| height="10" |David Alex Alvarez
|#448
|December 14, 1996
|Five months
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''David Alex Alvarez''' is a Mexican prisoner who was arrested on May 20, 1997 in [[Tijuana, Mexico]]. He was wanted in murder of four people, including two young girls, and wounding of three other people, at [[Baldwin Park, California]] September 29, 1996. He was also wanted in a kidnapping in California, August 1996. He was paroled in 1994 after being sentenced to five years in 1992 following a conviction of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/alva.htm|title=David Alex Alvarez|access-date=October 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961221001731/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/alva.htm|archive-date=December 21, 1996}}</ref>
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| height="10" |[[Andrew Cunanan|Andrew Phillip Cunanan]]
|#449
|June 12, 1997
|One month
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Andrew Cunanan FBI Photo - cropped.jpg|85px|left]]'''Andrew Phillip Cunanan''' committed suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on [[Indian Creek Canal]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] July 23, 1997. He was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer [[Gianni Versace]] outside his Miami Beach house July 15, 1997. Arrived in Miami Beach on May 10, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of [[Finn's Point Cemetery]] worker in [[Pennsville, New Jersey]] May 9, 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of [[Chicago, Illinois]] real-estate developer [[Lee Miglin]] at his home May 3, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near [[Duluth, Minnesota]] around April 29, 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] April 27, 1997.
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| height="10" |Paul Ragusa
|#450
|September 6, 1997
|Four months
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Paul Ragusa''' has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on January 30, 1998 in New York. He had cosmetic surgery in 1997 following an indictment on racketeering charges June 14, 1996. He was wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23, 1993; beating a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, New York in 1990 (charges were dropped in the beating case); beating a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, New York in March 1989.
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| height="10" |[[Ramón Arellano Félix|Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix]]
|#451
|September 18, 1997
|Five years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|'''Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix''' was killed in a gun battle with police at [[Mazatlán]] February 10, 2002. He was wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in the mass murder of 19 people in [[Ensenada, Baja California|Ensenada]] September 17, 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]], with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the [[Arellano-Felix Organization]] (AFO), which is also known as the [[Tijuana Cartel]].
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| height="10" |[[Tony Ray Amati]]
|#452
|February 21, 1998
|Four days
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:TonyRayAmati.png|85px|left]]'''Tony Ray Amati''' has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on February 25, 1998 in [[Marietta, Georgia]]; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May–August 1996.
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| height="10" |[[Harry Joseph Bowman]]
|#453
|March 14, 1998
|One year
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Harry Joseph Bowman.gif|85px|left]]'''Harry Joseph "Taco" Bowman''' has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1999 after being arrested June 7, 1999 in [[Sterling Heights, Michigan]]. Indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of an Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in [[Cook County, Illinois]] in 1994; wanted in the murder of rival club member in [[Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida|Edgewater, Florida]] in 1991; wanted in the murder of an Outlaws member in [[Ormond Beach, Florida]] in 1982; former international president of the [[Outlaws Motorcycle Club]] in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/bowman.htm |title=Harry Joseph Bowman|access-date=October 3, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19981205092830/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/bowman.htm |archive-date = December 5, 1998}}</ref>
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| height="10" |[[Eric Robert Rudolph]]
|#454
|May 5, 1998
|Five years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Eric Rudolph (cropped).png|85px|left]]'''Eric Robert Rudolph''', a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in [[Murphy, North Carolina]], May 31, 2003. He was charged on October 14, 1998 in a series of southeastern US bombings. Before being arrested, his last known contact was with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina February 8, 1998; wanted in a bombing murder and maiming at a [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] abortion clinic January 29, 1998; wanted in a double bombing at a nightclub in [[Atlanta]] February 21, 1997; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29, 1997; wanted in a double bombing at office building in north Atlanta on January 16, 1997; wanted in a bombing murder at [[Centennial Olympic Park]] in Atlanta, July 27, 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel03/05312003.htm|title=Statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft Regarding The Arrest of Eric Robert Rudolph |date=May 31, 2003|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=2008-10-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080709053423/http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel03/05312003.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = July 9, 2008}}</ref>
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| height="10" |[[James Charles Kopp]]
|#455
|June 7, 1999
|Two years
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:James Charles Kopp.jpg|85px|left]]'''James Charles Kopp''',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/jkopp.htm|title=James Charles Kopp|access-date=October 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304153419/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/jkopp.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2000}}</ref> a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in [[Dinan]], [[Brittany]], France, March 30, 2001. He was wanted for the murder of Dr. [[Barnett Slepian]] at his home in [[Amherst, New York]], October 23, 1998 and for non-fatal shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1994, 1995 and 1997.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/apr/01/edvulliamy.henrymcdonald|title=Abortion death hunt muzzles 'Atomic Dog'|last=Vulliamy|first=Ed|author2=Henry McDonald |author3=Stuart Jeffries |date=April 1, 2001|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=June 23, 2010}}</ref> Kopp was indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force and indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 [[Chevrolet Cavalier]] was found abandoned at [[Newark International Airport]] December 18, 1998 after he initially disappeared on November 3, 1998.
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| height="10" |[[Osama bin Laden|Usama<!--While "Osama" may be the right choice in most cases the FBI 10 most wanted list uses "Usama".--> Bin Laden]]<ref name="fbi.gov">[https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden/view Name as it appears on FBI Most wanted poster] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083559/https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden/view |date=March 5, 2016}}</ref><br>Full name: '''Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden'''<br>{{lang-ar|أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن}}
|#456
|June 7, 1999
|11 years, 10 months, 23 days
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg|85px|left]]
'''Osama bin Laden''' was the leader of [[al-Qaeda]] and was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings|bombings of the United States embassies]], [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Nairobi|Nairobi, Kenya]]. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda is alleged to be responsible for the October 12, 2000, [[USS Cole bombing|attack]] on the {{USS|Cole|DDG-67|6}} off the coast of [[Yemen]]. Although bin Laden later appeared on the first publicly released [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]] list on October 10, 2001, he was listed there for his alleged role in the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks]]. Osama bin Laden was the subject of a $50&nbsp;million<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6898075.stm| work=BBC News | title=Senate doubles Bin Laden reward | date=July 13, 2007| access-date=April 2, 2010}}</ref> reward through the [[United States Department of State|State Department]]'s [[Rewards for Justice Program|Rewards for Justice]] program.{{ref label|Note1|a|a}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm|title=Osama bin Laden's FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Alert|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=July 10, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103044553/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm|archive-date=January 3, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Bin_Laden|title=Rewards for Justice Wanted Terrorist Osama bin Laden|publisher=Rewards for Justice|access-date=July 10, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721144824/http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Bin_Laden|archive-date=July 21, 2006}}</ref>


[[Death of Osama bin Laden|Osama bin Laden was killed]] during Operation Neptune Spear<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/neptune-spear.htm|title=Operation Neptune Spear|publisher=GlobalSecurity.org|access-date=May 17, 2011}}</ref> in [[Abbottabad|Abbottābad]], Pakistan, on May&nbsp;2, 2011.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/war_room/bin-laden-killed-after-firefight-in-pakistan-05022011| author=Doug Luzader| title=Bin Laden Killed after Firefight in Pakistan| publisher=Fox News| date=May 2, 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505184359/http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/war_room/bin-laden-killed-after-firefight-in-pakistan-05022011| archive-date=May 5, 2011}}</ref>
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====O'Neil Vassell====
[[Image:Vassell-captured.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
[[July 15]], [[1995]] #443<br>
One year on the list<br>
'''[[O'Neil Vassell]]''' - US PRISONER arrested [[October 16]], [[1996]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]; wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]] area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the "[[RATs]]" Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.
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[http://web.archive.org/web/19961022213139/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/vassinfo.htm Archive of Vassell's FBI top ten wanted poster]

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====Rickey Allen Bright====
[[December 15]], [[1995]] #444<br>
Three weeks on the list<br>
'''[[Rickey Allen Bright]]''' - US PRISONER arrested [[January 7]], 1996 in [[North Carolina]]; wanted in kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old [[Wilkes County, North Carolina]] girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in [[Gastonia, North Carolina]] in 1979
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===1996===
====Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza====
[[Image:Augustinmendoza.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
[[August 3]], [[1996]] #445<br />
Four years on the list<br />
'''[[Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza]]''' - Imprisoned since 2000 in [[Maricopa County, Arizona]]; arrested in [[Mexico]] [[July 9]], 2000; was wanted for unlawful flight; indicted in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] [[July 11]], [[1994]] in murder of an undercover [[DEA]] special agent in [[Glendale, Arizona]] on [[June 30]], 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy
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[http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/mendoza.htm Archive demo of Vasquez-Mendoza's FBI top ten wanted poster]

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====Thang Thanh Nguyen====
[[Image:Thangnguyen.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
[[August 3]], [[1996]] #446<br />
One year on the list<br />
'''[[Thang Thanh Nguyen]]''' - Imprisoned in U.S. since 1998; was extradited to [[Rochester, New York]] [[January 6]], [[1998]] from [[Bangkok, Thailand]] after he was turned over to the FBI and transported from [[Vietnam]]; was arrested [[December 22]], [[1997]] in [[Bac Lieu, Vietnam]]; was charged by FBI with Unlawful Flight [[July 14]], [[1992]]; arrest warrant was issued and he was indicted in [[Monroe County, New York]] [[July 9]], [[1992]]; was wanted in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in [[Irondequoit, New York]] [[January 26]], [[1992]]
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[http://web.archive.org/web/19961022212115/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/nguyen.htm Archive of Nguyen's FBI wanted poster]

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====Glen Stewart Godwin====
[[Image:Godwinaged.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
December 7, 1996 #447<br>
still at large on the list<br>
'''[[Glen Stewart Godwin]]''' is being sought for his 1987 escape from [[Folsom State Prison]] in [[California]], where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987; convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30, 1987 through a storm drain<br>
[http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/godwin.htm Godwin's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert]
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====David Alex Alvarez====
[[Image:DavidAlvarez1994.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
December 14, 1996 #448<br>
Five months on the list<br>
'''[[David Alex Alvarez]]''' - Mexico PRISONER arrested [[May 20]], [[1997]] in [[Tijuana, Mexico]]; wanted in murder of four people, including two young gilrs, and wounding of three other people, at [[Baldwin Park, California]] [[September 29]], [[1996]]; wanted in kidnapping in California August 1996; paroled in 1994; sentenced to five years, convicted of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992
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[http://web.archive.org/web/19961221001731/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/alva.htm Archive of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive wanted poster for Alvarez]

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===1997===
====Andrew Phillip Cunanan====
[[Image:Cunanan.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
June 12, 1997 #449<br>
One month on the list<br>
[[Andrew Cunanan|'''Andrew Phillip Cunanan''']] - Deceased, by suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on [[Indian Creek Canal]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] [[July 23]], 1997; was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer [[Gianni Versace]] outside his Miami Beach house [[July 15]], 1997; arrived in Miami Beach on [[May 10]], 1997; wanted in shooting murder of [[Finn's Point Cemetery]] worker in [[Pennsville, New Jersey]] [[May 9]], 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of [[Chicago, Illinois]] real-estate developer [[Lee Miglin]] at his home [[May 3]], 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near [[Duluth, Minnesota]] about [[April 29]], 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] [[April 27]], 1997

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! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
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| height="10" |[[Ángel Maturino Reséndiz]]
||450
|#457
!|[[Paul Ragusa]]
|June 21, 1999
||September 6, 1997
|Three weeks
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Four months
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* Arrested January 30, 1998 in New York; had cosmetic surgery in 1997; indicted on racketeering charges June 14, 1996; wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23, 1993; beat a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, NY in 1990; charges were dropped in the beating case; beat a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, NY in March 1989
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:Ángel Maturino Reséndiz.jpg|85px|left]]'''Ángel Maturino Reséndiz''' a.k.a. '''Rafael Resendez-Ramirez''' was executed June 27, 2006 in [[Huntsville, Texas]] by [[lethal injection]]. He was arrested July 13, 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as "The Railway Killer" in [[Jackson County, Illinois]], June 15, 1999; murder in [[Houston, Texas]], June 5, 1999; murder in [[Fayette County, Texas]], June 4, 1999; double murder in [[Weimar, Texas]], April 30, 1999; murder in [[West University, Texas]], December 17, 1998; murder in [[Lexington, Kentucky]], August 29, 1997.
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| height="10" |[[Whitey Bulger|James J. Bulger]]
|#458
|August 19, 1999
|11 years, 10 months, 3 days
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| colspan="4" valign="top" height="100"|[[File:James Bulger 1994.jpg|85px|left]]'''James J. Bulger''' was wanted for his role in 19 murders committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an [[Winter Hill Gang|Irish organized crime group]] that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the [[Boston, Massachusetts]] area. He had a violent temper and was known to carry a knife at all times.

Arrested June 22, 2011, in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/james-j.-bulger|title=James J. Bulger|access-date=June 23, 2011|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2011/top-ten-fugitive-james-2018whitey2019-bulger-arrested|title=Top Ten Fugitive James 'Whitey' Bulger Arrested|date=June 23, 2011|access-date=June 23, 2011|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref>
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==End of the decade==
====Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix====
As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
[[Image:Ramonfelix.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
{| class="wikitable"
[[September 18]], [[1997]] #451<br />
Five years on the list<br />
'''[[Ramón Arellano Félix|Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix]]''' - Killed in a gunbattle with police at [[Mazatlan]] [[February 10]], [[2002]]; was at large in Mexico as of 1997; wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in mass murder of 19 people in [[Ensenada]] [[September 17]], 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]], with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the [[Arellano-Felix Organization]] (AFO), which is also known as the [[Tijuana Cartel]].<br />

[http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/felix.htm Archive demo of Arellano-Felix's FBI wanted poster]
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===1998===
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! Name
! style="border:solid 3px;width:5%"|Seq.
! Sequence number
! style="border:solid 3px;width:25%"|Name
! Date of entry
! style="border:solid 3px;width:22%"|Date listed as fugitive, how long
! style="border:solid 3px;width:48%"|Last known status, history and crimes
|-
|-
|[[Donald Eugene Webb]]||#375||May 4, 1981
||452
!|[[Tony Ray Amati]]
||February 21, 1998
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Four days
||Imprisoned in U.S. since 1998
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* Arrested February 25, 1998 in [[Marietta, Georgia]]; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May-July 1996
|-
|-
|[[Victor Manuel Gerena]]||#386||May 14, 1984
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|[[Arthur Lee Washington Jr.]]||#427||Oct 18, 1989
|-
|[[Agustín Vásquez Mendoza]]||#445||Aug 3, 1996
|-
|[[Glen Stewart Godwin]]||#447||Dec 7, 1996
|-
|[[Ramón Arellano Félix]]||#451||Sep 18, 1997
|-
|[[Eric Robert Rudolph]]||#454||May 5, 1998
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|[[James Charles Kopp]]||#455||Jun 7, 1999
|-
|
[[Osama bin Laden|Usama<!--While "Osama" may be the right choice in most cases the FBI 10 most wanted list uses "Usama".--> Bin Laden]]<ref name="fbi.gov"/><small><br>AKA: '''Osama bin Laden'''<br>{{lang-ar|أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن}}</small>
||#456||Jun 7, 1999
|-
|[[James J. Bulger]]||#458||Aug 19, 1999
|}
|}
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====Harry Joseph Bowman====
[[Image:Harrybowman.gif|120px|thumb|left]]
March 14, 1998 #453<br />
One year on the list<br>
'''[[Harry Joseph Bowman]]''' - Imprisoned in U.S. since 1999; arrested [[June 7]], 1999 in [[Sterling Heights, Michigan]]; indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in [[Cook County, Illinois]] in 1994; wanted in murder of rival club member in [[Edgewater, Florida]] in 1991; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in [[Ormond Beach, Florida]] in 1982; former international president of the [[Outlaws Motorcycle Club]] in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries<br />

[http://attrasoft.com/imagelib/FBI10mostwanted/bowman.htm Demo archive of Bowman's FBI wanted poster]

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====Eric Robert Rudolph====
[[Image:Ericrudolph.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
May 5, 1998 #454<br>
Five years on the list<br>
'''[[Eric Robert Rudolph]]''' - US PRISONER, arrested in [[Murphy, North Carolina]], [[May 31]], [[2003]]; His brother cut off his own hand in show of solidarity with Eric; charged [[October 14]], [[1998]] in a series of southeastern US bombings; at large in the mountains of western North Carolina as of May 1998; last made known contact with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina [[February 8]], 1998; wanted in bombing murder and maiming at a [[Birmingham]] abortion clinic [[January 29]], 1998; wanted in double bombing at a nightclub in [[Atlanta]] [[February 21]], [[1997]]; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29, 1997; wanted in double bombing at office building in north Atlanta on [[January 16]], 1997; wanted in bombing murder at [[Centennial Park]] in Atlanta [[July 27]], 1996.</b>
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[http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel03/05312003.htm AG John Ashcroft Press Release at FBI on Rudolph's capture]
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===1999===
====James Charles Kopp====
[[Image:JamesKopp1997.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
June 7, 1999 #455<br>
Two years on the list<br>
'''[[James Charles Kopp]]''' - US PRISONER; arrested in [[Dinan]], [[Brittany]], [[France]] [[March 30]], 2001; vanished from [[Ireland]] on a false passport [[March 12]], 2001; indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force; indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 [[Chevrolet Cavalier]] was found abandoned at [[Newark International Airport]] [[December 18]], 1998; disappeared [[November 3]], 1998; wanted in murder of Dr. [[Barnett Slepian]] at his home in [[Amherst, New York]] [[October 23]], 1998; wanted for shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1997, 1995 and 1994; jailed at [[Key Road Detentional Facility]] in [[Atlanta]] for his part in July 1988 '[[Siege of Atlanta]]' by [[Operation Rescue]].<br/>

[http://web.archive.org/web/20000304153419/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/jkopp.htm Archive of Kopp profile at FBI]


==FBI directors in the 1990s==
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*[[William S. Sessions]] (1987–1993)
====Osama bin Laden====
*[[Floyd I. Clarke]] (1993)
<!-- The FBI transliterates his name from Arabic as "Usama" not "Osama". Both spellings are correct. Here, the FBI usage is proper. -->
*[[Louis J. Freeh]] (1993–2001)
[[Image:FBI_Bin_Laden.png|120px|thumb|left]]
June 7, 1999 #456<br>
still at large on the list<br>
'''[[Osama bin Laden]]''' is the leader of [[Al Qaeda]], and is wanted in connection with the [[August 7]], [[1998]], bombings of the United States embassies in [[Dar Es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]]. These attacks killed over 200 people. Osama and Al-Qaeda are also responsible for the [[October 12]], [[2000]], attack on the [[USS Cole (DDG-67)|USS Cole]] off the coast of [[Yemen]], which killed 17. Although bin Laden also later appeared on the first publicly released '''[[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]]''' list on [[Oct. 10]], [[2001]], he was listed there for the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11, 2001]] terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000, because the Most Wanted lists name individuals charged with a crime by a [[prosecutor]] or under [[indictment]] by a [[grand jury]]. Bin Laden has been named as an [[unindicted co-conspirator]] in, for instance, the federal indictment against convicted terrorist [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], but has not been formally indicted for his role in the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden is the subject of a [[United States dollar|$]]25 million [[Bounty (reward)|reward]] through the [[United States State Department|State Department's]] [[Bureau of Diplomatic Security|Rewards for Justice Program]] targeting international fugitives, especially terrorists, plus $2 million through a program developed and funded by the [[Air Line Pilots Association]] and the [[Air Transport Association]].<br>

[http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm Usama Bin Laden's FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Alert]<br>
[http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Bin_Laden Rewards for Justice Wanted Terrorist Osama bin Laden]

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====Rafael Resendez-Ramirez====
[[Image:Resendez-Ramirez.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
June 21, 1999 #457<br>
Three weeks on the list<br>
'''[[Ángel Maturino Reséndiz]]''' aka '''Rafael Resendez-Ramirez''' - executed [[June 27]], [[2006]] in [[Huntsville, Texas]] by [[lethal injection]]; was a US PRISONER arrested [[July 13]], 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as ''''The Railway Killer'''' in [[Jackson County, Illinois]] [[June 15]], 1999; murder in [[Houston, Texas]] [[June 5]], 1999; murder in [[Fayette County, Texas]] [[June 4]], 1999; double murder in [[Weimar, Texas]] [[April 30]], 1999; murder in [[West University, Texas]] [[December 17]], 1998; Murder in [[Lexington, Kentucky]] [[August 29]], 1997.

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====James J. Bulger====
[[Image:jamesjbulger.jpg|120px|thumb|left]]
August 19, 1999 #458<br>
still at large on the list<br>
'''[[James J. Bulger]]''' is wanted for his role in numerous murders (18 counts) committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the [[Boston, Massachusetts]], area. He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times.
[http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm Bulger' s FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert]
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As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:

* 1981 #375 (nineteen years), '''Donald Eugene Webb'''
* 1984 #386 (sixteen years), '''Victor Manuel Gerena'''
* 1989 #427 (eleven years), '''Arthur Lee Washington Jr.'''
* 1996 #445 (four years), '''Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza''' arrested July 9, 2000
* 1996 #447 (six years), '''Glen Stewart Godwin'''
* 1997 #451 (three years), '''Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix'''
* 1998 #454 (two years), '''Eric Robert Rudolph'''
* 1999 #455 (one year), '''James Charles Kopp'''
* 1999 #456 (one year), '''Osama bin Laden'''
* 1999 #458 (one year), '''James J. Bulger'''

==See also==
*[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 2000's]]
*[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1980's]]
*[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1970's]]
*[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1960's]]
*[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1950's]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm Current FBI top ten most wanted fugitives at FBI site]
*[https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten Current FBI Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]

*[http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf FBI pdf source document listing all Ten Most Wanted year by year (removed by FBI)]
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The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1990s is a list, maintained for a fifth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBI headlines in the 1990s[edit]

As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. In 1993 and 1994, the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. In 1999, the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, was added to the list for the 1998 embassy attacks.

Although many 1990s terrorists have appeared on the top 10 list of fugitives, it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI began maintaining a separate list of Most Wanted Terrorists.

FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1990s[edit]

The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.

The 1990s version of the logo previously used by the FBI as the main title for the web site page of the group of ten fugitives. This version of the logo came into use by the FBI beginning in the 1990s, and lasted at least through 1998. By 2005, it had been reworked into the modern logo now seen at the top of the group of ten fugitives page. In contrast, this early 1990s logo had appeared in the center of the group of ten fugitives on the FBI's web page, with the 10 fugitive photos and names evenly spaced all around the logo.

The following fugitives made up the top Ten list to begin the 1990s:

Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Notes
Leo Joseph Koury #366 1979  • Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of cerebral vascular hypertension on June 16, 1991.[1]
Donald Eugene Webb #375 1981  • Removed from the list on March 31, 2007.[2] On July 14, 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth, Massachusetts home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999.[3]
Victor Manuel Gerena #386 1984  • Still at large in the theft of $7 million from a Connecticut securities firm, but removed from the list on December 15, 2016.
Claude Daniel Marks #411 1987  • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean Willmott[1]
Donna Jean Willmott #412 1987  • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel Marks[1]
Armando Garcia #423 1989  • Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on America's Most Wanted.[4]
Melvin Edward Mays #424 1989  • Arrested March 9, 1995[5]
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. #427 1989  • Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria. He is currently still at large, though has been presumed to be deceased.[6]
Wardell David Ford #429 1989  • Arrested September 17, 1990[7]

One spot on the list of ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the last year of the decade in 1990.

Red and black headers used by the FBI on 1990s top ten wanted posters. This red and black 1990s version of the headers appeared on FBI wanted posters with blue text in the upper left corner reading "FBI Fugitive Publicity." These two headers were replaced by the modern blue border version of the poster header some time before 2002.

FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1990s[edit]

The list of the most wanted fugitives listed during the 1990s fluctuated throughout the decade with some fugitives making reappearances on the list. In 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. As before, spots on the list were occupied by fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and still remained at large. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):[8][9]

1990–1999[edit]

Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time Listed
Leslie Isben Rogge #430 January 24, 1990 Six years
Leslie Isben Rogge surrendered May 19, 1996 to Guatemalan authorities. Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries.[10]
Kenneth Robert Stanton #431 October 24, 1990 Seven days
Kenneth Robert Stanton was captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department.[11] Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries.
Patrick Michael Mitchell #432 November 23, 1990 Four years
Patrick Michael Mitchell was captured February 22, 1994 in Southaven, Mississippi and was imprisoned in the U.S. from 1994 until his death from cancer in 2007. He robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994.[12]
Jon Preston Steele #433 August 9, 1991 Never published
Jon Preston Steele was arrested August 6, 1991 (before being published to the list) in Los Angeles.
Robert Michael Allen #434 September 13, 1991 One year, 3 months
Robert Michael Allen was found dead on December 23, 1992 in the California desert by three hikers.
Mir Qazi #435 February 9, 1993 Four years
Mir Qazi, known by the FBI under the name Mir Aimal Kansi, was executed on November 14, 2002 by lethal injection in a Virginia state prison. Qazi was a fugitive in Afghanistan and Pakistan before being arrested after he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan on June 17, 1997. He was wanted in the murder case of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia on January 25, 1993, during which three others were also shot and injured in their cars at the intersection.
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef #436 April 21, 1993 Two years
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is imprisoned at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was convicted on November 12, 1997; sentenced to life January 8, 1998 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing. He was arrested in Pakistan February 7, 1995. Yousef had fled Manila, Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot February 6, 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners. He is the nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit
Joseph Martin Luther Gardner #437 May 25, 1994 Five months
Joseph Martin Luther Gardner was arrested on October 19, 1994 in Philadelphia. He remained incarcerated until he was executed in South Carolina, on December 5, 2008.[13]
Gary Ray Bowles #438 November 19, 1994 Three days
Gary Ray Bowles was arrested on November 22, 1994 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as a suspect in multiple murders. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in Atlanta in August 1986. He was executed for his crimes on August 22, 2019, at Florida State Prison.
Gerald Keith Watkins #439 March 4, 1995 Two months
Gerald Keith Watkins has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1995. Arrested in Harlem on May 5, 1995.
Juan García Ábrego #440 March 9, 1995 Nine months
Juan García Ábrego has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996. Currently imprisoned at Hazelton USP in West Virginia. Sentenced to 11 life terms on January 31, 1997; Convicted in Houston United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas October 16, 1996 of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges; Expelled to US by Mexico January 15, 1996; Arrested January 14, 1996 in Monterrey, Mexico; Indictment amended in 1996; Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995; Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston; Indicted in Dallas, Texas federal United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in 1990. Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986. He was the founder and drug boss of the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, before in arrest.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi #441 March 23, 1995 Four years
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan national imprisoned in Scotland, whose murder conviction was upheld by appeals court in March 2002. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted January 31, 2001; arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999. He was charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; Libyan intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for Libyan Arab Airlines. He was released on August 20, 2009 and allowed to return to Libya by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds following doctors reporting on the August 10, 2009 that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live.[14][15] He died in Tripoli, Libya on May 20, 2012.
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah #442 March 23, 1995 Four years
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was acquitted in Scotland January 31, 2001. He was arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States" and wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States.
O'Neil Vassell #443 July 15, 1995 One year
O'Neil Vassell is a US prisoner arrested on October 16, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York. He was wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the "RATs" Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.[16]
Rickey Allen Bright #444 December 15, 1995 Three weeks
Rickey Allen Bright is a US prisoner who was arrested on January 7, 1996 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was wanted in the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old Wilkes County, North Carolina girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1979
Agustín Vásquez Mendoza #445 August 3, 1996 Four years
Agustín Vásquez Mendoza has been imprisoned since 2000 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was arrested in Mexico July 9, 2000 for unlawful flight after being indicted in Phoenix, Arizona July 11, 1994 in murder of an undercover DEA special agent in Glendale, Arizona on June 30, 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy
Thang Thanh Nguyen #446 August 3, 1996 One year
Thang Thanh Nguyen has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998 after being extradited to Rochester, New York January 6, 1998 from Bangkok, Thailand He was turned over to the FBI and transported from Vietnam; was arrested December 22, 1997 in Bac Lieu, Vietnam. Nguyen was charged by FBI with unlawful flight July 14, 1992 following an arrest warrant for his indictment in Monroe County, New York July 9, 1992; for an in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in Irondequoit, New York January 26, 1992.
Glen Stewart Godwin #447 December 7, 1996 Still at large but removed from the list
Glen Stewart Godwin is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987. He was convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico in 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30, 1987 through a storm drain.[17] As of May 19, 2016 he was no longer on the list.
David Alex Alvarez #448 December 14, 1996 Five months
David Alex Alvarez is a Mexican prisoner who was arrested on May 20, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico. He was wanted in murder of four people, including two young girls, and wounding of three other people, at Baldwin Park, California September 29, 1996. He was also wanted in a kidnapping in California, August 1996. He was paroled in 1994 after being sentenced to five years in 1992 following a conviction of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992.[18]
Andrew Phillip Cunanan #449 June 12, 1997 One month
Andrew Phillip Cunanan committed suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on Indian Creek Canal in Miami Beach, Florida July 23, 1997. He was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach house July 15, 1997. Arrived in Miami Beach on May 10, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of Finn's Point Cemetery worker in Pennsville, New Jersey May 9, 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of Chicago, Illinois real-estate developer Lee Miglin at his home May 3, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near Duluth, Minnesota around April 29, 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 27, 1997.
Paul Ragusa #450 September 6, 1997 Four months
Paul Ragusa has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on January 30, 1998 in New York. He had cosmetic surgery in 1997 following an indictment on racketeering charges June 14, 1996. He was wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23, 1993; beating a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, New York in 1990 (charges were dropped in the beating case); beating a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, New York in March 1989.
Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix #451 September 18, 1997 Five years
Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix was killed in a gun battle with police at Mazatlán February 10, 2002. He was wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in the mass murder of 19 people in Ensenada September 17, 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in United States District Court for the Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), which is also known as the Tijuana Cartel.
Tony Ray Amati #452 February 21, 1998 Four days
Tony Ray Amati has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on February 25, 1998 in Marietta, Georgia; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May–August 1996.
Harry Joseph Bowman #453 March 14, 1998 One year
Harry Joseph "Taco" Bowman has been imprisoned in the U.S. since 1999 after being arrested June 7, 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of an Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in Cook County, Illinois in 1994; wanted in the murder of rival club member in Edgewater, Florida in 1991; wanted in the murder of an Outlaws member in Ormond Beach, Florida in 1982; former international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries.[19]
Eric Robert Rudolph #454 May 5, 1998 Five years
Eric Robert Rudolph, a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in Murphy, North Carolina, May 31, 2003. He was charged on October 14, 1998 in a series of southeastern US bombings. Before being arrested, his last known contact was with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina February 8, 1998; wanted in a bombing murder and maiming at a Birmingham abortion clinic January 29, 1998; wanted in a double bombing at a nightclub in Atlanta February 21, 1997; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29, 1997; wanted in a double bombing at office building in north Atlanta on January 16, 1997; wanted in a bombing murder at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, July 27, 1996.[20]
James Charles Kopp #455 June 7, 1999 Two years
James Charles Kopp,[21] a U.S. prisoner, was arrested in Dinan, Brittany, France, March 30, 2001. He was wanted for the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian at his home in Amherst, New York, October 23, 1998 and for non-fatal shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1994, 1995 and 1997.[22] Kopp was indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force and indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier was found abandoned at Newark International Airport December 18, 1998 after he initially disappeared on November 3, 1998.
Usama Bin Laden[23]
Full name: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن 		#456 June 7, 1999 11 years, 10 months, 23 days

Osama bin Laden was the leader of al-Qaeda and was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda is alleged to be responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. Although bin Laden later appeared on the first publicly released FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on October 10, 2001, he was listed there for his alleged role in the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Osama bin Laden was the subject of a $50 million[24] reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice program.[a][25][26]

Osama bin Laden was killed during Operation Neptune Spear[27] in Abbottābad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011.[28]

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz #457 June 21, 1999 Three weeks
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz a.k.a. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez was executed June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas by lethal injection. He was arrested July 13, 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as "The Railway Killer" in Jackson County, Illinois, June 15, 1999; murder in Houston, Texas, June 5, 1999; murder in Fayette County, Texas, June 4, 1999; double murder in Weimar, Texas, April 30, 1999; murder in West University, Texas, December 17, 1998; murder in Lexington, Kentucky, August 29, 1997.
James J. Bulger #458 August 19, 1999 11 years, 10 months, 3 days
James J. Bulger was wanted for his role in 19 murders committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an Irish organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He had a violent temper and was known to carry a knife at all times.

Arrested June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, California.[29][30]

End of the decade[edit]

As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:

Name Sequence number Date of entry
Donald Eugene Webb #375 May 4, 1981
Victor Manuel Gerena #386 May 14, 1984
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. #427 Oct 18, 1989
Agustín Vásquez Mendoza #445 Aug 3, 1996
Glen Stewart Godwin #447 Dec 7, 1996
Ramón Arellano Félix #451 Sep 18, 1997
Eric Robert Rudolph #454 May 5, 1998
James Charles Kopp #455 Jun 7, 1999

Usama Bin Laden[23]
AKA: Osama bin Laden
Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن

#456 Jun 7, 1999
James J. Bulger #458 Aug 19, 1999

FBI directors in the 1990s[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Matera, Dary (2004). FBI's Ten Most Wanted: From James Earl Ray to Osama Bin Laden. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-052435-7.
  2. ^ Maskaly, Michelle (October 27, 2008). "Wanted: Donald Eugene Webb for the Murder of a Pennsylvania Police Chief". FOX News. Retrieved December 2, 2008.
  3. ^ Victoria Warren, Remains found in Dartmouth yard are those of fugitive wanted for killing police chief, The Associated Press via WHDH News, July 14, 2017
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