FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives ( English 'The ten most wanted fugitives of the FBI') is a wanted list of the US Federal FBI . It lists suspected criminals who are wanted by the federal police in order to make the public aware of the ongoing search.

history

As early as 1930, the Chicago Crime Commission published a list of 28 people who were classified as the "public enemy" of Chicago . This increased the persecution pressure on the listed people, in whose first place Al Capone was, enormously.

The idea for creating the list or the concept goes back to a magazine article from 1949 in which James F. Donovan, a journalist from International News Service (later United Press International ), described the “toughest guys” (in the original: “toughest guys ") That the FBI was looking for at the time. The public response to this article was so good that the then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover initiated the establishment of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program. The first top ten was published on March 14, 1950.

Since then, 523 people (as of March 14, 2020) have been searched for via the “Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives”, ten of whom were women. Of these, 488 people were caught, 162 of them following information from the population. The proceedings against 15 wanted persons were closed, whereupon they were removed from the wanted list. Ten people were removed from the list because they no longer met the "admission criteria". The alleged killer Donald Eugene Webb has been on the list since 1981. He was removed from the list on March 31, 2007 without ever being located. His record of more than 25 years on the list was surpassed by Víctor Manuel Gerena in 2010. Gerena was on the list from May 14, 1984 to December 15, 2016 for over 32 years.

The order of the listed fugitives is based on their inclusion in the list and does not reflect their dangerousness or the seriousness of their crimes. The selection of those people who are wanted as one of the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" is carried out by officials from the "Criminal Investigative Division" (CID) and the "Office of Public Affairs". Suggestions are made by the FBI's 56 local offices in the United States. In addition to the scope and severity of the alleged crimes (they must pose a threat to society, in the original "considered a particularly dangerous menace to society"), the selection criterion is also the likelihood of an increase in success through a public search.

The crimes that are considered "threats to society" in this context have changed over time. In the 1950s the top ten bank robbers and car thieves were searched for, during the upheavals of the 1960s radical left and kidnappers came to the fore, while organized crime and terrorism were increasingly taken up since the 1970s. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , a separate wanted list was created for terrorists - the "FBI Most Wanted Terrorists".

Since the late 1980s, the FBI has also increasingly used television as a multiplier for searches. The best known show is America's Most Wanted , which ran on FOX .

Terrorist Osama bin Laden had been on the list since June 7, 1999 . An initial $ 25 million was suspended on clues leading to his arrest. In 2007 this was doubled to the record reward of $ 50 million. The wanted man was, however, on 2 May 2011 at the Pakistani Abbottabad by special units of the Navy Seals killed .

Current top ten

image	Surname	Date of birth	current number	On the list since	accusations	Suspended reward
	Robert William Fisher	75900678925 ♠Apr 13, 1961	475	77494755325 ♠June 29, 2002	Allegedly murdered his wife and two children in 2001 and then set fire to their Scottsdale home .	$ 100,000
	Alexis Flores	76448875250 ♠June 18, 1975	487	77685735650 ♠0June 2, 2007	The Honduran citizen is wanted for the murder of a 5-year-old girl in Philadelphia in 2000.	$ 100,000
	Jason Derek Brown	76218080225 ♠0July 1, 1969 or 76279104625 ♠Jan. 17, 1971	489	77698201000 ♠0Oct 8, 2007	Armed robbery of a money transporter in 2004 in Phoenix , allegedly killing a security guard.	$ 200,000
	Yaser Abdel Said	75738257275 ♠Jan. 27, 1957	504	77974671300 ♠04th Dec 2014	Yaser Abdel Said is said to have shot his two daughters on January 1st, 2008 in Irving, Texas .	$ 100,000
	Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel	May 15, 1990	514	April 18, 2017	Patel is suspected of beating his wife to death in a donut shop in Hanover, Maryland in 2015.	$ 100,000
	Santiago Villalba Mederos	77068700825 ♠June 25, 1991	515	78083789625 ♠25 Sep 2017	Santiago Villalba Mederos, aka "Pucho", allegedly participated in several crimes in 2010 in Tacoma, Washington . He is charged with several murders, among other things.	$ 100,000
	Alejandro Castillo	November 26, 1998	516	October 24, 2017	Alejandro Castillo allegedly assisted the murder of a work colleague in North Carolina in 2016.	$ 100,000
	Rafael Caro Quintero	Oct. 24, 1952	518	April 12, 2018	Member of a Mexican drug cartel wanted for the murder of a DEA special agent in 1985	$ 20,000,000
	Arnoldo Jimenez	Feb. 19, 1982	522	May 9, 2019	Arnoldo Jimenez is wanted for the murder of his wife on May 12, 2012, the day after their wedding. He is believed to have stabbed his wife to death in his black 2006 Maserati and then dragged her body into the bathtub of their Burbank, Illinois apartment. Jimenez has been charged with first degree murder by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and a warrant was issued for his arrest on May 15, 2012. On May 17, 2012, the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division issued a federal detention warrant after Jimenez was charged statewide with illegally escaping to avoid prosecution.	$ 100,000
	Eugene Palmer	Apr 4, 1939	523	May 28, 2019	Eugene Palmer is wanted for the murder of his daughter-in-law on September 24, 2012 in Stony Point, New York. After a local warrant was issued against Palmer in Rockland County and he was charged with murder, the United States Court for the Southern District of New York issued a federal warrant on June 10, 2013 after Palmer was charged with fleeing to avoid prosecution .	$ 100,000
As of October 2, 2019