This is a list of notable fugitives from justice who were sought by law enforcement agencies in connection with a crime and were either caught or their deaths were substantiated, etc. Listing here does not imply guilt and may include persons who are or were wanted only for questioning.
Before 1900
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1724 | Jack Sheppard | 22 |  Great Britain |
Jack Sheppard, nicknamed “Honest Jack”, was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early-18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter, but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. Sheppard was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724, but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. He escaped from a prison in October 1724 for the last time. Sheppard disguised himself as a beggar and returned to the city. Sheppard broke into the Rawlins brothers’ pawnbroker’s shop in Drury Lane on the night of 29 October 1724, taking a black silk suit, a silver sword, rings, watches, a wig, and other items. Sheppard dressed himself as a dandy gentleman and used the proceeds to spend a day and the following evening on the tiles with two mistresses. Sheppard was arrested a final time in the early morning on 1 November, blind drunk, “in a handsome Suit of Black, with a Diamond Ring and a carnelian ring on his Finger, and a fine Light Tye Peruke”, and was convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, ending his brief criminal career after less than two years. |
| 1806 | Fra Diavolo | 34 |  France |
Diavolo whose real name was Michele Pezza and was nicknamed “Brother Devil” was a famous guerrilla leader from Itri, Kingdom of Naples who was wanted for crimes and in August 1806 while running from the law had fled eastwards over the mountains. Diavolo was captured in November 1806 and then sentenced to death. |
| 1866 | Moondyne Joe | 39–40 |  Australia |
Moondyne Joe whose real name was Joseph Bolitho Johns was an English convict who had escaped from jail multiple times and was also the best-known bushranger in Western Australia. Joe’s last escape occurred when after being sent to jail in April 1866 from crimes, he later escaped in early August and was captured on 5 September 1866 and was sent back to jail. |
| 1871 | Elbert A. Woodward | 33–34 |  United States |
Woodward was a major member in the Boss Tweed corruption scandal in 1871 that took place in Chicago. Woodward and others defrauded Chicago between $25 and $45 million. Woodward was indicted and tried, but fled to Spain to escape punishment. Woodward was later sent back to Chicago and later to New York. Woodward avoided jail time by repaying $151,779 of stolen money. In his later years, Woodward became a farmer in Norwalk. Woodward died on 29 September 1905. |
| 1872 | Davy Crockett | 23 | United States |
Crockett was a younger relative of the famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett, but unlike the hero Davy Crockett this Davy Crockett was an outlaw. He was sent to jail for criminal acts that he committed, but escaped in 1872 after which he fled to a ranch. Crockett was killed four years later in 1876. |
| 1875 | William M. Tweed | 53 | United States |
Tweed was an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. Tweed was imprisoned in the Ludlow Street Jail for a corruption scandal in 1871, although he was allowed home visits. During one of these, on 4 December 1875, Tweed fled to Spain and got a job working as a common seaman on a ship. The U.S. government later discovered his whereabouts and arranged for his arrest once he reached the Spanish border; he was recognized from Thomas Nast’s political cartoons. He was turned over to an American warship, which took him to authorities in New York City on 26 November 1876, and he was sent back to prison. Tweed died in Ludlow Street Jail on 12 April 1878. |
| 1879 | Rummu Jüri | 23 |  Russian Empire(modern day Estonia) |
Jüri whose birth name was “Jüri Rummo” was an Estonian fugitive, who was compared to Robin Hood as he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. While being on the run from the law, Jüri was captured on 15 December 1879 and in 1894 was then sentenced to 15 years in prison. |
| 1881 | Billy the Kid | 21 | United States |
Billy the Kid, who was born Henry McCarty and also known as William H. Bonney, was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed. He took part in New Mexico’s Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. After being jailed he escaped from the jailhouse in Lincoln, New Mexico on 28 April 1881. He evaded law enforcement until 14 July 1881, when he was ambushed and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at a ranch house. |
| 1882 | Pugsey Hurley | 45–46 | United States |
Hurley, also known as “Pugsey Reilly” or “Pugsey Hanley”, was an American burglar of English descent, who was a river pirate and underworld figure in New York City during the mid-to-late 19th century. After doing multiple crimes he was sent to jail after 15 August 1874 and broke out in April 1882. He was captured in New York City by the police on 1 August 1882, and was returned to jail. |
| 1889 | Apache Kid | unknown | United States |
Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl, better known as the Apache Kid, was an army scout and later a renegade active in the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico who escaped from jail on 2 November 1889, and was said to have killed many people during that time. He was later caught and sent to jail. |
| 1894 | H. H. Holmes | 33 | United States |
H. H. Holmes, born “Herman Webster Mudgett” and also known as “Dr. Henry Howard Holmes” was an American serial killer, as well as a trigamist and con artist. He committed most of his murders in “The Castle”, the nickname for his hotel in Chicago, where he would later sell the victims’ skeletons and organs for money. While a search was conducted to find Holmes for suspected insurance fraud, he stole horses from Fort Worth, Texas before planning to flee for Britain. Pinkertons apprehended him in Boston on 17 November 1894. After being convicted of four murders, H. H. Holmes was executed by hanging on 7 May 1896, only nine days before he would have turned 35. |
| 1898 | William Walters | 28–29 | United States |
Walters was a cowboy from in Fort Sill, in Oklahoma Territory who later turned to crime when he became involved in both train robberies and stagecoaches. Walters had fled from the law in July 1898 after a unsuccessful robbery attempt in Grants, New Mexico during which Walters’ gang was driven off by heavy gunfire, Walters was tracked down by the guards and then shot and captured, after which he was sent to jail. Walters was later released from jail in 1917 and in 1921 he died from an accidental fall. |
1915–1949
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Frederick Mors | 24 | United States |
The Austrian-American serial killer Frederick Mors (born as Carl Menarik) murdered at least eight people in an Odd Fellows’ home, where he was employed as a porter. Mors was declared to be criminally insane and was committed to an insane asylum. In May 1915 he escaped from the asylum grounds and in 1923 his remains were found and identified and it was revealed that he had committed suicide. |
| 1916 | Joseph Henry Loveless | 45 | United States |
Loveless was an American bootlegger and is believed to also have been a murderer as he is thought to have killed his wife on 5 May 1916. After Loveless was sent to jail on 18 May 1916 he then later escaped. In 1979 Loveless’ remains were found in a Buffalo Cave in a burlap sack in Dubois, Idaho by a family who searching for arrowheads. |
| 1921 | Edward J. Adams | 34 | United States |
Adams was a notorious American fugitive and spree killer in the Midwest. After being convicted for crimes and sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri by a train, he later escaped custody and being sent to jail by jumping off the train and a few days later joined fellow fugitive Julius Finney helping him with a robbery of a bank and general store in Cullison, Kansas on 11 February 1921. He was captured six days later on 17 February 1921 near Garden Plain, Kansas. After Adams came in contact with the police and was surrounded, he was then killed after a shootout. |
| 1923 | Tommy O’Connor | 40–41 | United States |
O’Connor was a gangster who escaped from the Chicago, Illinois, courthouse in 1923, only four days before he was to have been executed at the Historical Gallows for the murder of a policeman. It is unknown how O’Connor died, though there is a tombstone of him at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Worth, Illinois. His year of death is accepted as being 1951 and therefore is no longer sought by the police. |
| 1932 | Albert Johnson | unknown |  Canada |
Johnson who was nicknamed the “Mad Trapper of Rat River”, was a fugitive who was behind a trapping dispute that had eventually led to a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories and Yukon located in Northern Canada. He became wanted on 16 January 1932 and was shot dead after being located during an altercation with the police on 17 February 1932. |
| 1933 | John Hamilton | 34 | United States |
Hamilton was a Canadian criminal and was a close sidekick of fellow fugitive John Dillinger and had committed multiple bank robberies during 1920s–1930s. Hamilton was later charged and convicted and on 16 March 1933 he was sent to the Indiana State Prison located in Michigan City and on 16 September 1933 he and many of his cellmates escaped. After Hamilton resumed his life of crime he was later rumored to be dead. This was proven to be true when his remains were discovered on 28 August 1935 and they matched with Hamilton’s prison dental records. |
| 1934 | John Dillinger | 31 | United States |
Dillinger was an American gangster who was active during the Great Depression and was the head of a group called the Dillinger Gang. Dillinger was last seen on 8 July 1934 as he was evading the law and was located and shot dead on 22 July 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1943 | André Devigny | 27 | France (under Nazi occupation) |
Soldier and member of the French resistance, Devigny was imprisoned at the Montluc prison, where he would be tortured by Klaus Barbie and his men in an effort to extrapolate information from him. When this failed, Devigny was sentenced to death, but before he could be executed, he and another inmate managed to escape. Devigny first to Switzerland and then to Spain, where he was rearrested and escaped again. He eventually rejoined the French army after the war, and was awarded the Order of Liberation for his efforts during the war. He continued serving with the French army until his retirement, and died in 1999. |
| 1945 | Adolf Eichmann | 39 |  Nazi Germany |
A Gestapo colonel during World War 2, Adolf Eichmann personally oversaw the deportation of millions of Jews to numerous Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Although captured by U.S. forces in 1945, Eichmann escaped captivity and eventually fled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was granted asylum. The Israeli government made it a top priority to bring him to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes. He was located by agents of the Mossad in 1960, being captured and spirited to Israel. In August 1961, after a three-month trial, Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. He was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged on 1 June 1962. |
| 1945 | Martin Bormann and Ludwig Stumpfegger | 44 and 34 | Nazi Germany |
Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, and Stumpfegger, who was Adolf Hitler’s personal surgeon were both fugitives who had fled Germany on 2 May 1945 to escape being captured. In 1972 their remains were discovered near the Reichstag, but not confirmed conclusively until 1998. |
| 1945 | Josef Mengele | 34 | Nazi Germany |
Nicknamed the “Angel of Death” by his victims, Josef Mengele was a German physician and SS officer stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp to conduct human experimentation on inmates. He personally decided the fate of countless Jews and others, as he also partook in sending newly arrived prisoners to the gas chambers or forcing them into slave labor. However, Mengele would also select certain inmates (especially twins) to undergo human experimentation. Many of his victims died as a result of the brutality of the tests he performed. As Auschwitz was evacuated, Mengele was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp before going into hiding and ultimately fleeing to South America in 1949 under the false name “Fritz Hollmann”. Despite numerous efforts of countless Nazi hunters and multiple government agencies, including operations by the Mossad in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil to arrest Josef Mengele, he evaded capture for the rest of his life. In 1979, Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming and drowned off the coast of Bertioga. His remains were exhumed and identified in 1985, a discovery which was later confirmed by DNA testing in 1992. |
| 1945 | Ante Pavelić | 56 |  Independent State of Croatia |
Ante Pavelić was a dictator (official title: Poglavnik) who established the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in 1941, a puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. He also founded the Ustaše movement, which served Pavelić as a military and police force. It also committed genocide in compliance with the Poglavnik’s order to exterminate Serbs, Jews and other “undesirables” based on Fascist ideology. His racial policies led to the death of at least 100,000 people throughout the numerous death camps which existed in the NDH. After the war, Ante Pavelić first fled to Austria, then he fled to Italy, before he hid inside the Vatican. There, he succeeded in obtaining a false passport and a false identity, which allowed him to flee to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he found work as a brick layer. On 10 April 1957, Pavelić was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt as he got off a bus and was shot twice from behind by Blagoje Jovović. Although he initially survived, he refused to stay in an Argentine hospital, because Yugoslavia was in the process of signing extradition forms to bring him back for trial. Ultimately fleeing to Spain, Ante Pavelić succumbed to his wounds on 28 December 1959, dying in Madrid. |
| 1945 | Ljubo Miloš | 26 | Independent State of Croatia |
A Croatian public official hanged for war crimes. Miloš had been a commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II. He had fled Yugoslavia in May 1945, but was captured two years later. Found guilty of multiple war crimes on 20 August 1948, he was hanged in Zagreb the same day. |
| 1946 | William Nesbit | 37 | United States |
Nesbit was an American fugitive who was both a murderer and a jewel thief. Nesbit was charged with killing another thief who was his partner in crime named Harold Baker on 31 December 1936 in Minnehaha County. On 29 May 1937, Nesbit was sent to jail for life and on 4 September 1946 after becoming a personal chauffeur of the warden, disappeared after he failed to return from duties that were given to him. On 15 March 1950, Nesbit became the third member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s first-ever FBI ten most wanted fugitives list. Nesbit was arrested in Saint Paul, Minnesota in a cave just three days later. |
| 1949 | Omar August Pinson | 29 | United States |
Pinson who also went by the name of “John Omar Pinson” who after being convicted for doing burglaries and bank robberies and then first becoming wanted on 30 May 1949 after escaping prison with a cellmate, and was later added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for six months in 1950. He was caught on 18 August 1950 and then sent back to jail. Pinson died on 20 October 1997 at the age of 79. |
1950–1959
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Thomas James Holden | 54–55 | United States |
Holden was an American fugitive and a member of the Holden–Keating Gang which included fellow fugitive Francis Keating who were operating in the Midwestern United States from 1926 to 1932. Gang had made history by becoming the first official fugitive to be listed on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List in 1950. Holden was captured on 23 June 1951 in Beaverton, Oregon after he was seen. Holden is now deceased. |
| 1951 | Joseph Franklin Bent | 20 | United States |
Bent was an American fugitive who was also known by the aliases “Charles ‘Hap’ Rayborn” and “Coal Frederick Raymond” amongst others. He was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1951 for crimes which included attempted murder and robberies. On 29 August 1952, Bent was captured in Texas City, Texas and sent to jail. Bent died in California in 2004. |
| 1951 | Kenneth Parnell | 23 | United States |
Parnell who was American convicted sex offender, child rapist, and had committed multiple kidnapping who in March 1951 was arrested for sodomizing a young boy and had been impersonating a police officer he was then sent to prison, and after had escaped, but was recaptured sometime after. After Parnell was again sent to jail In January 2003. and died on 21 January 2008, while he was at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California. |
| 1951 | Gerhard Arthur Puff | 46–47 | United States |
Puff was a German gangster and murderer who while he was evading the law was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” on 3 December 1951. Puff was later located in New York on 26 July 1952 and more than two years later was executed on 12 August 1954 for the murder that he had committed. |
| 1952 | David Dallas Taylor | 25 | United States |
Taylor was an American fugitive who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1953. for being both a murderer and robber. After escaping from prison while being transported from Chicago, Illinois back to Alabama on 1 September 1952 by train he was caught in Chicago while “caught in a traffic jam” on 26 May 1953 by the police and was sent back to jail. |
| 1953 | Charles E. Johnson | 43 | United States |
Johnson was a burglar from New York who was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted on 2 November 1953. and was imprisoned for 9 years before that. He was captured on 28 December 1953 and was later sent to jail. He is now deceased. |
| 1954 | Ben Golden McCollum | unknown | United States |
McCollum was an bank robber who operated in Oklahoma and was nicknamed the “Sheik of Boynton”. After McCollum was charged and convicted for crimes that he had done he was sent to prison in 1954, but later escaped. He was then added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list shortly afterwards and was caught in 1958. He was later released on parole in 1961 and them he moved to Marcum, Kentucky and on the night of 12 August 1963 he was shot dead in his home by two young burglars, whose identities are unknown. |
| 1955 | Edward Edwards | 21–22 | United States |
Edwards was a convicted American serial killer who after being sent to from jail in 1955 in Akron, Ohio later escaped and fled across the country during which held up gas stations. In 1961, he was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. On 20 January 1962 Edwards was captured in Atlanta, Georgia and sent back to jail. Edwards died of natural causes on 7 April 2011 at the Corrections Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1956 | Nick George Montos | 39 | United States |
Montos was an American fugitive who was an associate of the Chicago Outfit and was also the first person to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list two times. After being wanted by the police for the second time on 2 March 1956 he was captured on 28 March 1956. Montos died on 30 November 2008 at the age of 92 after suffering a heart attack a few weeks earlier. |
| 1957 | Alfred Loritz | 55 |  Germany |
Loritz was a German lawyer who founded the political party Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung; however, he fled Germany in 1957 due to incitement to perjury. He was granted political asylum in Austria, and died in a hospital on 4 April 1979 and therefore is no longer sought. |
| 1958 | Elmer Burke | 34–35 | United States |
Burke was an infamous contract killer and extortionist who had been a supporting player of the 1950 Great Brink’s Robbery. He was arrested after eluding authorities for more than eighteen months following the 1952 murder of 26-year-old Edward Walsh. Burke was executed at Sing Sing Prison in January 1958. |
| 1958 | Carmine Galante | 21–22 | United States |
Galante was the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family as well as an American mobster. Galante while evading the law after he was indicted on drug conspiracy charges and then had gone into hiding in 1958 and was located on 3 June 1959 by the New Jersey State Police officers when he that was found hiding in a house on Pelican Island off the South Jersey shore. Galante died on 12 July 1979. |
| 1958 | Frederick Grant Dunn | 52–53 | United States |
Dunn was an American burglar with a criminal career that started in 1919. The press called him “the modern John Dillinger”, and he was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted in 1958. He was found dead in 1959. |
| 1959 | Frank Freshwaters | 23 |  United States |
Freshwaters is an American criminal and former fugitive who was arrested in 1957 for the death of Eugene Flynt, whom he struck and killed while speeding. He had been on the run for 56 years after he escaped from an honor farm in 1959. In the intervening years, Freshwaters lived under an assumed name and sought work as a truck driver. He was extradited back to Ohio, and served at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. According to Gallop, “more than 2,000 people from half a dozen states” wrote in to the parole board to support him. On 25 February 2016, it was voted to release Freshwaters after his attorney argued he had caused no harm in his years evading officials. Freshwaters was placed on parole with five years’ supervision, and was released on 16 June 2016 and is no longer wanted. |
1960–1969
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Joseph Corbett Jr. | 48 |  United States |
Corbett, an American, kidnapped and murdered Adolph Coors III on 9 February 1960. Corbett Jr. disappeared on 30 March 1960 and was captured on 29 October 1961. |
| 1961 | Joe “Pegleg” Morgan | 31–32 | United States |
Morgan was an American fugitive and was the first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia, and had a prosthetic leg who had been sent to jail for murder, but was later paroled. After Morgan was sent to prison for an armed robbery at a West Covina bank after stealing $17,000 he later escaped in 1961. Morgan was sent jail for life and on 27 October 1993, he was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer and later died on 9 November 1993 at the age of 64. |
| 1962 | Aribert Heim | 47–48 |  Austria(born in Austria-Hungary and had allegiance to Nazi Germany) |
Heim was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor and fugitive who was nicknamed “Dr. Death” and “Butcher of Mauthausen”. He served in the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in northern Finland. Heim disappeared in 1962 and a massive manhunt was conducted to find him. In 2012, a regional court in Baden-Baden declared that Heim died while using the false identity of Tarek Hussein Farid in Egypt in 1992 and therefore is no longer sought. |
| 1962 | Albert Frederick Nussbaum | 33 | United States |
Nussbaum, a bank robber from Buffalo, New York, was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 3 April 1962. He was caught on 4 November 1962. After being tried and convicted in February 1964, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison and became eligible for parole in 1971. Nussbaum passed away on 7 January 1996 at the age of 61. |
| 1962 | David Stanley Jacubanis | 52 | USA |
David Stanley Jacubanis was a Russian-American criminal who was added on the 171st fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List on 21 November 1962 after robbing two banks whilst on parole. He was recaptured eight days after being placed on the list and is no longer sought. |
| 1963 | Bernardo Provenzano | 26 |  Italy |
Provenzano was an Italian mobster and chief of a clan known as the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that had is roots in the town of Corleone. Provenzano disappeared in September 1963 and was caught in April 2006 after nearly 43 years on the run. On 13 July 2016 he died from bladder cancer at San Paol Prison Hospital in Milan, Italy at age 83 after being sick since 2014. |
| 1965 | Lucien Rivard | 40–41 |  Canada |
Rivard was a Canadian fugitive who was known for a 1965 prison escape in Montreal that was seen as sensational. Four months after escaping he was captured and extradited to the United States”. Rivard died on 3 February 2002. |
| 1965 | Duane Earl Pope | unknown | United States |
Duane Earl Pope is an American murderer who when committing the 1965 Farmers State Bank robbery on 4 June in Big Springs, Nebraska, had killed three people and left one person injured who died in 2012. Pope became a wanted fugitive for one day was added to the FBI 10 Most Wanted List. After the killings Pope then fled Big Springs, Nebraska. Pope has traveled to multiple states in the U.S. and was captured in Kansas City, Missouri, and is now in jail. |
| 1965 | John William Clouser | 54–55 | United States |
Clouser is a former police officer and detective in Orlando, Florida who later became a fugitive, and on 7 January 1965 was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He had once been committed to a mental hospital after being arrested for armed robbery and kidnapping, but escaped. Clouser was removed from the most wanted list in 1972 after a federal process against him was dismissed. He later became an author. |
| 1966 | Robert Van Lewing | 44 | United States |
Van Lewing was an American fugitive and had a long criminal career during which he committed many armed robberies. Van Lewing was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list from 1966 to 1967. Upon entering a St. Louis bank in March 1966 and then threatening the bank teller with a pistol, Van Lewing escaped with $2,456 and fled St. Louis, though he did remain in Missouri. After being identified by three eyewitnesses, Van Lewing was eventually traced to Kansas City on 6 February 1967, where the FBI agents arrested him. Van Lewing was convicted on multiple charges and sentenced to prison. Van Lewing died in 1983. |
| 1967 | Donald Richard Bussmeyer | 31 | United States |
Bussmeyer is an American criminal and a former member of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1967. He became a career criminal and drug addict with convictions for auto theft, attempted burglary, assault with intent to kill, and armed robbery. On 2 March 1967, he and two accomplices, James Alaway and Russell Jones, robbed $75,000 from a Los Angeles bank and went on the run. Due to large media coverage and publicity, Bussmeyer was traced to a safehouse in Upland, California within two months, and on 24 August he was captured along with his wife Hallie and associate Gene Harrington. |
| 1968 | Benjamin Hoskins Paddock | unknown | United States |
Paddock was an American bank robber and con man. After escaping prison in 1968, he was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1969 and remained on it to 1977. He was captured and arrested in early September 1978 in Springfield, Oregon and returned to prison, but was eventually released on parole. Paddock died of a heart attack on 18 January 1998 in Arlington, Texas. |
| 1969 | Salvatore Riina | 39 | Italy |
Riina was a notorious Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia responsible for multiple murders and assassinations. Riina lived as a fugitive for 23 years before he was captured at his villa in January 1993 following a tip-off to police. Riina died in the prison unit of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma in November 2017 at the age of 87. |
| 1969 | Marie Dean Arrington | 35 | United States |
Arrington was an American criminal. On 1 March 1969, Arrington escaped from Florida Correctional Institution in her pajamas by cutting a window screen and jumping out. In May 1969 she was placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, making her the second woman ever placed on the list. Arrington was recaptured in March 1972 after having fled to New Orleans, where she worked as a waitress. Arrington died on 10 May 2014 in Lowell Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida, the same institution from which she escaped. |
1970s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Bernardine Dohrn | 28 | United States |
Dohrn, a member of the radical Marxist terrorist group Weather Underground with previous convictions for anti-government protests and drug offenses, was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted List as a member of the Weather Underground, whereupon she went into hiding under an assumed name with her husband, Bill Ayers, residing in Chicago. Both of them surrendered to authorities in 1980, but by then, the charges were dropped and Dohrn served only seven months for aggravated battery and bail jumping. After her release, she was employed at a law firm until 2013, and now focuses on activism. |
| 1970 | Susan Edith Saxe | 26 | United States |
Saxe who charged with Bank robbery is one of the ten women ever to make the FBI’s most wanted list. Saxe was on the list on from 17 October 1970, until March 1975 after she was caught in Philadelphia. |
| 1970 | Katherine Ann Power | 26 | United States |
Power was involved in the same bank robbery as Susan Edith Saxe, the second of two who initially evaded capture from the police. Power was subsequently added on the FBI’s most wanted list on 17 October 1970; however, she was removed from the list in 1984. Power turned herself in to the police in 1993. |
| 1971 | John List | 46 | United States |
List was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive who disappeared on 9 November 1971 after he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey. List was captured on 1 June 1989 and was sent back to jail and died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82. |
| 1972 | Garrett Brock Trapnell | 34 | United States |
Prolific con man, bank robber, aircraft hijacker and bigamist known for robbing several banks and hijacking aircrafts in both the USA and Canada. Using the insanity defense, he was repeatedly released or fled from mental institutions, but was caught in 1972 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Several attempts were made to break him out of prison, but all were unsuccessful. Died in a federal penitentiary in 1993. |
| 1972 | George Wright | 39 | United States |
Wright is a Portuguese citizen of American origin who in 1961, graduated from Mary Bethune High School in Halifax, Virginia. Wright was originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. Wright escaped from prison in 1970 and hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight in 1972 with a number of accomplices. On 26 September 2011, he was arrested in Portugal and taken into custody. |
| 1973 | Samuel Christian | 43–44 | United States |
Christian became a wanted fugitive when he added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted as number 321 he was suspected of killing Tyrone “Fat Ty” Palmer in 1972 at Club Harlem, and was also suspected of killing Major Coxson and other people as well where Coxson lived in 1973. Christian who in hiding was captured and charged. It was never proven that Christian was guilty of the murders since there were there were no witnesses willing to testify against him. Christian died on 6 March 2016. |
| 1974 | Thomas Knight | 23 | United States |
Knight was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 12 December 1974. He was wanted for a prison escape from the Miami-Dade County Jail in September 1974. He had been awaiting trial for two murders at the time. Knight was captured on 31 December 1974 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He was later executed on 7 January 2014 in Florida. |
| 1975 | Anthony Michael Juliano | 53 | United States |
Juliano was an American fugitive who had robbed 27 banks in Boston and New York between 1973 and 1975, which let to two warrants being issued for his arrest in November 1975. On 15 March 1976 Julianothe was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. and was captured a week later. Juliano died on 20 August 2001 at the age of 78. |
| 1976 | Joachim Kroll | 35 | Germany |
Kroll was a German cannibal, serial killer, and necrophiliac whose crimes took place in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until 3 April 1976 when he was captured and arrested. After being convicted in 1982 Kroll was sentenced to life imprisonment. Kroll died in the prison of Rheinbach of a heart attack in 1991. |
| 1976 | Hervé de Vathaire | 50 | France |
Vathaire was a private financial director of Marcel Dassault and founder of an aerospace company, the Dassault Group. He had just become a widower after his wife had committed suicide. On 6 July 1976, Vathaire disappeared after he went to a BNP Paribas branch and withdrew 8 million francs (800 million old francs; 1.2 million euros; $1.6 million at the time) from Marcel Dassault’s account. A manhunt that was conducted to find him ended on 26 September 1976, when Vathaire returned to Paris. |
| 1977 | Ted Bundy | 28 | United States |
Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. For the Florida homicides, he received three death sentences in two separate trials. Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on 24 January 1989. |
| 1977 | Larry Pusateri | 34 | United States |
Pusateri, who also went by the aliases “Luis R. Archuleta” and “Ramon C. Montoya”, is a convicted felon and former Colorado resident who was wanted by the FBI since 1977 following his escape from a Colorado prison. On 5 August 2020 he was located and captured in Española, New Mexico after successfully evading law enforcement and living there for almost 47 years. |
| 1978 | George Feigley | 37–38 | United States |
Feigley was an American church leader and has been described as a sex cult leader. Feigley served over 32 years in prison for sex crimes against children, from 1975 to 2008. Feigley was sent to the Taylor County Jail in Grafton in 1978, but escaped less than a month later while awaiting extradition back to Pennsylvania. After this he was free for two months before he was captured, hiding on another farm near Sneedville, Tennessee. Feigley became eligible for parole in 1990, but parole was denied then and at each subsequent annual review. Having served the full-time for all his convictions, Feigley was released from prison on 15 August 2008. Feigley’s health which was already bad got worse and he died on 13 April 2009. |
| 1978 | Jerry Balisok | 22–23 | United States |
Balisok was an American professional wrestler who used the name Mr. X. He was indicted on multiple counts of check forgery in 1977, but skipped bail, stole the identification documents of his girlfriend’s cousin Ricky Allen Wetta, assumed his identity and fled with her via Florida to the Caribbean. After he failed to appear for his trial in 1978, FBI investigators were misled into believing that they had died in the Jonestown mass suicides that year. He returned to the United States and in 1989 was arrested for attempted murder. Fingerprinting revealed his identity. He was found guilty and served 13 years in prison. Balisok died in prison in 2013 of a heart attack that was caused by a heat stroke. |
| 1978 | Michael Thevis | 46 | United States |
Thevis was a millionaire businessman renowned for running what was, at the time, the nation’s most profitable business in the pornography business. Aside from pornography, he was also involved in music recording and building the Lion’s Gate mansion in Atlanta. After it was discovered that he had associations with the New York mafia and had ordered a hit on somebody due to testify against him, he escaped from an Indiana prison in July 1978, but was caught in Connecticut four months later. He was found guilty and imprisoned for life, dying in 2013. |
| 1979 | Idi Amin | 54 |  Uganda |
Idi Amin was the third President of Uganda and chairman of the Organization of African Unity. Under his leadership, ethnic minorities and political dissidents were brutally executed, giving Amin his nickname, “The Butcher of Uganda”. When Kampala fell to Tanzanian forces, Idi Amin fled by helicopter into exile. He died in Saudi Arabia on 16 August 2003 from kidney failure before he could ever be extradited back to Uganda. |
| 1979 | Forrest Tucker | 59 | United States |
A career criminal and escape artist, believed to have escaped from prison approximately 18 times throughout his life, Tucker’s most infamous escape occurred in the summer of 1979, when he and two confederates built a kayak and paddled away from San Quentin State Prison in full view of guards. Tucker was not apprehended for four years, during which he embarked on a further crime spree. He died in May 2004. |
1980s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | Imre Arakas | unknown |  Estonia |
Nicknamed “The Butcher”, Arakas’ was and Estonian criminal was first put on a wanted list after escaping the courthouse pending trial for a shooting club. Although arrested after a few months and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, he would later be released and embark on a prolific career as a hitman, thought to be responsible for numerous murders across continental Europe and the UK. As of July 2020, he is due to be extradited to Lithuania to face murder charges there. |
| 1980s | Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo | c. 35 |  Mexico |
A convicted Mexican drug lord and a founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, which controlled much of the drug trafficking activities within Mexico and across the Mexico–United States border. Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence officer Enrique Camarena. Convicted of both drug trafficking offenses and murder, Gallardo is currently incarcerated in a medium-security prison in Guadalajara, where he was first transferred from a higher security facility in 2014. |
| 1980 | Gilbert James Everett | 42 | United States |
Everett was an American bank robber from Kansas who had committed 86 bank robberies who disappeared in November 1980 after escaping custody a month after being convicted. On 13 May 1981 Everett was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and remained on it for over four years until his capture in 1985. After Everett was sent to jail for 20 years and serving 18 years of his sentence he was then released in 2003 and died two years later in 2005. |
| 1980 | Donald Eugene Webb | 50 | United States |
Webb was an American career criminal and fugitive wanted for attempted burglary and the murder of police chief Gregory Adams in the small community of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania on 4 December 1980. The last confirmed sighting of him was in July 1981, reported by an anonymous tipster. On 4 May 1981, Webb was named as the 375th fugitive to be placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. On 14 July 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth home of Webb’s wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999 after suffering multiple strokes. |
| 1981 | Nehanda Abiodun | 37 | United States |
Abiodun, born “Cheri Laverne Dalton,” was an African American hip hop activist, black revolutionary, and fugitive who had fled to Cuba. Abiodun was wanted by the FBI in connection of the 1981 robbery of a Brink’s truck that resulted in the killing of a Brink’s guard and two police officers. The United States federal government also charged Abiodun in connection with Assata Shakur’s escape from prison, along with Susan Rosenberg. She was wanted since 17 November 1982. She died on 30 January 2019. |
| 1982 | Charles Ray Hatcher | 22 | United States |
Hatcher, a prolific criminal, murderer and self-confessed serial killer, who first escaped detention in Missouri, where he had been detained for forgery. Hatcher was recaptured shortly after, and after his release, he would embark on three-decade long crime spree, during which he allegedly killed 16 people across Missouri, California and Illinois. After being convicted of two murders in 1984, but wasn’t given the death penalty as he requested, he committed suicide by hanging himself at the Missouri State Penitentiary. |
| 1982 | Johannes-Andreas Hanni | 24–25 | Estonia |
Andreas Hanni was an Estonian serial killer and had committed many crimes as a youth, and with the help of his wife murdered three people in 1982 in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. After being involved with an attempted murder involved his wife on 2 September 1982 Hanni and his wife were sought and arrested on 2 October 1982. Although his wife was convicted and sent to jail, Andreas Hanni committed suicide in November 1982 before he could be charged. |
| 1983 | Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson | (Michael) 32–33 (Suzan) 41–42 | United States |
James Clifford Carson and Susan Barnes Carson who are also known are “Michael Bear Carson” and “Susan Bear Carson” are an American married couple and are also serial killers who killed three people between 1981 and 1983 in California. The Carsons had gone into hiding, but were later caught, charged, and convicted, are now both in jail. |
| 1983 | Marc Rich | 29–30 | United States |
Rich was an international financial criminal and was also a trader, commodities, hedge fund manager, financier and a businessman. Because he was wanted for these crimes Rich fled to Switzerland and never returned home. Rich was later questionably pardoned by President Clinton, and is known to have died on 26 June 2013 of a stroke at a hospital in Lucerne at the age of 78, and therefore is no longer sought. |
| 1984 | Christopher Wilder | 39 | United States |
Wilder was an Australian serial killer who had kidnapped and raped multiple woman in multiple U.S. states and had been on the run from the law since 22 March 1984. After Wilder was located in New Hampshire he committed suicide during a altercation with the police on 13 April 1984. |
| 1984 | Carmine Persico | 51 | United States |
On 14 October 1984, Persico and the rest of the Colombo family leadership were indicted on multiple racketeering charges as part of the “Colombo Trial”. After the indictment was published, Persico went into hiding. On 26 October, the FBI began a national manhunt for Persico, and soon named him as the 390th fugitive to be added to their Ten Most Wanted list.Persico hid in the home of his cousin, mob associate Fred DeChristopher, in Hempstead, New York. Unbeknownst to Persico, DeChristopher had been relaying information to the FBI for the previous two years after being caught up in a sting operation, and had already told the Bureau of Persico’s whereabouts. The FBI concocted the fake “manhunt” to shield DeChristopher, who would later provide damning testimony against Persico as a key witness for the prosecution. Persico was arrested on 15 February 1985. On 14 June 1986, Persico was convicted of racketeering in the Colombo Trial. On 17 November, he was sentenced to 39 years in prison. The sentencing judge, John F. Keenan, nonetheless praised Persico’s performance as his own lawyer in the Commission Trial and said, “Mr. Persico, you’re a tragedy. You are one of the most intelligent people I have ever seen in my life.” On 19 November Persico and the other Commission Trial defendants were convicted on all charges. On 13 January 1987, Keenan sentenced Persico to 100 years in prison, to run consecutively with his 39-year sentence in the Colombo trial. On 7 March 2019, Persico died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. |
| 1985 | Richard Ramirez | 24 | United States |
Ramirez who was nicknamed the “Night Stalker” and the “Valley Intruder” was an American kidnapper, pedophile, serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and fugitive who after committing a series of vicious and highly publicized home invasion which took place in the Greater Los Angeles area and after in the San Francisco Bay Area as well. Ramirez’ last crime took place on 24 August 1985 and after which he had fled to East Los Angeles where he was recognized and captured by a crowd on the street on 31 August 1985. Ramirez was later convicted for his crimes and sentenced to death and on 12 June 2013 he died from complications that was caused from B-cell lymphoma, while he was on death row. |
| 1985 | Muhammad Zaidan | 37 | United States Italy |
Zaidan was the leader Palestinian Liberation Front, a political faction aiming to separate Palestine from Israeli control via violent means. In 1985, he and his followers hijacked the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro, during which an American hostage, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed. Fearful of retaliation from the USA, Zaidan and his followers surrendered in Egypt and were flown back to Italy, but managed to escape and flee to Iraq, where they protected under Saddam Hussein. Despite a public apology issues in 1996, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by Italy and wanted on charges of piracy, murder and terrorism by the USA. He was caught in 2003 during the Invasion of Iraq, but died in detention the following year. |
| 1986 | Antonio Imerti | 39 | Italy |
Imerti who is nicknamed “Nano feroce” (“fierce dwarf”), is an Italian criminal and a member of the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia who disappeared on 7 July 1986, after he became a fugitive, he was captured on 23 March 1993 in Reggio Calabria, while he was with his brother-in-law Pasquale Condello who is also a fugitive formerly wanted by the police. |
| 1986 | Joseph James DeAngelo | 40 | United States |
On April 24, 2018, authorities charged Joseph James DeAngelo with eight counts of first-degree murder, as DNA evidence linked him to crimes of the Golden State Killer, AKA The Original Nightstalker, a serial killer and rapist who terrorized California from the 1970s to mid-1980s. He confessed to the crimes and others in exchange for a sentence of life without parole, as opposed to facing the death penalty. |
| 1987 | Ted Jeffrey Otsuki | 36 | United States |
Otsuki was an American fugitive from Harlingen, Texas who had committed multiple robberies and had been placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list as number 415 in January 1988 after he had killed a police officer in Boston, Massachusetts on 2 October 1987 after which he had fled town. Otsuki was captured and arrested on 4 September 1988 in Jalisco, Guadalajara by both the FBI and Mexican Federal agents. and was later sentenced to life in prison, without any chance of parole. |
| 1988 | Vincent Walters | unknown | United States |
Walters is a Mexican-American fugitive and a former U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 Most Wanted Fugitives. who is also suspected of murder. Walters became wanted by the police in September 1988, but was later captured. |
| 1988 | Dorothea Puente | 59 | United States |
Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, where she was reputed for housing drug addicted, abusive or mentally-ill tenants. In 1988, after neighbors reported that a hired worker had mysteriously disappeared, her house was raided and excavations revealed several bodies buried under the property. During the initial investigation, Puente was not arrested and managed to flee to Los Angeles, but was quickly identified and returned to stand trial. She would be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, dying behind bars in 2011. |
| 1989 | Costabile Farace | 25 | United States |
Costabile “Gus” Farace, Jr. was a criminal with the Bonanno crime family who murdered a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in New York City who disappeared shortly after 28 February 1989. A manhunt was set up to find Farace, Jr., and at 11:08 p.m. on 17 November 1989, police dispatchers received a 9-1-1 emergency call about a car parked at 1814 81st Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, and Farace, Jr. was found dead. |
| 1989 | Domenico Libri | 55 | Italy |
Libri who was also known as “Don Mico” was an Italian fugitive was wanted by the police since June 1989 and was listed on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy as number one and also a member of the ‘Ndrangheta located in Calabria. Libri was captured on 17 September 1992 in Marseille, France. and died in prison on 1 May 2006. |
| 1989 | Yip Kai Foon | 37 |  Hong Kong |
Foon, also known as “Teeth Dog” and “Goosehead”, was an infamous Chinese illegal immigrant turned gangster who was most active in Hong Kong from the early 1980s to 1990s. He and his gang specialised in robbing jewellery stores with assault rifles. Their weapon of choice was the AK-47 assault rifle, which they acquired from black markets hosted by triads. He is also the first person to have used an AK-47 during an armed-robbery in Hong Kong. He had escaped from jail on 24 August 1989. His career finally came to an end on 1996-05-13 when he was arrested following a Kennedy Town gunfight with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force that left him paralyzed from the waist down. At the time he had a HK$1 million reward on his head, On 1 April 2017, he was hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital for cancer treatment. He died on 19 April 2017 of lung cancer. |
1990s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Pasquale Condello | 39–40 | Italy |
Condello is an Italian criminal known as a member of the ‘Ndrangheta and is also known as Il supremo (“the supreme one”) for his role at the top of the crime syndicate. He became a wanted fugitive in 1990 has been included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in February 2008. Investigators called him the “Provenzano of Calabria” – a reference to Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian “boss of bosses” who was arrested in 2006 after some 40 years as a fugitive |
| 1990 | Paddy Mitchell | 51 | United States |
On 23 November 1990, Mitchell was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most wanted list for bank robbery charges. Finally, on 22 February 1994, he was arrested just after a solo robbery in Southaven, Mississippi, convicted of bank robbery, and sentenced to a 65-year prison sentence. |
| 1991 | Anthony Casso | 65–66 | United States |
Casso who nicknamed “Gaspipe” and was known as a “homicidal maniac” was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family, who is both suspected of having committed dozens of murders, and has also confessed to being involved in between 15 and 36 murders. Casso became a wanted fugitive in early 1991 and on 19 January 1993 he was arrested at a mistress’ home in Mount Olive, New Jersey. On 15 December 2020, Casso died from multiple complications which included COVID-19, at the age of 78. |
| 1991 | David Everett | 29 | Australia |
Everett, an Australian criminal, writer and former member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and Karen National Liberation Army who disappeared in 1991. He turned to armed robbery, and during his manhunt he was regarded as the most wanted man in the history of Australian criminals. Everett was released in 2002 following ten and a half years in prison. He apparently maintained good relations with his children and married Australian Commonwealth government lawyer Darryl Wookey. He was diagnosed with suprabulbar palsy, the disease that killed his father. He died aged 51 on 13 May 2013 after a year long battle with cancer. |
| 1992 | Joseph Gardner | 22 | United States |
Gardner was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 25 May 1994. He was wanted for the 1992 murder of a 25-year-old woman in North Charleston, South Carolina. Gardner was captured on 19 October 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after nearly 2 years on the run. Gardner was later executed for the crime on 5 December 2008 in South Carolina. |
| 1992 | Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim | unknown |  Egypt |
Qasim who was also known as “Abu Talal al-Qasimi” was the leader of Egypt’s militant al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya (Gama’a Islamiyya) organization until he obtained political asylum in Denmark. Qasim was not seen from 1992 after being convicted in absentia by a military tribunal in 1992; however, he was located and captured in 1995 and later was executed by Egyptian authorities. |
| 1993 | Mir Aimal Kansi | 45–46 |  Pakistan |
Mir Aimal Kansi who was convicted of the Langley, Virginia 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters was a Pakistani national. The event resulted with two people being killed. After the incident Kansi fled to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Kansi was sought by the FBI who were aided by the Pakistani Police forces while they were in Pakistan. Kansi later went back to the US, and was later captured in 2002 and was put to death by means of lethal injection. Their identity remains unknown and they have never been captured. |
| 1993 | Antonino Giuffrè | 57–58 | Italy |
Giuffrè, is an Italian mafioso from Caccamo in the Province of Palermo, Sicily who was wanted since 1993. Giuffrè was trained as an agricultural sciences specialist. His rise in the Mafia ran parallel to the ascension of the Corleonesi clan headed by Salvatore Riina. He became the head of the mandamento of Caccamo. Giuffrè was captured by the police on 16 April 2002. |
| 1993 | Peter Gibb | 48 | Australia |
Peter Gibb an Australian fugitive who was sent to the Melbourne Remand Centre in 1993 for crimes that he committed later escaped on 7 March 1993 and was captured only a few days later. Gibb later died on the morning of 23 January 2011 at Frankston Hospital from injuries caused by three unknown men. |
| 1994 | Pasquale Tegano | 39 | Italy |
Along with his brother Giovanni, Pasquale was considered a high-ranking member of the Italian ‘Ndragheta mafia, participating in the Second ‘Ndragheta War during which several rival mob bosses were killed. He was indicted for murder, extortion and organized crime associations in 1994, but went on the run, resulting in him being marked as one of the county’s most wanted fugitives. He was finally captured on August 6, 2004, and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 1994 | Félicien Kabuga | 62 |  Rwanda |
Kabuga was a businessman from Rwanda who was wanted because of his involvement with the Rwandan genocide. which caused him to become a fugitive. In 1994 Kabuga had fled Kabuga and at first had attempted to enter Switzerland, but could not make it in. Kabuga was finally captured on 16 May 2020 in Asnières-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, after 26 years on the run. |
| 1994 | Syed Abdul Karim Tunda | 49 |  India |
Syed Abdul Karim, alias “Tunda”, was an alleged bomb maker of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, and was accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in India. He was arrested by the Delhi Police on 16 August at the India-Nepal border. However, the exact timing of this arrest is disputed with various versions being reported. Later, he received a clean chit by a Delhi court in all four cases against him. |
| 1994 | Giuseppe Giorgi | 35 | Italy |
Giorgi is an Italian criminal belonging to the ‘Ndrangheta, a criminal organization in Calabria. After having been a fugitive for 23 years and been included on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy he was captured in his home town San Luca on 2 June 2017. |
| 1994 | Whitey Bulger | 65 | United States |
Bulger was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On 23 December 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for 16 years. Bulger was finally apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California on 22 June 2011. Bulger was given two life sentences and sent to jail and then transferred to different jails. By then he was in a wheelchair, and was found dead on 30 October 2018, at the age of 89. He was killed by inmates within hours of his arrival at Hazelton. |
| 1995 | Michele Zagaria | 37–38 | Italy |
Zagaria who nickname is “Capastorta” meaning “Twisted head” is an Italian fugitive as well as a Camorrista boss of the Casalesi clan who are from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta, which is located in the northwest of Naples. Zagaria was placed on the “most wanted list” from Italy in 1995 for multiple crimes that he committed, as he had gone into hiding and had stayed on the list until 2011, until he was captured on 7 December 2011. |
| 1995 | Sebastiano Pelle | unknown | Italy |
Pelle, an Italian criminal belonging to the ‘Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria (Italy). Pelle was wanted since 1995 for membership of a criminal association aimed at trafficking weapons and drugs internationally, as well as for other crimes. Pelle has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 2006, investigations were extended internationally for his extradition. Pelle was on the “list of most wanted fugitives in Italy” of the ministry of the Interior, until his arrest on 9 November 2011, in Reggio Calabria. |
| 1996 | Agustín Vásquez Mendoza | 21–22 | Mexico |
Mendoza is a Mexican citizen who was sought for four years in the late 1990s by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the 445th FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive for his alleged participation in a drug conspiracy which led to the death of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent. Mendoza was captured in Puebla by Mexican authorities in the summer of 2000. |
| 1996 | Leslie Isben Rogge | 54 | United States |
Rogge is an American bank robber. He was the first FBI Top Ten criminal to be apprehended due to the Internet. Rogge was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 1970s for car theft and grand larceny. He was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida. In September 1985, he bribed a corrections officer and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho. Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank robberies, including one at an Exchange Bank branch in El Dorado, Arkansas, and at a bank in High Point, North Carolina, in 1986. On 19 May 1996, Rogge surrendered at the United States Embassy in Guatemala, after Guatemalan authorities had launched a manhunt upon being tipped off by someone who saw Rogge’s photo on the FBI website, and is now in jail. |
| 1996 | Anatoli Neželski | 44–45 | Estonia |
Neželski was a serial killer responsible for three robbery-murders committed in Tallinn between 1994 and 1996. Following his final murder, he was initially sheltered by an acquiantance, before he switched to moving around various hiding places to avoid arrest. He was arrested on March 17, 1998 while collecting bottles and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He served out the entirety of his sentence, and as of March 2013, he lives freely in Tallinn. |
| 1996 | Man Haron Monis | 32 |  Iran |
Monis was an Iranian-born refugee and Australian citizen who took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney on 15 December 2014, lasting for 17 hours, until the early hours of the following morning. The siege resulted in the death of Monis and two hostages. While Monis had a warrant out for his arrest in Iran, he sought political asylum in Australia in 1996, which was granted in 2001. Monis died on 16 December 2014. |
| 1997 | Andrew Cunanan | 27 | United States |
Cunanan was an American serial killer who murdered five people over a period of three months in the middle of 1997. He disappeared on 15 July and was found dead on 23 July after he committed suicide after using the same gun that he used to kill three of his victims. |
| 1997 | Ramón Arellano Félix | 33 | United States |
Félix was a Mexican drug lord and was the leader of a group called the Tijuana Cartel who became wanted by the police on 18 September 1997 for crimes he had committed in California. After Félix was located on 10 February 2002 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico he was shot dead. |
| 1998 | Eric Robert Rudolph | 31 | United States |
Rudolph is an American domestic terrorist. In 1996, he started a bombing campaign that would claim three lives and 123 injuries. After five bombings throughout the Southern United States, including 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he went into hiding in 1998. In 2003, he was arrested while he was rummaging through garbage bins for food. He was convicted of murder and terrorism and sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1998 | James Charles Kopp | 44 | United States |
Kopp is an American fugitive who in 1998 had killed Dr. Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions, and then had gone into hiding. On 7 June 1999 The FBI placed Kopp on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. After Kopp had fled the country he was located on 29 March 2001 and then captured. |
| 1999 | Yang Xinhai | 31 |  China |
Dubbed “The Monster Killer”, Yang Xinhai roamed around various Chinese provinces and broke into the homes of peasant families, which he proceeded to murder using various tools, raping some of his victims as well. Active from 1999 to 2003, he was finally captured in November 2003 in Cangzhou during a routine police inspection, and would later confess to 67 murders and 23 rapes. Xinhai was executed in 2004. |
| 1999 | Ty Conn | 32 |  Canada |
A bank robber with a history of escaping from prison institutions, Conn’s 1999 escape from Kingston Penitentiary, considered one of the country’s most secure prisons, was notable for being one of the rare instances an inmate had successfully escaped. Two weeks later, Conn was located in an apartment in Toronto, where he died in disputed circumstances (reported as either having committed suicide or accidentally dying from discharging his shotgun while speaking to law enforcement over the phone). |
| 1999 | Fidel Urbina | 23–24 | Mexico |
Fidel Urbina is a Mexican national former fugitive who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in June 2012. Urbina had been the subject of a manhunt since 1999 despite reported sightings in Mexico. A $100,000 reward was offered for information leading to Urbina’s arrest. Urbina was captured on 22 September 2016 in Chihuahua, Mexico after 17 years on the run. |
2000s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Francesco Mallardo | 49 | Italy |
Mallardo is an Italian fugitive, who is nicknamed “Ciccio ‘e Carlantonio”, who was wanted since April 2000 after escaping custody. Mallardo was captured on 29 August 2003 and is now in jail. |
| 2000 | George Robert Johnston a.k.a. Ballarat Bandit a.k.a. John Doe #39–04 |
46 | Canada |
Johnston was a Canadian-born burglar who gained nationwide attention as he spent the last several years of his life hiding from police in Death Valley National Park when he disappeared in 2000. The nickname of Ballarat Bandit was given to Johnston in accordance to where his criminal career began, inside of the town of Ballarat, California. After Johnston was located he was shot dead on 25 July 2004. |
| 2001 | Terje Larsen | 42 |  Norway |
Larsen was a prolific serial burglar known as The Wanderer who committed a minimum of 664 burglaries—typically within log cabins and ski lodges—across Norway in a span of crimes lasting over thirty years. His true number of burglaries remains unknown. Larsen first escaped from prison in April 2001, but was recaptured several months later. Released on probation in 2005, he again embarked on a series of burglaries, but was recaptured two months later. Larsen eluded custody a third time in 2013; on this occasion, he was arrested after just eight days. Larsen died on 10 May 2018. |
| 2001 | Michael Alfonso | 32 | United States |
A felon with a history of sex offences, Alfonso fled to Mexico in 2001 after he was charged with two murders committed in 1992 and 2001, respectively. While on the run, he would be placed as a Top Ten Fugitive by the FBI, and was chased across Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. In July 2004, he was arrested with the help of the Mexican authorities and extradited back to the USA. He was later sentenced to three life imprisonment terms. |
| 2001 | Osama bin Laden | 44 |  Saudi Arabia |
Bin Laden, also rendered Usama bin Ladin, was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. He was a Saudi Arabian until 1994 (stateless thereafter), a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the United States, as the FBI offered a $25 million bounty in their search for him. He had gone into hiding after 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. On 2 May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed by United States Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan, during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama. |
| 2001 | Abdul Subhan Qureshi a.k.a. India’s Osama Bin Laden a.k.a. Tauqeer |
29 | India |
A most wanted islamist bomb-maker and one of the most wanted terrorists in India and has been called India’s Osama Bin Laden. He is suspected to be associated with the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), and is thought to have been responsible for participating in the Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi bombings. He is also a suspect in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. He is more commonly known as Tauqeer and is believed to be the signer in the Indian Mujahideen terror email as al-Arabi. Abdul Subhan Qureshi was arrested by Delhi Police in January 2018. He was listed on the NIA Most Wanted list. |
| 2001 | Robert Durst | 56 | United States |
Durst is an American real estate heir, the son of New York City mogul Seymour Durst, and the elder brother of Douglas Durst, head of the Durst Organization. He is suspected of having murdered three individuals in different states who includes Kathleen McCormack Durst, his first wife, who disappeared in New York in 1982. On 9 October 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston shortly after body parts belonging to his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay. He was released on $300,000 bail the next day. Durst missed a court hearing on 16 October 2001 and a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of bail jumping. On 30 November 2001, he was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after trying to shoplift Band-Aids, a newspaper and a chicken-salad sandwich with roasted red peppers on a pumpernickel baguette, even though he had $500 cash in his pocket. He was later sent to jail. |
| 2001 | Christian Longo | 26 | United States |
Longo is an American murderer who committed his crimes in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was married to Mary Jane Baker at age 19 and they had three children together. He and his family often encountered financial difficulties due to his reckless spending habits. After the body of Longo’s four-year-old son, Zachery, was found on 19 December 2001, divers located that of his three-year-old daughter, Sadie. Those of Mary Jane and their two-year-old daughter, Madison, were found five days later. By that time, Longo was wanted in connection with the murder of Mary Jane and their three children. He later disappeared and was captured on 13 January 2002. He was taken into U.S. custody at George Bush Intercontinental Airport a day later. He was sentenced to death in 2003, but has not yet been executed. |
| 2002 | Mickey Green | 71–72 |  United Kingdom |
Green was an English gangster and drug lord who also held Irish nationality. A convicted armed robber, he was allegedly one of Britain’s leading drug dealers for many years and was said to be worth at least £75 million. In 2002, Green was sought by authorities in Ireland, who suspected Green of tampering with a jury at a prior inquest, and his assets in the Republic of Ireland were seized by the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau. Green lived in Estepona, Spain for the last twenty years of his life, and reportedly died of skin cancer on 13 July 2020, and is therefore no longer sought. |
| 2002 | Amjad Farooqi | c. 30 | Pakistan |
A Pakistani militant active within both Indian-administered Kashmir, Afghanistan and Pakistan and believed to have been involved in terrorist activities dating back to at least 1995. Farooqi is also alleged to have been a participant in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and attempted assassinations of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf the following year. Farooqi was killed in a dawn raid by security forces on 26 September 2004. |
| 2002 | Kemar Jarrett | 19–20 |  Jamaica |
Jarrett, a Jamaican criminal who is a member of a gang called the Yardies and who in 2002 was listed as the number one criminal on the top ten most wanted list of criminals in Jamaica by the Jamaica Constabulary Force. He disappeared in April 2002 and was captured on 18 February 2004 after being deported from the United Kingdom as a result related drug charges that he was charged with, and is now in prison. |
| 2002 | Velupillai Prabhakaran | 48 |  Sri Lanka |
Prabhakaran was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Wanted by the Sri Lankan government in 2002, and is known to have been killed on 18 May 2009. |
| 2003 | George Robert Johnston | 49–50 | United States |
Johnston was an American burglar whose latest robberies took place in 2003 in California. Rather than continue to evade the police during the time he was in hiding he committed suicide by shooting himself. After the police found his dead body it took them over a year before they could finally identify him. |
| 2003 | Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah | 27 | United States |
Gulshair el Shukrijumah was a senior member of al-Qaeda who was wanted since March 2003. After being located, in 2014 Shukrijumah was killed in a military manhunt operation by the Pakistan Army Special Forces in South Waziristan. |
| 2003 | Genero Espinosa Dorantes | 33 | United States |
Dorantes was wanted by the FBI for his alleged participation in the burning, beating, torture and murder of his four-year-old stepson in Nashville, Tennessee in February 2003. He was located and arrested on 25 February 2006 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. |
| 2003 | Saddam Hussein | 69 |  Iraq |
Hussein was President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba’ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba’ath Party—which espoused Ba’athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq. He went into hiding, but was captured and on 5 November 2006, Saddam Hussein stood trial and was found guilty of the Dujail massacre. He was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on 30 December 2006. |
| 2003 | Andrew Luster | 39 | United States |
Luster was an American fugitive who was convicted of sexual assault. In 2000, he was arrested when a student at a local college told police that she had been raped at Luster’s home, and later disappeared in January 2003. Upon investigation, police charged Luster with drugging three women with the date-rape drug GHB, sexually assaulting them, and video-taping the assaults, having found videotapes of the assaults when they searched his home. After paying $1 million bail, Luster failed to appear in court to defend himself against the charges in January 2003. Luster was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 124 years in prison, which was later reduced to 50 years in June 2003, after he was captured by American bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. |
| 2004 | Marco Di Lauro | 24–25 | Italy |
Di Lauro is an Italian Camorrista and member of the Di Lauro clan from Naples. He was listed on “Italy’s most wanted list” since 2004, for Camorra association and other crimes. On 17 November 2006, an international warrant was issued against him, to be arrested for extradition. After having been a fugitive for 14 years and been included on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy, he was captured in Naples on 2 March 2019. |
| 2004 | Dr. No (serial killer) | unknown | United States |
Dr. No is the nickname given to a suspected American serial killer who operated in Ohio and in between 1981 and 2004 is believed to be been behind the killings of multiple females. It also suspected that in between 1986 and 1988 that Dr. No may have been behind other murders in the other U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York as well, but this is not known for certain. In February 2019 the police arrested a man that they have stated is in fact Dr. no due to evidence that has been given. |
| 2004 | Raffaele Diana | 65–66 | Italy |
Diana, an Italian Camorrista and senior boss of the Casalesi clan from Caserta, who was eventually arrested on 2 May 2009, after having been on the run for five years. He was captured by officers of the mobile team of Caserta in an apartment in Casal di Principe, near Caserta, where he was hidden in a bunker of cement produced in the stairwell. He was found in possession of two loaded pistols and some ammunition. A copy of the Gospel, a book of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a copy of The Godfather and Il Capo dei Capi were also found. Diana’s arrest was believed by law enforcement to have delivered a huge blow to the Casalesi. |
| 2005 | Patrizio Bosti | 46 | Italy |
Bosti is the leader of the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate based in Naples. He was initially wanted on murder charges, for ordering the killings of two rival mobsters in 1984, but went on the run. He was listed as one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives until his arrest in Girona, Spain in August 2008. He was brought back to Italy and sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for the murders. In May 2020, he was released early due to supposed “inhumane treatment” from prison authorities, but was later returned and ordered to serve another six years following a recalculation of his sentence. |
| 2005 | Joseph Lombardo | 76 | United States |
On 25 April 2005, Lombardo, along with 13 other defendants, was indicted as part of the federal government’s Operation Family Secrets investigation, which lifted the veil on 18 killings since the 1970s that federal investigators had attributed to the Chicago Outfit, an Italian-American Mafia organization. Lombardo was indicted for his role in at least one murder, as well as for running a racket based on illegal gambling, loan sharking and murder. As federal agents rounded up the 14 defendants in April 2005, they realized that Lombardo had disappeared and become a fugitive after they issued a federal arrest warrant. The FBI then offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Lombardo’s capture. On 13 January 2006, after over eight months at large, a bearded, unkempt Lombardo, was captured by FBI agents outside the Elmwood Park, Illinois home of his longtime friend Dominic Calarco. Federal agents had been tipped off to Lombardo’s whereabouts after Lombardo had visited dead Outfit mobster Tony Spilotro’s dentist brother, Patrick Spilotro, for an abscessed tooth. On 10 September 2007, Lombardo was convicted of racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and murder. On 27 September 2007, the same jury found Lombardo guilty of the 1974 Seifert murder. In 2009, Lombardo, seated in a wheelchair, was sentenced to life in prison for the convictions. He served his sentence at ADX Florence supermax prison, where he died on 19 October 2019, at the age of 90. |
| 2005 | Malcolm Naden | 32 | Australia |
Naden, who would be the most wanted criminal in Australia until his capture, was wanted in New South Wales for the murders of two women (committed in January and June 2005, respectively), as well as the indecent assault of a 14-year-old in 2004. Over the years, he narrowly escaped capture on multiple occasions, and in 2011, injured a police officer who had attempted to apprehend him. Naden was finally arrested in March 2012 near Gloucester, brought to trial for the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 2006 | Khadaffy Janjalani | 30 |  Philippines |
Janjalani was a fugitive from the Philippines who was nicknamed “Daf” and “Pek” and became wanted by the police after he was added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on 24 February 2006. Janjalani is known to have been shot dead in Patikul, Sulu on 4 September 2006 as his remains were found over two months later. |
| 2006 | Richard Lee McNair | 47 | Canada |
McNair, an American convicted murderer known for his multiple escapes and avoiding being captured. His most recent escape was on 5 April 2006 when he escaped from a United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. Moore was captured on 24 October 2007, when was seen near Nash Creek, New Brunswick, and is now serving two life sentences in prison. |
| 2006 | Gianni Nicchi | 24–25 | Italy |
Nicchi, who is nicknamed ‘u picciutteddu (“the little boy”), is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is considered to be one of the leading mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo regardless of his young age. Before his arrest on 5 December 2009. he was on the “most wanted list” of the Italian ministry of the Interior since 2006. He is currently locked up in a special security prison in L’Aquila under the strict Article 41-bis prison regime regulation. |
| 2007 | Giovanni Strangio | 28 | Italy |
Strangio was wanted for his participation in the Duisburg massacre on 15 August 2007, and was added to list of most wanted fugitives in Italy as well as in Germany. Strangio was captured on 12 March 2009 after being arrested in Amsterdam. |
| 2007 | Liu Sung-pan | 75 |  Taiwan |
Liu was a Taiwanese politician who served as the President of the Legislative Yuan from 1992 to 1999. In July 2003 he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and NT$30 million fine for corruption. After being declared a fugitive Liu Sung-pan had then fled to Mainland China in 2007 and died in 2016. |
| 2007 | Ronald Lee Moore | 40 | United States |
Moore, a convicted felon serving time in jail for burglary, was accidently released from the Baltimore City Correctional Center due to a clerical error, on 21 November 2007. He went on the run as a fugitive and fled from Maryland to Louisiana. He was featured on the television series, America’s Most Wanted. Moore was captured on 24 December 2007 by police in Louisiana. Moore later committed suicide by hanging and died on 5 January 2008. |
| 2008 | Yaser Abdel Said | 50 | United States |
Abdel Said, an Egyptian resident of the United States, was wanted for the murder of his two teenage daughters in Irving, Texas, on 1 January. Prior to his capture, he was last seen in 2008, and was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted List in 2014. He was located and taken into federal custody on 26 August 2020 in Justin, Texas. Indicted on capital murder charges, Said potentially faces the death penalty if convicted. |
| 2008 | Eduardo Ravelo | 41 | United States |
Ravelo, leader of the Barrio Azteca gang, and also a fugitive wanted on several charges related to drugs and organized crime, was last seen in 2008. On 20 October 2009, he was named by the FBI as the 493rd fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most-Wanted list. On 26 June 2018, the FBI announced that Ravelo and several other Barrio Azteca gang members had been arrested during a police raid in Mexico. |
| 2008 | Lady Bardales | 25–26 |  Peru |
Bardales is a Peruvian police officer, who in 2008 became a fugitive for a few months as she was wanted for alleged crimes. Bardales decided to turn herself into the police, and was later released due to the fact that no proof was found that she was guilty of the crimes that she was thought to have committed and now lives freely in Peru. |
| 2009 | Saad bin Laden | 29–30 | Saudi Arabia |
Saad bin Laden who was a son of Osama bin Laden was a terrorist just like his father. After being retained in Iranian custody he had gone into hiding in January 2009 and most likely fled for Pakistan and was killed by an American drone strike in July 2009 after being located. |
| 2009 | Christopher Daniel Gay | 34 | United States |
Gay who is nicknamed “Little Houdini”, is an American habitual car thief and repeat escapee from custody. In 2007 he made major news after he stole the tour bus of country music singer Crystal Gayle after an escape. Gay’s last escape was on the afternoon of 3 March 2009 while being transported from Orlando, Florida to Coffee County, Tennessee by the police, after he was able to free himself of his restraints after which he had fled for the car that he was being held captive in. Before this took place he had been arrested and held for larceny of a Wal-Mart truck. Gay was captured in 2019. |
| 2009 | Joe Saenz | 34 | United States |
Saenz is an American fugitive who was gangster and had committed multiple murders, rape, kidnapping and had violated his parole conditions by taking part in an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On 19 October 2009 Saenz was added the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Saenz was located and caputured on 22 November 2012 in Guadalajara, Mexico by the Federal Police, and is now in jail. |
| 2009 | Semion Mogilevich | 63 |  Russia |
Mogilevich, a Ukrainian-born, Russian organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the “boss of bosses” of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world. Mogilevich is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as “the most dangerous mobster in the world.” He has been accused by the FBI of “weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale,” had disappeared and was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives on 23 October 2009. Mogilevich was removed from the list on 17 December 2015 and now lives freely in Moscow as he is no longer wanted by the police. |
2010s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Santiago Mederos | 18 | United States |
Mederos was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 25 September 2017. He disappeared from Tacoma, Washington after committing two murders in early 2010. He murdered 20-year-old Camille Love in a case of mistaken identity and killed 25-year-old Saul Lucas-Alfonso as he fled the scene of a robbery. Mederos was captured in Tenancingo, Mexico on 5 June 2020. |
| 2010 | Colton Harris Moore | 19 | United States |
Moore, an American former fugitive, was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager. Moore had fled Bloomington, Indiana for the Bahamas. While on the run Moore was captured in July 2010, but years later he was released on parole. |
| 2010 | Christopher Coke | 41 | United States |
Coke, who also went by the alias “Dudus”, is a Jamaican drug lord and former leader of the Shower Posse, a violent drug gang founded by his father. The US issued a warrant for his arrest on 17 May 2010, and Coke was located and arrested on 23 June 2010. Coke was later extradited to the US, and he was convicted to 23 years in prison on 8 June 2012. |
| 2011 | Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias | unknown |  El Salvador |
Gracias is a Salvadoran fugitive who was formerly wanted for first-degree murder in the stabbing and killing of a 63-year-old who was resident of Denver on 17 August 2011, after which he became sought by the police. Two years later, Gracias was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list and was then arrested on 27 March 2013 in El Salvador, surrenderring after being identified to avoid a struggle. |
| 2011 | Anna-Maria Galojan | 29 | Estonia |
Galojan was sentenced to 22 months’ imprisonment in 2011 for document forgery and embezzlement of €60,000 from the non-profit organization European Movement Estonia, of which she was the CEO. Five months of Galojan’s sentence was real jail time and the rest conditional with a probationary period of four years. She fled to London where she was arrested on 14 February 2012. |
| 2011 | Peter Scully | 48 | Australia |
Since 2009, Scully had been investigated in numerous fraud and deception cases, and the year of his disappearance, he was about to be charged with a property scheme in Melbourne which cost investors $2.68 million. He fled to Manila in the Philippines, and thereafter to the island of Mindanao, from where he established an international child abuse ring, recording himself sexually abusing young children and allegedly killing at least one. Sentenced to life imprisonment, and is pending charges in similar crimes. |
| 2012 | Boris Berezovsky | 66 | Russia |
Berezovsky, also known as “Platon Elenin”, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. In 2012, Berezovsky lost a London High Court case he brought over the ownership of the major oil producer Sibneft, against Roman Abramovich, in which he sought over £3 billion in damages. The court concluded that Berezovsky had never been a co-owner of Sibneft. After that he disappeared and became a fugitive who was wanted by Russia. He was found dead on 23 March 2013, in what was speculated to have been a suicide, and is no longer sought by the police. |
| 2012 | Eric Justin Toth | 31 | United States |
Toth is an American former fugitive convicted of possessing and producing child pornography. On 10 April 2012, Toth replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list as the 495th fugitive to be placed on that list by the FBI. Toth was captured by the Nicaraguan police in April 2013 in Estelí, a northern city of Nicaragua. He was immediately extradited to the United States to face trial, and in March 2014, Toth was sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison. |
| 2012 | Monsters of Ecatepec | 27 (Hernández) 32 (Martínez) |
Mexico |
Consisting of couple Juan Carlos Hernández and Patricia Martínez, the “Monsters of Ecatepec” were responsible for killing between 10 and 20 girls and women from 2012 to 2018 in Ecatepec de Morelos. They were finally arrested in October 2018, while transporting human remains in a baby stroller. |
| 2013 | Christopher Dorner | 33 | United States |
Dorner was a Los Angeles police officer who began a series of shootings against members of the police whom he was aggrieved towards on 3 February 2013 in Orange County, California. He then disappeared, leading multiple police departments on an extensive manhunt. This concluded on 13 February 2013 after a standoff with police, with confirmation that human remains found in a fire destroyed cabin were his. |
| 2013 | Vicente Zambada Niebla | 38 | United States |
Jesús Vicente Zambada Niebla was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Niebla was charged with trafficking more than a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine and heroin, and eventually pleaded guilty before a US district court. Niebla was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019. |
| 2013 | José Manuel García Guevara | 25 | Mexico |
Guevara is a Mexican fugitive who was involved with second-degree murder, aggravated rape, and aggravated burglary and was one placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and had offered a $100,000 for his capture. After Guevara became wanted on 17 June 2013 he was captured on July 2014, the FBI and was sent to the Calcasieu Parish jail. |
| 2014 | Denis Zubov | 33 | Russia |
Zubov is a serial killer who murdered three people in the Volgograd Oblast between 2013 and 2014. The first two victims, his ex-girlfriend’s suitor and an elderly pensioner, had their genitalia severed; his ex-girlfriend would later be strangled during an argument. He woud later be identified as a person of interest in the last murder, but by then, he had fled to the Saratov Oblast. He returned to Volgograd in 2016, whereupon he was immediately arrested. He would later be found guilty and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment. |
| 2014 | Lamont Stephenson | 42 | United States |
Stephenson was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 11 October 2018. Stephenson was wanted for the murder of his fiancée, Olga DeJesus, on 17 October 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Stephenson was the 521st fugitive to be placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Police say that he was also wanted in a second homicide committed 6 March 2019. He was captured in Maryland on 7 March 2019, as authorities were investigating a suspicious vehicle. |
| 2015 | Salah Abdeslam | 25 | France |
Abdeslam is a French National who was born in Belgium. Abdeslam was part of a group who was behind the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 and is believed to be the sole surviving member. After being on the run for four months, Abdeslam was captured during a police raid that was conducted in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, on 18 March 2016. Abdeslam was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 23 April 2018. |
| 2015 | Richard Matt | 48 | United States |
Matt was an American murderer who escaped from prison on 6 June 2015, and was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol Supervisory Agent Chris Voss in Franklin County, New York, near the town of Malone on 26 June 2015. |
| 2015 | Luis Macedo | 27 | United States |
Macedo is a former American fugitive wanted for questioning in connection with the 1 May 2009 murder of 15-year-old Alex Arellano in Chicago, Illinois. He is thought to have fled the Chicago area soon after the murder, and was last seen on 24 Nov 2015. In 2016, Macedo was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was captured on 27 August 2017 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico without incident. |
| 2015 | Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah | 52 | Egypt |
Abdullah who was also known as “Abu Mohammed al-Masri” was an Egyptian member who held a high rank in al-Qaeda was became wanted in 1998 as he was believed to have a part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in multiple African countries. Abdullah was last known to have lived in Iran in 2015, and is known to have been killed on 7 August 2020 as on 12 January 2021 when his death was officially confirmed. |
| 2016 | Aslan Byutukayev | 46 | Iraq |
Byutukayev who also known as “Emir Khamzat” and “Abubakar” was a Chechen fugitive who was wanted by the United States on 13 July 2016. as he was list as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. In 2016, Byutukayev was believed to have was hiding in Turkey, although this was not know for certain, and in January 2021, he and five militants were killed in Katyr-Yurt, Chechnya after being located, which was a result of a special operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya. |
| 2016 | Terry A. D. Strickland | 24 | United States |
Strickland is a former American fugitive who was wanted for the murder of two men in July 2016. On 15 December 2016, Strickland was added to the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list. Strickland was arrested in El Paso, Texas on 15 January 2017. The FBI’s public tip line was contacted earlier in the month suggesting that Strickland was living in the city. He was apprehended without incident during a traffic stop and booked into the El Paso county jail. |
| 2017 | Eric Franklin Rosser | 65 | United States |
Rosser who is also known as “Doc Rosser”, was a keyboardist for John Mellencamp from the years 1979–1981, and is widely known for being on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list,. While Rosser was on federal probation, he fled to Washington state in July 2017 on a bus, with $10,000 strapped to each of his legs, a bag containing $50,000, and $1,000 worth of cannabis. Rosser was noticed after he was seen watching child pornography and was then arrested. He is now serving time in jail. |
| 2018 | Antwan Mims | 40 | United States |
Mims, an American criminal who was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on 27 June 2018. Mims was wanted for 25 March 2018 murders of Cortez Lamont Miller and Michael Canthrell Johnson while they were attending a house party in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was captured on 31 July 2018 and was sentenced to life in prison in March 2019. |
| 2018 | Rédoine Faïd | 46 | France |
Faïd, a French gangster and serial jailbreaker known for his multiple prison escapes, was named France’s most wanted criminal since 2013. Faïd’s most recent escape was on 1 July 2018 when he broke out of a prison in Réau with the help of three armed accomplices and a helicopter. Faïd was caught on 3 October 2018 in Creil and was sent back to jail. |
| 2019 | Greg Alyn Carlson | 47 | United States |
Carlson was an American criminal formerly on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 27 September 2018 to 13 February 2019. Carlson was an alleged sexual predator involved in multiple armed sexual assaults in Los Angeles, California, and was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for assault with intent to commit rape. He was also wanted by the FBI on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and was shot dead by FBI agents in Apex, North Carolina on 13 February 2019. Authorities found him hiding at a hotel and upon entering his room a violent altercation occurred, resulting in Carlson’s death. |
| 2019 | Bryer Schmegelsky & Kam McLeod | Schmegelsky 18 McLeod 19 | Canada |
The 2019 Northern British Columbia homicides were a spree killing that took place on the Alaska Highway and Stewart–Cassiar Highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia between July 14–19, 2019. Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky are alleged to have killed Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese, before killing Leonard Dyck within a six-day time frame. By July 23, 2019, McLeod and Schmegelsky had reportedly traversed 3,200 km (2,000 mi) stretching across four Canadian provinces in ten days. A Canada-wide manhunt for the suspects was initiated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Between July 23 and August 7, McLeod and Schmegelsky used firearms to kill themselves near the Nelson River, northeast of Gillam, Manitoba. |
| 2019 | Abu Muhsin al-Masri | 60 | Egypt |
Muhsin al-Masri was an Egyptian fugitive who was added to FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List in 2019, as he was hiding from the law. It was later revealed that Muhsin al-Masri had been killed in Central Ghazni Province in 2020. |
2020s
| Date of disappearance | Person(s) | Age at disappearance | Country | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Kenyel Brown | 40 | United States |
Brown was an American fugitive who is believed to have been behind series of murders that took place in three cities in Wayne County, Michigan in between 7 December 2019 and 22 February 2020. After Brown was located by the police he then shot himself in the head, and died just four days later. |