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The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1990s is a list, maintained for a fifth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1990s
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.
The following fugitives made up the the top Ten list to begin the 1990s:
| Name | Sequnece Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Joseph Koury | #367 | 1979 | • Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of cerebral vascular hypertension on June 16, 1991.[1] |
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 | • Removed from the list on March 31, 2007, without ever being located. |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 | • Still at large |
| Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | 1987 | • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean Willmott[1] |
| Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | 1987 | • Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel Marks[1] |
| Armando Garcia | #423 | 1989 | • Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on America's Most Wanted |
| Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | 1989 | • Arrested March 9, 1995 |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 | • Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer met the criteria. |
| Wardell David Ford | #429 | 1989 | • Arrested September 17, 1990 |
One spot on the list of ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the new decade in 1990.
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1990s
The list of the most wanted fugitives listed during the 1990s fluctuated throughout the decade with some fugitives making reappearances on the list. In 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. As before, spots on the list were occupied by fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and still remained at large. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):[2]
| Name | Sequnece Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Isben Rogge | #430 | January 24, 1990 | Six years |
| Leslie Isben Rogge surrendered May 19, 1996 to Guatemalan authorities. Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries[3] | |||
| Kenneth Robert Stanton | #431 | October 24, 1990 | Seven days |
| Kenneth Robert Stanton was captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department. Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries | |||
| Patrick Michael Mitchell | #432 | November 23, 1990 | Four years |
| Patrick Michael Mitchell was captured February 22, 1994 in Southhaven, Mississippi and has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1994. He robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994 | |||
| Jon Preston Steele | #433 | August 9, 1991 | Never published |
| Jon Preston Steele was arrested August 6, 1991 (before being published to the list) in Los Angeles. | |||
| Robert Michael Allen | #434 | September 13, 1991 | One year, 3 months |
| Robert Michael Allen was found dead on December 23, 1992 in the California desert by three hikers. | |||
| Mir Aimal Kansi | #435 | February 9, 1993 | Four years |
| Mir Aimal Kansi was executed on November 14, 2002 by lethal injection in a Virginia state prison. He was convicted November 12, 1997 Kansi was a fugitive in Afghanistan and Pakistan before being arrested after he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan on June 17, 1997. He was wanted in murder case of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia on January 25, 1993, during which three others were shot as well in their cars at the intersection. | |||
| Ramzi Ahmed Yousef | #436 | April 21, 1993 | Two years |
| Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is imprisoned at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was convicted on November 12, 1997; sentenced to life January 8, 1998 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing. He was arrested in Pakistan February 7, 1995. Yousef had fled Manila, Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot February 6, 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners. He is the nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit | |||
| Joseph Martin Luther Gardner | #437 | May 25, 1994 | Five months |
| Joseph Martin Luther Gardner has been imprisoned since 1994. He was arrested on October 19, 1994 in Philadelphia. | |||
| Gary Ray Bowles | #438 | November 19, 1994 | Three days |
| Gary Ray Bowles, imprisoned on death row since 1999. Arrested on November 22, 1994 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as a suspect in serial killings. His death sentence was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court on August 28, 1998. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in Atlanta in August 1986. | |||
| Gerald Keith Watkins | #439 | March 4, 1995 | Two months |
| Gerald Keith Watkins has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1995. Arrested in Harlem May 5, 1995 | |||
| Juan Garcia-Abrego | #440 | March 9, 1995 | Nine months |
| Juan Garcia-Abrego has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996 imprisoned in Houston, Texas sentenced to 11 life terms on January 31, 1997; Convicted in Houston United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas October 16, 1996 of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges; Expelled to US by Mexico January 15, 1996; Arrested January 14, 1996 in Monterrey, Mexico; Indictment amended in 1996; Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995; Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston; Indicted in Dallas, Texas federal United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in 1990; Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986. | |||
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi | #441 | March 23, 1995 | Four years |
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Scotland mrisoner, whose murder conviction was upheld by appeals court in March 2002. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted January 31, 2001; arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999. He was charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; Libyan intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for Libyan Arab Airlines. | |||
| Lamen Khalifa Fhimah | #442 | March 23, 1995 | Four years |
| Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was acquittedin Scotland January 31, 2001. He was arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States" and wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States. | |||
| O'Neil Vassell | #443 | July 15, 1995 | One year |
| O'Neil Vassell is a US prisoner arrested on October 16, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York. He was wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the "RATs" Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.[4] | |||
| Rickey Allen Bright | #444 | December 15, 1995 | Three weeks |
| Rickey Allen Bright is a US prisoner who was arrested on January 7, 1996 in Nashville, TN. He was wanted in the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old Wilkes County, North Carolina girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1979 | |||
| Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza | #445 | August 3, 1996 | Four years |
| Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza has been imprisoned since 2000 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was arrested in Mexico July 9, 2000 for unlawful flight after being indicted in Phoenix, Arizona July 11, 1994 in murder of an undercover DEA special agent in Glendale, Arizona on June 30, 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy | |||
| Thang Thanh Nguyen | #446 | August 3, 1996 | One year |
| Thang Thanh Nguyen has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998 after being extradited to Rochester, New York January 6, 1998 from Bangkok, Thailand He was turned over to the FBI and transported from Vietnam; was arrested December 22, 1997 in Bac Lieu, Vietnam. Nguyen was charged by FBI with unlawful flight July 14, 1992 following an arrest warrant for his indictment in Monroe County, New York July 9, 1992; for an in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in Irondequoit, New York January 26, 1992. | |||
| Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | December 7, 1996 | Still at large |
| Glen Stewart Godwin is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987. He was convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30, 1987 through a storm drain.[5] | |||
| David Alex Alvarez | #448 | December 14, 1996 | Five months |
| David Alex Alvarez is a Mexician prisonerwho was arrested on May 20, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico. He was wanted in murder of four people, including two young girls, and wounding of three other people, at Baldwin Park, California September 29, 1996. He was also wanted in a kidnapping in California, August 1996. He was paroled in 1994 after being sentenced to five years in 1992 following a conviction of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992.[6] | |||
| Andrew Phillip Cunanan | #449 | June 12, 1997 | One month |
| Andrew Phillip Cunanan died following his suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on Indian Creek Canal in Miami Beach, Florida July 23, 1997. He was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach house July 15, 1997. Arrived in Miami Beach on May 10, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of Finn's Point Cemetery worker in Pennsville, New Jersey May 9, 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of Chicago, Illinois real-estate developer Lee Miglin at his home May 3, 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near Duluth, Minnesota about April 29, 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 27, 1997. | |||
| Paul Ragusa | #450 | September 6, 1997 | Four months |
| Paul Ragusa has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998. He was arrested onJanuary 30, 1998 in New York. He had cosmetic surgery in 1997 following an indictment on racketeering charges June 14, 1996. He was wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23, 1993; beating a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, NY in 1990 (charges were dropped in the beating case); beating a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, NY in March 1989. | |||
| Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix | #451 | September 18, 1997 | Five years |
| Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix was killed in a gunbattle with police at Mazatlan February 10, 2002. He was wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in mass murder of 19 people in Ensenada September 17, 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in United States District Court for the Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), which is also known as the Tijuana Cartel. | |||
| Tony Ray Amati | #452 | February 21, 1998 | Four days |
| Tony Ray Amati has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1998. He was arrested on February 25, 1998 in Marietta, Georgia; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May-July 1996. | |||
| Harry Joseph Bowman | #453 | March 14, 1998 | One year |
| Harry Joseph Bowman has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1999 after being arrested June 7, 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in Cook County, Illinois in 1994; wanted in murder of rival club member in Edgewater, Florida in 1991; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in Ormond Beach, Florida in 1982; former international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries.[7] | |||
| Eric Robert Rudolph | #454 | May 5, 1998 | Five years |
| Eric Robert Rudolph, a US prisoner, was arrested in Murphy, North Carolina, May 31, 2003. He was charged on October 14, 1998 in a series of southeastern US bombings. Before being arrested, his last made known contact with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina February 8, 1998; wanted in bombing murder and maiming at a Birmingham abortion clinic January 29, 1998; wanted in double bombing at a nightclub in Atlanta February 21, 1997; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29, 1997; wanted in double bombing at office building in north Atlanta on January 16, 1997; wanted in bombing murder at Centennial Park in Atlanta July 27, 1996.[8] | |||
| James Charles Kopp | #455 | June 7, 1999 | Two years |
| James Charles Kopp, a US prisoner, was arrested in Dinan, Brittany, France March 30, 2001. He had vanished from Ireland on a false passport March 12, 2001; indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force; indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier was found abandoned at Newark International Airport December 18, 1998; disappeared November 3, 1998; wanted in murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian at his home in Amherst, New York October 23, 1998; wanted for shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1997, 1995 and 1994; jailed at Key Road Detentional Facility in Atlanta for his part in July 1988 'Siege of Atlanta' by Operation Rescue.[9] | |||
| Osama bin Laden | #456 | June 7, 1999 | Still at large |
| Osama bin Laden is the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, and is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. Osama and Al-Qaeda are also responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, which killed 17. Although bin Laden also later appeared on the first publicly released FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on Oct. 10, 2001, he was listed there for the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000, because the most wanted lists name individuals charged with a crime by a prosecutor or under indictment by a grand jury. Bin Laden has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in, for instance, the federal indictment against convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, but has not been formally indicted for his role in the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden is the subject of a $25 million reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program targeting international fugitives, especially terrorists, plus $2 million through a program developed and funded by the Air Line Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.[10][11] | |||
| Ángel Maturino Reséndiz | #457 | June 21, 1999 | Three weeks |
| Ángel Maturino Reséndiz aka Rafael Resendez-Ramirez was executed on June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas by lethal injection. He was arrested on July 13, 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as "The Railway Killer" in Jackson County, Illinois June 15, 1999; murder in Houston, Texas June 5, 1999; murder in Fayette County, Texas June 4, 1999; double murder in Weimar, Texas April 30, 1999; murder in West University, Texas December 17, 1998; murder in Lexington, Kentucky August 29, 1997. | |||
| James J. Bulger | #458 | August 19, 1999 | Still at large |
| James J. Bulger is wanted for his role in numerous murders (18 counts) committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times.[12] | |||
End of the Decade
As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
| Name | Sequnece Number | Date of Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 |
| Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza | #445 | 1996 |
| Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | 1996 |
| Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix | #451 | 1997 |
| Eric Robert Rudolph | #454 | 1998 |
| James Charles Kopp | #455 | 1999 |
| Osama bin Laden | #456 | 1999 |
| James J. Bulger | #458 | 1999 |
FBI directors in decade of 1990s
- William S. Sessions (1987-1993)
- Acting Director: Floyd I. Clarke (1993)
- Louis J. Freeh (1993–2001 )
FBI headlines in decade of 1990s
As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. 1999 includes entry on the top 10 list of the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, for the 1998 embassy attacks. Of course, bin Laden's later attack on 9/11 three years later dwarfed that 1998 event. In 1993 and 1994, the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents.
Though it may seem a bit peculiar that so many 1990s terrorists appear on this top 10 list of fugitives, it should be pointed out that it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI also began to maintain a separate list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
See also
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1950s
References
- ^ a b c Matera, Dary (2004). FBI's Ten Most Wanted: From James Earl Ray to Osama Bin Laden. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060524357.
- ^ Federal Bureau of Investigation (2000). FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program: 50th Anniversary 1950-2000. K&D Limited, Inc..
- ^ Archive of FBI Ten Most Wanted poster of Rogge
- ^ "O'Neil Vassell". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "Glen Stewart Godwin". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "David Alex Alvarez". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "Harry Joseph Bowman". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "Statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft Regarding The Arrest of Eric Robert Rudolph". Federal Bureau of Investigation (2003-05-31). Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "James Charles Kopp". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "Osama bin Laden". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "Wanted Usama bin Ladin Up to $25 Million Reward". Rewards for Justice. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "James J. Bulger". Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
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