FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s
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The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1980s is a list, maintained for a fourth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI headlines in the 1980s
During the 1980s, the FBI added the names of the two longest-lasting profiles of the Top Ten Fugitives. The current longest member, Victor Manuel Gerena became the 386th fugitive to be placed on May 14, 1984, and is currently still at large.{{cite web|title=Ten Most Wanted Fugatives|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/victor-manuel-gerena|publisher=The Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=March 12, 2012}} The FBI added, Donald Eugene Webb, on May 4, 1981, who remained on the list until March 2007 when the FBI, presuming his death, removed his name. Webb the second longest member of the list, remained on 25 years, 10 months and 27 days.{{cite news|last=Friedman|first=Megan|title=Top 10 Notorious Fugitives|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971762_1971761_1971745,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323051830/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971762_1971761_1971745,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 23, 2010|publisher=Time Inc.|access-date=March 12, 2012|date=June 23, 2011}} The 1980s also brought the first man-and-woman couple listed together, who were FALN terrorist group associates Donna Jean Willmott and Claude Daniel Marks. The couple surrendered together seven years later, then pleaded guilty together to a Leavenworth prison breakout conspiracy from 1987.
Among other prominent fugitives in the decade were Mutulu Shakur, the stepfather of the later famed rapper Tupac Shakur, and also appearing was the sociopath Charles Ng, who had teamed up with the infamous Leonard Lake in as many as 25 sex-slave torture-murders at Lake's ranch in California. The boss of the Colombo crime family, Carmine Persico, also made the list in the 1980s.
The decade also was marked by the start of the popular Fox television program America's Most Wanted in 1988, which became a major new publicity venue for profiling and then the apprehension of many of the FBI's Top Ten Fugitives.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1980s
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 their appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.
As the new decade opened, the following Fugitives from prior years still remained at large, as the members of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
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| height="40"|Charles Lee Herron | align=center|#265 | align=center|1968 | {{•}}Arrested in June 1986 |
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| height="40"|Katherine Ann Power | align=center|#315 | align=center|1970 | {{•}}Surrendered to authorities in 1993 |
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| height="40"|Joseph Maurice McDonald | align=center|#339 | align=center|1976 | {{•}}Arrested September 15, 1982 |
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| height="40"|Raymond Luc Levasseur | align=center|#350 | align=center|1977 | {{•}}Arrested November 4, 1984 |
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| height="40"|Carlos Alberto Torres | align=center|#356 | align=center|1977 | {{•}}Arrested April 4, 1980 |
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| height="40"|Charles Everett Hughes | align=center|#364 | align=center|1978 | {{•}}Arrested April 29, 1981 |
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| height="40"|Leo Joseph Koury | align=center|#366 | align=center|1979 | {{•}}Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of a stroke on June 16, 1991.{{cite book|last=Matera|first=Dary|title=FBI's Ten Most Wanted: From James Earl Ray to Osama Bin Laden|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2004|isbn=978-0-06-052435-7}} |
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| height="40"|John William Sherman | align=center|#367 | align=center|1979 | {{•}}Arrested December 17, 1981 |
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| height="40"|Earl Edwin Austin | align=center|#370 | align=center|1979 | {{•}}Arrested March 1, 1980 |
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| height="40"|Vincent James Russo | align=center|#371 | align=center|1979 | {{•}}Arrested January 4, 1985 |
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1980s
The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1980s includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):{{cite book|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation |title=FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program - 50th Anniversary 1950-2000|publisher=K&D Limited, Inc. |year=2000}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |title=A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" March 14, 1950 – January 1, 2000|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=March 2, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020127071933/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |archive-date = January 27, 2002}}
= 1980 =
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| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
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| height="10" | Albert Victory
|#372 |March 14, 1980 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Albert Victory (FBI).jpgAlbert Victory was wanted by the FBI after he slipped away from two New York prison guards he had bribed to take him to his girlfriend's hotel room.{{Cite news |last=Gaiter |first=Dorothy |date=1981-02-25 |title=POLICEMAN'S KILLER CAPTURED ON COAST |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/25/nyregion/policeman-s-killer-captured-on-coast.html |work=The New York Times |pages=28}} He was in prison for killing New York City police officer John E. Varecha during a traffic stop.{{Cite web |date=2017-04-28 |title=Police officer's killer sues NY over parole reversal |url=https://www.police1.com/bizarre/articles/police-officers-killer-sues-ny-over-parole-reversal-HblQRzOceGRmHSYb/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Police1 |language=en-US}} He was arrested at his home after being traced to Lafayette, California on February 24, 1981, by New York State Police. |
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| height="10" |Ronald Turney Williams
|#373 |April 16, 1980 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Ronald Turney Williams2.jpegRonald Turney Williams was wanted for escaping West Virginia State Penitentiary in a mass breakout on Nov. 7, 1979, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and arson. During the escape, they came across a passing vehicle and fatally shot the driver who was an off-duty West Virginia state trooper. He was arrested at a stakeout at George Washington Hotel in New York City on June 8, 1981. He was shot and wounded by an FBI agent.{{Cite news |last=New York |first=Times |date=1981-06-09 |title=F.B.I. Agents Wound Fugitive in Hotel Lobby |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/nyregion/fbi-agents-wound-fugitive-in-hotel-lobby.html |work=The New York Times |pages=6}} |
= 1981 =
= 1982 =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
|---|
| height="10" |Thomas William Manning
|#378 |January 29, 1982 |Three years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:TomManning1985.jpgThomas William Manning was a part of a Marxist organization, the United Freedom Front (UFF), which bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes. Funded by bank robberies in the 1970s and early 1980s.{{Cite book |last=Burrough |first=Bryan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAvTCwAAQBAJ&dq=Levasseur+bank&pg=PA427 |title=Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence |date=2016-04-05 |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-14-310797-2 |language=en}} He was arrested in Norfolk, Virginia on April 24, 1985. |
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| height="10" |David Fountain Kimberly Jr.
|#379 |January 29, 1982 |Six months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:David Fountain Kimberly Jr. (FBI).jpgDavid Fountain Kimberly Jr. shot and wounded a federal police officer in October 1981. He was arrested without incident in Matecumbe Key, Florida on July 8, 1982, by FBI agents; despite being armed with a loaded .38 caliber tucked in his waistband.{{Cite web |title=David Fountain Kimberly, Jr..jpeg - 715x390 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7692 |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=FBI.gov}} |
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| height="10" |Mutulu Shakur
|#380 |July 23, 1982 |Four years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Mutulu Shakur.jpgMutulu Shakur was arrested February 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges for bank robbery to finance a militant organization, and for having aided Assata Shakur (unrelated), in her escape from prison in New Jersey, where she had been incarcerated for the murder and wounding of one state trooper and another Black Panther member accompanying her in 1973 while stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike. |
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| height="10" |Charles Edward Watson
|#381 |October 22, 1982 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Charles Edward Watson (FBI).jpgCharles Edward Watson was wanted for escaping prison while serving time as an accessory to the murder of a state trooper with a shotgun. After the murder he and another fled the scene, kidnapped a woman and raped her.{{Cite news |date=Dec 15, 1982 |title=JC Man On FBI 10 List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YFTAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Charles+Edward+Watson+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=5042,7939782&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY0ZOKueKMAxXgRjABHZ4mA7YQ6wF6BAgFEAE#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Edward%20Watson%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Daily News (Kingsport) |pages=1}} He was arrested in Slatington, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1983, while leaving his residence. |
= 1983 =
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| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
|---|
| height="10" |Laney Gibson Jr.
|#382 |November 28, 1983 |Three weeks |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Laney Gibson Jr. (FBI).jpgLaney Gibson Jr. was wanted for escaping the Clay County jail with other prisoners while awaiting trial for the murder of R. T. Gray. He was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on December 18, 1983, at a suburban motel.{{Cite web |title=Dec 21, 1983, page 24 - The Messenger at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/530771079/?clipping_id=121131574&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjUzMDc3MTA3OSwiaWF0IjoxNzMxNTEyNjE0LCJleHAiOjE3MzE1OTkwMTR9.yEAMDn-Lg94q5FWhbCEIeD1UzszlkL8aL2J9GawOmno |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} |
= 1984 =
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| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
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| height="10" |George Clarence Bridgette
|#383 |January 10, 1984 |Three weeks |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:George Clarence Bridgette (FBI).jpgGeorge Clarence Bridgette was wanted for the murder of four people, including a 3-year-old child in a drug related shooting, where he and two other accomplices walked into a Long Beach, California, house and shot five people. He was arrested in Miami, Florida on January 30, 1984, after a civilian recognized his photo from an Identification Order in a post office.{{Cite web |title=The FBI late Monday arrested George Clarence Bridgette, one... - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/01/30/The-FBI-late-Monday-arrested-George-Clarence-Bridgette-one/3516444286800/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=UPI |language=en}} |
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| height="10" |Samuel Marks Humphrey
|#384 |February 29, 1984 |One month |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Samuel Marks Humphrey (FBI).jpgSamuel Marks Humphrey was wanted in connection to a murder of a man in his home and two bank robberies.{{Cite news |date=Mar 13, 1984 |title=Samuel Mark Humphrey Added To FBI List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3BTAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=Samuel+Marks+Humphrey+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=6918,2102949&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM9fXSuuKMAxXqSjABHSD8F-IQ6wF6BAgEEAE#v=onepage&q=Samuel%20Marks%20Humphrey%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Daily News (Kingsport) |pages=4}} He was arrested in Portland, Oregon on March 22, 1984. |
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| height="10" |Christopher Bernard Wilder
|#385 |April 5, 1984 |One week |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Wilder-Wanted-poster.jpgChristopher Bernard Wilder was wanted for the murders of several young women in several different states. He was killed in a shootout with police at a gas station in Colebrook, New Hampshire, on April 13, 1984. |
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| height="10" |Victor Manuel Gerena
|#386 |May 14, 1984 |Still at large but removed from the list |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Victor Manuel Gerena FBI aged photograph.jpgVictor Manuel Gerena is wanted in connection with the 1983 armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in Connecticut. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and then handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown substance in order to further disable them.{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/gerena.htm|title=Victor Manuel Gerena|date=May 1984|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202112030/http://www2.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/gerena.htm|archive-date=December 2, 2008}} He was removed from the list on December 15, 2016. He was on the list for 32 years, seven months and one day - the longest anyone has been on the list. |
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| height="10" |Wai-Chiu Ng
|#387 |June 15, 1984 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Wai-Chiu Ng (FBI).jpgWai-Chiu Ng was wanted in the February 19, 1983 Wah Mee massacre, the worst mass killing in the history of Seattle, Washington, during which thirteen people were shot to death at the Wah Mee Club, a gambling club in Seattle's International District. He was acquitted in April 1985 of murder, but convicted of 13 counts of first-degree robbery, and sentenced to seven consecutive life terms. He was arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4, 1984, by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He became the third suspect, charged in absentia on March 30, 1983, with 13 counts of aggravated first-degree murder.{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Tracy |date=April 30, 2002 |title=Mak spared death for Wah Mee killings Ruling may finally settle 19-year legal fight |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/68438_mak30.shtml |access-date=December 2, 2008 |newspaper=The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}} |
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| height="10" |Alton Coleman
|#388 |July 17, 1984 |Three days |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Alton Coleman.jpgAlton Coleman was wanted for the murder of 44-year-old Marlene Walters of Norwood, Ohio, among others, during a six-state killing spree in 1984. He was arrested in Evanston, Illinois on July 20, 1984, by local police due to civilian cooperation. He was executed by the state of Ohio on April 26, 2002. |
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| height="10" |Cleveland McKinley Davis
|#389 |October 24, 1984 |Three months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Cleveland McKinley Davis (FBI).jpgCleveland McKinley Davis, a.k.a Jomo Joka Omowale after joining the Black Panthers, was wanted for the attempted robbery and murder of a drug dealer with two other accomplices in Virginia Beach. He was arrested in New York City on January 25, 1985, by FBI agents and local police.{{Cite web |title=Jomo Joka Omowale papers, 1969-2008 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries |url=https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/omowalejomo |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library |language=en}} |
= 1985 =
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| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
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| height="10" |Carmine Persico
|#390 |January 31, 1985 |Two weeks |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Carmine John Persico Jr - FBI Wanted Poster.jpgCarmine Persico a.k.a. "Junior" was serving a 100-year sentence after being convicted of murder and labor and construction racketeering in 1986. He was arrested in Wantagh, New York on February 15, 1985, by FBI agents. Persico was boss of the New York-based Colombo crime family. |
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| height="10" |Lohman Ray Mays Jr.
|#391 |February 15, 1985 |Seven months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Lohman Ray Mays Jr. (FBI).jpgLohman Ray Mays Jr., a career criminal, was wanted for escaping Turney Center Industrial Prison and then robbing several banks before he was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming on September 23, 1985, by local police.{{Cite web |title=Former FBI Fugitive Back In Tennessee |url=https://www.tn.gov/correction/news/2020/8/5/former-fbi-fugitive-back-in-tennessee.html |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=www.tn.gov |language=en}} |
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| height="10" |Charles Earl Hammond
|#392 |March 14, 1985 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Charles Earl Hammond (FBI).jpgCharles Earl Hammond was wanted in connection to drug-related murders in Kansas City in May, 1980 along with his brother Michael Frederick Allan Hammond (#393).{{cite news|url=http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?BaseHRef=CMN/1985/03/15&EntityId=Ar01107&Skin=Google&ViewMode=GIF|title=Brothers Added to Most Wanted List|publisher=Historic Missouri Newspaper Project|access-date=December 2, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} He was apprehended on August 4, 1986. |
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| height="10" |Michael Frederic Allen Hammond
|#393 |March 14, 1985 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Michael Frederic Allen Hammond (FBI).jpgMichael Frederic Allen Hammond was wanted in connection to drug-related murders in Kansas City in May, 1980 along with his brother Charles Earl Hammond (#392). |
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| height="10" |Robert Henry Nicolaus
|#394 |June 28, 1985 |One month |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Robert Henry Nicolaus (FBI).jpgRobert Henry Nicolaus was wanted for shooting his ex-wife twice in the chest while on parole for killing his three children. She was able to identify Nicolaus as her assailant before dying. He was arrested in York, Pennsylvania on July 20, 1985, after a civilian recognized his photo on an Identification Order at a post office.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1985-07-23 |title=The State - News from July 23, 1985 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-23-mn-7598-story.html |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |David Jay Sterling
|#395 |September 30, 1985 |Five months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:David Jay Sterling (FBI).jpgDavid Jay Sterling was arrested and convicted for a series of rapes in 1983 in which after he was sentenced, sent to a sexual psychopath treatment program at Western State Hospital. However, he escaped in 1985 and robbed six banks with an accomplice in at least three different states, using stolen airplanes to escape. He was arrested after being pulled over in a routine traffic stop near Covington, Louisiana on February 13, 1986, by local police.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-13 |title=Court imposes life sentences for 'Hazel Dell Rapist' |url=https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/aug/08/court-imposes-life-sentences-for-hazel-dell-rapist/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=The Columbian |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Richard Joseph Scutari
|#396 |September 30, 1985 |Six months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Richard Joseph Scutari (FBI).jpgRichard Joseph Scutari was wanted for racketeering, harboring a fugitive, and storing about $40,000 from a $3.6-million robbery of a Brink's armored truck in July, 1984. He was identified by the FBI as a member of The Order, a white supremacist group believed connected with the murder of Denver radio talk show host, Alan Berg. He was arrested without incident at a repair shop he worked at, in San Antonio, Texas on March 19, 1986.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1986-03-20 |title=Man on Most Wanted List Is Held as Neo-Nazi |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-20-mn-21528-story.html |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} He is currently serving a 60-year sentence.{{cite news|title=White Supremacist Plotter Gets 60 Years |date=June 6, 1986|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer}} |
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| height="10" |Joseph William Dougherty
|#397 |November 6, 1985 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Joseph William Dougherty (FBI).jpgJoseph William Dougherty along with another fellow inmate, Terry Lee Conner (#402), were wanted for escaping custody when being transported from the federal prison at El Reno, to the courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City, Dougherty brought out a sharp object and held it to the throat of a U.S. Marshal. The two Marshals transporting them were left handcuffed to a tree as the two fled in Marshal's car. During an 18-month hunt for Conner and Dougherty, they were identified as suspects in a series of bank robberies. He was arrested by FBI agents in Antioch, California on December 19, 1986, outside a local laundromat.{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Ray |title=Escapee Draws Two Life Terms |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1987/03/11/escapee-draws-two-life-terms/62697018007/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}} |
= 1986 =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
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| height="10" |Brian Patrick Malverty
|#398 |March 28, 1986 |One week |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Brian Patrick Malverty (FBI).jpgBrian Patrick Malverty was wanted in connection of the murder of Gene West and 17-year-old Ricky Lee Sims. They were both robbed, bound and gagged, shot in the head, chest, and back; then their bodies and house were set on fire. He was arrested in San Diego, California on April 7, 1986, after a civilian recognized his photo on an Identification Order at a post office.{{Cite web |date=1986-04-08 |title=Murder Suspect on FBI's Most Wanted List Arrested |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-08-me-25418-story.html |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Billy Ray Waldon
|#399 |May 16, 1986 |One month |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Billy Ray Waldon CDCR.jpgBilly Ray Waldon was wanted for several robberies and murders, two burglaries, a rape, and arson.{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Griff |title=Tahlequah Native Makes FBI's 10-Most-Wanted List |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1986/05/18/tahlequah-native-makes-fbis-10-most-wanted-list/62726167007/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}} He was arrested in San Diego, California on June 16, 1986, after local police attempted to pull him over for a routine traffic citation. Initially sentenced to death for his crimes, Waldon's conviction was overturned in 2023.{{cite web |title=Conviction, death sentence overturned for man in three 1985 San Diego murders |url=https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2023/01/23/conviction-death-sentence-overturned-for-bill-ray-waldon-in-3-1985-san-diego-murders/ |access-date=27 January 2023 |website=10News San Diego}} |
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| height="10" |Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr.
|#400 |May 16, 1986 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. (FBI).jpgClaude Lafayette Dallas Jr. was wanted for the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho. He was arrested in Riverside, California on March 8, 1987, by FBI agents while he was leaving a convenience store.{{Cite web |title=Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BhBWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5629,1938176 |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=news.google.com}} |
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| height="10" |Donald Keith Williams
|#401 |July 18, 1986 |One month |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Donald Keith Williams (FBI).jpgDonald Keith Williams, a.k.a the "Veil Bandit" because he wore a cloth veil over a baseball cap to disguise himself, committed 34 bank robberies and was wanted for stealing more than $100,000 over the course of three years. He was arrested in Los Angeles, California on August 20, 1986, by FBI agents through assistance of a concerned civilian.{{Cite web |last=Ramos |first=George |date=1986-08-22 |title='Veil Bandit' on FBI Most-Wanted List Caught in L.A. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-22-mn-16809-story.html |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Terry Lee Conner
|#402 |August 8, 1986 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Terry Lee Conner (FBI).jpgTerry Lee Conner was wanted for escaping custody of the U.S. Marshal's alongside Joseph William Dougherty (#397) while being transported from the federal prison at El Reno to the courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City. In one of the robberies they both stole $500,000 from the Central Bank of West Allis by holding the vice president of the bank, his wife, his daughter, and his daughter's boyfriend hostage for three days. He was arrested without incident in Arlington Heights, Illinois on December 9, 1986, by the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI.{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Chicago |date=1986-12-10 |title=ESCAPEE ON FBI 'WANTED' LIST NABBED |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/12/10/escapee-on-fbi-wanted-list-nabbed/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Fillmore Raymond Cross Jr.
|#403 |August 8, 1986 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Fillmore Raymond Cross Jr. (FBI).jpgFillmore Raymond Cross Jr. was wanted for supposedly beating a businessman in an extortion scheme. Cross, a former president of the Hells Angels motorcycle group in San Jose, California, surrendered voluntarily to the FBI in San Francisco, California on December 23, 1986.{{Cite web |title=Hell's Angel on FBI '10 most wanted' list surrenders - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/24/Hells-Angel-on-FBI-10-most-wanted-list-surrenders/9961535784400/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI |language=en}} |
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| height="10" |James Wesley Dyess
|#404 |September 29, 1986 |Two years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:James Wesley Dyess (FBI).jpgJames Wesley Dyess was wanted for escaping federal custody while being charged with two murders committed during a home burglary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was arrested in Los Angeles, California March 16, 1988, when he was stopped on a routine traffic violation and recognized by a Los Angeles Police Department officer.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1988-03-17 |title=Local News in Brief : Man Sought by FBI Caught |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-17-me-1732-story.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Danny Michael Weeks
|#405 |September 29, 1986 |Two years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Danny Michael Weeks (FBI).jpgDanny Michael Weeks was wanted for escaping from a prison in Angola, where he was incarcerated for murder and armed robbery. Two weeks before his capture, he kidnapped Susan K. Vincent at gunpoint from a shopping center in Greensboro, North Carolina. Vincent was released three days later unharmed. He was arrested at his son's home in Seattle, Washington on March 20, 1988, due to an FBI task force and civilian cooperation. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted.{{Cite web |title=A convicted murderer put on the FBI's 'Most Wanted'... - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/03/21/A-convicted-murderer-put-on-the-FBIs-Most-Wanted/2519574923600/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI |language=en}} |
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| height="10" |Mike Wayne Jackson
|#406 |October 1, 1986 |One day |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Mike Wayne Jackson (FBI).jpgMike Wayne Jackson was wanted for killing his probation officer in Indianapolis on September 22, 1986, before fleeing to Missouri. He committed suicide by shotgun in Wright City, Missouri on October 2, 1986.{{cite news|title=A Banal Story Of a Banal Murder Spree|last=Brashler|first=Bill|date=February 7, 1993|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times}} |
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| height="10" |Thomas George Harrelson
|#407 |November 28, 1986 |Three months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Thomas George Harrelson (FBI).jpgThomas George Harrelson, a member of the Aryan Nations Church, was accused of taking $50,000 from a Rossville, Illinois bank and shooting at a police car during a car chase. He was arrested in Drayton, North Dakota on February 9, 1987, after his getaway car slid into a ditch while trying to flee the scene of a bank robbery.{{Cite web |title=A federal magistrate ruled Monday there was sufficient evidence... - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/02/23/A-federal-magistrate-ruled-Monday-there-was-sufficient-evidence/3103541054800/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI |language=en}} |
= 1987 =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
|---|
| height="10" |Robert Allen Litchfield
|#408 |January 20, 1987 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Robert Allen Litchfield (FBI).jpgRobert Allen Litchfield a.k.a the “Block House Bandit”, was wanted for escaping from federal prison in Talladega, Alabama while serving a 60-year sentence for 15 bank robberies. He was arrested at Lake Tahoe in Zephyr Cove, Nevada on May 20, 1987, by FBI agents in close cooperation with the U.S. Marshal Service and the Sheriff's office.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1987-05-21 |title=Bank Robber on FBI's Most Wanted List Is Arrested in Lake Tahoe Area |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-21-mn-1740-story.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |David James Roberts
|#409 |April 27, 1987 |Ten months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:David James Roberts (FBI).jpgDavid James Roberts was arrested February 11, 1988, in Staten Island, New York, in an apartment after hiding for four days, due to FBI investigation and civilian information. He was convicted for murder, kidnapping, arson and rape, and was given six life sentences in an Indiana State Prison. However, after his daring escape from a prison vehicle while on the way to the state prison, he worked as the director of a homeless shelter in Staten Island, New York, under his alias Bob Lord. He had seen himself on the first episode of a reality TV show from FOX called America's Most Wanted (AMW) on February 7, 1988. He was not only the first fugitive to be profiled in such show, but also the first direct capture as a result of the program and the first from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He is currently serving several consecutive life sentences at Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana.{{Cite web |last=Balsamini |first=Dean |date=2021-02-13 |title=How this man became 'America's Most Wanted's' first capture |url=https://nypost.com/2021/02/13/how-this-man-became-americas-most-wanteds-first-capture/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Ronald Glyn Triplett
|#410 |April 27, 1987 |Three weeks |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Ronald Glyn Triplett (FBI).jpgRonald Glyn Triplett was wanted for escaping prison where he was being held for robbery and attempted murder of a waitress. He later held two federal agents at gunpoint.{{Cite web |title=Triplett v. Commonwealth, No. 2019-SC-0331-MR {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator |url=https://casetext.com/case/triplett-v-commonwealth-6 |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=casetext.com}}{{Cite web |date=2019-01-29 |title=Jury Recommends 85 Years For Man Convicted Of 2016 Rape, Kidnapping |url=https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/2019/01/29/jury-recommends-85-years-for-man-convicted-of-2016-rape-kidnapping/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=LEX 18 News - Lexington, KY (WLEX) |language=en}} He was arrested in Tempe, Arizona on May 16, 1987. |
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| height="10" |Claude Daniel Marks
|#411 |May 22, 1987 |Seven years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Claude Daniel Marks (FBI).jpgClaude Daniel Marks pleaded guilty on May 9, 1995, to a prison escape conspiracy in Illinois. He surrendered December 6, 1994, along with his partner Donna Jean Willmott (#412). He and Willmott had purchased 36 pounds of explosive from undercover FBI in 1985 to attempt to free a FALN leader from Leavenworth prison before going on the run.{{Cite web |last1=Braun |first1=Stephen |last2=Beckham |first2=John |date=1994-12-07 |title=2 Radical Fugitives Wanted by FBI Surrender |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-07-mn-5983-story.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
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| height="10" |Donna Jean Willmott
|#412 |May 22, 1987 |Seven years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Donna Jean Willmott (FBI).jpgDonna Jean Willmott pleaded guilty on May 9, 1995, to a prison escape conspiracy in Illinois. She surrendered on December 6, 1994, along with her partner Claude Daniel Marks (#411). She and Marks had purchased 36 pounds of explosive from an undercover FBI agent in 1985 to attempt to free a FALN leader from Leavenworth prison. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Darren Dee O'Neall
|#413 |June 25, 1987 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Darren Dee O'Neall.jpegDarren Dee O'Neall was wanted for the rape and murder of multiple women. He was arrested on an auto-theft charge in Lakeland, Florida October 25, 1987.{{Cite web |title=Darren Dee O'Neall |url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-413-DarrenDeeONeall.jpg/view |access-date=February 12, 2016 |website=FBI}} Louisiana State Police later discovered his "Top Ten" identity. |
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| height="10" |Louis Ray Beam Jr.
|#414 |July 14, 1987 |Four months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Louis Ray Beam Jr. (FBI).jpgLouis Ray Beam Jr. is a white supremacist with ties to the Ku Klux Klan who was wanted on charges of seditious conspiracy to violently overthrow the U.S. government, including alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate a federal judge and an FBI agent in Arkansas with 14 others.{{Cite web |title=Mexican police have arrested a white supremacist leader named... - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/09/Mexican-police-have-arrested-a-white-supremacist-leader-named/2995563432400/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI |language=en}} He was arrested at home with his wife in Guadalajara, Mexico on November 6, 1987. During the arrest, Beam's wife opened fire and critically injured a Mexican police officer. He was later acquitted of the conspiracy charges. |
= 1988 =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
|---|
| height="10" |Ted Jeffery Otsuki
|#415 |January 22, 1988 |Eight months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Ted Jeffery Otsuki (FBI).jpgTed Jeffery Otsuki was wanted for the murder of a Boston, Massachusetts police officer and shooting of another police officer he believed were chasing him. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted in 1987 for his crimes.{{Cite web |title=Jury convicts bank robber in slaying of police officer - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/05/17/Jury-convicts-bank-robber-in-slaying-of-police-officer/1009611380800/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI |language=en}} He was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 4, 1988, by Mexican Federal Judicial Police and the FBI who had set up a surveillance team and waited for him at his apartment. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Pedro Luis Estrada
|#416 |April 15, 1988 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Pedro Luis Estrada (FBI).jpgPedro Luis Estrada was wanted for three homicides and possible involvement in two others as a henchman for a New York-based narcotics ring.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1989-10-02 |title=The Nation - News from Oct. 2, 1989 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-02-mn-374-story.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} He was arrested by a SWAT team of FBI agents at his home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1989. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted which received information leading to his arrest. |
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| height="10" |John Edward Stevens
|#417 |May 29, 1988 |Six months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:John Edward Stevens (FBI).jpgJohn Edward Stevens was wanted for his invovlement in 25 robberies in eight states. He was featured on America's Most Wanted for his crimes.{{cite news |date=December 1, 1988 |title=Arrest Fugitive |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xAYLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3524,5973551&dq= |access-date=December 2, 2008 |newspaper=The Bryan Times}} He was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 30, 1988. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Jack Darrell Farmer
|#418 |May 29, 1988 |Three days |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Jack Darrell Farmer (FBI).jpgJack Darrell Farmer, while awaiting trial on racketeering charges which included two murders, drug trafficking and extortion, was released to his attorney's custody on day visits to prepare for the trial.{{Cite web |title=FBI Adds Three Men to 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1988/05/29/fbi-adds-three-men-to-10-most-wanted-fugitives-list/62650657007/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}} On one visit, he tied and gagged his lawyer and escaped. He was arrested in Lantana, Florida on June 1, 1988, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. He was recognized by a co-worker who called in. He was the leader of Chicago's "Little Mafia" gang. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Roger Lee Jones
|#419 |May 29, 1988 |One year |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Roger Lee Jones (FBI).jpgRoger Lee Jones was the first child molester to be added to the list when he fled Sarasota, Florida after being charged with seven counts of lewd and lascivious assault on a child under 16.{{Cite web |title='10 Most Wanted' fugitive arrested - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/03/04/10-Most-Wanted-fugitive-arrested/2642604990800/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=UPI |language=en}} He was arrested in Great Falls, Montana on March 4, 1989, at KOA campground, after being featured on America's Most Wanted.{{cite news|title=Man Is Found Guilty Of Sex Acts With Child |date=August 30, 1990|newspaper=The Miami Herald}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Terry Lee Johnson
|#420 |June 12, 1988 |Two months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Terry lee Johnson (FBI).jpgTerry Lee Johnson was wanted for escaping from Limestone prison in Athens, Alabama, in 1986 while serving a life sentence for murder. He was arrested in San Diego, California on August 17, 1988, by the San Diego Police Department. Johnson was sleeping in his pick-up truck when local police, upon noticing his truck had expired tags, arrested him on an unrelated traffic warrant under the name Lee Johnson. After spending several days in San Diego County Jail, Johnson, just before being released, was recognized by FBI agents at the County Jail who were picking up another prisoner. He was recognized from a recent episode of "Americas Most Wanted" and was subsequently arrested again.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1988-09-09 |title=Prisoner in S. D. Is Identified as One of FBI's Most Wanted |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-09-me-1761-story.html |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Stanley Faison
|#421 |November 27, 1988 |One month |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Stanley Faison (FBI).jpgStanley Faison was wanted for beating Ophilena Edwards with a tire iron, then fatally stabbing her boyfriend, Sylvester Wilson.{{Cite news |last=FINKELSTEIN |first=JIM |date=1988-11-29 |title=DETROIT SLAYING SUSPECT JOINS FBI'S \ TEN MOST WANTED LIST |url=https://www.crimeindetroit.com/documents/112988%20Detroit%20Slaying%20Suspect%20Joins%20FBI's.pdf |access-date=2024-11-18 |work=Detroit Free Press}} He was arrested in Detroit, Michigan on December 24, 1988, by FBI and local police. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Steven Ray Stout
|#422 |November 27, 1988 |One week |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Steven Ray Stout (FBI).jpgSteven Ray Stout had strangled and stabbed to death his former mother-in-law, Bonnie Craft, and one of her daughters, Maureen Turner. He entered the Keefe's mobile home, beat 19-year-old Turner with a hammer, strangled and then stabbed her two times in the chest. He then waited for Keefe to return home, then beat and stabbed her to death before putting both bodies in the bedroom. He was arrested in Gulfport, Mississippi on December 6, 1988, after being featured on America's Most Wanted.{{Cite web |date=1988-12-07 |title=FUGITIVE IS ARRAIGNED IN BILOXI IN THE SLAYING OF W.V. MOM, DAUGHTER |url=https://www.deseret.com/1988/12/7/18787008/fugitive-is-arraigned-in-biloxi-in-the-slaying-of-w-v-mom-daughter/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Deseret News |language=en}} |
= 1989 =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name
! Sequence Number ! Date of Entry ! Time Listed |
|---|
| height="10" |Armando Garcia
|#423 |January 8, 1989 |Five years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Armando Garcia (FBI).pngArmando Garcia and 14 other Miami police officers participated in a drug ripoff ring in the mid-1980s later dubbed the Miami River Cops Scandal. Uniformed officers, all on the graveyard shift, would raid drug dealers, steal their cocaine and later resell it. Garcia met with some other defendants and plotted to kill some of the witnesses, then vanished in 1987 with his father and wife. He was arrested in Cali, Colombia on January 18, 1994, with his father, after being featured on America's Most Wanted.{{Cite web |title=I'm not the crooked cop; you are |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/01/20/i-m-not-the-crooked-cop-you-are/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Melvin Edward Mays
|#424 |February 7, 1989 |Six years |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Melvin Edward Mays (FBI).jpgMelvin Edward Mays was wanted on 40 counts of conspiracy to commit acts of terror on behalf of the Libyan Government as a top general of the El Rukin street gang. He was arrested by the FBI's Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force on March 9, 1995. Mays evaded arrest in 1986 while awaiting trial and was featured on America's Most Wanted as well as Unsolved Mysteries.{{Cite web |last=Content |first=Contributed |date=1998-04-09 |title=EL RUKN MEMBER GETS 3 LIFE TERMS IN RACKETEERING CASE |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/04/09/el-rukn-member-gets-3-life-terms-in-racketeering-case/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Bobby G. Dennie
|#425 |February 24, 1989 |Eight months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Bobby G. Dennie (FBI).jpgBobby G. Dennie was wanted in Florida and four other states on various charges, including murder, rape, robbery, forgery, theft and escape.{{Cite web |last=By |date=1989-10-29 |title=1 OF FBI'S MOST WANTED CAUGHT IN LAKE WALES |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/10/29/1-of-fbis-most-wanted-caught-in-lake-wales/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Orlando Sentinel |language=en-US}} He was arrested in Lake Wales, Florida on October 28, 1989, by the FBI and Polk County detectives after receiving information following his feature on Unsolved Mysteries. He had also been featured on America's Most Wanted. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Costabile "Gus" Farace
|#426 |February 24, 1989 |Nine months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Costabile Farace FBI Wanted.jpgCostabile "Gus" Farace was wanted for the murder of DEA agent Everette Hatcher during a drug sting operation on the Bonanno crime family in Staten Island, New York. Farace was later murdered by James Galione and Mario Gallo who pleaded guilty in 1997. Prosecutors said the men worked at the time for the Bonanno family, which had put out a hit on Farace over Hatcher's killing. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted.{{Cite web |last1=Celona |first1=Larry |last2=Jaeger |first2=Max |date=2019-03-01 |title=Did a secret offer to the mob avenge this DEA agent's death? |url=https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/did-a-secret-offer-to-the-mob-avenge-this-dea-agents-death/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |language=en-US}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Arthur Lee Washington Jr.
|#427 |October 18, 1989 |Still at large but removed from the list |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Arthur Lee Washington, Jr.jpgArthur Lee Washington Jr. is wanted in the attempted murder of a New Jersey state trooper using a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun on April 12, 1989.{{cite news|last=Silvestrini|first=Elaine|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83046934/suspect-in-shoot-out-being-sought/|title=Suspect in shoot-out being sought|date=April 14, 1989|newspaper=Asbury Park Press|access-date=July 25, 2019}} Washington had been associated in the past with militant black prison groups and the Black Liberation Army. There was evidence that he may have been an injection drug user, due to the old track marks on both arms. He was removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/0111fbi.htm|title=Ask the F.B.I: An addition to the "Ten Most Wanted" list|author1=Robert Haley |author2=Thomas Larned |author3=Michael Heimbach |author4=Bradley Mendenhall |date=January 11, 2002|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208140744/http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/0111fbi.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2009}} He is still wanted by New Jersey State Police.{{cite web|url=https://www.njsp.org/wanted/washington.shtml|title=New Jersey's Most Wanted Arthur Lee Washington Wanted for Attempted Murder of a NJ State Trooper|website=New Jersey State Police|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412052553/https://www.njsp.org/wanted/washington.shtml|archive-date=April 12, 2018}} |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Lee Nell Carter
|#428 |November 19, 1989 |One day |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Lee Nell Carter (FBI).jpgLee Nell Carter was wanted for a shooting spree that left a woman dead and two men injured due to an affair.{{Cite web |last=By |date=1989-11-21 |title=ARRESTED. An Alabama man awaited extradition Monday… |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/11/21/arrested-an-alabama-man-awaited-extradition-monday/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Orlando Sentinel |language=en-US}} He was arrested in Detroit on November 20, 1989, by FBI agents and Detroit police. Civilians identified him during the broadcast of America's Most Wanted. |
| colSpan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;"| |
| height="10" |Wardell David Ford
|#429 |December 20, 1989 |Nine months |
| colspan="4" valign="top" height="75"|File:Wardell David Ford (FBI).jpgWardell David Ford was wanted for an armored car robbery on February 22, 1983, in which he killed one of the guards. Ford's cousin, David Temple, an accomplice in the robbery, died in the shootout. He was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut on September 17, 1990, after being featured on America's Most Wanted.{{Cite web |title=Fugitive held in 1983 slaying - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/09/18/Fugitive-held-in-1983-slaying/2488653630400/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=UPI |language=en}} He had also been featured on Unsolved Mysteries. |
End of the decade
As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Name
! Sequence number ! Date of entry | ||
|---|---|---|
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 |
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 |
| Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | 1987 |
| Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | 1987 |
| Armando Garcia | #423 | 1989 |
| Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | 1989 |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 |
| Wardell David Ford | #429 | 1989 |
One spot on the list of Ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled the next month in 1990.
FBI directors in the 1980s
- William H. Webster (1978–1987)
- John E. Otto (1987)
- William S. Sessions (1987–1993)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten Current FBI Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20020127071933/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf FBI pdf source document listing all Ten Most Wanted year by year (removed by FBI)]
{{FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year}}
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