they used to put out there in the old
west
a i wanted poster it said wanted dead or
alive
all i want america wants him brought to
justice welcome to watch mojo and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top 20 notorious fbi most wanted
fugitives he has he has no right to be
walking free anywhere not in mexico not
in any place in the united states for
this list we're looking at the most
infamous individuals who have appeared
on the fbi 10 most wanted fugitives list
since its inception in 1950 which of
these fugitives had you never heard of
before let us know in the comments
number 20. ramzi yusuf the bojinka plot
was very much a proof of concept for
al-qaeda almost a decade before 9 11 the
world trade center was hit with a
terrorist attack that claimed six lives
and left more than a thousand injured
ramsay yusuf one of the brains behind
the 1993 incident fled the u.s just
hours later and was subsequently added
to the fbi's list during his period at
large yusuf masterminded what is now
known as the bojinka plot which included
a plan to assassinate pope john paul ii
and attack 11 planes on route to the
united states the idea was to create
confusion with the assassination of the
pope experts say and then quickly launch
your second phase although detailed the
plan failed and yusuf was later arrested
after one of his former associates
ratted him out he was extradited to the
u.s where he is currently behind bars
for life
number 19 ruth eisenshire
the first woman to ever appear on the
fbi's 10 most wanted list eisemann
shearer and her boyfriend gary steven
crist orchestrated the kidnapping of
heiress barbara jane mackel in 1968. the
two criminals abducted mackel from her
hotel room and took her to a remote area
where they buried her in a ventilated
box for more than three days
luckily mackel was rescued in relatively
good condition christ was apprehended
just two days later and applied for a
job at central state hospital and when
you go to work for the
hospital you have to
have you have to be fingerprinted in a
background check it would take the
better part of three months for eiseman
shear to be caught but after it finally
happened she spent four years in prison
and was deported to her home country of
honduras
number 18 jason derek brown
before he was included on the fbi's most
wanted list jason derek brown was a
seemingly successful business person
with a taste for the expensive in
reality he was deeply in debt and
involved in various sketchy schemes his
apparent life of luxury came to an end
in november of 2004 when he carried out
a heist of an armored car outside a
movie theater killing the guard this is
just a cold-blooded ambush in which the
suspect was waiting for this man brown
fled the scene and bounced around the
u.s before disappearing completely his
surfer dude looks have led to supposed
sightings of him all around the country
the majority of which have turned out to
be false the fbi has more tips on brown
than any other fugitive on the most
wanted list brown is currently still at
large and is thought to be residing
either in salt lake city or far away in
another country number 17 james charles
kopp
nicknamed atomic dog james charles copp
was closely affiliated with
anti-abortion militants including the
christian lambs of christ in 1998 he
fatally shot physician barnett slepian
in his own home dr slepian provided
abortion services for several new york
communities outraged i don't think any
of us are fearful for our lives we are
outraged that somebody would have the
audacity and the
just terrible gall to come in and do
that to another human being after
committing the murder cop fled the u.s
moving to mexico and ireland before
landing in france in march of 2001 two
weeks later he was arrested by french
police and extradited to the u.s he's
serving a lifetime sentence without the
possibility of parole police suspect
that he was also responsible for the
murder of several other doctors in the
u.s and canada
number 16. leslie is ben rogie
bank robber leslie isbn rogie was the
first ever criminal on the fbi list
apprehended thanks to the internet he
loved boats he's probably around the
water somewhere
he uh he's probably got a bush bush bear
in his hand roge built his criminal
career on bank robberies across the u.s
from florida to missouri he was caught
and convicted in 1984 but escaped the
following year to commit even more
robberies if they really wanted to find
him all he would have to do is go into
the areas where they think they are he
is and probably run a special on bush
bear and
he'd come by in all roguey robbed over
two dozen banks and made away with over
two million dollars his travels financed
with stolen cashiers checks have taken
him from belhaven north carolina to
charleston south carolina to
hendersonville north carolina always
just a step ahead of police he remained
on the run for several years before his
picture on the fbi's website was
recognized by someone in guatemala who
alerted the local authorities rogui will
remain locked up until 2034 when he will
be 94 years old
number 15. eric rudolph
another anti-abortion militant eric
rudolph was behind the centennial
olympic park bombing during the 1996
summer olympics and nobody's bothering
you
he also bombed two abortion clinics and
a lesbian bar for five years he hid in
the appalachian wilderness but in 2003
he was arrested at a grocery store in
north carolina he pleaded guilty to all
charges including murder and revealed
that he had hidden 250 pounds of
dynamite in the forest unrepentant he
has written essays from prison promoting
violence published online by christian
terrorist organization army of god he
didn't change a thing no
except that his actions destroyed
a lot of lives including his number 14
warren jeffs you don't know any better
until you get away from it
and getting away from it is the hard
part the fundamentalist church of jesus
christ of latter-day saints is a radical
denomination of the mormon church that
still preaches polygamy when he took
over as president of the church warren
jeffs married nearly all of his father's
widows and took strict control over who
his followers married his regime was
fraught with allegations of assault and
he was responsible for arranging
marriages between adult men and minors
warren had himself 78 wives
24 of those wives were underage after
appearing on the fbi most wanted list
for just four months jeff's was arrested
at a traffic stop and tried for his
crimes in utah arizona and texas he is
currently serving a life sentence in
texas there were 10 women on that jury
and there were two men and i've always
maintained that it was a good thing for
warren jefferson there were a bunch of
texas rangers in that courtroom because
after those 10 women heard that audio
tape they would have jumped over the
railings and killed warren with their
bare hands number 13 alexis flores
in 2000 a drifter going by the name
carlos was working as a handyman in a
neighborhood in philadelphia that summer
the body of a missing girl was found in
the apartment building where carlos
lived and a warrant was issued for his
arrest four years later alexis flores
was arrested for forgery in arizona and
jailed for 60 days before he was
deported back to his home country of
honduras after his deportation dna
samples taken from flores in arizona
matched those from the murder case in
philadelphia proving that carlos was in
fact flores he was added to the fbi's
list soon after and is currently
believed to be hiding either in honduras
or somewhere in the u.s
number 12 juan garcia abrego
the first drug trafficker to appear on
the fbi's list juan garcia abrego gained
notoriety as the ruthless leader of the
gulf cartel after taking over the reins
of the cartel from his uncle garcia
abrego transformed it into one of the
most expansive crime syndicates along
the u.s mexico border he shipped not
only drugs into the u.s but also
millions of dollars to be laundered with
such an infamous reputation he was added
to the fbi's list in 1995 and
apprehended almost a year later on a
ranch in mexico he was tried on 22
counts of money laundering and drug
trafficking and bagged himself 11
consecutive life sentences in the
slammer
number 11. jose rodolfo viareal
hernandez
speaking of the gulf cartel they feuded
heavily with another mexican syndicate
called the beltran laba cartel as part
of their ongoing rivalry the gulf cartel
arranged to have the father of jose
rodolfo villarreal hernandez murdered
viareal hernandez who was a beltran
leiba boss sought to enact his revenge
but not on any of his rival drug lords
instead he targeted juan jesus guerrero
chapa the gulf cartel's lawyer who
represented their leader in may 2013
guerrero was tracked down to south lake
texas and assassinated by villarreal
hernandez's men investigation by the
authorities traced the murder plot back
to villarreal hernandez who has since
fallen off the grid
number 10. thomas james holden
over the last 70 years more than 500
names have graced the fbi's most wanted
fugitives list thomas james holden was
the very first a career criminal holden
first appeared on the fbi's radar as one
half of the notorious holden keating
gang together with francis keating he
went on a robbery spree in the midwest
throughout the 1920s and 30s targeting
payroll deliveries trains and banks
shortly after his second stint in prison
holden shot his wife and her two
brothers after a drunken night and fled
the scene the following year he appeared
as the first fugitive on the fbi's
inaugural list he was eventually
captured and thrown right back in prison
number 9. victor manuel gerena
with a record 32 years victor manuel
gerena remains the fugitive with the
longest amount of time spent on the most
wanted list while working as an armored
car guard for wells fargo in 1983
herrena and his accomplices pulled off a
heist of 7 million from the company's
depot this became the biggest cash theft
carried out on u.s soil at the time
herrera escaped to mexico soon after the
robbery and hasn't been seen since then
he was added to the fbi's list the
following year and remained there until
he was taken off in 2016. while many of
his co-conspirators have since been
apprehended the whereabouts of victor
manuel herrerena remain unsolved
number eight william bradford bishop jr
before the horrific events of march 1
1976 william bradford bishop jr lived
the american dream the yale alum and
former diplomat was married to his high
school sweetheart and was the father to
three boys you know you would have
thought that they were the perfect
family they seem to be very happy after
finding out he was passed over for a
promotion on that fateful day bishop
returned home and allegedly murdered his
family as well as his mother for decades
the feds have combed through lead after
lead but have turned up nothing in their
search for bishop one of the rangers
noticed the car and he thought maybe it
was a backpacker they run the plate and
turned out that guy was wanted by the
fbi from 2014 to 2018 bishop was named
as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives
but he was kicked off the list in favor
of more dangerous people
number 7. leonard peltier
the criminal case of leonard peltier is
one that has been heavily debated for
decades
an activist and member of the american
indian movement peltier appeared on the
most wanted list for his involvement in
the killing of two fbi agents at the
pine ridge indian reservation he was
arrested just two months later in canada
and extradited back to the u.s where he
was tried and convicted peltier's trial
raised several questions concerning the
evidence presented and the witness
testimonies some of which have since
been recanted witnesses were coerced by
the fbi into saying they saw peltier
shoot the agents ballistics evidence
that could have aided leonard's defense
was hidden from his lawyers despite
clemency appeals from several human
rights groups and key political figures
peltier's convictions two life sentences
and additional time for a 1979 prison
escape still stand
number six rafael caro quintero
the whopping 20 million dollar reward
for information leading to the capture
of rafael caro quintero was at the time
the largest offered for an fbi most
wanted fugitive one of the founders of
the guadalajara cartel caro quintero
went to prison in 1985 for his role in
the murder of dea agent enrique camarena
salazar what the [ __ ] were they thinking
they could kill an american government
agent and get away with it he was
released in 2013 after a state tribunal
in mexico ruled that he should have been
tried for murder in a state not federal
court how could this drug lord be
released from prison without the united
states knowing we are extremely
disappointed and
more than that we are angry after
outrage from the obama administration
the mexican government issued a new
arrest warrant a few days later but carl
quintero was long gone he was finally
arrested again in mexico on july 15 2022
number 5. samia maguirevich he has
contacts in various industries he's a
highly educated man he's a definitely a
different type of mobster now arms
trafficking racketeering money
laundering contract murders these are
just a few of the criminal charges
leveled against russian mafia boss
semyon magilevich he has access to so
much including funding including other
criminal organizations that he can with
a telephone call affect the global
economy described by the fbi as quote
the most dangerous mobster in the world
magilovich was placed on the most wanted
list in 2009 after scamming millions of
dollars from investors of a canadian
company he oversaw investors lost
millions into the pockets of mughalevich
and his associates it was a long shot as
the feds knew he had high profile
connections in russia and was living
freely in moscow due to the lack of an
extradition treaty between russia and
the u.s maginovich was taken off the
list in 2015 but he is still being
actively pursued by the fbi
number four james whitey bulger
one of the most notorious mob bosses
ever to spring out of boston james
whitey bulger was the leader of the
winter hill gang you threatened me
bulger the last thing i would do if i
was planning to harm you is to warn you
in advance you dumb
bulger had his hands in multiple
criminal enterprises such as
racketeering money laundering extortion
and even murder yet he worked as an fbi
informant against other mobs facing
impending prosecution he fled boston and
remained in hiding for 16 years
during this period he was added to the
list and was at one time the second most
wanted man in the u.s behind only osama
bin laden after he was apprehended in
2011 bulger was convicted of his many
crimes and sentenced to life
imprisonment in 2018 he met his demise
at the hands of other inmates
number 3. theodore ted bundy
one of the most infamous serial killers
of all time ted bundy was responsible
for the deaths of at least 30 women in
the 1970s he was arrested in 1975 but
managed to escape from prison twice
killing even more women while he was on
the run bundy used his charm and good
looks to lure his victims in before
assaulting them and taking their lives
after his second escape from prison his
name was added to the fbi's list he only
spent five days on the list before he
was arrested at a traffic stop following
two highly publicized trials bundy was
found guilty of three murders and was
executed by electric chair in 1989
number two
james earl ray
already a convicted armed robber and
fraudster james earl ray gained
notoriety for his 1968 assassination of
martin luther king jr rey who had
escaped from prison the previous year
ran up north to canada and laid low for
a while two months after the murder a
scotland yard detective in london's
airport recognized ray from his mugshot
and detained the killer of an american
icon after a few months on the run rey
was arrested in london and sent back to
the u.s to stand trial for his crime
there he pleaded guilty to king's murder
and was sentenced to 99 years in prison
the mystery the enigma about james earl
ray is to this day we don't know exactly
why he did it having appeared on the
fbi's most wanted fugitives in 1968
ray's name resurfaced on the list in
1977 when he escaped from prison with
six other inmates he was recaptured
three days later and died in prison at
the age of 70.
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number one osama bin laden
as the founder of al qaeda osama bin
laden was responsible for masterminding
several terrorist attacks
although most infamous for the events of
september 11 2001 bin laden originally
appeared on the fbi's list two years
earlier his inclusion was as a result of
his involvement in the 1998 bombings of
u.s embassies in kenya and tanzania
after the 9 11 attacks bin laden became
the most wanted man in the world with
the fbi placing a 25 million bounty on
his head bin laden managed to evade
capture for more than a decade but met
his end in may 2011 when he was shot and
killed by u.s military forces in
abadabad pakistan the united states has
conducted an operation that killed osama
bin laden
the leader of al qaeda
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