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Top 10 Notorious FBI Most Wanted Fugitives


everyone wants to be wanted unless the
one wanting them is the FBI
Leslie Rogi an escaped federal prisoner
who’s just been added to the FBI’s list
of the ten most wanted fugitives welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
FBI’s most notorious wanted fugitives
for this list we’re considering infamous
criminals who are officially on the
FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives list and
not those criminals who may have been
wanted by the FBI but were not included
on their list for 18 years now the FBI
has been searching for the Unabomber at
one point it issued a sketch of the main
suspect in their search number 10 Eric
Rudolph years wanted five we bring you
back live to the international broadcast
Center in Atlanta right now and the mood
of our program changes dramatically at
this moment because quite apparently the
kind of incident which you hope will
never take place at an Olympic Games has
in fact taken place one woman was killed
and more than a hundred people injured
when a bomb exploded at the Olympic Park
in Atlanta in 1996 this was the work of
Eric Rudolph who later bombed a lesbian
bar and two abortion clinics killing
another innocent person his sentencing
hearing was emotionally wrenching
survivors of his clinic bombing finally
got the opportunity to lash out at
Rudolph been waiting seven and a half
years for and
the main purpose was to see him and let
him know he fell associated with a white
supremists religious sect
Rudolph held strong anti-gay anti
abortion and anti-socialist beliefs
which influenced his actions
Rudolph pled guilty to his charges to
avoid the death sentence are you worried
that Rudolph my fuel extremist Lee’s
domestic terrorist oh absolutely
absolutely but in actuality Rudolph was
fueled by other people
number nine Leslie is been Roky years
wanted six one time or another
Brodie’s had a whole pack of police
agencies on his tail local cops
the US Marshals even international
authorities and now he’s reached the
pinnacle of his career
Leslie rogue he’s on the FBI’s ten most
wanted list it’s thanks to technological
advances that Leslie is Munro ghee is on
this list
a career bank robber Rogge stole some
two million from more than two dozen
banks since he escaped from federal
custody in 1985 Rogi has been charged
with bank robberies in Arkansas North
Carolina his travels financed with
stolen cashier’s checks have taken him
from Belhaven North Carolina to
Charleston South Carolina to
Hendersonville North Carolina always
just a step ahead of police but Rohe’s
claim to fame is that he’s considered
the first person on the FBI’s
most-wanted list to be apprehended
thanks to the internet a person in
Guatemala alerted the local police after
seeing rogue ease photo on the FBI
website that one little picture earned
Rogi 65 years in the slammer
the creative thing creativeness about
this arrest came about through the use
of internet worldwide internets as well
as the showing of America’s Most Wanted
in Guatemala number 8 Ruth
Iseman shyer years wanted less than one
in 1968 the first woman was added to the
FBI’s most-wanted list
Ruth iseman Shire along with her partner
Gary Steven Crist kidnapped heiress
Barbara Jane Mackel while awaiting the
ransom money they buried Mackel in a
fiberglass box which fortunately
contained an air-pump
Mackel was rescued after three days and
Iseman Shire was apprehended
little over two months later after
serving part of her sentence she was
deported back to her native Honduras
number seven Leonard Peltier years
wanted less than one and tonight we’re
going to focus on one bona fide
political prisoner in the United States
Leonard Peltier here heard of him one of
the most controversial figures ever on
the most-wanted list
Native American activist Leonard Peltier
was convicted of killing two FBI agents
during a confrontation at Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation Amnesty International
and numerous other groups have protested
this conviction with many maintaining
that Peltier did not receive a fair
trial supporters believe that someone
other than Peltier committed the crimes
Leonard was underground for some time
facing already convictions through the
media being put on the ten most wanted
list even before he had went to trial
labeled in him as a as a cop killer as a
slayer the FBI however stands solidly
behind the conviction although a
multitude of evidence was withheld
during the trial including a ballistics
test proving the deadly shell casing
didn’t come from his gun Peltier was
found guilty of killing both FBI agents
and sentenced to consecutive life terms
in prison
in 1977 number six Thomas James Holden
years wanted one it’s a dubious
distinction but the first person to be
placed on the FBI’s official 10
most-wanted list is Thomas James Holden
Holden was a notorious bank robber went
on a crime spree in the Midwest in the
1920s and 30s and served considerable
time in jail shortly after his release
in the 1940s Holden killed his wife and
two brothers and when the FBI began its
fugitives list he was promptly put at
the top leading to his subsequent
capture number five Victor Manuel Gerena
years wanted over 30 the longest amount
of time spent on the most-wanted list
30 years and Counting thanks to the
elusive Victor Manuel Gerena since 1984
Gerena has been wanted in connection
with the robbery of a Wells Fargo Depot
in which he and his accomplices got away
with seven million at the time this was
the biggest cash robbery in the nation’s
history while many of his
co-conspirators have been captured
Gerena remains at large and is thought
to be living in Cuba US officials say
dozens of American fugitives
are believed to be living under the
Cuban government’s protection number
four james whitey’ bulger years wanted
12 racketeering extortion money
laundering weapons charges and eleven
counts of murder these were among the 31
charges which Irish mob boss James
Whitey Bulger was convicted of after his
2011 arrest as a bank robber I was
captured I pled guilty to free the
girlfriend that I was with my got a 20
year prison sentence first offender in
prison I was part of an escape plot I
had a guy bring me in tax of blades the
plot fell apart I spent months in the
hole how much were a lot they’re also
held the distinction of being the oldest
person added to the list 69 years of age
that is until 77 year old William
Bradford Bishop jr. was added in April
of 2012 Bulger would have also been a
most wanted criminal years earlier but
because he acted as an FBI informant on
other mobs they kept him off the list
for decades and he’s gonna die behind
the walls of a prison
but for gym it doesn’t matter he’s at
the end of his life he doesn’t know if
he’ll live till the end of the trial
never mind till the end of the year
number three Theodore Ted Bundy years
wanted less than one trying it angry
very very angry and indignant I don’t
like being locked up for something I
didn’t do and I don’t like my Liberty
taken away and I don’t like being
treated like an animal and I like like
people walking around and oddly me like
I’m some sort of widow because I’m not
one of the nation’s most notorious
serial killers Ted Bundy murdered at
least 30 women between 1974 and 1978
people because he was such a handsome
young man
basically overlooked any type of
emptiness that was the core of him he
managed to escape from jail twice during
that period once by losing over 30
pounds so he could fit through a small
hole in his cell changing his appearance
like a chameleon Bundy continued to kill
until his bloody journey brought him to
Florida where in January of 1978 he went
wild in this sorority house viciously
assaulting for women to died Bundy
brutally beat his victims
his last was a twelve-year-old girl
whose body was hidden in a pigsty for a
year the murderer was executed by the
electric chair in 1989 Peter Bundy was
executed at 7:16 this morning in the
electric chair at Florida State Prison
he was executed for the murder of 12
year old Kimberly leach of Lake City
Florida number 2 Osama bin Laden years
wanted well
we begin with the story of a shadowy
multi-millionaire who has declared a
holy war against the United States to
some in the Islamic world he is a hero
to the United States government though
he is a terrorist
although most infamous for masterminding
the 9/11 attacks in 2001 Osama bin Laden
actually made the FBI’s list earlier in
1999 he was placed there due to his role
in the 1998 bombing of the US embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania two American
embassies blown up in East Africa
minutes apart who did it why and why now
with the blood of thousands of American
citizens on his hands bin Laden was
wanted
many organizations other than the FBI is
death at the hands of a US special
forces unit in 2011 effectively removed
him from the list tonight I can report
to the American people and to the world
that the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama bin Laden
the leader of al-qaeda and a terrorist
who’s responsible for the murder of
thousands before we reveal our top pick
here are a few dishonorable mentions one
man nine wives 62 kids for a leader of
the largest polygamous group in the
country membership had its privileges
but now two family members of the group
led by Warren Jeffs are determined to
help others make the same dramatic
decision they did get out first of all
if you’re going to talk about a
revolutionary situation you have to have
people who are physically able to wage
revolution who are physically able to
organize and physically able to do all
that it’s done
number one James Earl Ray years wanted
less than one like the assassinations of
John F Kennedy and his brother Robert
the murder of Martin Luther King jr. is
a case that refuses to be closed nine
years later a special committee of
Congress is investigating the crime the
Attorney General of the United States
has publicly said he wants to talk to
the man who sits in prison as the
assassin convicted for the assassination
of dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 James
Earl Ray was already a criminal and
escaped convict at the time of the
infamous shooting
although Ray confessed to the crime and
pled guilty he recanted that confession
three days later did you fire the shot
that killed dr. Martin Luther King no
and I think now based on investigations
of those who live representing me that
we could prove it through some type of
judicial proceedings after appearing on
the FBI’s most wanted fugitives list
that year he found himself on the list
in 1977 following a prison escape with
six other inmates they were returned
three days later he died in prison in
1998 however debate over whether ray
acted alone was part of a group effort
or was a victim of a conspiracy still
continues to this day the jury returned
a staggering verdict not only did they
find Loyd Jowers liable for King’s death
they also assigned partial blame to a
conspiracy possibly involving the US
government the Memphis Police and
mobsters agree with our choices which
other of the FBI’s most notorious
fugitives deserves to be on this list
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eye
Emily Lyons blasted Eric Rudolph calling
him a failure and a coward
who had spent his life in prison rather
than risk death she told a smug Rudolf
he might as well be dead because he’ll
never marry a woman he loves or father
his own children
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