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In the 1950s, the [[United States]] [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] began to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the '''[[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]]'''. Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1950s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual fugitives whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1950s, under FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]].

==FBI headlines in decade of 1950s==
In late 1949 the FBI helped publish an article about the "toughest guys" the Bureau was after, who remained fugitives from justice. The positive publicity from the story resulted in the birth of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list on March 14, 1950.

Cases of [[espionage]] against the United States and its allies were some of the prevalent investigations by the Bureau during the 1950s. Eight [[Nazi]] agents who had planned [[sabotage]] operations against American targets were arrested. [[Organized crime]] networks and families in the United States also became targets, including those headed by [[Sam Giancana]] and [[John Gotti]].

== FBI "Most Wanted Fugitives" in the 1950s ==
As wanted fugitives were added, and then later removed, the FBI began to keep track of the sequence number in which each fugitive appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual fugitive 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 fugitive's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.

== FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1950s ==
The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1950s include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):<ref name="50th">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" March 14, 1950 – January 1, 2000 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020127071933/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf |archive-date=2002-01-27 |access-date=2009-03-02 |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Most Wanted Fugitives FAQ — FBI |url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ten-most-wanted-fugitives-faq |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.fbi.gov |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Most Wanted Fugitives 1 to 100 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ten-most-wanted-fugitives-faq/ten-most-wanted-1-100 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en-us}}</ref>

=== 1950 ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Sequence Number
! Date of Entry
! Time Listed
|-
| height="10" | [[Holden–Keating Gang|Thomas James Holden]]
|#1
|March 14, 1950
|One year
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Thomas James Holden.jpg|85px|left]]'''Thomas James Holden''', a longtime criminal, was the first fugitive to be placed on the FBI’s newly created “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list, on March 14, 1950. Holden was arrested on June 23, 1951, in [[Beaverton, Oregon]], following a tip from a citizen who read a wire service story in the [[Portland, Oregon]] newspaper ''[[The Oregonian]]'' and contacted the FBI.<ref name="oregonian">{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/oregon_has_starring_role_as_fb.html|title=Oregon has starring role as FBI's Most Wanted list turns 60|author1-link=Bryan Denson|last=Denson|first=Bryan |date=March 13, 2010|work=[[The Oregonian]]|accessdate=14 March 2010}}</ref> He was wanted for fleeing on November 4, 1949 after he had shot to death his wife and her two brothers while drinking on June 5, 1949, in Chicago. 
He was previously convicted of robbing a mail train in the late 1920s as part of the Holden-Keating gang and escaped from Leavenworth in 1930. He was alleged to be one of the "outside" crew in a sensational armed break of other prisoners from Leavenworth in December, 1931; after escape, he was caught by Special Agents and local police officers on a [[Kansas City, Missouri]] golf course on July 7, 1932. He was released from [[United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth|Leavenworth Prison]] on November 28, 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Perry |first=Douglas |date=2020-02-12 |title=The FBI’s famous ‘10 Most Wanted Fugitives’ list launched 70 years ago – and led agents to Beaverton |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/02/the-fbis-famous-10-most-wanted-fugitives-list-launched-70-years-ago-and-led-agents-to-beaverton.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130191410/https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/02/the-fbis-famous-10-most-wanted-fugitives-list-launched-70-years-ago-and-led-agents-to-beaverton.html |archive-date=Nov 30, 2024 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=oregonlive |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | [[Morley Vernon King]]
|#2
|March 15, 1950
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:MVern King.jpeg|85px|left]]'''Morley Vernon King''' was wanted for strangling his wife, Helen, with a scarf and leaving her body in a closet for six days. He then put her body in a steamer trunk, placing it under the back porch of a motel where he worked at in [[San Luis Obispo, California]], on July 9, 1947.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1951-06-20 |title=Morley King |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-morley-king/26000502/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |work=The Miami News |pages=26}}</ref> He had fled from police July 8, 1947. He was apprehended on October 31, 1951 in a [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] restaurant, due to an FBI investigation.
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | [[William Nesbit (thief)|William Raymond Nesbit]]
|#3
|March 16, 1950
|Two days
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:William_Nesbit.jpg|85px|left]]'''William Nesbit''' was wanted for multiple murders and jewel thefts. In 1936, Nesbit and a crew of jewel thieves, consisting of three other men and one of their girlfriends, fled to South Dakota where they all got into a fight. The girlfriend attempted to break up the fight, but was struck with a hammer by Nesbit and shot by another crew member. She was dragged to a [[Powder tower|powder house]] where another crew member by the name of Harold Baker, laid unconscious. Nesbit then lit a fuse, setting off 3,500 pounds of dynamite and 7,000 pounds of black powder, killing Baker while the girlfriend managed to crawl away. On February 26, 1937, he was arrested in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]. He received a sentence of life in prison, but after 20 years, he was allowed to leave the prison for work activities. However, on September 4, 1946, he never returned and was wanted for fleeing. He was arrested in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul, Minnesota]] on March 18, 1950, by local police following a wire service story in the [[Saint Paul Dispatch|St. Paul Dispatch]], with the help of a 14-year-old boy and his friends who said he had become friends with a man named "Ray" who lived in a cave in the nearby Mississippi River bank.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Federal Bureau of Investigation |url=https://archive.org/details/ten_most_wanted_60th_anniversary |title=FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives 60th Anniversary |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice |year=2010 |pages=16-17 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | Henry Randolph Mitchell
|#4
|March 17, 1950
|Eight years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Henry Randolph Mitchell.jpg|alt=Henry Randolph Mitchell FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|118x118px]]'''Henry Randolph Mitchell''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for robbing a [[Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation]] bank in [[Williston, Florida]] on January 21, 1948 shortly after being released from [[Florida State Penitentiary]]. His criminal career dated back to 1924 and he had been previously convicted in the states of [[Kentucky]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[New York (state)|New York]] and Florida for crimes including grand larceny, violation of narcotics laws, breaking and entering, and forgery.<ref>Dary Matera, ''FBI's Ten Most Wanted'', (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), pg. 27.</ref> Mitchell was placed on the list three days after its inception and was the only one of the original members still at large when the process against him was dismissed in [[Tallahassee, Florida]] on July 18, 1958.
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | [[Omar August Pinson]]
|#5
|March 18, 1950
|Five months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:OAPinson.jpeg|85px|left]]'''Omar August Pinson''' was wanted for murder and burglary. On April 25, 1947, Pinson, after just finishing a burglary, was approached by a state officer when the officer saw he was holding a large amount of guns. After failing to come up with an excuse, he pulled out a pistol, shooting and killing the officer. He had apparently been on a 6 month burglary spree in throughout Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. He was convicted for the murder and burglaries, and attempted to escape prison multiple times, thereafter. On May 30, 1949, he managed to saw through his prison bars and escape with another inmate, then immediately went back to burglarizing homes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Sep 1950 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - September 1950 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/september-1950.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/september-1950 |archive-date=Jan 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=26-27 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Pierre, South Dakota]]  on August 28, 1950, by local police while applying for his driver’s license, due to an FBI investigation,.
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | Lee Emory Downs
|#6
|March 20, 1950
|One month
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Lee Emory Downs.jpeg|alt=Lee Emory Downs FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|125x125px]]'''Lee Emory Downs''', an expert safecracker and longtime criminal, was wanted for robbing a telephone company in [[San Jose, California]] with an accomplice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richmond News Leader 8 April 1950 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive |url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RNL19500408.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=virginiachronicle.com}}</ref> He was a part of a loose gang of holdup men and robbers from several states. He was arrested by the FBI in [[Daytona Beach, Florida]], on April 7, 1950, outside his trailer home, due to an FBI investigation. At the time of the arrest, Downs was working on his 1949 Lincoln automobile. A search of the trailer revealed two pistols, six rifles, nine sticks of dynamite, twelve electric detonating fuses, and two leather briefcases filled with ammunition. He was convicted, but in 1968, while on parole, he attempted to burglarize the Colombian consulate in San Francisco and was returned to prison.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lee Emory Downs.jpg - 381x613 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7088 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | [[Orba Elmer Jackson]]
|#7
|March 21, 1950
|Two days
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Orba Jackson.jpeg|85px|left]]'''Orba Elmer Jackson''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for escaping prison when he walked away from a work duty. He was serving time for robbing a store that happen to have a post office in the back making it a federal crime, therefore making him a federal prisoner, sending him to [[Leavenworth Prison]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martinazzi |first=Loyce |date=September 2014 |title=1950: Number 7 on the F.B.I's Most Wanted List |url=http://tualatinlife.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/56-Tu-History-.50.pdf |access-date=Feb 7, 2025 |website=Tualatin Life}}</ref> He was apprehended without incident in [[Aloha, Oregon]] on March 23, 1950. A citizen saw Jackson’s Identification Order in an Oregon post office and recognized him as a farm hand. 
|-
| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | Glen Roy Wright
|#8
|March 22, 1950
|Nine months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Glen Roy Wright.jpg|alt=Glen Roy Wright FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|119x119px]]'''Glen Roy Wright''', a longtime criminal, dubbed, "The Old Man of the Mountains", was wanted for escaping prison, where he was serving a life sentence for hijacking an auction with an accomplice. He was captured by accident when the FBI were looking for two kidnappers of a St. Paul banker. He was also wanted for questioning in the murder of a Tulsa attorney. After an escape attempt in 1940 where he was wounded, on September 14, 1948, he was able to successfully escape when he faked having an ill mother and disappeared when visiting her. While on the run, he committed numerous crimes including robbery. He was arrested in [[Salina, Kansas]] on December 13, 1950, by the FBI, due to an FBI investigation. He then became a model prisoner before dying of a heart attack in prison on July 5, 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Last of the Oklahoma Badmen': Glenn Roy Wright Dies as He Lived, in Prison |url=https://digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org/digital/collection/p16063coll1/id/4496/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org |language=en}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | Henry Harland Shelton
|#9
|March 23, 1950
|Three months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Henry Harland Shelton (FBI).jpg|alt=Henry Harland Shelton FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Henry Harland Shelton''' was wanted for escaping prison. On September 17, 1949, Shelton and accomplice kidnapped an electrical worker and forced him to drive them across several states at knife point. They then abandoned the car the repeated the process three more times. Shelton's accomplice was captured during a holdup while Shelton managed to escape the police. Three months later, the FBI were able to ascertain his location as he frequented a local bar. He was arrested in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] on June 23, 1950, by FBI agents while armed with a .45 caliber automatic weapon which he drew it during the arrest in an attempt to shoot the arresting FBI agent. Agents shot and wounded him. He pled guilty to charges of federal kidnapping and the interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles. He received a sentence of 45 years on the kidnapping charge and five years on the car theft charge, sentences to run concurrently.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Harland Shelton.jpg - 655x360 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7091 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | Morris Guralnick
|#10
|March 24, 1950
|Nine months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Morris Guralnick (FBI).jpg|alt=Morris Guralnick FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Morris Guralnick''' was wanted escaping custody while awaiting trial for stabbing his ex-girlfriend in April, 1948. In order to escape, Guralnick and four other inmates broke the plumbing fixtures and violently assaulted two guard with broken pipes where one guard was hospitalized with severe head injuries. He was considered extremely dangerous as during his first arrest for the assault, he bit off the finger of an arresting officer. In December of 1950, Guralnick was arrested by an FBI agent and a local police officer at a clothing store where he was working as a night clerk in [[Madison, Wisconsin]]. He was located as a result of a citizen seeing his picture in the [[Coronet (magazine)|Coronet magazine]] and then contacting authorities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Morris Guralnick.jpg - 449x587 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7092 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
|-
| height="10" | [[Willie Sutton]]
|#11
|March 20, 1950
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Willie Sutton.jpg|85px|left]]'''William Francis Sutton''', a.k.a. “The Actor” or “Slick Willie,” was wanted for escaping prison where he was serving time for multiple bank robberies. He was considered a gentlemen when robbing banks with one victim stating it was like being in a movie where the usher had a gun. He would usually put on elaborate disguises in order to rob them in broad daylight. He would go on to make several escapes from prisons. While serving a sentence of life imprisonment as a fourth time offender, Sutton was transferred to the Philadelphia County Prison, in [[Holmesburg, Philadelphia|Homesburg, Pennsylvania]]. On February 10, 1947, Sutton and other prisoners dressed as prison guards and carried two ladders across the prison yard to the wall after dark. When the prison’s searchlights hit him, Sutton yelled, “It’s okay,” and no one stopped him. Because of his love for expensive clothes, his photograph was given to tailors as well as the police. [[Arnold Schuster]] recognized Sutton on a New York subway on February 18, 1952, leading to his arrest. He was sentenced to 30 years on top of the one life sentence and 105 years he was already serving before his escape. However, in 1969, he was released from prison since he had emphysema and was preparing for major surgery. On November 2, 1980, Willie Sutton died in [[Spring Hill, Florida]], at the age of 79.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Willie Sutton |url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250128175242/https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton |archive-date=Jan 28, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en-us}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Stephen William Davenport
|#12
|April 4, 1950
|One month
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Stephen William Davenport (FBI).webp|alt=Stephen William Davenport FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|98x98px]]'''Stephen William Davenport''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for fleeing after he was arrested for stealing a car while out on parole. He was originally in Leavenworth Prison for killing a detective sergeant while committing an armed burglary.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-14 |title=FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives: Who has been caught in Nevada? |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/fbis-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-who-has-been-caught-in-nevada-2743833/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Las Vegas Review-Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> To escape, he broke a bar in the shower room of the correctional facility he was at and using blankets slid out a window to the ground floor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 1950 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - January 1950 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/january-1950.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/january-1950 |archive-date=Jan 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], by local police, due to an FBI investigation.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Henry Clay Tollett
|#13
|April 11, 1950
|One year
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Henry Clay Tollett (FBI).jpg|alt=Henry Clay Tollett FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Henry Clay Tollett''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for escaping prison where he was serving a 25 year long sentence for bank robbery. He hid in a truck that was picking up prison made office furniture before jumping out of the truck and disappearing in [[Tacoma, Washington]]. he was known to have a gun in a secret pocket in his left sleeve and was a notorious alcoholic.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=James |date=1950-04-15 |title=Henry Clay Tollett Added to Criminal List |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/delaware-county-daily-times-henry-clay-t/86648316/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |work=Delaware County Daily Times |pages=12}}</ref> He was fatally wounded by a [[California Highway Patrol]] officer during the attempt to apprehend him on June 4, 1951. He was in a stolen car in [[Redding, California]]. 
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[Frederick J. Tenuto]]
|#14
|May 24, 1950
|Fourteen years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Frederick J. Tenuto (FBI).jpg|alt=Frederick J. Tenuto FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|121x121px]]'''Frederick J. Tenuto''', a.k.a. "The Angel of Death”, a longtime criminal, was wanted for escaping prison with '''Willie Sutton''' (#11) in 1947, where he was serving time for murder. Placed on the Top Ten list on May 24, 1950, federal process against Tenuto was dismissed in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], by a U.S. District Judge. It was alleged by [[Joe Valachi]] that Tenuto was killed by [[Albert Anastasia]] to get rid of loose ends in a hit he ordered on Arnold Schuster.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1963-08-07 |title=Frederick "the Angel" Tenuto Reported Dead (Aug. 1963) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-frederick-the-a/122784799/?locale=en-US |access-date=2025-02-07 |work=Philadelphia Daily News |pages=3}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Thomas Kling
|#15
|July 17, 1950
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Thomas Kling (FBI).jpg|alt=Thomas Kling FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|103x103px]]'''Thomas Kling''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for armed robbery when he entered a bar and fired a gun in the air. He then smashed a barkeeper over the head with a stool and robbed the place. All this took place while out on parole. Starting his criminal career at the age of ten he was in and out of prison for a multitude of crimes including, multiple robberies, assaults, bank robberies, breaking and entering, carjacking, and more.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 1950 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - November 1950 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/november-1950.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/november-1950 |archive-date=Feb 2, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=26 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[New York, New York]] on February 20, 1952, by local police after following an address book they found in '''Willie Sutton's''' (#11) apartment.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1952-03-03 |title=CRIME: The Actor & the Bulls |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,890236-2,00.html |access-date=2025-02-07 |work=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Meyer Dembin
|#16
|September 5, 1950
|One year
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Meyer Dembin (FBI).jpg|alt=Meyer Dembin FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Meyer Dembin''' was wanted robbing a bank with three others in under five minutes, armed with revolvers and a shotgun. They then jumped into a stolen sedan. Over the course of the next decade, his accomplices would be arrested and given lengthy prison sentences.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 1951 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - February 1951 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/february-1951.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/february-1951 |archive-date=Feb 2, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=26-27 |language=en}}</ref> He surrendered to the U.S. Attorney in New York, New York on November 26, 1951.
|}

=== 1951 ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Sequence Number
! Date of Entry
! Time Listed
|-
| height="10" | Courtney Townshend Taylor
|#17
|January 8, 1951
|One month
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Courtney Townsend Taylor (FBI).jpg|alt=Courtney Townsend Taylor FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|107x107px]]'''Courtney Townshend Taylor''' was wanted for passing bad checks. He was apprehended in [[Mobile, Alabama]], in 1951 after a jeweler recognized him from a Wanted Flyer. Sending his clerk to follow Taylor, the jeweler called the FBI and police. Within 25 minutes, Taylor was in custody. Upon his arrest, he was frisked and pulled out a black fountain pen and stated "This is the only gun I need,".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nolan |first=Joseph |date=1954-08-29 |title=Big Business in Bad Checks; Writing rubber checks is the nation's fastest-growing criminal activity. Fortunately, most of its practitioners bounce into jail. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/29/archives/big-business-in-bad-checks-writing-rubber-checks-is-the-nations.html |access-date=2025-02-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[Joseph Franklin Bent]]
|#18
|January 9, 1951
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:FBI-018-JosephBentJr.jpg|alt=Joseph Franklin Bent FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|128x128px]]'''Joseph Franklin Bent''', a longtime criminal and former army soldier, was wanted for multiple robberies and attempted murder. On July 23, 1949, he wrapped his face in tape and robbed a grocery store in [[San Diego, California]]. After fleeing in a getaway car driven by an accomplice, they were chased by a motorcycle officer. A gun battle ensued where Bent shot at the officer with a shotgun out of the moving car where they managed to get away. While on the run, in May of 1950, he robbed another grocery store in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] and was arrested after hiding under a house. He managed to escape from the infirmary with a broken jaw and stole two vehicles in succession to escape. He then fled to [[Riverdale, North Dakota]] and committed another robbery.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1951 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - June 1951 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/june-1951.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/june-1951 |archive-date=Feb 14, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=10-11 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Texas City, Texas]], after a citizen recognized his photo in [[Pageant (magazine)|Pageant magazine]]. He was shot and wounded during the arrest when he attempted to draw his weapon.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Harry H. Burton
|#19
|March 9, 1951
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Harry H. Burton (FBI).jpg|alt=Harry H. Burton FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Harry H. Burton''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for murder. On October 1, 1947, a wealthy liquor store owner who was reported to have large sums of cash on him and in his, home was robbed while his wife and three visitors were inside. A mailman arrived with a package at the front door and drew a pistol forcing the wife inside, having all four people lie face down on the kitchen floor. Others then entered and ransacked the home. Robert Crane adjusted himself while lying down and was subsequently shot in the head by the intruder after which he shooter and the robbers fled the home. The package initially used to gain entry to the home was left behind which had the latent fingerprints of Burton and stuffed inside was a sticker with Burton's father's name and address. Further investigating turned up evidence that implicated Burton.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 1951 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - May 1951 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/may-1951.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/may-1951_202502 |archive-date=Feb 14, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=22-24 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Cody, Wyoming]], in 1952, by the local sheriff and FBI. His arrest is attributed to the [[True Detective (magazine)|True Detective Mysteries]] radio broadcast. However, he was later acquitted when a witness testified that he was at his dying mother's bedside at the time of the murder.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Litchfield |first=Jordan |date=2023-09-03 |title=The Most Wanted Criminals in the 1950s |url=https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/09/03/most-wanted-criminals-the-1950s/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=24/7 Wall St. |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Joseph Paul Cato
|#20
|June 27, 1951
|Surrendered before publication
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Joseph Paul Cato (FBI).jpg|alt=Joseph Paul Cato FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Joseph Paul Cato''', a one time gangster, was wanted for the murder of his girlfriend who he was having an affair with unbeknownst to her husband. The motive was believed to be jealously as she was meeting another man. He broke down her door, chased her upstairs, and shot her in the head.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Madera Tribune 22 June 1951 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510622.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}</ref> He surrendered to the FBI in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], in June of 1951, after seeing his own Identification Order. Although approved to be placed on the “Top Ten” list, he surrendered prior to the press release date.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[Anthony Brancato]]
|#21
|June 27, 1951
|Two days
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Anthony Brancato.jpg|alt=Anthony Brancato FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|122x122px]]'''Anthony Brancato''' was wanted for robbing the [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo Hotel and Resort]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], which had ties to the [[Mafia]], alongside Tony Trombino as part of duo robbers commonly known as "The Two Tonys".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koch |first=Ed |last2=Manning |first2=Mary |date=2008-05-15 |title=Mob Ties |url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/mob-ties/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521180246/https://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/mob-ties/ |archive-date=May 21, 2024 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Las Vegas Sun |language=en}}</ref> He surrendered to the FBI in [[San Francisco, California]] on June 29, 1951, after seeing an [[International News Service]] story in the [[San Francisco Call-Bulletin]]. 
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| height="10" | [[Frederick Emerson Peters]]
|#22
|July 2, 1951
|Seven months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:FBI-022-FrederickEmersonPeters.jpg|alt=Frederick Emerson Peters FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Frederick Emerson Peters''', a serial imposter, was wanted for writing bad check. He would travel around the U.S. pretending to be government officials and relatives of famous people getting others to cash bad checks for him. He amassed around 130 aliases by 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1948 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - April 1948 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/april-1948.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/april-1948_202502 |archive-date=Feb 14, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested on January 15, 1952 in a [[Washington, D.C.]], hotel lobby after two FBI agents recognized him from an Identification Order.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Ernest Tait
|#23
|July 11, 1951
|One day
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Ernest Tait (FBI).jpg|alt=Ernest Tait FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|124x124px]]'''Ernest Tait''', a career robber, was wanted for robbing a safe in [[New Castle, Indiana]] with an accomplice. They were caught in the act and had a shootout with police in which his partner was shot and killed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kubai |first=Andy L. |date=2017-05-02 |title=The Craziest Crimes That Landed People On The Most Wanted List |url=https://www.grunge.com/62079/craziest-crimes-landed-people-wanted-list/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228152455/https://www.grunge.com/62079/craziest-crimes-landed-people-wanted-list/ |archive-date=Dec 28, 2024 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Grunge |language=en-US}}</ref> He was arrested on July 12, 1951 in [[Miami, Florida]], by the FBI as a direct result of an [[Associated Press]] story published in the [[Miami Herald]] and the [[Miami Daily News]]. After being apprehended, Tait said he had intended to shoot it out with the police, but he had read the AP story about himself stating he had been added to the “Top Ten” list and decided not to try to shoot it out with the FBI. Tait is also #133 on the list.
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| height="10" | [[Ollie Gene Embry]]
|#24
|July 25, 1951
|One month
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Ollie Embry.jpeg|alt=Ollie Gene Embry FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]Ollie Gene Embry was wanted for robbing Monroe National Bank in Columbia, Illinois with three others on February 7, 1951. The four planned to meet up later to divide the stolen cash but Embry spotted a detective during the sting operation set up to capture them and Embry fled while his accomplices were arrested.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tullis |first=Mark |date=2013-04-24 |title=Armed bank robbery remains part of Columbia folklore |url=https://www.republictimes.net/armed-bank-robbery-remains-part-of-columbia-folklore/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Republic-Times {{!}} News |language=en-US}}</ref> A citizen saw Embry’s Identification Order in the post office and recognized him as a local filling station attendant. He was arrested by FBI agents in August 1951 while he was in the process of fixing the radiator of the arresting agents’ car in Kansas City, Missouri.
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| height="10" | Giachino Anthony Baccolla
|#25
|August 20, 1951
|Four months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Giachino Anthony Baccolla (FBI).jpg|alt=Giachino Anthony Baccolla FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Giachino Anthony Baccolla''' was wanted for the murder of a Detroit jeweler that was shot in his car at his home on May 17, 1951. The jeweler and Baccolla were acquaintances as former criminals. It is possible that he killed him after the jeweler became a government witness in a robbery case in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1951 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - October 1951 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/october-1951.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/october-1951 |archive-date=Feb 14, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in New York, New York in December 1951, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | Raymond Edward Young
|#26
|November 12, 1951
|Four days
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Raymond Edward Young (FBI).jpg|alt=Raymond Edward Young FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Raymond Edward Young''', a longtime robber, was wanted for escaping a California prison when he ran away from fighting a fire as part of a convict gang of firefighters. While on the run, he got married and got a job escorting funeral processions on a motorcycle, making friends with local motorcycle cops.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Bill |date=Nov 18, 1951 |title=The Rocky Mountain News (Daily) November 18, 1951 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19511118-01.2.30&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxCO%7CtxTA--------0------ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Denver, Colorado]], in November of 1951, due to an FBI investigation. Young worked nights at a bakery and was apprehended while loading bread trucks.
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| height="10" | John Thomas Hill
|#27
|December 10, 1951
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:John Thomas Hill (FBI).jpg|alt=John Thomas Hill FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''John Thomas Hill''' was wanted for the murder. With a history of vicious assaults, he and five others beat a store owner to death. He also got into an argument with his wife where he stabbed her five times in the head and chest with an ice pick.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Dec 11, 1951 |title=John T. Hill Placed On FBI's "Most Wanted List" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucYlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=John+Thomas+Hill+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=2858,3012995&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif6r7D4eGMAxU_STABHYRXPeQQ6wF6BAgHEAE#v=onepage&q=John%20Thomas%20Hill%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Baltimore Afro-American]] |pages=2}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Hamtramck, Michigan]], in August of 1952, after a citizen recognized him from a Wanted Flyer. Due to an FBI investigation, agents raided his home finding Hill in bed, fast asleep. He offered no resistance.
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| height="10" | George Arthur Heroux
|#28
|December 19, 1951
|Seven months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:George Arthur Heroux (FBI).jpg|alt=George Arthur Heroux FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''George Arthur Heroux''' was wanted for robbing the Johnson County National Bank and Trust Company in [[Prairie Village, Kansas]] with machine guns alongside '''Gerhard Arthur Puff''' (#30) on November 23, 1951.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gerhard Arthur Puff |url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/gerhard-arthur-puff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250103003037/https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/gerhard-arthur-puff |archive-date=Jan 3, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en-us}}</ref> He was arrested in [[El Portal, Florida]] on July 25, 1952, by local police following a police department investigation.
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=== 1952 ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Sequence Number
! Date of Entry
! Time Listed
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| height="10" | Sydney Gordon Martin
|#29
|January 7, 1952
|Two years
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Sydney Gordon Martin.jpg|alt=Sydney Gordon Martin FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|124x124px]]'''Sydney Gordon Martin''' was wanted for robbing, shooting, and beating a farmer with a rock near [[Belchertown, Massachusetts]] when he faked needing help with his stalled car. He then fled in the farmer's truck before being arrested in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]]. Four months later he scaled a barbed wire fence and escaped jail.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Record Journal of Douglas County August 29, 1952 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=TRJ19520829.2.10&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxCO%7CtxTA--------0------ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org}}</ref> He was arrested without incident in [[Corpus Christi, Texas]] on November 27, 1953, by the FBI following publicity in [[the Saturday Evening Post]].
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[Gerhard Arthur Puff]]
|#30
|January 28, 1952
|Six months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:GerhardArthurPuff.jpg|alt=Gerhard Arthur Puff FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|147x147px]]'''Gerhard Arthur Puff''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for robbing the Johnson County National Bank and Trust Company of [[Prairie Village, Kansas]], alongside '''George Arthur Heroux''' (#28) at gun point. He and Heroux had met in jail while Puff awaited trial for armed robbery. On July 26, 1952, Puff was arrested in a hotel lobby in New York, New York, after he shot and killed FBI Special Agent Joseph J. Brock. Puff himself was shot and wounded before he was arrested. He was later executed by electric chair.<ref name=":0" />
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Thomas Edward Young
|#31
|February 21, 1952
|Seven months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Thomas Edward Young (FBI).jpg|alt=Thomas Edward Young FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless]]'''Thomas Edward Young''', a longtime criminal and jail escape artist, had fled while out on bond for burglary. He then met up with his wife who was recovering from a car accident. They then both went on the run through several states. Later, a friend of Thomas was getting out of jail, so they picked him up with another couple. They were stopped by federal agents in which Thomas tried to run, armed with a pistol. They were all subsequently arrested. On August 18, 1951, Thomas overpowered a guard, stole his keys, released his wife and another prisoner, and fled. During their time on the run, they committed multiple burglaries and robberies. They were later arrested and entered guilty pleas in October of 1951. Then on December 28, 1951, Thomas and his wife escaped custody again and fled, committing multiple burglaries and five bank robberies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 1952 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - May 1952 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/may-1952.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/may-1952 |archive-date=2025-02-21 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=22-24 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in the [[Boise National Forest]] on September 23, 1952, without incident following an investigation of citizen reports recognizing his photograph on Identification Orders and in newspaper articles.
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| height="10" | Kenneth Lee Maurer
|#32
|February 27, 1952
|Eleven months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Kenneth Lee Maurer (FBI).jpg|alt=Kenneth Lee Maurer FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Kenneth Lee Maurer''' was wanted for the murders of his mother and 11-year-old sister.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winona Republican-Herald 9 January 1953 — Winona Newspaper Database |url=https://newspaperarchive.winona.edu/?a=d&d=TWH19530109-01.2.73&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=newspaperarchive.winona.edu}}</ref> The mother was stabbed 36 times and bludgeoned while the sister was stabbed four times. A bloody axe and hunter's knife was found at the scene.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - June 1952 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/june-1952.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/june-1952 |archive-date=2025-02-21 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref>  He was arrested while working at a local cabinet shop on January 8, 1953 in Miami, Florida, after several customers saw his published photograph and contacted the FBI. Because of Maurer’s fear of flying, he was allowed to return to Detroit by train to face murder charges.
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| height="10" | [[Isaie Aldy Beausoleil]]
|#33
|March 3, 1952
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Isaie Aldy Beausoleil (FBI).jpg|alt=Isaie Aldy Beausoleil FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|118x118px]]'''Isaie Aldy Beausoleil''' was wanted in connection for the bludgeoning death of his female companion, who was found in a ditch.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten Most Wanted Fugitives 60th Anniversary, 1950-2010 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/stats-services-publications-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-60th-anniversary-1950-2010-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-60th-anniversary-1950-2010-pdf/view |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |page=18 |language=en-us}}</ref> At the time of his arrest on June 25, 1953, Beausoleil was dressed as a woman. The arrest occurred in [[Chicago, Illinois]], when Beausoleil was spotted acting suspiciously in a women’s restroom. A park policewoman responded and made the arrest.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Leonard Joseph Zalutsky
|#34
|August 5, 1952
|One month
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Leonard Joseph Zalutsky (FBI).jpg|alt=Leonard Joseph Zalutsky FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless]]'''Leonard Joseph Zalutsky''', a.k.a. "Bad Eye" because he was half blind, was wanted for the escaping a Florida prison where he was serving a life sentence for murdering a Miami police officer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Madera Tribune 6 August 1952 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520806.2.84&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}</ref>  He was arrested by local police in [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania]] on September 8, 1952, after being recognized by two citizens who saw his FBI Wanted Poster in a post office.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | William Merle Martin
|#35
|August 11, 1952
|Three weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:William Merle Martin (FBI).jpg|alt=William Merle Martin FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless]]'''William Merle Martin''' and an accomplice robbed a house in [[Overland Park, Kansas]] on June 22, 1952, then attempted to steal a car in a nearby neighborhood just after midnight the next day. At the time deputies had already been in the area searching for the two men. Deputies Willard Carver and Floyd Gaunt upon going to a call about an attempt to steal a car drove down a street and saw a vehicle in a ditch which contained a [[Luger pistol]] and random items. Martin and his accomplice then approached in a truck. When told to put their hands up, they immediately opened fire, killing deputy Carver.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Dec 12, 1953 |title=State v. Martin |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1953/39-055-0.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207163644/https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1953/39-055-0.html |archive-date=Feb 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref>  He was arrested in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] on August 30, 1952, by local police due to a police investigation. He was executed in July of 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson County Museum |first= |date=Sep 8, 1952 |title=Mug shots of prisoner William Merle Martin |url=https://www.jocohistory.org/digital/collection/jcm/id/14149/rec/7 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=jocohistory.com}}</ref>
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | James Eddie Diggs
|#36
|August 27, 1952
|Nine years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:James Eddie Diggs (FBI).jpg|alt=James Eddie Diggs FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|124x124px]]'''James Eddie Diggs''' was wanted for the shooting murders of his wife and two sons. Five days later, he was in a car that was pulled over with three other men. Instead of identifying himself, he drew a revolver and shot a police officer in the mouth. The four men then drove away, where three of them later surrendered and told police that Diggs had kidnapped them at gunpoint to drive to Hamlet. However, he got out of the car before reaching his destination and stated he was going to "take to the woods" and was never seen again.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1952-08-27 |title=James Diggs FBI most wanted Norfolk VA Aug 1952 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-call-leader-james-diggs-fbi-most-wan/30933759/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |work=The Call-Leader |pages=8}}</ref> Federal process against Diggs was dismissed in [[Norfolk, Virginia]] in 1961.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[Nick George Montos]]
|#37
|September 8, 1952
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:NickGeorgeMontos.jpg|alt=Nick George Montos FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|107x107px]]'''Nick George Montos''', a criminal since 14-years-old and later mafia member, was wanted for escaping prison multiple times where he was serving time for robbery. He had beat a 74-year-old man and the man's sister with a gun with three others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Feb 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - February 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/february-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/february-1953 |archive-date=2025-02-21 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=23-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in his motel room in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], after being recognized by a citizen. He was also #94 on the list being the first person to be added twice.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Theodore Richard Byrd Jr.
|#38
|September 10, 1952
|Six months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Theodore Richard Byrd Jr. (FBI).jpg|alt=Theodore Richard Byrd, Jr. FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|122x122px]]'''Theodore Richard Byrd Jr.''', a Navy deserter and longtime criminal, was wanted for interstate transportation of stolen property. Under a fake name, he set up an account with a fake company called McGee Petroleum Co., hired a local [[stenographer]], and had her write bogus checks as employee payrolls. He then continued the operation in multiple states, under multiple identities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Jan 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - January 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/january-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/january-1953 |archive-date=2025-02-21 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[El Reno, Oklahoma]] on February 21, 1953, after an off-duty FBI clerk recognized him from a Wanted Flyer and notified the local police.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Harden Collins Kemper
|#39
|September 17, 1952
|Four months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Harden Collins Kemper (FBI).jpg|alt=Harden Collins Kemper FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Harden Collins Kemper''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for failing to appear for court for vehicle theft. He was as the leader for a ring of car thieves that stole 58 vehicles at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daily Times-News 18 September 1952 — Digital Michigan Newspapers Collection |url=https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=IsabellaDTN19520918-01.1.12&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN---------- |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=digmichnews.cmich.edu}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Glendale, Arizona]], after an [[Arizona Highway Patrol|Arizona Highway Patrolman]] recognized him from an Identification Order.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | John Joseph Brennan
|#40
|October 6, 1952
|Four months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:John Joseph Brennan (FBI).jpg|alt=John Joseph Brennan FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''John Joseph Brennan''', a longtime criminal since the age of 15, was wanted for bank robbery where he and multiple accomplices, including '''Charles Patrick Shue''' (#41) got into a shoot out with Chicago police.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1952-10-08 |title=Article accomplices Charles Patrick Shue eluded their pursuers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-article-accomplices-cha/132553221/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=Nashville Banner |pages=3}}</ref> He was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on January 23, 1953, as a result of a tip from an FBI informant.
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=== 1953 ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Sequence Number
! Date of Entry
! Time Listed
|-
| height="10" | Charles Patrick Shue
|#41
|January 15, 1953
|One month
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Charles Patrick Shue (FBI).jpg|alt=Charles Patrick Shue FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Charles Patrick Shue''' was wanted for bank robbery and eluding police alongside '''John Joseph Brennan''' (#40).<ref name=":1" /> He was arrested in [[Los Angeles, California]] on February 13, 1953, as a result of the FBI being notified after an individual recognized his picture in a newspaper.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Lawson David Shirk Butler
|#42
|January 22, 1953
|Three months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Lawson David Shirk Butler (FBI).jpg|alt=Lawson David Shirk Butler FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|121x121px]]'''Lawson David Shirk Butler''', a long time criminal since the age of 14, was wanted for escaping an Oregon prison while serving a 10-year prison term for assault and armed robbery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-01-22 |title=Lawson article |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lebanon-daily-news-lawson-article/131409548/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=Lebanon Daily News |pages=6}}</ref> He was arrested in Los Angeles, California on April 21, 1953.
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| height="10" | Joseph James Brletic
|#43
|February 8, 1953
|Two days
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Joseph James Brletic (FBI).jpg|alt=Joseph James Brletic FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|105x105px]]'''Joseph James Brletic''', a violent criminal, was wanted for escaping jail. On June 12, 1948, he and an accomplice stole a car from Pennsylvania, drove to Missouri and held up a gas station at gunpoint. After a police chase, they were arrested two days later. While awaiting sentencing, Brletic and his companion dug out of the prison using broken barber shears and hopped rides on freight trains.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Sep 1952 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - September 1952 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/september-1952.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/september-1952 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |page=25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Lancaster, California]] on February 10, 1953, by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office after being recognized from a photograph in the [[Los Angeles Herald-Express]] newspaper.
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| height="10" | [[David Dallas Taylor]]
|#44
|March 3, 1953
|Three months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:FBI-044-DavidDallasTaylor.jpg|alt=David Dallas Taylor FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''David Dallas Taylor''' was wanted for escaping custody. He was serving over 30 years for second degree murder and larceny. On September 1, 1952, while being transported back to an Alabama prison, he escaped for a fourth time by jumping off a moving train while handcuffed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - May 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/may-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/may-1953_202503 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on May 26, 1953, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | Perlie Miller
|#45
|March 4, 1953
|One day
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Perlie Miller (FBI).jpg|alt=Perlie Miller FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Perlie Miller''' was wanted for escaping prison while serving a term for armed robbery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-03-19 |title=Article clipped from Statesville Record and Landmark |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesville-record-and-landmark/13041377/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=Statesville Record and Landmark |pages=9}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Somersworth, New Hampshire]] on March 5, 1953. Working at a local diner, a customer recognized him from a published “Top Ten” photograph.
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| height="10" | [[Fred William Bowerman]]
|#46
|March 5, 1953
|Two months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:FBI-046-FredWilliamBowerman.jpg|alt=Fred William Bowerman FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Fred William Bowerman''' was wanted for committing a violent bank robbery where he shot an employee for raising their hands too slowly.<ref name="Newton">Newton, Michael. ''The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers''. New York: Facts On File Inc., 2002. (pg. 36-37) {{ISBN|0-8160-4488-0}}</ref> On April 24, 1953, while attempting to rob a St. Louis, Missouri bank, he and four accomplices got into a shootout with over 100 police officers. He was mortally wounded and died a week later from his wounds.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-05-02 |title=Fred W Bowerman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-fred-w-bowerman/7323017/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |pages=1}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Robert Benton Mathus
|#47
|March 16, 1953
|Three days
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Robert Benton Mathus (FBI).jpg|alt=Robert Benton Mathus FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Robert Benton Mathus''' was wanted for the brutal beating and robbery of an elderly man and his sister as a part of a trio of robbers, one of which was '''Nick George Montos''' (#37).<ref>{{Cite news |date=Mar 16, 1953 |title=Mathus Placed On FBI Wanted List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2g1AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=Robert+Benton+Mathus+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=3477,3166044&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV5Yfe5eGMAxW6STABHVKCOpAQ6wF6BAgMEAE#v=onepage&q=Robert%20Benton%20Mathus%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[The News-Times]] |pages=11}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Duson, Louisiana]] on March 19, 1953, by FBI agents and local police after being recognized by a citizen who saw his Wanted Flyer.
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| height="10" | Floyd Allen Hill
|#48
|March 30, 1953
|Three weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Floyd Allen Hill (FBI).jpg|alt=Floyd Allen Hill FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Floyd Allen Hill''', a con artist and bank robber, was wanted for escaping prison. He took part in multiple robberies and later buried his share of one heist near [[Fort Worth, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrouquere |first=Brett |date=Mar 14, 2017 |title=FBI's 10 Most Wanted caught in Texas |url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/slideshow/FBI-s-10-Most-Wanted-caught-in-Texas-142544.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819155604/https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/slideshow/FBI-s-10-Most-Wanted-caught-in-Texas-142544.php |archive-date=Aug 19, 2022 |access-date=Mar 7, 2025 |website=chron}}</ref> He was arrested in Dallas, Texas on April 18, 1953, due to an FBI investigation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Floyd Allen Hill.jpg - 560x378 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7131 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Joseph Levy
|#49
|May 1, 1953
|Caught before publication
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Joseph Levy (FBI).jpg|alt=Joseph Levy FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|120x120px]]'''Joseph Levy''', a longtime con man, was wanted for cashing worthless checks. He was arrested at the [[Churchill Downs Racetrack]] in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] on April 30, 1953, one day prior to the public announcement of being placed on the “Top Ten” list. FBI agents recognized him from the “Top Ten” material sent to the field office for the announcement. He is still considered to have been officially on the list. He was unable to cash in his prize of $115 from the track.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-05-01 |title=Joseph Levy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-joseph-levy/16934889/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |pages=11}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Arnold Hinson
|#50
|May 4, 1953
|Six months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Arnold Hinson (FBI).jpg|alt=Arnold Hinson FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Arnold Hinson''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for shooting his co-worker in the head four times at a farm he worked at. He and his wife then fled the city in a stolen pick-up truck.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - July 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/july-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/july-1953 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested by FBI agents in the downtown area of Memphis, Tennessee on November 7, 1953.
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| height="10" | Gordon Lee Cooper
|#51
|May 11, 1953
|One month
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Gordon Lee Cooper (FBI).jpg|alt=Gordon Lee Cooper FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Gordon Lee Cooper''' was wanted for escaping custody after being charged with robbery and assault. He beat up a deputy after being arraigned and robbed him of $160 before fleeing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Feb 13, 1961 |title=State v. Cooper |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/1961/48320-0.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419113320/https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/1961/48320-0.html |archive-date=Apr 19, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri on June 11, 1953, following an investigation based on a citizen’s tip. Cooper was recognized from newspaper publicity.
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| height="10" | [[Fleet Robert Current]]
|#52
|May 18, 1953
|Two months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Fleet Robert Current (mugshot).jpg|alt=Fleet Robert Current FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|126x126px]]'''Fleet Robert Current''' was wanted for multiple robberies. One of his most bold robberies was when he held up a diary farm company office and held 28 employees at gun point with two accomplices.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 18, 1953 |title=BANDIT, 29, ADDED TO WANTED LIST |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPlXAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Fleet+Robert+Current+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=6972,3483828&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqw9Cu5-GMAxW2SzABHaynOqIQ6wF6BAgLEAE#v=onepage&q=Fleet%20Robert%20Current%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=64}}</ref> He was arrested on an [[Omaha, Nebraska]], street corner on July 12, 1953, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | Donald Charles Fitterer
|#53
|June 8, 1953
|Two weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Donald Charles Fitterer (FBI).jpg|alt=Donald Charles Fitterer FBI Most Wanted Poser|left|frameless|132x132px]]'''Donald Charles Fitterer''' was wanted for robbery and murder. He and an accomplice had committed a string of robberies and while out drinking one night, a drunk man by the name of Charles Harrison, approached them asking if he could buy them drinks and if either of the men could drive to pick up a woman. The three got in the Harrison's car, but instead of driving to the [[Muscatine, Iowa]] as instructed, Fitterer drove towards Fort Madison. In a back road, Harrison and Fitterer got into an argument about a bottle of whiskey prompting Fitterer to get out of the car and shoot Harrison in the head, before entering the car and shooting him again. He then robbed the man of his watch and cash before he and his accomplice dumped a still alive Harrison, into a gutter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Sep 21, 1954 |title=State v. Russell |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/1954/48417-0.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301155257/https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/1954/48417-0.html |archive-date=Mar 1, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Oakland, California]] on June 21, 1953, by the FBI and California State Patrol. A citizen had reported him to FBI Headquarters after identifying him from a [[True Detective Mysteries]] radio broadcast.
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| height="10" | John Raleigh Cooke
|#54
|June 22, 1953
|Four months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:John Raleigh Cooke (FBI).jpg|alt=John Raleigh Cooke FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|124x124px]]'''John Raleigh Cooke''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for kidnapping and armed robbery. On September 4, 1953 in [[Chelmsford, Massachusetts]], four gunman entered the home of an elderly man, held him, his housekeeper, and her 4-year old daughter hostage at gunpoint, while ransacking the home looking for a safe. Three of the gunman then took the man to a cafe he owned to rob his store safe. The next day, three of the gunman left to [[Lowell, Massachusetts]] and robbed a hotel bar. During the robbery one of the patrons escaped while a gunman's shotgun misfired. They fled back to the Chelmsford home, bound the housekeeper, and fled. Cooke was arrested the same morning for having a concealed weapon and was released on a $1,000 bond. The police then figured out Cooke was one of the four gunman involved in the kidnapping.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Sep 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - September 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/september-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/september-1953 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Detroit, Michigan]] on October 20, 1953, as he descended for lunch from a roof on a construction project where he was working as a welder. Upon arrest, Cooke stated it was a relief to be caught as he knew from newspaper articles he was on the FBI’s list of “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” and distance would not aid him in his flight.
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| height="10" | Jack Gordon White
|#55
|July 6, 1953
|Two months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Jack Gordon White (FBI).jpg|alt=Jack Gordon White FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|120x120px]]'''Jack Gordon White''', a longtime criminal since the age of 18, was wanted for escaping prison and resuming a string of armed robberies and burglaries.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Jul 7, 1953 |title=DESPERADO IS WANTED HERE |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdRQAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Jack+Gordon+White+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=3961,251442&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFy9qH6uGMAxX5SzABHVmlBtYQ6wF6BAgMEAE#v=onepage&q=Jack%20Gordon%20White%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Times-News (Hendersonville, North Carolina)|The Times-News]] |pages=1}}</ref> On August 27, 1953, White was recognized by a police officer who remembered him from an Identification Order. FBI and police were called to the area of downtown [[Seattle, Washington]]. After determining the make of the vehicle he was driving, FBI agents were able to locate him. A traffic stop was made, and White was apprehended without incident.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jack Gordon White.jpg - 463x669 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7138 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Alex Richard Bryant
|#56
|July 14, 1953
|Seven months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Alex Richard Bryant (FBI).jpg|alt=Alex Richard Bryant FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Alex Richard Bryant''', a longtime criminal and convicted rapist, was wanted for escaping prison where he was serving a life term for armed robbery. He threatened to slit the throat of a guard he held hostage in a prison station wagon. He then stripped both the driver and the guard of their belongings and drove away with the car.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Nov 1953 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - November 1953 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/november-1953.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/november-1953 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in Los Angeles, California on January 26, 1954, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | George William Krendich
|#57
|July 22, 1953
|Three months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:George William Krendich (FBI).jpg|alt=George William Krendich FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|124x124px]]'''George William Krendich''' was wanted for murder. He strangled to death a pregnant woman and weighed her body down before throwing the body into a creek.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Edstrom |first=Ed |date=1953-10-11 |title=Article clipped from The Courier-Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal/20243339/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=The Courier-Journal |pages=160}}</ref> In October 1953, he was found dead in an abandoned Jeep in a wooded area of [[Dunn County, North Dakota]]. The cause of death was suicide from asphyxiation of carbon monoxide fumes, which were piped in from the exhaust into his closed car.
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| height="10" | Lloyd Reed Russell
|#58
|September 8, 1953
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Lloyd Reed Russell (FBI).jpg|alt=Lloyd Reed Russell FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Lloyd Reed Russell''', a long time criminal, was wanted for escaping prison. During his first escape, he was serving 3 to 37 years for grand larceny and burglary. He and another inmate scaled a high tension wire, stole a vehicle, ran multiple police barricades and had shootouts with police. During one of the shootouts, he injured a police officer and was sentenced to 10 years. While serving time for the shooting three years later, he and seven other inmates, got a hold of a [[acetylene torch]] and other tools, overpowered two guards, and cut through a cell block window.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Jan 1954 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - January 1954 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/january-1954.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/january-1954 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=24-25 |language=en}}</ref> He was killed during a gun battle with local police officers in [[Spokane, Washington]] on August 3, 1954.
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| height="10" | Edwin Sanford Garrison
|#59
|October 26, 1953
|One week
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Edwin Sanford Garrison (FBI).jpg|alt=Edwin Sanford Garrison FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|125x125px]]'''Edwin Sanford Garrison''', a.k.a. the "Human Adding Machine" because of his genius in math, was a longtime criminal, wanted for escaping prison in Alabama where he was serving time for robbery, burglary, larceny, and murder. He was arrested in Detroit, Michigan in November 1953, without incident after a citizen recognized his photograph in a newspaper article. He was also #112 on the list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edwin Sanford Garrison.jpg - 458x665 |url=https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?type=image&id=7142 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en}}</ref>
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| height="10" | Franklin James Wilson
|#60
|November 2, 1953
|Three months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Franklin James Wilson (FBI).jpg|alt=Franklin James Wilson FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Franklin James Wilson''', a.k.a. the "Ice Box Bandit", was wanted for armed robbery. He was particularly wanted as leader of a gang of robbers that got into a shootout with police that left an officer dead.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=James |date=Nov 3, 1953 |title=Hard-Drinking Chicago Hoodlum Believed Dangerous |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqBaAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=Franklin+James+Wilson+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=2742,1305996&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK2-bj6uGMAxUYSjABHVDpDMgQ6wF6BAgEEAE#v=onepage&q=Franklin%20James%20Wilson%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |pages=4}}</ref> During an interview following his arrest in Chicago, Illinois in January 1954, Wilson blamed the extensive publicity surrounding his addition to the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list for his quick capture.
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| height="10" | [[Charles E. Johnson (FBI Most Wanted fugitive)|Charles E. Johnson]]
|#61
|November 12, 1953
|One month
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:FBI-061-CharlesEJohnson.jpg|alt=Charles E. Johnson FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Charles E. Johnson''' was wanted for robbing a bank while out on parole, where he and two accomplices then robbed another bank robber.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q2QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SssEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6991,7530886&dq=charles+e+johnson+robbery&hl=en |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=news.google.com}}</ref> He was arrested on in Central [[Islip, New York|Islip]], [[Long Island, New York]] December 28, 1953, after a citizen recognized him from a magazine article in the November 14, 1953, issue of [[the Saturday Evening Post]].
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| height="10" | Thomas Jackson Massingale
|#62
|November 18, 1953
|Eight days
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Thomas Jackson Massingale (FBI).jpg|alt=Thomas Jackson Massingale FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Thomas Jackson Massingale''' was wanted for escaping prison where he assaulted two guards and escaped in a stolen vehicle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Mar 1958 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - March 1958 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/march-1958.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/march-1958 |archive-date=Mar 7, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |pages=23-24 |language=en}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Las Vegas, New Mexico]] on November 26, 1953, after a citizen recognized him from a photograph in the November 24, 1953 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
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| height="10" | Peter Edward Kenzik
|#63
|December 7, 1953
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Peter Edward Kenzik (FBI).jpg|alt=Peter Edward Kenzik FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Peter Edward Kenzik''', a longtime criminal since the age of 15, was wanted for stabbing to death his ex-wife and brutally wounding her 75-year old grandmother. Ironically, 12 years prior, he was convicted of stabbing his first wife and sentenced to 20 years. He had a history of frenzied knife attacks and was also a convicted sex offender.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-12-07 |title=Article clipped from The Tipton Daily Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tipton-daily-tribune/20716380/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=The Tipton Daily Tribune |pages=5}}</ref> He was arrested in San Diego, California  on January 26, 1955, for drunkenness. A gun was found in his possession, and a routine fingerprint check identified Kenzik.
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| height="10" | Thomas Everett Dickerson
|#64
|December 10, 1953
|Two weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Thomas Everett Dickerson (FBI).jpg|alt=Thomas Everett Dickerson FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Thomas Everett Dickerson''', a.k.a. the "Tattooed Bandit", was wanted for escaping jail with three other inmates, which included his uncle.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1953-12-07 |title=Dickerson, known as "The Tattooed Bandit" escapes from Sandy Hook jail. Dec. 1953 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-news-dickerson-known-as-the/39221560/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |work=The Daily News |pages=14}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Verdunville, West Virginia]] on December 21, 1953, by the FBI and the West Virginia State Patrol, due to an FBI investigation.
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=== 1954 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Date of Entry
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| height="10" | Chester Lee Davenport
|#65
|January 6, 1954
|One day
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Chester Lee Davenport (FBI).jpg|alt=Chester Lee Davenport FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Chester Lee Davenport''' was wanted for escaping police custody multiple times while originally under arrest for cattle robbery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-01-08 |title=1954-01-08 FBI captures one of 10 most wanted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-1954-01-08-fbi-captures/15185538/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=Hartford Courant |pages=31}}</ref> He was arrested near [[Dixon, California]] on January 7, 1954. The local veterinarian recognized Davenport’s photograph in a newspaper as being a dairy farm worker. Davenport was arrested while milking a cow.
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| height="10" | Alex Whitmore
|#66
|January 11, 1954
|Four months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Alex Whitmore (FBI).jpg|alt=Alex Whitmore FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Alex Whitmore''' was wanted for beating and robbing a hitchhiker with a hatchet. During his attempted robbery, he was stabbed by the victim.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Jan 11, 1954 |title=Hatchet Wielder Added To Federal Bureau's Most Wanted Fugitives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BwoAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=alex+whitmore+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=5135,938444&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGjJeZxeGMAxU7QjABHYYqONQQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=alex%20whitmore%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[The Southeast Missourian]] |pages=8}}</ref> He was arrested in Seattle, Washington on May 10, 1954, after a citizen recognized him from a television broadcast.
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| height="10" | Everett Lowell Krueger
|#67
|January 25, 1954
|Three weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Everett Lowell Krueger (FBI).jpg|alt=Everett Lowell Krueger FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Everett Lowell Krueger''', a long time criminal since the age of 14, was wanted for escaping prison with two others.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Library |first=University of Oregon, Knight |date=Jan 25, 1954 |title=Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 25, 1954, Image 9 |url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90066132/1954-01-25/ed-1/seq-9/#words=%5B%5D&date1=1846&date2=1922&sequence=0&am=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=16 |journal=The Capitol Journal |pages=9 |issn=2470-6779}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]] on February 15, 1954. Krueger told FBI agents, “I’m glad it’s over. I’m tired of running.”
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| height="10" | Apee Hamp Chapman
|#68
|February 3, 1954
|One week
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Apee Hamp Chapman (FBI).jpg|alt=Apee Hamp Chapman FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Apee Hamp Chapman''' was wanted for double homicide. He shot and killed his wife and another woman while at a party in Cleveland. Then, while on the run, committed multiple robberies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Feb 6, 1954 |title=The Afro American - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=UBnQDr5gPskC&dat=19540206&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=news.google.com |page=16}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]] on February 10, 1954, after a citizen saw his photo in the February 9, 1954, issue of [[The Washington Afro-American|the Washington-Afro-American]] magazine.
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| height="10" | Nelson Robert Duncan
|#69
|February 8, 1954
|Two weeks
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Nelson Robert Duncan (FBI).jpg|alt=Nelson Robert Duncan FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|121x121px]]'''Nelson Robert Duncan''', a longtime criminal since the age of 16 and was wanted as a notorious "kingpin" of a car theft ring.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Feb 8, 1954 |title=CAR THEFT "KING" LISTED BY FBI |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_NXAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=Nelson+Robert+Duncan+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=2927,1737564&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1ke6Yx-GMAxUCTTABHf_bJTgQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=Nelson%20Robert%20Duncan%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=5}}</ref> He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on February 21, 1954. Atlanta patrolmen were investigating an open skylight in a local grocery store and discovered Duncan and an accomplice attempting to burglarize the store safe.
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| height="10" | Charles Falzone
|#70
|February 24, 1954
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Charles Falzone (FBI).jpg|alt=Charles Falzone FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Charles Falzone''', a.k.a. "Little Mosco", was wanted for robbing his fellow co-workers at a local boat company at gunpoint as their transferred cash. He then forced them to drive him to [[Buffalo, New York]] where and disappeared.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Mar 10, 1954 |title=Craig Empire Courier March 10, 1954 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=CEC19540310-01.2.64&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxCO%7CtxTA--------0------ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org}}</ref> He was arrested in [[New Bedford, Pennsylvania]] on August 17, 1955, by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph from an Identification Order in a post office.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Basil Kingsley Beck
|#71
|March 1, 1954
|Two days
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Basil Kingsley Beck (FBI).jpg|alt=Basil Kingsley Beck FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|122x122px]]'''Basil Kingsley Beck''', a longtime criminal since the age of 11, was wanted for escaping jail with three others where he was being held for burglary and larceny. During the breakout, they overpowered the jailer and a deputy, stole their guns, and one of their cars. After stealing a different car, Beck and another inmate got into an argument causing him to leave the group. The rest of the group would later get into a gunfight with police leaving one inmate dead.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-03-01 |title=Article clipped from The Daily Advertiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-advertiser/32980072/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=The Daily Advertiser |pages=5}}</ref> He was arrested in [[San Pablo, California]] on March 3, 1954, by FBI agents, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | Clarence Dye
|#72
|March 8, 1954
|Two years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Clarence Dye (FBI).jpg|alt=Clarence Dye FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|119x119px]]'''Clarence Dye''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for armed robbery. He and his partner, Orice Gains, robbed a market then a cafe where Gains show and killed the owner. Dye then drove Gains home with the body in the trunk which was later recovered after Dye fled.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-03-08 |title=Clarence Dye |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-clarence-dye/10302813/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=The Akron Beacon Journal |pages=4}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] on August 3, 1955, by local police. During a routine check, Dye’s former girlfriend told police Dye was wanted.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | James William Lofton
|#73
|March 16, 1954
|One day
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:James William Lofton (FBI).jpg|alt=James William Lofton FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''James William Lofton''' was wanted for escaping prison with 11 other inmates in a mass breakout. He was serving a 25 year sentence for armed robbery and larceny with this being his sixth escape in total.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dck_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=James+William+Lofton+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=688,803902&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ05Of0eGMAxVDVzABHQYLETMQ6wF6BAgJEAE#v=onepage&q=James%20William%20Lofton%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |title=FBI Nabs Lofton Robber-Escapee |date=Mar 19, 1954 |publisher=Youngstown Vindicator |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref> Lofton was arrested in [[Morgan City, Louisiana]] on March 17, 1954, by local police and the FBI, due to an FBI investigation.
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| height="10" | Sterling Groom
|#74
|April 2, 1954
|Three Weeks
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Sterling Groom (FBI).jpg|alt=Sterling Groom FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Sterling Groom''', a.k.a. "King Kong" because of his large and long arms, was wanted for escaping jail while awaiting charges for robbery where he assaulted a guard. Later he robbed and strangled to death a general store proprietor. He had just gotten out of prison under a conditional release for another murder where he beat a woman to death.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Culpeper Fugitive Added to FBI List Of 'Most Wanted' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2gRAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=sterling+groom+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=7087,315433&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7xoPl0-GMAxVgsoQIHesgNXEQ6wF6BAgJEAE#v=onepage&q=sterling%20groom%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[The Free Lance-Star]] |pages=5}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] on April 31, 1954, by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from an Identification Order in a post office.
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| height="10" | Raymond Louis Owen Menard
|#75
|May 3, 1954
|Two days
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Raymond Louis Owen Menard (FBI).jpg|alt=Raymond Louis Owen Menard FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Raymond Louis Owen Menard''' and his accomplice wife were wanted as members of a robbery ring where they used baby diapers as masks. They were the last two left in the gang.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 4, 1954 |title=Man And Wife Among FBI's Most Wanted |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHhYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA19&dq=Raymond+Louis+Owen+Menard+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=2520,2368698&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicyJWU1-GMAxVISjABHTIoKbYQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=Raymond%20Louis%20Owen%20Menard%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[The News-Dispatch]] |pages=19}}</ref> He was arrested in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] on May 5, 1954, by local police after a citizen recognized his photograph from a local newspaper.
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| height="10" | John Alfred Hopkins
|#76
|May 18, 1954 
|Three weeks
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:John Alfred Hopkins (FBI).jpg|alt=John Alfred Hopkins FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''John Alfred Hopkins''' was wanted for escaping prison where he was serving a life sentence for murdering a police officer who caught him burglarizing a drug store. He had used his skills as a mechanic and his job in the prison welding shop to carefully put together an entire Jeep, part by part, from the prison junkyard.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 18, 1954 |title=Murderer Gets Place on Wanted List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwkrAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=John+Alfred+Hopkins+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=6088,384963&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia9tvl2eGMAxWjSjABHQDWGrcQ6wF6BAgLEAE#v=onepage&q=John%20Alfred%20Hopkins%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Reading Eagle]] |pages=7}}</ref> He was arrested near [[Beowawe, Nevada]] on June 7, 1954, by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a photo in a California newspaper.
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| height="10" | Otto Austin Loel
|#77
|May 21, 1954
|Eight months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Otto Austin Loel (FBI).jpg|alt=Otto Austin Loel FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Otto Austin Loel''' was wanted for slashing and stabbing a woman 19 times on a road trip. He and the woman's husband set up a ride sharing situation to cover expenses for travel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 21, 1954 |title=Ex-Sailor Listed on FBI's 'Big Ten' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PNXAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Otto+Austin+Loel+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=1440,1421299&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja2d302-GMAxVvSjABHXR2Nr8Q6wF6BAgIEAE#v=onepage&q=Otto%20Austin%20Loel%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=1}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Sanford, Florida]] on January 17, 1955, by local police. Loel had been hiding in a Sanford city dump and living in a crude shack made of palmetto leaves.
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| height="10" | David Daniel Keegan
|#78
|June 21, 1954
|Nine years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:David Daniel Keegan (FBI).jpg|alt=David Daniel Keegan FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|121x121px]]'''David Daniel Keegan''' was wanted for the murder of a farmer in Iowa when he and three others robbed the farm in the middle of the night. They had taken three occupants hostage while Keegan forced the owner to open his safe at gunpoint before shooting him three times. After bounding and gagging two of the hostages and locking another in a closet, they took the entire safe.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-06-21 |title=Article clipped from The Bakersfield Californian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bakersfield-californian/5197396/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=The Bakersfield Californian |pages=4}}</ref> Federal process against Keegan was dismissed in [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]] in 1963.
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| height="10" | Walter James Wilkinson
|#79
|August 17, 1954
|Five months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:Walter James Wilkinson (FBI).jpg|alt=Walter James Wilkinson FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Walter James Wilkinson''', as leader of a bandit gang in New York, was wanted for the kidnapping-robbery of a local grocery store manager. He and two accomplices took the man at gunpoint to the store and forced him to open the store safe, then left him the meat freezer to freeze to death. The manager was saved when a family member noticed his disappearance.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Aug 17, 1954 |title=LEADER OF GANG MAKES FBI LIST |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSpYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=Walter+James+Wilkinson+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=4482,3653962&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSx6eI3uGMAxV3QjABHS1gGewQ6wF6BAgEEAE#v=onepage&q=Walter%20James%20Wilkinson%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=29}}</ref> He was arrested in Los Angeles, California, by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from an Identification Order in a post office. He was working at a country club as a busboy. During the arrest, Wilkinson commented: “It didn’t take too long. I know how you guys work.”
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| height="10" | John Harry Allen
|#80
|September 7, 1954
|Three months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" |[[File:John Harry Allen (FBI).jpg|alt=John Harry Allen FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''John Harry Allen''' was wanted for escaping prison for his sixth time when he scaled a wall of the prison. While on the run, he would send police letters taunting them and stated he would get into a shootout before being taken back.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Sep 7, 1954 |title=Robber Added To FBI List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTtWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=John+Harry+Allen+fbi+most+wanted&article_id=4726,5407382&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1_7n-3-GMAxWsTTABHTfKFHoQ6wF6BAgLEAE#v=onepage&q=John%20Harry%20Allen%20fbi%20most%20wanted&f=false |access-date=April 18, 2025 |work=[[Eugene Register-Guard]] |pages=7}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]] on December 21, 1954, after being recognized by two police officers from a Wanted Flyer.
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=== 1955 ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Sequence Number
! Date of Entry
! Time Listed
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| height="10" | George Lester Belew
|#81
|January 4, 1955
|Three weeks
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:George Lester Belew (FBI).jpg|alt=George Lester Belew FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|122x122px]]'''George Lester Belew''', a longtime criminal since the age of 17, was wanted for escaping prison, beating up a jailer, writing bad checks, assault, and forgery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Jan 5, 1955 |title=Check Passer Sought by FBI |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPlVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=George+Lester+Belew+fbi&article_id=5852,478403&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip4oXPoaiNAxX6RzABHZycOQEQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=George%20Lester%20Belew%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Eugene Register-Guard]] |pages=6}}</ref> He was arrested at a motel near [[Champaign, Illinois]] on January 24, 1955, after the motel owner recognized his photograph on a Wanted Flyer.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Kenneth Darrell Carpenter
|#82
|January 31, 1955
|One week
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Enneth Darrell Carpenter (FBI).jpg|alt=Kenneth Darrell Carpenter FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|113x113px]]'''Kenneth Darrell Carpenter''' was wanted for robbing a bank with an accomplice while out on parole.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Jan 21, 1955 |title=Placed on FBI Wanted List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUcrAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=Kenneth+Darrell+Carpenter+fbi&article_id=1220,1120596&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3icalpaiNAxUwRzABHcITAoYQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=Kenneth%20Darrell%20Carpenter%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[The Nevada Daily Mail]] |pages=31}}</ref> He was arrested near [[Arlington, Tennessee]] on February 4, 1955, after an FBI agent recognized him sitting in the vehicle next to his. Carpenter reached for the radio dial in his car and the agent recognized a tattoo of the word “love” on the fingers of his right hand. The agent radioed for assistance and Carpenter was arrested an hour later.
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| height="10" | Flenoy Payne
|#83
|February 2, 1955
|Three years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Flenoy Payne (FBI).jpg|alt=Flenoy Payne FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Flenoy Payne''', a longtime violent criminal, was wanted for murder. He was recently released from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murdering a man he was robbing. However, the sentence was indefinitely suspended ten years in. Eventually he moved in with a married woman whose husband had come to reclaim his wife. Payne then shot and killed the husband in an ensuing argument.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Jun 7, 1956 |title=Wanted by FBI |url=https://panewsarchive.k8s.libraries.psu.edu/lccn/sn89077567/1956-06-07/ed-1/seq-4/#words=Flenoy+Payne |access-date=May 16, 2025 |website=Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Crittenden County, Arkansas]] on March 11, 1958, due to an FBI investigation. Payne was working as an itinerant cotton picker and gambler.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Palmer Julius Morset
|#84
|February 7, 1955
|One year
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Palmer Julius Morset (FBI).jpg|alt=Palmer Julius Morset FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Palmer Julius Morset''', a longtime criminal, was wanted for failing to show for his bond hearing. His bond was for an armed robbery of a Chicago finance company in 1950 but was caught after crashing his car into a light pole while fleeing.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Feb 7, 1955 |title=Chicagoan Put On FBI Wanted Lister |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zd8bAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=Palmer+Julius+Morset+fbi&article_id=4525,1496444&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzi_mvqaiNAxXXSzABHeX8A2IQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Palmer%20Julius%20Morset%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] |pages=7}}</ref> He was arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 2, 1956, due to an FBI investigation.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Patrick Eugene McDermott
|#85
|February 9, 1955
|Five months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Patrick Eugene McDermott (FBI).jpg|alt=Patrick Eugene McDermott FBI Mos Wanted Poster|left|frameless|123x123px]]'''Patrick Eugene McDermott''' was wanted for escaping prison. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of [[Canton Daily News]] editor [[Don R. Mellett|Don R. Mellet]] in which he was hired to kill Mellet because of his newspaper articles that acused police officials and criminals working together in the drug trade. After escaping, he somehow acquired a gun and robbed a taxi after forcing him to drive him.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Feb 9, 1955 |title=Killer of Mellet Still On 'Most Wanted List' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tBUAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=Patrick+Eugene+McDermott+fbi&article_id=1003,1366650&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibkMTRq6iNAxUNtoQIHT44FyAQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=Patrick%20Eugene%20McDermott%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[The News-Sentinel]] |pages=4}}</ref> He was recognized by a police officer from an Identification Order on July 19, 1955. McDermott was working as a local ambulance driver in New York, New York.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Garland William Daniels
|#86
|February 18, 1955
|One month
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Garland William Daniels (FBI).jpg|alt=Garland William Daniels FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|120x120px]]'''Garland William Daniels''' was wanted for escaping the U.S. Public Service Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for drug addiction and violating a conditional prison release. He had been in custody for writing bad checks he had stolen from a California labor union.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Feb 18, 1955 |title=Name Daniels to FBI List of Most Wanted |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74Q_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=Garland+William+Daniels+fbi&article_id=4318,697425&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSzovgr6iNAxURVzABHXiUGgQQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=Garland%20William%20Daniels%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Youngstown Vindicator]] |pages=4}}</ref> He died of an apparent heart attack in Dallas and was identified through a fingerprint examination
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Daniel William O'Connor
|#87
|April 11, 1955
|Three years
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Daniel William O’Connor (FBI).jpg|alt=Daniel William O’Connor FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Daniel William O'Connor''', a military deserter, was wanted for passing bad checks. He was also a Canadian most wanted criminal for shooting at a police officer, beating him unconsciousness, and tossing his tied body off the road when he was recognized as a check forger.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1958 |title=FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - April 1958 |url=https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/april-1958.pdf/view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/april-1958_202505 |archive-date=May 16, 2025 |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin |language=en}}</ref> To avoid arrest, he dyed his hair red, grew a mustache, added a tattoo and gained 58 pounds. He was apprehended in [[El Cajon, California]] on December 26, 1958, during an investigation of a neighborhood theft of a two wheeled trailer valued at $15. He was a neighbor of the victim and a routine check of his fingerprints identified him as O’Connor.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Jack Harvey Raymond
|#88
|August 8, 1955
|Two months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Jack Harvey Raymond (FBI).jpg|alt=Jack Harvey Raymond FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|120x120px]]'''Jack Harvey Raymond''' was wanted for escaping custody. He had been passing bad checks in Canada and the United States in order to fund a rich lifestyle for himself and his ex-convict girlfriend who he left his wife for.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Aug 8, 1955 |title=STATE FUGITIVE LISTED BY FBI |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SBYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=Jack+Harvey+Raymond+fbi&article_id=6150,1974707&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGh9HCtKiNAxWdezABHY_FJjcQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=Jack%20Harvey%20Raymond%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=25}}</ref> He was apprehended in Denver, Colorado on October 14, 1955, due to an FBI investigation.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Daniel Abram Everhart
|#89
|August 17, 1955
|Two months
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Daniel Abram Everhart (FBI).jpg|alt=Daniel Abram Everhart FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|118x118px]]'''Daniel Abram Everhart''', a longtime criminal since the age of 12, was wanted for participating in three armed robberies, two burglaries, and a shootout with police.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Oct 9, 1955 |title=Denver Police Capture Bandit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHVFAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=Daniel+Abram+Everhart+fbi&article_id=5939,4497530&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9hOX6tqiNAxV-QzABHXG1AGQQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=Daniel%20Abram%20Everhart%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[The Telegraph-Herald]] |pages=25}}</ref> He was arrested in Denver, Colorado on October 9, 1955, due to an FBI investigation.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Charles Edward Ranels
|#90
|September 2, 1955
|One year
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Charles Edward Ranels (FBI).jpg|alt=Charles Edward Ranels FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Charles Edward Ranels''', a longtime criminal since the age of 15, was wanted for robbing a bank and supermarket with an accomplice. He had been previously convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, auto theft, and aiding the escape of a prisoner.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1955-09-02 |title=charles edward ranels |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/corsicana-daily-sun-charles-edward-ranel/136631933/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |work=Corsicana Daily Sun |pages=6}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]], on December 16, 1956, after neighbors recognized his photo on a Wanted Flyer.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Thurman Arthur Green
|#91
|October 24, 1955
|Four months
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Thurman Arthur Green (FBI).jpg|alt=Thurman Arthur Green FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''Thurman Arthur Green''' was wanted for stealing a car and escaping prison where he was serving a six year sentence for robbery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Feb 17, 1956 |title=PRISON FUGITIVE GRABBED BY FBI |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0BYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA44&dq=Thurman+Arthur+Green+fbi&article_id=4917,4815247&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmo9PKu6iNAxU3SzABHXOBAG0Q6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=Thurman%20Arthur%20Green%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |pages=44}}</ref> He was arrested in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] on February 16, 1956, due to an FBI investigation. Green had sent his wife to stay with relatives and was home alone in bed recuperating from a toothache. He told the officers, “I was expecting you yesterday.”
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | [[John Allen Kendrick]]
|#92
|November 2, 1955
|One month
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| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:John Allen Kendrick (FBI).jpg|alt=John Allen Kendrick FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|153x153px]]'''John Allen Kendrick''', a longtime gangster, was wanted for assault with the intent to kill, attempted robbery, and carrying a dangerous weapon when he identified as the shooter of a man who was shot in the throat in Washington, DC.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1955-11-03 |title=John Allen Kendrick |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/palladium-item-john-allen-kendrick/23787572/?locale=en-US |access-date=2025-05-16 |work=Palladium-Item |pages=19}}</ref> He was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on December 2, 1955, due to an FBI investigation.
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| colspan="4" style="background-color:lightgrey;" |
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| height="10" | Joseph James Bagnola
|#93
|December 19, 1955
|One year
|-
| colspan="4" height="75" valign="top" | [[File:Joseph James Bagnola (FBI).jpg|alt=Joseph James Bagnola FBI Most Wanted Poster|left|frameless|121x121px]]'''Joseph James Bagnola''' was wanted for murdering a used car dealer. He and two others were hired by three local thugs in New Orleans to rob the man of $50,000 and diamonds. During the robbery, they held the dealer and his wife hostage, leading to Bagnola beating the man to death with his pistol.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Dec 19, 1955 |title=Hired Gunman On "10 Most Wanted" List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8pIAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=Joseph+James+Bagnola+fbi&article_id=542,5358046&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig187tv6iNAxXUgIQIHYJGAN8Q6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20James%20Bagnola%20fbi&f=false |access-date=May 16, 2025 |work=[[Meriden Journal ]] |pages=6}}</ref> He was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on December 30, 1956, due to an FBI investigation.
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===Year 1956===
{{main article|FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1956}}

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===Year 1957===
{{main article|FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1957}}

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===Year 1958===
{{main article|FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1958}}

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===Year 1959===
{{main article|FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1959}}

== End of the decade ==
By the end of the decade, the following fugitives were remaining at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Sequence number
!Date of entry
|-
|[[Frederick J. Tenuto]]
| align="center" |#14
| align="center" |1950
|-
|James Eddie Diggs
| align="center" |#36
| align="center" |1952
|-
|David Daniel Keegan
| align="center" |#78
| align="center" |1954
|-
|Eugene Francis Newman
| align="center" |#97
| align="center" |1956
|-
|Angelo Luigi Pero
| align="center" |#107
| align="center" |1958
|-
|Charles Everett Hughes
| align="center" |#364
| align="center" |1958
|-
|Edwin Sanford Garrison
| align="center" |#112
| align="center" |1959
|}

== FBI directors in the 1950s ==

* [[J. Edgar Hoover]] (1935–1972)

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150504123612/http://www2.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm Current FBI top ten most wanted fugitives at FBI site]

{{FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year}}

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