Who was the most wanted person in history?

1. Thomas James Holden was the first man to make the Most Wanted list. His long criminal career began in the 1920s with the robbery of a mail train. In 1930, he escaped from Leavenworth Penitentiary and was recaptured on a golf course in Kansas City.
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Who is #1 Most Wanted?

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  • YULAN ADONAY ARCHAGA CARIAS.
  • RUJA IGNATOVA.
  • ARNOLDO JIMENEZ.
  • OMAR ALEXANDER CARDENAS.
  • ALEXIS FLORES.
  • BHADRESHKUMAR CHETANBHAI PATEL.
  • ALEJANDRO ROSALES CASTILLO.
  • JOSE RODOLFO VILLARREAL-HERNANDEZ.
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Who is the most wanted criminal in the world history?

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  1. Thomas James Holden.
  2. Morley Vernon King.
  3. William Raymond Nesbit.
  4. Henry Randolph Mitchell.
  5. Omar August Pinson.
  6. Lee Emory Downs.
  7. Orba Elmer Jackson.
  8. Glen Roy Wright.
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Who has been wanted for the longest time?

Time flies when you're on the run! The shortest time spent on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was two hours by Billy Austin Bryant in 1969 and the longest was over 32 years by Victor Manuel Gerena. Most fugitives are found in less than one month.
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Who was taken off the FBI most wanted list?

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The Federal Bureau of Investigations has removed Jason Derek Brown from its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and has replaced him with Michael James Pratt after his alleged involvement in sex trafficking and production of child pornography.
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Most Wanted People in History



Who was the most wanted serial killer?

Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was executed in Florida in 1989 and was linked to a string of murders of young women in several states during the 1970s. He confessed to 35 murders before his execution.
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Who is the top 10 gangster in the world?

Who is the Top 10 gangster in the world?
  • Semion Mogilevich.
  • Al Capone.
  • Charles 'Lucky' Luciano.
  • Pablo Escobar.
  • John Gotti.
  • Hisayuki Machii.
  • Tony 'Big Tuna' Accardo.
  • Salvatore Riina.
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Who was the first wanted man?

Thomas James Holden. On March 14, 1950, Thomas Holden was the first fugitive to be placed on the FBI's newly created “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
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Who is the most wanted man in 2022?

Most Wanted
  • 09.28.2021 — JESUS DE LA CRUZ - LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.
  • 12.01.2022 — BORIS YAKOVLEVICH LIVSHITS.
  • 05.06.2019 — ARANZA MARIA OCHOA LOPEZ.
  • 11.09.2021 — SUSAN GAIL CARTER.
  • 07.14.2020 — MARY ALETA "MOLLY" SPARKS.
  • 04.07.2020 — AARON PAUL VICTORY.
  • 03.21.2022 — BRYAN MATTHEW MCGEHRIN - TANEYTOWN, MARYLAND.
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Who was the toughest gangster ever?

Upon his death from a torturous, four-day bout with pneumonia in 1932, Frank McErlane was described by Chicago Police as the “toughest gangster of them all.” His ruthless bootlegging peers in the Windy City feared him so much they reportedly paid him a “pension” of hundreds of dollars a week just to stay out of town.
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Who was the most feared gangster?

1. Al Capone (1899-1947) Earning the nicknames Scarface, Big Al, Big Boy, and Snorky, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in New York.
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Who is the most powerful crime family?

It also estimated that the Genovese family consists of about 270 "made" members. The family maintains power and influence in New York, New Jersey, Atlantic City and Florida. It is recognized as the most powerful Mafia family in the U.S., a distinction brought about by their continued devotion to secrecy.
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Who is the number 1 serial killer in US history?

Samuel Little (born Samuel McDowell; June 7, 1940 – December 30, 2020) was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 women between 1970 and 2005.
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Who is the first serial killer ever?

Today, though, those achievements can only be seen in the shadow of the secret life he led as the perpetrator of more than a hundred gruesome child murders, a rampage which made him arguably the first serial killer in recorded history. The early life of Gilles de Rais was marked by tragedy.
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Who's the youngest person to go to jail?

11-month-old Balqis Ghawadra became the youngest prisoner in the world, after visiting her father in Eshel Israeli prison, occupied Beer Sheva.
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Who lived the longest in jail?

Paul Geidel Jr. (April 21, 1894 – May 1, 1987) was the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States whose sentence ended with his parole, a fact that earned him a place in Guinness World Records.
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Who is the most wanted female fugitives?

The FBI has added "Cryptoqueen" Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Ignatova is the only woman on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and is the 11th in its 72-year history, said the FBI, which is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her arrest.
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Who is the most wanted drug lord now?

Most Wanted Fugitives
  • Yulan Andony Archaga Carias. ...
  • Chuen Yip. ...
  • Ismael Zambada Garcia. ...
  • Kenny Jing Ang Chen. ...
  • Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes. ...
  • Julio Alex Diaz. ...
  • Rommel Pascua Cipriano. ...
  • Jesus Alfredo Guzman-Salazar.
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How many FBI Most Wanted get caught?

On June 17, 2013, the list reached a cumulative total of 500 fugitives having been listed. As of January 9, 2023, 529 fugitives had been listed, eleven of them women, and 494 of them were captured or located (93%), 163 (31%) of them due to public assistance.
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