The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1990s is a list, maintained for a fifth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI headlines in the 1990s As a decade, the 1990s list stands out above others for its inclusion of a large number of highly notorious suspects, including several major terrorists, foreign and domestic. In 1993 and 1994, the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. In 1999, the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, was added to the list for the 1998 embassy attacks.
Although many 1990s terrorists have appeared on the top 10 list of fugitives, it was not until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI began maintaining a separate list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1990s The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before 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 suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.
The following fugitives made up the top Ten list to begin the 1990s: Name Sequence Number Date of Entry NotesLeo Joseph Koury#3661979Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of cerebral vascular hypertension on June 16, 1991.Donald Eugene Webb#3751981Removed from the list on March 31, 2007. On July 14, 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth, Massachusetts home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999.Victoria Warren, Remains found in Dartmouth yard are those of fugitive wanted for killing police chief, The Associated Press via WHDH News, July 14, 2017Victor Manuel Gerena#3861984Still at large in the theft of $7 million from a Connecticut securities firm, but removed from the list on December 15, 2016.Claude Daniel Marks#4111987Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean WillmottDonna Jean Willmott#4121987Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel MarksArmando Garcia#4231989Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on America's Most Wanted.Melvin Edward Mays#4241989Arrested March 9, 1995Arthur Lee Washington Jr.#4271989Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria. He is currently still at large, though has been presumed to be deceased. Wardell David Ford#4291989Arrested September 17, 1990
One spot on the list of ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled in the first month of the last year of the decade in 1990.
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1990s The list of the most wanted fugitives listed during the 1990s fluctuated throughout the decade with some fugitives making reappearances on the list. In 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. As before, spots on the list were occupied by fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and still remained at large. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
1990 Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time Listed Leslie Isben Rogge#430January 24, 1990Six yearsLeslie Isben Rogge stole more than $2 million and possibly robbed more than 25 banks. He is currently serving a 65-year sentence at Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. He surrendered May 19, 1996 to Guatemalan authorities. Was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Kenneth Robert Stanton#431October 24, 1990Seven daysKenneth Robert Stanton was being hunted for molesting 11 underage girls after he went to their homes, gained their trust by pretending to be a police officer and showing a fake badge. He was captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department. He was featured on Unsolved Mysteries where over 150 viewers called in tips which lead to his arrest.Patrick Michael Mitchell#432November 23, 1990Four yearsPatrick Michael Mitchell was leader of the "Stopwatch Gang", that robbed multiple banks across Canada and the United States. He was captured February 22, 1994 in Southaven, Mississippi and was imprisoned in the U.S. from 1994 until his death from cancer in 2007. He robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994.
1991 Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time ListedJon Preston Settle#433August 9, 1991Never publishedJon Preston Settle was wanted for his involvement in the murders of Andre Armstrong, James Brown, Lorretha Anderson, and her daughter, Chemise English, who was 2-years-old, at a crack house. Anderson's 18-month-old son, Carlos English, was wounded in the attack but survived. He was one of twelve who planned the murders which came about due to a disagreement over distribution of cocaine in Pacoima. The men were locked in metal cages and shot while Anderson, her son, and daughter were in a nearby car when one of his accomplices shot them. He was arrested August 6, 1991 (before being published to the list) in Los Angeles.Robert Michael Allen#434September 13, 1991One year, 3 months Robert Michael Allen was wanted for stalking and shooting his former employer, movie producer Roland Emr and his son at a Culver City intersection in 1991. When the police went to notify Emr's father, they found him dead as well in a closet. The motive was believed to be that Allen was cheated out of a producing deal with Emr. He was found dead on December 23, 1992, in the California desert by three hikers alongside the bones of his girlfriend, Susan Lynn Calkins, who police believe he also killed.
1992 No one was added to the list in 1992.
1993 Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time ListedMir Qazi#435February 9, 1993Four yearsMir Qazi, known by the FBI under the name Mir Aimal Kansi, was executed on November 14, 2002, by lethal injection in a Virginia state prison. Qazi was a fugitive in Afghanistan and Pakistan before being arrested after he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan on June 17, 1997. He was wanted in the murder case of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia on January 25, 1993, during which three others were also shot and injured in their cars at the intersection.Ramzi Ahmed Yousef#436April 21, 1993Two years Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is imprisoned at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was convicted on November 12, 1997; sentenced to life January 8, 1998 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing. He was arrested in Pakistan February 7, 1995. Yousef had fled Manila, Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot February 6, 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners. He is the nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit.
1994 Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time ListedJoseph Martin Luther Gardner#437May 25, 1994Five monthsJoseph Martin Luther Gardner was wanted for kidnapping, raping, and killing 25-year-old Melissa McLauchlin alongside two other accomplices. He was arrested on October 19, 1994, in Philadelphia. He remained incarcerated until he was executed in South Carolina, on December 5, 2008.Joseph Martin Luther Gardner #1136Gary Ray Bowles#438November 19, 1994Three daysGary Ray Bowles was arrested on November 22, 1994, in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as a suspect in multiple murders. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in Atlanta in August 1986. He was executed for his crimes on August 22, 2019, at Florida State Prison.
1995 Name Sequence Number Date of Entry Time ListedGerald Keith Watkins#439March 4, 1995Two monthsGerald Keith Watkins was wanted for killing his girlfriend, Beth Ann Anderson, her 9-year-old son, Kevin Kelley, and the couple's two week old daughter, Melanie Watkins, in Pennsylvania. Watkins was sentenced to death in Pennsylvania on December 13, 1996. Juan García Ábrego#440March 9, 1995Nine months Juan García Ábrego has been imprisoned in U.S. since 1996. Currently imprisoned at Hazelton USP in West Virginia. Sentenced to 11 life terms on January 31, 1997; Convicted in Houston United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas October 16, 1996 of 22 counts of drug trafficking charges; Expelled to US by Mexico January 15, 1996; Arrested January 14, 1996 in Monterrey, Mexico; Indictment amended in 1996; Wanted on multiple murder charges in Mexico by 1995; Warrant issued and indicted September 1993 in Houston; Indicted in Dallas, Texas federal United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in 1990. Wanted in US on drug conspiracy charges since 1986. He was the founder and drug boss of the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, before in arrest.Abdelbaset al-Megrahi#441March 23, 1995Four yearsAbdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan national imprisoned in Scotland, whose murder conviction was upheld by appeals court in March 2002. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 20 years; convicted January 31, 2001; arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999. He was charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States; Libyan intelligence agent, under cover as Chief of Airline Security for Libyan Arab Airlines. He was released on August 20, 2009, and allowed to return to Libya by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds following doctors reporting on the August 10, 2009 that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live. He died in Tripoli, Libya on May 20, 2012.Lamin Khalifah Fhimah#442March 23, 1995Four yearsLamin Khalifah Fhimah was acquitted in Scotland January 31, 2001. He was arrested in the Netherlands April 5, 1999; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States" and wanted in the December 21, 1988 mass murder bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 259 passengers and crew members and 11 Lockerbie villagers, including nationals of the United States.O'Neil Vassell#443July 15, 1995One yearO'Neil Vassell is a US prisoner arrested on October 16, 1996, in Brooklyn, New York. He was wanted on 3 first-degree murder counts from June and July 1993 murders of three individuals in the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. Vassell had a history of assaults and drug charges; was a known member of the "RATs" Jamaican drug posse, was a drug user and had been known to carry a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.Rickey Allen Bright#444December 15, 1995Three weeksRickey Allen Bright is a US prisoner who was arrested on January 7, 1996, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was wanted in the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old Wilkes County, North Carolina girl in October 1995; paroled after 13 years in January 1995 from North Carolina prison; was turned down twice for parole; sentenced to 15-to-life in North Carolina prison in 1981; was wanted in kidnapping and attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1979.
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