The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1980s is a list, maintained for a fourth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI headlines in the 1980s
editDuring the 1980s, the FBI added the names of the two longest-lasting profiles of the Top Ten Fugitives. The current longest member, Victor Manuel Gerena became the 386th fugitive to be placed on May 14, 1984, and is currently still at large.[1] The FBI added, Donald Eugene Webb, on May 4, 1981, who remained on the list until March 2007 when the FBI, presuming his death, removed his name. Webb the second longest member of the list, remained on 25 years, 10 months and 27 days.[2] The 1980s also brought the first man-and-woman couple listed together, who were FALN terrorist group associates Donna Jean Willmott and Claude Daniel Marks. The couple surrendered together seven years later, then pleaded guilty together to a Leavenworth prison breakout conspiracy from 1987.
Among other prominent fugitives in the decade were Mutulu Shakur, the stepfather of the later famed rapper Tupac Shakur, and also appearing was the sociopath Charles Ng, who had teamed up with the infamous Leonard Lake in as many as 25 sex-slave torture-murders at Lake's ranch in California. The boss of the Colombo crime family, Carmine Persico, also made the list in the 1980s.
The decade also was marked by the start of the popular Fox television program America's Most Wanted in 1988, which became a major new publicity venue for profiling and then the apprehension of many of the FBI's Top Ten Fugitives.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1980s
editThe 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 their 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.
As the new decade opened, the following Fugitives from prior years still remained at large, as the members of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Charles Lee Herron | #265 | 1968 | • Arrested in June 1986 |
Katherine Ann Power | #315 | 1970 | • Surrendered to authorities in 1993 |
Joseph Maurice McDonald | #339 | 1976 | • Arrested September 15, 1982 |
Raymond Luc Levasseur | #350 | 1977 | • Arrested November 4, 1984 |
Carlos Alberto Torres | #356 | 1977 | • Arrested April 4, 1980 |
Charles Everett Hughes | #364 | 1978 | • Arrested April 29, 1981 |
Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 | • Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of a stroke on June 16, 1991.[3] |
John William Sherman | #367 | 1979 | • Arrested December 17, 1981 |
Earl Edwin Austin | #370 | 1979 | • Arrested March 1, 1980 |
Vincent James Russo | #371 | 1979 | • Arrested January 4, 1985 |
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1980s
editThe most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1980s includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):[4][5]
1980
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Albert Victory | #372 | March 14, 1980 | One year |
Ronald Turney Williams | #373 | April 16, 1980 | One year |
1981
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Daniel Jay Barney | #374 | March 10, 1981 | One month |
Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | May 4, 1981 | Removed from the list |
Gilbert James Everett | #376 | May 13, 1981 | Four years |
Leslie Nichols | #377 | July 2, 1981 | Five months |
1982
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Thomas William Manning | #378 | January 29, 1982 | Three years |
David Fountain Kimberly Jr. | #379 | January 29, 1982 | Six months |
Mutulu Shakur | #380 | July 23, 1982 | Four years |
Charles Edward Watson | #381 | October 22, 1982 | One year |
1983
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Laney Gibson Jr. | #382 | November 28, 1983 | Three weeks |
1984
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
George Clarence Bridgette | #383 | January 10, 1984 | Three weeks |
Samuel Marks Humphrey | #384 | February 29, 1984 | One month |
Christopher Bernard Wilder | #385 | April 5, 1984 | One week |
Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | May 14, 1984 | Still at large but removed from the list |
Wai-Chiu Ng | #387 | June 15, 1984 | Four months |
Alton Coleman | #388 | July 17, 1984 | Three days |
Cleveland McKinley Davis | #389 | October 24, 1984 | Three months |
1985
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Carmine Persico | #390 | January 31, 1985 | Two weeks |
Lohman Ray Mays Jr. | #391 | February 15, 1985 | Seven months |
Charles Earl Hammond | #392 | March 14, 1985 | One year |
Michael Frederic Allen Hammond | #393 | March 14, 1985 | One year |
Robert Henry Nicolaus | #394 | June 28, 1985 | One month |
David Jay Sterling | #395 | September 30, 1985 | Five months |
Richard Joseph Scutari | #396 | September 30, 1985 | Six months |
Joseph William Dougherty | #397 | November 6, 1985 | One year |
1986
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Brian Patrick Malverty | #398 | March 28, 1986 | One week |
Billy Ray Waldon | #399 | May 16, 1986 | One month |
Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. | #400 | May 16, 1986 | One year |
Donald Keith Williams | #401 | July 18, 1986 | One month |
Terry Lee Conner | #402 | August 8, 1986 | Four months |
Fillmore Raymond Cross Jr. | #403 | August 8, 1986 | Four months |
James Wesley Dyess | #404 | September 29, 1986 | Two years |
Danny Michael Weeks | #405 | September 29, 1986 | Two years |
Mike Wayne Jackson | #406 | October 1, 1986 | One day |
Thomas George Harrelson | #407 | November 28, 1986 | Three months |
1987
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Robert Allen Litchfield | #408 | January 20, 1987 | Four months |
David James Roberts | #409 | April 27, 1987 | Ten months |
Ronald Glyn Triplett | #410 | April 27, 1987 | Three weeks |
Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | May 22, 1987 | Seven years |
Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | May 22, 1987 | Seven years |
Darren Dee O'Neall | #413 | June 25, 1987 | Four months |
Louis Ray Beam Jr. | #414 | July 14, 1987 | Four months |
1988
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Ted Jeffery Otsuki | #415 | January 22, 1988 | Eight months |
Pedro Luis Estrada | #416 | April 15, 1988 | One year |
John Edward Stevens | #417 | May 29, 1988 | Six months |
Jack Darrell Farmer | #418 | May 29, 1988 | Three days |
Roger Lee Jones | #419 | May 29, 1988 | One year |
Terry Lee Johnson | #420 | June 12, 1988 | Two months |
Stanley Faison | #421 | November 27, 1988 | One month |
Steven Ray Stout | #422 | November 27, 1988 | One week |
1989
editName | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
---|---|---|---|
Armando Garcia | #423 | January 8, 1989 | Five years |
Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | February 7, 1989 | Six years |
Bobby G. Dennie | #425 | February 24, 1989 | Eight months |
Costabile "Gus" Farace | #426 | February 24, 1989 | Nine months |
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | October 18, 1989 | Still at large but removed from the list |
Lee Nell Carter | #428 | November 19, 1989 | One day |
Wardell David Ford | #429 | December 20, 1989 | Nine months |
End of the decade
editAs the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
---|---|---|
Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 |
Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 |
Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 |
Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | 1987 |
Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | 1987 |
Armando Garcia | #423 | 1989 |
Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | 1989 |
Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 |
Wardell David Ford | #429 | 1989 |
One spot on the list of Ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled the next month in 1990.
FBI directors in the 1980s
edit- William H. Webster (1978–1987)
- John E. Otto (1987)
- William S. Sessions (1987–1993)
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