FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s

In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

FBI headlines in the 1960s

As a decade, the 1960s were the final and most controversial of the Hoover era in the Bureau. The famous Director had formed and defined the Bureau for nearly a half century. During the turbulent 1960s, the FBI continued controversial domestic surveillance in an operation called Cointelpro. It aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States, including civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr. who was a frequent target of investigation.

As a more friendly face presented to the public, in 1965 Warner Bros. Television presented the series The F.B.I., showing dramatizations taken from actual historical FBI cases, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as fictional agent Louis Erskine. Epilogues included Zimbalist stepping out of character to alert viewers to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives from the FBI's contemporary list.

FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1960s

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.

As the new decade opened, six of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives, then still at large:

Name	Sequence Number	Date of Entry	Notes
Frederick J. Tenuto	#14	1950	• On March 9, 1964, federal process against Tenuto was dismissed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a U.S. District Judge and subsequently removed from the list.
James Eddie Diggs	#36	1952	• On December 14,1961, his charges were dismissed in Norfolk, Virginia and subsequently removed from the list.
David Daniel Keegan	#78	1954	• On December 13, 1963, his charges were dismissed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and subsequently removed from the list.
Eugene Francis Newman	#97	1956	• On June 11, 1965, his charges dismissed in Buffalo, New York and subsequently removed from the list.
Angelo Luigi Pero	#107	1958	• On December 2, 1960, his charges were dismissed by the U.S. Attorney in New York, New York and subsequently removed from the list.
Edwin Sanford Garrison	#112	1959	• Arrested in St. Louis, Missouri on September 9, 1960. He was also #59 on the list.

FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1960s

The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1960s include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

1960–1969

Name	Sequence Number	Date of Entry	Time Listed
Kenneth Ray Lawson	#124	January 1, 1960	Two months
Kenneth Ray Lawson was serving time at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary for robbing a grocery store, when he incited a riot and escaped with four other inmates. He was caught due to an FBI investigation and was arrested in Laredo, Texas on March 20, 1960.
Ted Jacob Rinehart	#125	January 25, 1960	Two months
Ted Jacob Rinehart was a longtime career criminal as an armed robber and jewel thief. He was arrested in Granada Hills, California, after a citizen recognized him from a Wanted Flyer in March, 1960. Rinehart told Agents he learned of his addition to the “Top Ten” list while watching a local television show.
Charles Clyatt Rogers	#126	March 18, 1960	Two months
Charles Clyatt Rogers was a convicted murderer, kidnapper, and rapist who escaped a mental hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. He was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while standing in a soup line at a Salvation Army center in May, 1960. He was recognized by a police officer who collected FBI Wanted Posters.
Joseph Corbett, Jr.	#127	March 30, 1960	Seven months
Joseph Corbett, Jr. was wanted for the kidnapping and later murder of Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company. A was apprehended in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Canadian police after two Canadian citizens recognized Corbett from a November 1960 Reader’s Digest article. Because Coors’ remains were found within the state, he wasn’t tried on federal kidnapping charges.
William Mason	#128	April 6, 1960	Three months
William Mason was arrested due to an FBI investigation, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 27, 1960.
Edward Reiley	#129	May 10, 1960	Three weeks
Edward Reiley was arrested in Rockford, Illinois, by the local sheriff after an auto salesman recognized Reiley from a Wanted Flyer on May 24, 1960. Upon arrest he pleaded, “Don’t shoot! I’m the guy you want.”
Harold Eugene Fields	#130	May 25, 1960	Four months
Harold Eugene Fields was arrested in Schererville, Indiana on September 5, 1960. Fields told arresting FBI agents his place on the “Top Ten” list convinced him his days of freedom were numbered and his apprehension came as no surprise.
Richard Peter Wagner	#131	June 23, 1960	Two days
Richard Peter Wagner was arrested in Minnesota on June 25, 1960, after a citizen recognized him from a newspaper article. An expert woodsman, Wagner had been a hunting and fishing guide at the lodge where he was captured.
James John Warjac	#132	July 19, 1960	Three days
James John Warjac was arrested in Los Angeles, California on July 22, 1960 due to an FBI investigation.
Ernest Tait	#133	August 16, 1960	One month
Ernest Tait was arrested in Denver, Colorado on September 10, 1960 due to an FBI investigation. He was also #23 on the list.
Clarence Leon Raby	#134	August 19, 1960	One week
Clarence Leon Raby surrendered to local authorities at his parents’ home in Heiskell, Tennessee on August 28, 1960.
Nathaniel Beans	#135	September 12, 1960	Three weeks
Nathaniel Beans was arrested in Buffalo, New York on September 30, 1960 by a police officer who recognized him from a magazine photograph.
Stanley William Fitzgerald	#136	September 20, 1960	Two days
Stanley William Fitzgerald was arrested in Portland, Oregon on September 22, 1960, by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a photograph in a newspaper.
Donald Leroy Payne	#137	October 6, 1960	Five years
Donald Leroy Payne, a convicted rapist and child molester, was wanted for posing as the manager of a dance troupe and raping an 18-year-old professional dancer. Federal process against Payne was dismissed in Houston, Texas on November 26, 1965.
Charles Francis Higgins	#138	October 10, 1960	One week
Charles Francis Higgins was arrested in Kirkwood, Missouri on October 17, 1960, by local police after an officer recognized him from a newspaper photograph.
Robert William Schultz, Jr.	#139	October 12, 1960	One month
Robert William Schultz, Jr. was arrested in Orlando, Florida on November 4, 1960, due to an FBI investigation.
Merle Lyle Gall	#140	October 17, 1960	Three months
Merle Lyle Gall was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 18, 1961 due to an FBI investigation.
James George Economou	#141	October 31, 1960	Five months
James George Economou was arrested in Los Angeles, California, on March 22, 1961, after a tip from an informant.
Ray Delano Tate	#142	November 18, 1960	One week
Ray Delano Tate surrendered to an editor of the New York Daily Mirror newspaper in New York, New York in November 1960 because he felt cornered by the vast publicity afforded his fugitive status. He was taken into custody immediately by FBI agents.
John B. Everhart	#143	November 22, 1960	Three years
John B. Everhart was arrested in San Francisco, California on November 6, 1963. He was taken into custody while painting a house.
Herbert Hoover Huffman	#144	December 19, 1960	One week
Herbert Hoover Huffman was apprehended in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1960, after a fellow worker recognized him from a Wanted Poster.
Kenneth Eugene Cindle	#145	December 23, 1960	Four months
Kenneth Eugene Cindle was apprehended in Cochran County, Texas, in April 1961, after a local farmer saw Cindle’s photograph on television. The farmer had picked up a hitchhiker earlier that day and recognized him as Cindle. He had been hitchhiking across the county and working odd jobs to avoid apprehension.
Thomas Viola	#146	January 17, 1961	Two months
Thomas Viola was arrested in Detroit, Michigan on March 27, 1961, after a citizen recognized his photo in an article in American Weekly.
William Chester Cole	#147	February 2, 1961	Four days
William Chester Cole surrendered to FBI agents in Gulf Breeze, Florida on February 6, 1961. Cole said, “The ‘heat’ of the investigation was too much.”
Willie Hughes	#148	March 15, 1961	Five months
Willie Hughes was arrested in Pocatello, Idaho on August 8, 1961, where he had been working as a farm laborer.
William Terry Nichols	#149	April 6, 1961	One year
William Terry Nichols was arrested near Homestead, Florida on April 30, 1962, where he had started a commercial fishing business.
George Martin Bradley	#150	April 10, 1961	Three weeks
George Martin Bradley was arrested in Davenport, Iowa on May 1, 1961 by local police officers after an attempted bank robbery. He was identified after routine fingerprinting.
Philip Alfred LaNormandin	#151	April 17, 1961	A few hours
Philip Alfred LaNormandin was arrested on April 17, 1961 in Jersey City, New Jersey, a few hours after being placed on the list the very same day, thanks to a tip from a citizen who saw his photograph in the newspaper.
Kenneth Holleck Sharp	#152	May 1, 1961	Two months
Kenneth Holleck Sharp was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1961, after a citizen recognized his photograph in the Master Detective magazine.
Anthony Vincent Fede	#153	May 22, 1961	Five months
Anthony Vincent Fede was arrested in Los Angeles, California on October 28, 1961. Captured by FBI agents, Fede was carrying a toy pistol and a fake police badge. He said, “I should have given myself up.”
Richard Laurence Marquette	#154	June 29, 1961	One day
Richard Laurence Marquette was wanted for the gruesome murder of Joan Claude in which parts of her body were wrapped in newspaper and scattered about southeast Portland, Oregon. He was the first "special addition" to the list making the total at eleven. He was arrested in Santa Maria, California on June 30, 1961, by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph on a Wanted Flyer posted in a credit bureau. He would be released after twelve years on parole and go on to kill two more woman in a similar manner.
Robert William Schuette	#155	July 19, 1961	Two weeks
Robert William Schuette was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on August 2, 1961. He had shaved his sideburns and mustache and changed his address 40 times to avoid being recognized. He congratulated the FBI saying, “You fellows sure did a good job.” In his pocket was a news clipping with a picture telling of his addition to the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list two weeks prior.
Chester Anderson McGonigal	#156	August 14, 1961	Three days
Chester Anderson McGonigal was arrested in Denver, Colorado on August 17, 1961, by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph in a newspaper.
Hugh Bion Morse	#157	August 29, 1961	Two months
Hugh Bion Morse was wanted for the murder of 27-year-old Bobbi Ann Landini, where he raped her and beat her to death with a pipe. Afterwards he sexually assaulted her dead body. He was on the run for a series of burglaries and sex crimes from several other states. He was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 13, 1961, the evening after a visitor to the FBI Tour in Washington, D.C., recognized his photo displayed on the “Top Ten” Exhibit.
John Gibson Dillon	#158	September 1, 1961	Three years
John Gibson Dillon was found murdered in Chelsea, Oklahoma in 1964. His badly decomposed body was located at the bottom of a 15-foot, water-filled well on a remote farm. Wired to his body were 400 pounds of oil well drilling equipment.
John Robert Sawyer	#159	October 30, 1961	Four days
John Robert Sawyer was arrested in Wickendale, Arizona on November 3, 1961, by a local police officer after he recognized Sawyer’s vehicle in an All Points Bulletin issued by the FBI.
Edward Wayne Edwards	#160	November 10, 1961	Three months
Edward Wayne Edwards was wanted for fleeing after being convicted for a series of gas station robberies. He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 1962, by local police. He would go on to murder at least five people between 1977 and 1996. He is also suspected of several other killings, but died of natural causes before he could be executed.
Franklin Eugene Alltop	#161	November 22, 1961	Three months
Franklin Eugene Alltop was arrested in Kansas City, Kansas on February 2, 1962 due to an FBI investigation. Alltop greeted the arresting FBI agents by saying, “I’ve been expecting you. I know you’re the FBI.”
Francis Laverne Brannan	#162	December 27, 1961	One month
Francis Laverne Brannan surrendered to the FBI in Miami, Florida on January 17, 1962. Calling from a phone at a downtown gas station, Brannan told them, “Come and get me, I’m tired of running from the FBI.”
Delbert Henry Linaweaver	#163	January 30, 1962	One week
Delbert Henry Linaweaver was arrested in Floydada, Texas on February 5, 1962, by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a Wanted Flyer in a post office.
Watson Young, Jr.	#164	February 5, 1962	One week
Watson Young, Jr. was arrested in Salina, Kansas on February 12, 1962, driving a stolen ambulance. It had been stolen from an area funeral home. In his pocket, Young had his Identification Order.
Lyndal Ray Smith	#165	February 14, 1962	One month
Lyndal Ray Smith surrendered in Baltimore, Maryland on March 22, 1962, as a result of television and newspaper publicity.
Harry Robert Grove, Jr.	#166	February 19, 1962	One year
Harry Robert Grove, Jr. was arrested in Uhrichsville, Ohio on January 26, 1963, by the Ohio State Highway Patrol after being observed loitering in a supermarket.
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson	#167	February 23, 1962	Nine months
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson was wanted for robbing eight banks, the murder of a bank guard, and for setting off several bombs in the Washington D.C. with his partner Albert Frederick Nussbaum (#168). He was considered the "brawns" to Nussbaum's "brains" of the duo. He was arrested on November 10, 1962, due to an FBI investigation in Baltimore, Maryland.
Albert Frederick Nussbaum	#168	April 2, 1962	Seven months
Albert Frederick Nussbaum was wanted for the robbing eight banks, the murder of a bank guard, and for setting off several bomb in Washington D.C. along with his partner Bobby Randell Wilcoxson (#167). He was considered the "brains" to Wilcoxson's "brawns" of the duo. He was arrested in Buffalo, New York on November 4, 1962, by the FBI after a 20-minute chase through downtown streets.
Thomas Welton Holland	#169	May 11, 1962	Three weeks
Thomas Welton Holland was arrested in La Harpe, Kansas on June 2, 1962, by a police officer who recognized him from a Wanted Flyer.
Edward Howard Maps	#170	June 15, 1962	Five years
Edward Howard Maps was wanted for the murder of his wife and setting his house on fire leaving his 4-month year old daughter to die inside. Federal process against Maps was dismissed in Scranton, Pennsylvania In 1967.
David Stanley Jacubanis	#171	November 21, 1962	One week
David Stanley Jacubanis was wanted for robbing a bank while on parole for robbing several other banks. He was arrested in Arlington, Virginia on November 29, 1962 due to an FBI investigation.
John Kinchloe DeJarnette	#172	November 30, 1962	Four days
John Kinchloe DeJarnette was arrested in Hollywood, California on December 3, 1962 due to an FBI investigation.
Michael Joseph O'Connor	#173	December 13, 1962	Two weeks
Michael Joseph O'Connor was arrested by FBI agents in a restaurant in New York, New York on December 28, 1962. He had been hiding out in a New York hotel.
John Lee Taylor	#174	December 14, 1962	One week
John Lee Taylor was arrested in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1962 due to an FBI investigation.

Year 1963

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Year 1964

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Year 1965

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Year 1966

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Year 1967

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Year 1968

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James Earl Ray

April 20, 1968 #277, & also June 11, 1977 #351
Two months on the list
James Earl Ray was apprehended June 8, 1968 in London, England by British authorities for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
He died of hepatitis C at age 70 in prison.

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Year 1969

Main article: FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1969

Billie Austin Bryant

January 8, 1969 #295
shortest time (excluding never published) on the list, 2 hours
Fourth "Special Addition"
Billie Austin Bryant was wanted for first degree murder of two FBI Agents
status: US PRISONER at the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia November 4, 1969

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:

Name	Sequence number	Date of entry
John William Clousre	#203	1965
Charles Lee Herron	#265	1968
Taylor Morris Teaford	#279	1968
Byron James Rice	#282	1968
Warren David Reddock	#298	1969
Cameron David Bishop	#300	1969
Marie Dean Arrington	#301	1969
Benjamin Hoskin Paddock	#302	1969
Joseph Lloyd Thomas	#304	1969

Benjamin Hoskin Paddock was also father of shooter in 2017 Las Vegas shooting. The tenth space had just opened up at the end of the year 1969.

FBI directors in the 1960s

• J. Edgar Hoover (1935–1972)

External links

• Current FBI top ten most wanted fugitives at FBI site