The 10 persons on the list today are wanted for murder, racketeering, and theft. The FBI is promising $100,000 for information leading to their arrest, and specifics on one man are worth up to $20 million.
Since 1950, the list has been available to the public. 162 of the 523 fugitives on the list have been apprehended thanks to the public’s assistance.
People are removed from the list if they are apprehended, acquitted of criminal charges, or no longer fit the FBI’s criteria of someone with “a prolonged record of committing major crimes and/or regarded a particularly dangerous nuisance to society.”
When positions become available, the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division requests nominations from its different field offices across the country. FBI executives finally decide who makes the top ten.
Here are names of people who is on the list and how they got in.
Robert Fisher: added in June 2002, $100,000 reward
According to the FBI, Fisher murdered his wife and two children in 2001 before blowing up their home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Fisher is physically fit, according to the Bureau, and he has a prominent gold crown on his upper left initial bicuspid tooth.
“He may walk with an overly erect posture and his chest thrust out due to a lower back problem.” In this blurry footage from 2001, Fisher can be seen walking and carrying one of his children before conducting the alleged atrocity.
Alexis Flores: added in June 2007, $100,000 reward
Flores is wanted for his suspected role in the kidnapping and murder of a 5-year-old girl in Philadelphia. She went missing in July of 2000 and was later discovered strangled to death in a nearby apartment that August. The FBI reports that he has scars on his right face and forehead.
Jason Derek Brown: added in December 2007, $200,000 reward
Brown is wanted in Phoenix, Arizona, on murder and armed robbery accusations. The FBI accuses him of shooting and killing an armored-car guard outside a movie theatre in 2004 and then fleeing with the money.
Brown, a Mormon, is proficient in French and holds a master’s degree in international business. He “enjoys being the focus of attention and has been known to visit nightclubs where he enjoys showing off his high-priced vehicles, boats, and other toys,” according to the FBI.
Yaser Abdel Said: introduced in December 2014, $100,000 incentive
Said is suspected of murdering his two teenage children in Texas in 2008. He is originally from Egypt, but has ties to New York, Texas, Virginia, and sections of Canada. The FBI records some unusually particular data regarding Said.
“He constantly wears dark sunglasses indoors and out. He like Denny’s and IHOP restaurants and smokes Marlboro Lights 100 cigarettes “The FBI claims. Also stated that he “loves dogs, especially tan and black coloured German Shepherds.”
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel: added in April 2017, $100,000 reward
Patel, who is from India, is accused of killing his wife in 2015 by repeatedly beating her with an instrument while they were both working at a donut business in Maryland.
He was charged with first and second degree murder, first and second degree assault, and carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure.
According to the FBI, Patel fled to avoid capture. He was last seen in the Newark, New Jersey, region.
Santiago Villalba Mederos: introduced in September 2017, $100,000 incentive
According to the FBI, Mederos is a member of the Eastside Lokotes Sureno gang, which is active in portions of Washington State.
He is accused of killing a random 20-year-old girl and injuring her brother after firing at them in their car in 2010.
A month later, the FBI claims Mederos fired again at random bystanders, killing a 21-year-old male.
Mederos was apprehended in Mexico on June 5, 2020, after being on the Most Wanted list for almost two and a half years.
Alejandro Castillo: added in October 2017, $100,000 reward
Castillo fled the United States after the FBI claims he murdered his ex-girlfriend and former coworker in North Carolina.
In August 2016, US Customs and Border Protection surveillance video showed him crossing the border into Mexico from Nogales, Arizona.
According to the FBI, the female victim’s body was discovered in a wooded area of North Carolina with a gunshot wound to the head.
Castillo originally lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, but has ties to Arizona.
Rafael Caro-Quintero: added in April 2018, $20 million reward
Caro-Quintero has been dubbed “the narco of narcos” by the FBI.
According to the Bureau, he was a member of the Guadalajara cartel in the 1970s, which trafficked heroin, marijuana, and cocaine into the United States. Caro Quintero is wanted on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering US federal agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985. He is the only fugitive on the list for whom the bureau is offering a reward of up to $20 million.
Arnoldo Jimenez: added in May 2019, $100,000 incentive
According to the FBI, Jimenez stabbed his wife Estrelle Carrera to death in his Maserati on the day of their wedding in 2012.
According to the Bureau, he dragged her body into her bathtub in Illinois before fleeing. Carrera’s family received a phone call from one of Jimenez’s family members, who stated that they had gotten into a fight and he had left her wounded. According to the FBI, Jimenez could have escaped to Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, Mexico. He’s also lived in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and used to live in Chicago. He is also known as Arnoldo Gimenez.
Eugene Palmer: added in May 2019, $100,000 reward
According to the FBI, Palmer is accused of shooting and killing his daughter-in-law Tammy Palmer in Stony Point, New York in 2012.
Palmer’s son John and Tammy divorced in a shambles. Palmer’s relationship with Tammy became increasingly strained, especially when she obtained a restraining order against John.
Palmer allegedly left after shooting Tammy, according to the FBI. His pickup truck was discovered in Rockland County.
According to the FBI, Palmer is a vehicle aficionado, a skilled hunter, and an avid outdoorsman. He has a malformed left thumb.