FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1990s


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 10 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:
NameSequence NumberDate of EntryNotes
Leo Joseph Koury#3661979Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of cerebral vascular hypertension on June 16, 1991.
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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.
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Victor 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.
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Claude Daniel Marks#4111987Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Donna Jean Willmott
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Donna Jean Willmott#4121987Surrendered December 6, 1994 with Claude Daniel Marks
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Armando Garcia#4231989Arrested January 18, 1994 after being featured on America's Most Wanted.
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Melvin Edward Mays#4241989Arrested March 9, 1995
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Arthur Lee Washington Jr.#4271989Removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria.
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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.
s. This red and black 1990s version of the headers appeared on FBI wanted posters with blue text in the upper left corner reading "FBI Fugitive Publicity." These two headers were replaced by the modern blue border version of the poster header some time before 2002.

FBI 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 :

End of the decade

As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
NameSequence numberDate of entry
Donald Eugene Webb#375May 4, 1981
Victor Manuel Gerena#386May 14, 1984
Arthur Lee Washington Jr.#427Oct 18, 1989
Agustín Vásquez Mendoza#445Aug 3, 1996
Glen Stewart Godwin#447Dec 7, 1996
Ramón Arellano Félix#451Sep 18, 1997
Eric Robert Rudolph#454May 5, 1998
James Charles Kopp#455Jun 7, 1999

Usama Bin Laden
AKA: Osama bin Laden
أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن		#456Jun 7, 1999
James J. Bulger#458Aug 19, 1999

FBI directors in the 1990s