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In the 1990s, for the fifth 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 1990s 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 1990s.

FBI directors in decade of 1990s

William S. Sessions (-1993)
Acting Director: Floyd I. Clarke (1993)
Louis J. Freeh (1993– )

FBI headlines in decade of 1990s

The 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs starred Jodie Foster as an FBI Agent Trainee in pursuit of a serial killer. The blockbuster film may have been the first high profile portrayal of women agents in the Bureau.
   In 1993 and 1994 the FBI was scrutinized for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents.
   From 1993, Fox TV produced the highly popular television series The X-files, for an oddly different historical angle on the FBI, as fictional Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder encountered the paranormal.
   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. 1999 includes entry on the top 10 list of the most notorious suspect ever in American history, Osama bin Laden, for the 1998 embassy attacks. Of course, bin Laden's later attack on 9/11 three years later dwarfed that 1998 event.
   Though it may seem a bit peculiar that so many 1990s terrorists appear on this top 10 list of fugitives, it should be pointed out that it wasn't until the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 that the FBI also began to maintain a separate list of Most Wanted Terrorists.

FBI Most Wanted Fugitives in decade of 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.
As the new decade opened, of particular note is a Fugitive from the prior 1980s decade list, who still remains at large today:

1984 #386 (twenty-three years to date), Victor Manuel Gerena The following Fugitives made up the remainder of the top Ten list, at the opening of the new decade:

1979 #366 (eleven years), Leo Joseph Koury

1981 #375 (nine years), Donald Eugene Webb

1987 #411 (three years), Claude Daniel Marks

1987 #412 (three years), Donna Jean Willmott

1989 #423 (one year), Armando Garcia

1989 #424 (one year), Melvin Edward Mays

1989 #427 (three months), Arthur Lee Washington Jr.

1989 #429 (one month), Wardell David Ford arrested 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 new decade in 1990.
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The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1990s includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

1990

Leslie Isben Rogge

January 24 1990 #430
Six years on the list
Leslie Isben Rogge Imprisoned in U.S. since 1996

Surrendered May 19, 1996 to Guatemalan authorities.

was featured on Unsolved Mysteries
Archive of FBI Ten Most Wanted poster of Rogge

Kenneth Robert Stanton

October 24, 1990 #431
Seven days on the list
Kenneth Robert Stanton Imprisoned in U.S. since 1990

Captured October 31, 1990 by FBI and York County Sheriff's Department

Featured on Unsolved Mysteries
November 23, 1990 #432
Four years on the list
Patrick Michael Mitchell, Imprisoned in U.S. since 1994

Captured February 22, 1994 in Southhaven, Mississippi

Robbed the Deposit Guaranty Bank, Mississippi in February 1994.

1991

August 9, 1991 #433
Never published
Jon Preston Steele, Imprisoned in U.S. since 1991

Arrested August 6 1991 (before published on list) in Los Angeles.
September 13, 1991 #434
One year on the list
Robert Michael Allen, Deceased since 1992

Found dead: December 23 1992 in the California desert by three hikers.

1992

Throughout the year 1992, there were no additions made by the FBI to the list, for the second time in its history. Once again, all ten spots remained filled by Fugitives who had been listed in prior years, and who remained at large:

1981 #375 (eleven years), Donald Eugene Webb

1984 #386 (eight years), Victor Manuel Gerena

1987 #411 (five years), Claude Daniel Marks

1987 #412 (five years), Donna Jean Willmott

1989 #423 (three years), Armando Garcia

1989 #424 (three years), Melvin Edward Mays

1989 #427 (three years), Arthur Lee Washington Jr.

1990 #430 (two years), Leslie Isben Rogge

1990 #432 (two years), Patrick Michael Mitchell

1991 #434 (one year), Robert Michael Allen found dead December 23 1992

1993

Mir Aimal Kansi

February 9 1993 #435
Four years on the list
Mir Aimal Kansi was executed on November 14, 2002 by lethal injection in a Virginia state prison; convicted November 12, 1997; was a fugitive in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, arrested when he was turned in by an informant, at his hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan on June 17, 1997; was wanted in murder case of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia on January 25, 1993, during which three others were shot as well in their cars at the intersection.

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef

April 21 1993 #436
Two years on the list
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was imprisoned at the federal "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, sentenced to life January 8 1998; was convicted November 12 1997 of planning and execution of the 1993 WTC bombing in Manhattan, the mastermind behind the bombing; he was arrested in Pakistan February 7 1995; had fled Manila, Philippines after the foiled Bojinka plot February 6 1995 to bomb 11 U.S. airliners;

Nephew of captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

also known as Abdul Mahmud Abdul Karim Basit

1994

Joseph Martin Luther Gardner

May 25, 1994 #437
Five months on the list
Joseph Martin Luther Gardner has been imprisoned since 1994. He was arrested on October 19, 1994 in Philadelphia.

Gary Ray Bowles

November 19, 1994 #438
Three days on the list
Gary Ray Bowles, imprisoned on death row since 1999. Arrested on November 22, 1994 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as a suspect in serial killings. His death sentence was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court on August 28, 1998. Bowles had been a drifter in and out of prison since 1981, and was arrested in Atlanta in August 1986.

1995

Gerald Keith Watkins

March 4, 1995 #439
Two months on the list
Gerald Keith Watkins
Imprisoned in U.S. since 1995 Arrested in Harlem May 5, 1995

Juan Garcia-Abrego

March 9, 1995 #440
Nine months on list
Juan Garcia-Abrego
Imprisoned in U.S. since 1996 imprisoned in Houston, Texas 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

Abdel Bassett Ali Al-Megrahi

March 23, 1995 #441
Four years on the list
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi - Scotland Prisoner, murder conviction 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; charged in part with "Conspiracy to Destroy a Civil Aircraft of the United States"; was wanted in 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
Archive demo of Megrahi's FBI Ten Most Wanted poster

Lamen Khalifa Fhimah

March 23, 1995 #442
Four years on the list
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah - ACQUITTED in Scotland January 31 2001; was a Scotland prisoner, awaiting trial as of January 2000; arrested in the Netherlands April 5 1999; 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
Archive demo of Fhimah's FBI top ten wanted poster

O'Neil Vassell

July 15, 1995 #443
One year on the list
O'Neil Vassell - US PRISONER arrested October 16, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York; 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. Archive of Vassell's FBI top ten wanted poster

Rickey Allen Bright

December 15, 1995 #444
Three weeks on the list
Rickey Allen Bright - US PRISONER arrested January 7 1996 in Nashville, TN; wanted in 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

1996

Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza

August 3, 1996 #445
Four years on the list
Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza - Imprisoned since 2000 in Maricopa County, Arizona; arrested in Mexico July 9 2000; was wanted for unlawful flight; indicted in Phoenix, Arizona July 11, 1994 in murder of an undercover DEA special agent in Glendale, Arizona on June 30 1994, during an undercover drug transaction, kidnapping, attempted armed robbery and assault in a drug conspiracy
Archive demo of Vasquez-Mendoza's FBI top ten wanted poster

Thang Thanh Nguyen

August 3, 1996 #446
One year on the list
Thang Thanh Nguyen - Imprisoned in U.S. since 1998; was extradited to Rochester, New York January 6, 1998 from Bangkok, Thailand after he was turned over to the FBI and transported from Vietnam; was arrested December 22, 1997 in Bac Lieu, Vietnam; was charged by FBI with Unlawful Flight July 14, 1992; arrest warrant was issued and he was indicted in Monroe County, New York July 9, 1992; was wanted in home-invasion robbery and murder of his former employer, a Vietnamese businessman in Irondequoit, New York January 26, 1992
Archive of Nguyen's FBI wanted poster

Glen Stewart Godwin

December 7 1996 #447
Still at large
Glen Stewart Godwin is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later he escaped from Mexican prison September 1991; murdered an inmate in Mexican prison April 1991; sentenced to prison in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987; convicted for drug trafficking in Mexico 1987; arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1987; escaped from Folsom prison June 30 1987 through a storm drain
Godwin's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert

David Alex Alvarez

December 14 1996 #448
Five months on the list
David Alex Alvarez - Mexician PRISONER arrested May 20, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico; wanted in murder of four people, including two young girls, and wounding of three other people, at Baldwin Park, California September 29, 1996; wanted in kidnapping in California August 1996; paroled in 1994; sentenced to five years, convicted of battery and assault with a firearm in 1992
Archive of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive wanted poster for Alvarez

1997

Andrew Phillip Cunanan

June 12 1997 #449
One month on the list
Andrew Phillip Cunanan - Deceased, by suicide in a German millionaire's houseboat on Indian Creek Canal in Miami Beach, Florida July 23 1997; was wanted in shooting murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach house July 15 1997; arrived in Miami Beach on May 10 1997; wanted in shooting murder of Finn's Point Cemetery worker in Pennsville, New Jersey May 9 1997; wanted in torture and stabbing murder of Chicago, Illinois real-estate developer Lee Miglin at his home May 3 1997; wanted in shooting murder of another partner near Duluth, Minnesota about April 29 1997; wanted in bludgeoning murder of partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 27 1997

Paul Ragusa

September 6 1997 #450
Four months on the list
Imprisoned in U.S. since 1998 Paul Ragusa Arrested January 30 1998 in New York; had cosmetic surgery in 1997; indicted on racketeering charges June 14 1996; wanted in shooting of two security guards at a Chemical Bank branch in Maspeth, Queens, June 23 1993; beat a burglar with a baseball bat on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, NY in 1990; charges were dropped in the beating case; beat a stranger in a van in the face with a stick in Ridgewood, NY in March 1989

Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix

September 18, 1997 #451
Five years on the list
Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix - Killed in a gunbattle with police at Mazatlan February 10, 2002; was at large in Mexico as of 1997; wanted in ordering a hit which resulted in mass murder of 19 people in Ensenada September 17 1998; charged in a sealed indictment in United States District Court for the Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking; one of the leaders of the Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), which is also known as the Tijuana Cartel.
Archive demo of Arellano-Felix's FBI wanted poster

1998

Tony Ray Amati

Tony Ray Amati
February 21 1998 #452
Four days on list
Imprisoned in U.S. since 1998
Arrested February 25 1998 in Marietta, Georgia; wanted on federal warrant for Unlawful Flight December 1997; wanted in Las Vegas for three handgun murders May-July 1996

Harry Joseph Bowman

March 14 1998 #453
One year on the list
Harry Joseph Bowman - Imprisoned in U.S. since 1999; arrested June 7 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan; indicted in Tampa in August 1997 for three murders; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in Indiana in 1995; indicted for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando and in Cook County, Illinois in 1994; wanted in murder of rival club member in Edgewater, Florida in 1991; wanted in murder of Outlaws member in Ormond Beach, Florida in 1982; former international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in more than 30 cities in the United States and some 20 chapters in at least four other countries
Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Bowman's FBI wanted poster

Demo archive of Bowman's FBI wanted poster

Eric Robert Rudolph

May 5 1998 #454
Five years on the list
Eric Robert Rudolph - US PRISONER, arrested in Murphy, North Carolina, May 31, 2003; His brother cut off his own hand in show of solidarity with Eric; charged October 14, 1998 in a series of southeastern US bombings; at large in the mountains of western North Carolina as of May 1998; last made known contact with a Mr. Nordman, and stole his pickup and supplies, 1998; his pickup was found abandoned at Murphy, North Carolina February 8 1998; wanted in bombing murder and maiming at a Birmingham abortion clinic January 29 1998; wanted in double bombing at a nightclub in Atlanta February 21, 1997; wanted in bombing at Atlanta family planning clinic January 29 1997; wanted in double bombing at office building in north Atlanta on January 16 1997; wanted in bombing murder at Centennial Park in Atlanta July 27 1996.
AG John Ashcroft Press Release at FBI on Rudolph's capture

1999

James Charles Kopp

June 7 1999 #455
Two years on the list
James Charles Kopp - US PRISONER; arrested in Dinan, Brittany, France March 30 2001; vanished from Ireland on a false passport March 12 2001; indicted in federal court in October 2000 for use of deadly force; indicted in NY state in June 1999 for second-degree murder; his 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier was found abandoned at Newark International Airport December 18 1998; disappeared November 3 1998; wanted in murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian at his home in Amherst, New York October 23 1998; wanted for shootings of three doctors in Canada in 1997, 1995 and 1994; jailed at Key Road Detentional Facility in Atlanta for his part in July 1988 'Siege of Atlanta' by Operation Rescue.
Archive of Kopp profile at FBI

Osama bin Laden

June 7 1999 #456
still at large on the list
Osama bin Laden is the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, and is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. Osama and Al-Qaeda are also responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, which killed 17. Although bin Laden also later appeared on the first publicly released FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on Oct. 10, 2001, he was listed there for the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000, because the most wanted lists name individuals charged with a crime by a prosecutor or under indictment by a grand jury. Bin Laden has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in, for instance, the federal indictment against convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, but hasn't been formally indicted for his role in the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden is the subject of a $25 million reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program targeting international fugitives, especially terrorists, plus $2 million through a program developed and funded by the Air Line Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.
Usama Bin Laden's FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Alert

Rewards for Justice Wanted Terrorist Usama bin Laden

Rafael Resendez-Ramirez

June 21 1999 #457
Three weeks on the list
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz aka Rafael Resendez-Ramirez - executed June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas by lethal injection; was a US PRISONER arrested July 13 1999 in Houston; wanted for murders as 'The Railway Killer' in Jackson County, Illinois June 15 1999; murder in Houston, Texas June 5 1999; murder in Fayette County, Texas June 4 1999; double murder in Weimar, Texas April 30 1999; murder in West University, Texas December 17 1998; murder in Lexington, Kentucky August 29 1997.

James J. Bulger

August 19 1999 #458
still at large on the list
James J. Bulger is wanted for his role in numerous murders (18 counts) committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times. Bulger' s FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert

End of the Decade

As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:

1981 #375 (nineteen years), Donald Eugene Webb

1984 #386 (sixteen years), Victor Manuel Gerena

1989 #427 (eleven years), Arthur Lee Washington Jr.

1996 #445 (four years), Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza arrested July 9 2000

1996 #447 (six years), Glen Stewart Godwin

1997 #451 (three years), Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix

1998 #454 (two years), Eric Robert Rudolph

1999 #455 (one year), James Charles Kopp

1999 #456 (one year), Usama bin Laden

1999 #458 (one year), James J. BulgerFurther Information

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