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Fugitives wanted by the United States

Juan José Esparragoza MorenoJuan José Esparragoza Moreno was born on the 3rd of February 1949 in Huixiopa, in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. United States government databases list a different birthday, the 2nd of March 1949. That mismatch is the first small sign of…
Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski survived the Holocaust by pretending to be Catholic. As a boy in Poland, he memorized prayers to hide.
Semion MogilevichSemion Mogilevich has been called, by the FBI itself, "the most powerful and dangerous gangster in the world." Agencies in the European Union and the United States go further. They describe him as the "boss of all bosses" over most Russian…
Dawood IbrahimDawood Ibrahim Kaskar has a bounty of US$25 million on his head, offered by the United States. In August 2015, an Indian television channel, Times Now, phoned a home in Karachi. His wife answered and confirmed that he was there. The…
Frank Matthews (drug trafficker)Frank Matthews, who went by Black Caesar and Mark IV, was an American drug trafficker whose reach covered much of the eastern United States. From 1965 to 1972 he sold heroin and cocaine, and his dealers worked in 21 states. The Drug…
Yevgeny PrigozhinYevgeny Prigozhin died on the 23rd of August 2023, when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of Moscow. All ten people aboard were killed. The date fell exactly two months after Prigozhin had turned on Russia's military leadership…
Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi left so faint an impression on Ahmed al-Dabash that al-Dabash dismissed him as insignificant. Al-Dabash led the Islamic Army of Iraq and fought the allied invasion in 2003. He said he had known the insurgency's leaders…
Robert William FisherRobert William Fisher is an American fugitive, wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two children in Scottsdale, Arizona. At 8:42 in the morning on the 10th of April 2001, the family's house exploded. Neighbors grabbed garden hoses…
Ovidio Guzmán LópezOvidio Guzmán López grew up as the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a man once considered the most-wanted criminal in the world. In Mexico, El Chapo held the same label among drug lords. A son carrying that surname inherits attention…
D. B. CooperA man who gave his name as Dan Cooper walked up to the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at Portland International Airport on the 24th of November 1971, which was Thanksgiving Eve. He paid cash for a one-way ticket on Flight 305. The trip…
Assata ShakurCuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that a woman died in Havana on the 25th of September 2025. She was 78 years old. For 45 of her years, she had been a fugitive from the United States. American authorities knew her as Joanne…
Ali LarijaniOn the night between the 16th and the 17th of March 2026, an Israeli airstrike killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. His son Morteza died in the same strike, together with Alireza Bayat, the head…
H. H. HolmesH. H. Holmes confessed to 27 murders, and some of the people he named turned out to be alive. He was born Herman Webster Mudgett, and newspapers later called him the Beast of Chicago, the Devil in the White City and the Torture Doctor. His…
Kevin MitnickKevin Mitnick was twelve years old when he asked a Los Angeles bus driver where he could buy a ticket punch. His stated reason was "a school project." The driver told him. Then a dumpster beside the bus company garage supplied the rest, a…