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The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list arose from a conversation held in late 1949, during a game of Hearts between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Kinsey Hutchinson, International News Service (the predecessor of the United Press International) Editor-in-Chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the FBI's "toughest guys." This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced the list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives.
   The list itself has no particular ranking. This may be because the FBI doesn't want to promote competition between criminals to gain the Number 1 spot. However, the FBI has in the past 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.
   Individuals are removed from this list upon capture or death, and replaced by a new entry selected by the FBI. Individuals can also be taken off the list should the charges against them be dropped. In five cases, the FBI removed individuals from the list after deciding that they were no longer a "particularly dangerous menace to society". Billie Austin Bryant spent the shortest amount of time on the list, being listed for two hours in 1969. On very rare occasions, the FBI will add a "Number Eleven" if that individual is extremely dangerous but the Bureau doesn't feel any of the current ten should be removed.
   The list is commonly posted in public places such as post offices. Listed fugitives have been known to turn themselves in upon becoming aware of their listing. As of December 8, 2007, 489 fugitives have been listed (eight of them women), and 456 captured or located, 148 (}}%) of them due to public assistance.
   The FBI also maintains a list of Most Wanted Terrorists, along with FBI Crime Alerts

, Missing Persons

, and other fugitives.
The most recent Ten Most Wanted Fugitive captured is Diego León Montoya Sánchez. |} |- | rowspan="2" | 2 | height="10" | Glen Stewart Godwin | December 7, 1996 | #447 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | 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. He was subsequently imprisoned in Mexico on drug trafficking charges, but escaped from prison there as well. The reward for information leading to Godwin's capture is $100,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 3 | height="10" | Osama bin Laden | June 7, 1999 | #456 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Osama Bin Laden |- | rowspan="2" | 5 | height="10" | Robert William Fisher | June 29, 2002 | #475 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Robert William Fisher is wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two young children and then blowing up the house in which they all lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in April of 2001. The reward for information leading to Fisher's capture is $100,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 6 | height="10" | Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco | March 17, 2005 | #480 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco is wanted in connection with the murders of a woman and her two young children, ages 2 and 4, in Mountain Home area, Idaho. The victims' charred remains were found on August 11, 2002, inside a burned-out vehicle. He may be travelling with his brother, Simon Lopez-Orozco, and Simon's wife, both of whom have been charged as accessories in the crime. The reward for information leading to Lopez-Orozco's capture is $100,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 7 | height="10" | Emigdio Preciado, Jr. | March 14, 2007 | #485 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Emigdio Preciado, Jr. is wanted for opening fire on two sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles, California on September 5, 2000, seriously injuring one of them. He was believed to be heading to a gang-related drive-by shooting at the time. The FBI believes he may be in Mexico. The reward for information leading to Preciado's capture was $100,000, but it has been increased to $200,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 8 | height="10" | Alexis Flores | June 2, 2007 | #487 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Alexis Flores (born July 18, 1975), is wanted for the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2000. He is a native of Honduras. According to a profile on America's Most Wanted, there's evidence he also raped the child before killing her, though rape isn't listed on his official FBI poster. He was last seen in Arizona, where he served a prison term for forgery. Since forgery is a felony in Arizona, his DNA sample was put in the CODIS database in 2006, leading to the DNA link to the DeJesus murder in March 2007. By the time they linked him, he'd been released and was long gone. He may have returned to Honduras, where he's believed to still have ties. The reward for information leading to Flores' capture is $100,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 9 | height="10" | Jon Savarino Schillaci | September 7, 2007 | #488 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Jon Savarino Schillaci is wanted for the alleged molestation of a young boy in Deerfield, New Hampshire in October of 1999. A convicted sex offender, Schillaci had been communicating with the family while he was incarcerated. When he was released, the family took him in, and it's alleged that was when the abuse took place. John Walsh, the host of America's Most Wanted, helped announce Schillaci's addition to the FBI Top Ten List. The reward for information leading to Schillaci's capture is $100,000. |- | rowspan="2" | 10 | height="10" | Jason Derek Brown | December 8, 2007 | #489 |- | colspan="4" valign="top" | Jason Derek Brown is wanted for murder and armed robbery. In November 2004, authorities say Brown shot and killed an armored car guard outside a Phoenix, Arizona movie theater and fled on a bicycle with $56,000 in a duffel bag. News of his addition to the FBI's Top 10 list was first broken on the website of the TV show America's Most Wanted, AMW.com. The reward for information leading to Brown's capture is $100,000. |}

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