Mr.
Schiff: Hi, welcome to "FBI 100, A Closer
Look." I'm Neal Schiff of the Bureau's Office
of Public Affairs along with FBI Historian Dr.
John Fox. John, there have been hundreds of dangerous
fugitives on the FBI's Top Ten list. Let's talk
about a few?
Dr.
Fox: "Neal we've had over 400 fugitives on
the list in the 50+ plus since it was begun. They've
included bank robbers, murderers, terrorists,
really the worst of the worst."
Mr. Schiff: One guy who was on the list, Willie
Sutton, had a great quote about robbing banks?
Dr. Fox: "Sutton was a bit of a colorful
bank robber. He said the reason he went to rob
banks is because that's where the money was. I
guess you couldn't argue with him on that one,
although he was still a very dangerous criminal
who was wanted for multiple bank robberies across
many states."
Mr.
Schiff:
James Early Ray made the list twice, John?
Dr.
Fox: "On April 4, 1968, of course he assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and then fled the country.
We tracked him across Europe and finally, with
the help of Scotland Yard, had him arrested in
England and deported back to the U.S. to face
trial. But not long after that, he actually escaped
from prison. And so he had been on the list once
for the assassination and then once because he
was an escaped convict and we were trying to track
him down so he could serve his full term for the
crimes he committed."
Mr.
Schiff:
And some other famous dangerous criminals on the
FBI's Top Ten list?
Dr.
Fox: "Usama Bin Laden, a most wanted terrorist
on the list from the late 1990s because of his
role in the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania. Ruth Eisemann-Schier was wanted
in connection with a very horrid kidnapping where
she and her partner actually buried the victim
alive and luckily we found her before the air
in the capsule ran out but Schier was a fugitive
for a number of weeks before we tracked her down.
Then we have Andrew Cunanan, a serial killer,
who terrorized people across the country for several
weeks before he was found, having just killed
himself, in Florida."
Mr.
Schiff:
The FBI's Top Ten list has been around since 1950.
Learn more on the Internet at www.fbi.gov. From
the FBI's Public Affairs office, along with Bureau
Historian Dr. John Fox, I'm Neal Schiff with "FBI
100, A Closer Look."
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