# FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s

The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1980s is a list, maintained for a fourth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

## FBI headlines in the 1980s

During the 1980s, the FBI added the names of the two longest-lasting profiles of the Top Ten Fugitives. The current longest member, Victor Manuel Gerena became the 386th fugitive to be placed on May 14, 1984, and is currently still at large. The FBI added, Donald Eugene Webb, on May 4, 1981, who remained on the list until March 2007 when the FBI, presuming his death, removed his name. Webb the second longest member of the list, remained on 25 years, 10 months and 27 days. The 1980s also brought the first man-and-woman couple listed together, who were FALN terrorist group associates Donna Jean Willmott and Claude Daniel Marks. The couple surrendered together seven years later, then pleaded guilty together to a Leavenworth prison breakout conspiracy from 1987.
Among other prominent fugitives in the decade were Mutulu Shakur, the stepfather of the later famed rapper Tupac Shakur, and also appearing was the sociopath Charles Ng, who had teamed up with the infamous Leonard Lake in as many as 25 sex-slave torture-murders at Lake's ranch in California. The boss of the Colombo crime family, Carmine Persico, also made the list in the 1980s.
The decade also was marked by the start of the popular Fox television program America's Most Wanted in 1988, which became a major new publicity venue for profiling and then the apprehension of many of the FBI's Top Ten Fugitives.

## FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1980s

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 their 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, the following Fugitives from prior years still remained at large, as the members of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
| Charles Lee Herron | #265 | 1968 | • Arrested in June 1986 |
| Katherine Ann Power | #315 | 1970 | • Surrendered to authorities in 1993 |
| Joseph Maurice McDonald | #339 | 1976 | • Arrested September 15, 1982 |
| Raymond Luc Levasseur | #350 | 1977 | • Arrested November 4, 1984 |
| Carlos Alberto Torres | #356 | 1977 | • Arrested April 4, 1980 |
| Charles Everett Hughes | #364 | 1978 | • Arrested April 29, 1981 |
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 | • Eluded the FBI for 12 years before dying of a stroke on June 16, 1991. |
| John William Sherman | #367 | 1979 | • Arrested December 17, 1981 |
| Earl Edwin Austin | #370 | 1979 | • Arrested March 1, 1980 |
| Vincent James Russo | #371 | 1979 | • Arrested January 4, 1985 |

## FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1980s

The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1980s includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

### 1980

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Albert Victory | #372 | March 14, 1980 | One year |
| Albert Victory was arrested at his home on February 24, 1981, after being traced by New York State Police to Lafayette, California. He was wanted by the FBI after he slipped away from two New York prison guards he had bribed to take him to his girlfriend's hotel room. He was in prison for killing New York City police officer John E. Varecha during a traffic stop. ||||
| Ronald Turney Williams | #373 | April 16, 1980 | One year |
| Ronald Turney Williams was wanted for escaping West Virginia State Penitentiary in a mass breakout on Nov. 7, 1979, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and arson. During the escape, they came across a passing vehicle and fatally shot the driver who was an off-duty West Virginia state trooper. He was arrested on June 8, 1981, at a stakeout at George Washington Hotel in New York City; was shot and wounded by an FBI agent. ||||

### 1981

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Daniel Jay Barney | #374 | March 10, 1981 | One month |
| Daniel Jay Barney died from a self-inflicted gunshot following a hostage crisis on April 19, 1981, where he had taken four hostages in a condo in Denver, Colorado. After two escaped and the police negotiated the release of the other two hostages, Barney killed himself. ||||
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | May 4, 1981 | Removed from the list |
| Donald Eugene Webb was wanted in connection with the December 4, 1980, murder of the police chief in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, who was shot twice at close range after being brutally beaten in the head and face with a blunt instrument. After eluding capture for over two decades, he was removed from the list on March 31, 2007, without ever being located. On July 14, 2017, remains found at the Dartmouth home of Webb's wife were identified as belonging to Webb. Investigators stated that Webb had died in 1999. ||||
| Gilbert James Everett | #376 | May 13, 1981 | Four years |
| Gilbert James Everett was wanted for a spree of 86 bank robberies in the 1980s and was arrested on August 12, 1985, by local police in Bismarck, Arkansas. ||||
| Leslie Nichols | #377 | July 2, 1981 | Five months |
| Leslie Nichols was wanted for killing four people in Little Rock, Arkansas, between June 12 and 15, 1980, in drug-related shootings. The victims hands and feet were tied with coat hanger wire and shot in the head execution style. He was arrested on December 17, 1981, in his apartment in Los Angeles, California, by FBI agents and local police. ||||

### 1982

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Thomas William Manning | #378 | January 29, 1982 | Three years |
| Thomas William Manning was a part of a Marxist organization, the United Freedom Front (UFF), which bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes. Funded by bank robberies in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was arrested on April 24, 1985, in Norfolk, Virginia. ||||
| David Fountain Kimberly Jr. | #379 | January 29, 1982 | Six months |
| David Fountain Kimberly Jr. shot and wounded a federal police officer in October 1981. He was arrested without incident on July 8, 1982, in Matecumbe Key, Florida, by FBI agents; despite being armed with a loaded .38 caliber tucked in his waistband. ||||
| Mutulu Shakur | #380 | July 23, 1982 | Four years |
| Mutulu Shakur was arrested February 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges for bank robbery to finance a militant organization, and for having aided Assata Shakur (unrelated), in her escape from prison in New Jersey, where she had been incarcerated for the murder and wounding of one state trooper and another Black Panther member accompanying her in 1973 while stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike. ||||
| Charles Edward Watson | #381 | October 22, 1982 | One year |
| Charles Edward Watson was convicted for his role in the killing of a police officer in 1975 among other crimes when he escaped prison. He was arrested October 25, 1983, in Slatington, Pennsylvania, while leaving his residence. ||||

### 1983

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Laney Gibson Jr. | #382 | November 28, 1983 | Three weeks |
| Laney Gibson Jr. was wanted for escaping the Clay County jail with other prisoners while awaiting trial for the murder of R. T. Gray. He was arrested December 18, 1983, in Montgomery, Alabama, at a suburban motel. ||||

### 1984

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| George Clarence Bridgette | #383 | January 10, 1984 | Three weeks |
| George Clarence Bridgette was wanted for the murder of four people, including a 3-year-old child in a drug related shooting, where he and two other accomplices walked into a Long Beach, California, house and shot five people. He was arrested January 30, 1984, in Miami, Florida, after a civilian recognized his photo from an Identification Order in a post office. ||||
| Samuel Marks Humphrey | #384 | February 29, 1984 | One month |
| Samuel Marks Humphrey was wanted for bank robbery and murder. He was arrested March 22, 1984, in Portland, Oregon. ||||
| Christopher Bernard Wilder | #385 | April 5, 1984 | One week |
| Christopher Bernard Wilder was killed in a shootout with police at a gas station in Colebrook, New Hampshire, on April 13, 1984. He was wanted for the murders of several young women in several different states. ||||
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | May 14, 1984 | Still at large but removed from the list |
| Victor Manuel Gerena is wanted in connection with the 1983 armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in Connecticut. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and then handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown substance in order to further disable them. He was removed from the list on December 15, 2016. He was on the list for 32 years, seven months and one day - the longest anyone has been on the list. ||||
| Wai-Chiu Ng | #387 | June 15, 1984 | Four months |
| Wai-Chiu Ng was acquitted in April 1985 of murder, but convicted of 13 counts of first-degree robbery, and sentenced to seven consecutive life terms. He was arrested October 4, 1984, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He became the third suspect, charged in absentia on March 30, 1983, with 13 counts of aggravated first-degree murder. He was wanted in the February 19, 1983 Wah Mee massacre, the worst mass killing in the history of Seattle, Washington, during which thirteen people were shot to death at the Wah Mee Club, a gambling club in Seattle's International District. ||||
| Alton Coleman | #388 | July 17, 1984 | Three days |
| Alton Coleman was executed by the state of Ohio on April 26, 2002. He was arrested July 20, 1984, in Evanston, Illinois, by local police due to civilian cooperation. He was wanted for the murder of 44-year-old Marlene Walters of Norwood, Ohio, among others, during a six-state killing spree in 1984. ||||
| Cleveland McKinley Davis | #389 | October 24, 1984 | Three months |
| Cleveland McKinley Davis, a.k.a Jomo Joka Omowale after joining the Black Panthers, was wanted for the attempted robbery and murder of a drug dealer with two other accomplices in Virginia Beach. He was arrested January 25, 1985, in New York City by FBI agents and local police. ||||

### 1985

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Carmine Persico | #390 | January 31, 1985 | Two weeks |
| Carmine Persico a.k.a. "Junior" was serving a 100-year sentence after being convicted of murder and labor and construction racketeering in 1986. He was arrested February 15, 1985, in Wantagh, New York, by FBI agents. Persico was boss of the New York-based Colombo crime family. ||||
| Lohman Ray Mays Jr. | #391 | February 15, 1985 | Seven months |
| Lohman Ray Mays Jr., a career criminal, escaped Turney Center Industrial Prison and then robbed several banks before he was arrested on September 23, 1985, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, by local police. ||||
| Charles Earl Hammond | #392 | March 14, 1985 | One year |
| Charles Earl Hammond was wanted in connection to drug-related murders in Kansas City in May, 1980 along with his brother Michael Frederick Allan Hammond (#393). Apprehended August 4, 1986. ||||
| Michael Frederic Allen Hammond | #393 | March 14, 1985 | One year |
| Michael Frederic Allen Hammond was wanted in connection to drug-related murders in Kansas City in May, 1980 along with his brother Charles Earl Hammond (#392). ||||
| Robert Henry Nicolaus | #394 | June 28, 1985 | One month |
| Robert Henry Nicolaus was wanted for shooting his ex-wife twice in the chest while on parole for killing his three children. She was able to identify Nicolaus as her assailant before dying. He was arrested July 20, 1985, in York, Pennsylvania, after a civilian recognized his photo on an Identification Order at a post office. ||||
| David Jay Sterling | #395 | September 30, 1985 | Five months |
| David Jay Sterling was arrested and convicted for a series of rapes in 1983 in which after he was sentenced, sent to a sexual psychopath treatment program at Western State Hospital. However, he escaped in 1985 and robbed six banks with an accomplice in at least three different states, using stolen airplanes to escape. He was arrested February 13, 1986, after being pulled over in a routine traffic stop near Covington, Louisiana, by local police. ||||
| Richard Joseph Scutari | #396 | September 30, 1985 | Six months |
| Richard Joseph Scutari was wanted for racketeering, harboring a fugitive and storing about $40,000 from a $3.6-million robbery of a Brink's armored truck in July, 1984. He was identified by the FBI as a member of The Order, a white supremacist group believed connected with the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg. He was arrested March 19, 1986 without incident at a repair shop he worked at, in San Antonio, Texas. He is currently serving a 60-year sentence. ||||
| Joseph William Dougherty | #397 | November 6, 1985 | One year |
| Joseph William Dougherty along with another fellow inmate, Terry Lee Conner (#402), were being transported from the federal prison at El Reno, to the courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City, when Dougherty brought out a sharp object and held it to the throat of a U.S. Marshal. The two Marshals transporting them were left handcuffed to a tree as the two fled in Marshal's car. During an 18-month hunt for Conner and Dougherty, they were identified as suspects in a series of bank robberies. He was arrested December 19, 1986, by FBI agents in Antioch, California, outside a local laundromat. ||||

### 1986

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Brian Patrick Malverty | #398 | March 28, 1986 | One week |
| Brian Patrick Malverty was wanted in connection of the murder of Gene West and 17-year-old Ricky Lee Sims. They were both robbed, bound and gagged, shot in the head, chest, and back; then their bodies and house were set on fire. He was arrested April 7, 1986, in San Diego, California, after a civilian recognized his photo on an Identification Order at a post office. ||||
| Billy Ray Waldon | #399 | May 16, 1986 | One month |
| Billy Ray Waldon was arrested on June 16, 1986, in San Diego, California, after local police attempted to pull him over for a routine traffic citation. Initially sentenced to death for his crimes, Waldon's conviction was overturned in 2023. He was wanted for several robberies and murders, two burglaries, a rape, and arson. ||||
| Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. | #400 | May 16, 1986 | One year |
| Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. was arrested March 8, 1987, in Riverside, California, by FBI agents while he was leaving a convenience store. He was wanted for the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho. ||||
| Donald Keith Williams | #401 | July 18, 1986 | One month |
| Donald Keith Williams, a.k.a the "Veil Bandit" because he wore a cloth veil over a baseball cap to disguise himself, committed 34 bank robberies and was wanted for stealing more than $100,000 over the course of three years. He was arrested August 20, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, by FBI agents through assistance of a concerned civilian. ||||
| Terry Lee Conner | #402 | August 8, 1986 | Four months |
| Terry Lee Conner escaped custody of the U.S. Marshal's alongside Joseph William Dougherty (#397) while being transported from the federal prison at El Reno to the courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City. In one of the robberies they both stole $500,000 from the Central Bank of West Allis by holding the vice president of the bank, his wife, his daughter, and his daughter's boyfriend hostage for three days. He was arrested without incident on December 9, 1986, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, by the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI. ||||
| Fillmore Raymond Cross Jr. | #403 | August 8, 1986 | Four months |
| Fillmore Raymond Cross Jr. surrendered voluntarily to the FBI on December 23, 1986, in San Francisco, California. Cross, a former president of the Hells Angels motorcycle group in San Jose, California, was wanted for supposedly beating a businessman in an extortion scheme. ||||
| James Wesley Dyess | #404 | September 29, 1986 | Two years |
| James Wesley Dyess escaped federal custody while being charged for two murders committed during a home burglary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was arrested March 16, 1988, in Los Angeles, California, when he was stopped on a routine traffic violation and recognized by a Los Angeles Police Department officer. ||||
| Danny Michael Weeks | #405 | September 29, 1986 | Two years |
| Danny Michael Weeks escaped from a prison in Angola, where he was incarcerated for murder and armed robbery. Two weeks before his capture, he kidnapped Susan K. Vincent at gunpoint from a shopping center in Greensboro, North Carolina. Vincent was released three days later unharmed. He arrested March 20, 1988, at his son's home in Seattle, Washington, due to an FBI task force and civilian cooperation. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Mike Wayne Jackson | #406 | October 1, 1986 | One day |
| Mike Wayne Jackson killed his probation officer in Indianapolis on September 22, 1986, before fleeing to Missouri. He committed suicide by shotgun on October 2, 1986, in Wright City, Missouri. ||||
| Thomas George Harrelson | #407 | November 28, 1986 | Three months |
| Thomas George Harrelson, a member of the Aryan Nations Church, was accused of taking $50,000 from a Rossville, Illinois bank and shooting at a police car during a car chase. He was arrested February 9, 1987, in Drayton, North Dakota, after his getaway car slid into a ditch while trying to flee the scene of a bank robbery. ||||

### 1987

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Robert Allen Litchfield | #408 | January 20, 1987 | Four months |
| Robert Allen Litchfield a.k.a the “Block House Bandit”, escaped from federal prison in Talladega, Alabama while serving a 60-year sentence for 15 bank robberies. He was arrested May 20, 1987, at Lake Tahoe in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, by FBI agents in close cooperation with the U.S. Marshal Service and the Sheriff's office. ||||
| David James Roberts | #409 | April 27, 1987 | Ten months |
| David James Roberts was arrested February 11, 1988, in Staten Island, New York, in an apartment after hiding for four days, due to FBI investigation and civilian information. He was convicted for murder, kidnapping, arson and rape, and was given six life sentences in an Indiana State Prison. However, after his daring escape from a prison vehicle while on the way to the state prison, he worked as the director of a homeless shelter in Staten Island, New York, under his alias Bob Lord. He had seen himself on the first episode of a reality TV show from FOX called America's Most Wanted (AMW) on February 7, 1988. He was not only the first fugitive to be profiled in such show, but also the first direct capture as a result of the program and the first from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He is currently serving several consecutive life sentences at Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana. ||||
| Ronald Glyn Triplett | #410 | April 27, 1987 | Three weeks |
| Ronald Glyn Triplett was wanted for escaping prison where he was being held for robbery and attempted murder of a waitress. He later held two federal agents at gunpoint. He was arrested May 16, 1987, in Tempe, Arizona. ||||
| Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | May 22, 1987 | Seven years |
| Claude Daniel Marks pleaded guilty on May 9, 1995, to a prison escape conspiracy in Illinois. He surrendered December 6, 1994, along with his partner Donna Jean Willmott (#412). He and Willmott had purchased 36 pounds of explosive from undercover FBI in 1985 to attempt to free a FALN leader from Leavenworth prison before going on the run. ||||
| Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | May 22, 1987 | Seven years |
| Donna Jean Willmott pleaded guilty on May 9, 1995, to a prison escape conspiracy in Illinois. She surrendered on December 6, 1994, along with her partner Claude Daniel Marks (#411). She and Marks had purchased 36 pounds of explosive from an undercover FBI agent in 1985 to attempt to free a FALN leader from Leavenworth prison. ||||
| Darren Dee O'Neall | #413 | June 25, 1987 | Four months |
| Darren Dee O'Neall was arrested October 25, 1987, on an auto-theft charge in Lakeland, Florida. Louisiana State Police later discovered his "Top Ten" identity. O'Neall had been wanted for the rape and murder of multiple women. ||||
| Louis Ray Beam Jr. | #414 | July 14, 1987 | Four months |
| Louis Ray Beam Jr. is a white supremacist with ties to the Ku Klux Klan who was wanted on charges of seditious conspiracy to violently overthrow the U.S. government, including alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate a federal judge and an FBI agent in Arkansas with 14 others. He was arrested November 6, 1987, at home with his wife in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the arrest, Beam's wife opened fire and critically injured a Mexican police officer. He was later acquitted of the conspiracy charges. ||||

### 1988

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Ted Jeffery Otsuki | #415 | January 22, 1988 | Eight months |
| Ted Jeffery Otsuki was arrested September 4, 1988, in Guadalajara, Mexico by Mexican Federal Judicial Police and the FBI who had set up a surveillance team and waited for him at his apartment. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted for the 1987 murder of a Boston, Massachusetts police officer and shooting of another police officer he believed were chasing him. ||||
| Pedro Luis Estrada | #416 | April 15, 1988 | One year |
| Pedro Luis Estrada was wanted for three homicides and possible involvement in two others as a henchman for a New York-based narcotics ring. He was arrested October 1, 1989, by a SWAT team of FBI agents at his home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted which received information leading to his arrest. ||||
| John Edward Stevens | #417 | May 29, 1988 | Six months |
| John Edward Stevens was arrested November 30, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was found in a motel with his girlfriend. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted and suspected of more than 25 robberies in eight states. ||||
| Jack Darrell Farmer | #418 | May 29, 1988 | Three days |
| Jack Darrell Farmer, was awaiting trial on racketeering charges which include two murders, drug trafficking and extortion, he was released to his attorney's custody on day visits to prepare for the trial. On one visit he tied and gagged his lawyer and escaped. He was arrested June 1, 1988, in Lantana, Florida, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. He was recognized by a co-worker who called in. He was the leader of Chicago's "Little Mafia" gang. ||||
| Roger Lee Jones | #419 | May 29, 1988 | One year |
| Roger Lee Jones was the first child molester to be added to the list when he fled Sarasota, Florida after being charged with seven counts of lewd and lascivious assault on a child under 16. He was arrested March 4, 1989, in Great Falls, Montana, at KOA campground, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Terry Lee Johnson | #420 | June 12, 1988 | Two months |
| Terry Lee Johnson escaped from Limestone prison in Athens, Alabama, in 1986 while serving a life sentence for murder. He was arrested August 17, 1988, in San Diego, California by the San Diego Police Department. Johnson was sleeping in his pick-up truck when local police, upon noticing his truck had expired tags, arrested him on an unrelated traffic warrant under the name Lee Johnson. After spending several days in San Diego County Jail, Johnson, just before being released, was recognized by FBI agents at the County Jail who were picking up another prisoner. He was recognized from a recent episode of "Americas Most Wanted" and was subsequently arrested again. ||||
| Stanley Faison | #421 | November 27, 1988 | One month |
| Stanley Faison was wanted for beating Ophilena Edwards with a tire iron, then fatally stabbing her boyfriend, Sylvester Wilson. He was arrested December 24, 1988, in Detroit, Michigan, by FBI and local police. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Steven Ray Stout | #422 | November 27, 1988 | One week |
| Steven Ray Stout had strangled and stabbed to death his former mother-in-law, Bonnie Craft, and one of her daughters, Maureen Turner. He entered the Keefe's mobile home, beat 19-year-old Turner with a hammer, strangled and then stabbed her two times in the chest. He then waited for Keefe to return home, then beat and stabbed her to death before putting both bodies in the bedroom. He was arrested December 6, 1988, in Gulfport, Mississippi, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||

### 1989

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Armando Garcia | #423 | January 8, 1989 | Five years |
| Armando Garcia and 14 other Miami police officers participated in a drug ripoff ring in the mid-1980s later dubbed the Miami River Cops Scandal. Uniformed officers, all on the graveyard shift, would raid drug dealers, steal their cocaine and later resell it. Garcia met with some other defendants and plotted to kill some of the witnesses, then vanished in 1987 with his father and wife. He was arrested January 18, 1994, in Cali, Colombia with his father after being featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | February 7, 1989 | Six years |
| Melvin Edward Mays was arrested March 9, 1995, by the FBI's Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was wanted on 40 counts of conspiracy to commit acts of terror on behalf of the Libyan Government as a top general of the El Rukin street gang. Mays evaded arrest in 1986 while awaiting trial and was featured on America's Most Wanted as well as Unsolved Mysteries. ||||
| Bobby G. Dennie | #425 | February 24, 1989 | Eight months |
| Bobby G. Dennie was wanted in Florida and four other states on various charges, including murder, rape, robbery, forgery, theft and escape. He was arrested October 28, 1989, in Lake Wales, Florida, by the FBI and Polk County detectives after receiving information following his feature on Unsolved Mysteries. He had also been featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Costabile "Gus" Farace | #426 | February 24, 1989 | Nine months |
| Costabile "Gus" Farace was wanted for the murder of DEA agent Everette Hatcher during a drug sting operation on the Bonanno crime family in Staten Island, New York. Farace was later murdered by James Galione and Mario Gallo who pleaded guilty in 1997. Prosecutors said the men worked at the time for the Bonanno family, which had put out a hit on Farace over Hatcher's killing. He had been featured on America's Most Wanted. ||||
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | October 18, 1989 | Still at large but removed from the list |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. is wanted in the attempted murder of a New Jersey state trooper using a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun on April 12, 1989. Washington had been associated in the past with militant black prison groups and the Black Liberation Army. There was evidence that he may have been an injection drug user, due to the old track marks on both arms. He was removed from the list in December 2000 for no longer meeting the list criteria. He is still wanted by New Jersey State Police. ||||
| Lee Nell Carter | #428 | November 19, 1989 | One day |
| Lee Nell Carter was arrested November 20, 1989, in Detroit by FBI agents and Detroit police. Civilians identified him during the broadcast of America's Most Wanted. He was wanted for a shooting spree that left a woman dead and two men injured due to an affair. ||||
| Wardell David Ford | #429 | December 20, 1989 | Nine months |
| Wardell David Ford was wanted for an armored car robbery on February 22, 1983, in which he killed one of the guards. Ford's cousin, David Temple, an accomplice in the robbery, died in the shootout. He was arrested September 17, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. He had also been featured on Unsolved Mysteries. ||||

## End of the decade

As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
| Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 |
| Donald Eugene Webb | #375 | 1981 |
| Victor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 |
| Claude Daniel Marks | #411 | 1987 |
| Donna Jean Willmott | #412 | 1987 |
| Armando Garcia | #423 | 1989 |
| Melvin Edward Mays | #424 | 1989 |
| Arthur Lee Washington Jr. | #427 | 1989 |
| Wardell David Ford | #429 | 1989 |
One spot on the list of Ten remained unfilled from a capture late in the year 1989. It was filled the next month in 1990.

## FBI directors in the 1980s

* William H. Webster (1978–1987)
* John E. Otto (1987)
* William S. Sessions (1987–1993)