# FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s

The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 1970s is a list, maintained for a third decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

## FBI headlines in the 1970s

As a decade, the 1970s are marked by the passing of the Hoover era. J. Edgar Hoover had formed and defined the Bureau for nearly a half century. He was succeeded by a long list of short-term directors throughout the Nixon – Ford – Carter era who could not match Hoover's larger persona. Eventually, Director William H. Webster brought stability to Bureau, during the President Reagan era.
On the 1970s top 10 list, perhaps the most notable is the 2nd appearance of James Earl Ray, in 1977. Additionally, in 1971 the list was completely filled with long-time fugitives, who persistently evaded capture, leading to the very first year in which the FBI found it impractical to add any new fugitives to the top ten list. In 1970, the FBI had packed the list with an extraordinary number of "Special Additions" of whom most evaded capture. Consequently, the 1971 list opened with a total of sixteen wanted fugitives at large, nearly twice as many as would typically appear on the list at any other given time. By the end of the year 1971, three of the listed wanted fugitives had been captured, bringing the opening 1972 list down to a still extraordinarily large number of thirteen fugitives. Due to further removals from the list in 1972, the FBI found justification to finally list a single new Fugitive late that year.

## FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1970s

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 decade began, the following fugitives were the FBI's Ten Most Wanted:
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
| John William Clouser | #203 | 1965 | • Dropped from the list August 1, 1972, later surrendered to authorities on August 21, 1974 |
| Charles Lee Herron | #265 | 1968 | • Arrested in June 1986 |
| Taylor Morris Teaford | #279 | 1968 | • Dropped from the list May 24, 1972 |
| Byron James Rice | #282 | 1968 | • Apprehended October 2, 1972 |
| Warren David Reddock | #298 | 1969 | • Arrested April 14, 1971 |
| Cameron David Bishop | #300 | 1969 | • Arrested in Rhode Island March 12, 1975 |
| Marie Dean Arrington | #301 | 1969 | • Arrested in New Orleans, December 22, 1971. Sentenced to life in prison without parole • Arrington was the second woman to appear on the list since the list began. |
| Benjamin Hoskins Paddock | #302 | 1969 | • Bank robber, appeared on the list after escaping prison. Dropped from the list on May 5, 1977, captured in 1978. He was the father of the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock. |
| Joseph Lloyd Thomas | #304 | 1969 | • Arrested March 8, 1970 |
The tenth space had just opened up at the end of the year 1969, but was promptly filled by a new individual on the list in the first week of 1970.

## FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1970s

The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1970s include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

### 1970

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| James John Byrnes | #305 | January 6, 1970 | Three months |
| James John Byrnes escaped custody in Kansas and was wanted for kidnapping two people and stealing a plane. He was arrested April 17, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California. ||||
| Edmund James Devlin | #306 | March 6, 1970 | Five months |
| Edmund James Devlin was the leader of a gang of bank robbers and was sought for his involvement in a Norwalk, Connecticut bank robbery where he made off with $106,333. He was arrested August 15, 1970 in Manchester, New Hampshire. ||||
| Lawrence Robert Plamondon | #307 | May 5, 1970 | Two months |
| Lawrence Robert Plamondon was wanted after fleeing his indictment for his involvement in the bombing of a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on September 29, 1968. He is a co-founder of the White Panther Party and its Minister of Defense. He was arrested July 23, 1970 in Mackinac County, Michigan after being stopped by state police when an occupant of his van threw a can out of the window. A license plate check through the NCIC identified Plamondon. ||||
| Hubert Geroid Brown | #308 | May 6, 1970 | One year |
| Hubert Geroid Brown In 1967, gave a speech in Cambridge, Maryland, where he told the crowd to "burn America down," which resulted in riots and a shooting. After fleeing, he was a target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program. He was captured October 16, 1971 during an armed robbery in New York City after being seriously wounded in a gunfight with local police. ||||
| Angela Yvonne Davis | #309 | August 18, 1970 | Two months |
| Angela Yvonne Davis was captured October 13, 1970 at a motel room in New York City. She had fled California and evaded the police for over two months. She was charged in California with conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide, due to her alleged participation in an escape attempt of George Jackson, a Black Panther Party member, from the Marin County Hall of Justice during his trial, in which the judge, Harold Haley, was shot to death after being taken outside into a van. She was exonerated on all charges in 1972 after being held in a Women's Detention Center in New York City. ||||
| Dwight Alan Armstrong | #310 | September 4, 1970 | Six years |
| Dwight Alan Armstrong was removed from the list on April 1, 1976, because he no longer met the list criteria. He was eventually arrested in April 1977 in connection with the Sterling Hall bombing. He was sentenced to seven years for second-degree murder on May 5, 1977, and was paroled in 1980. ||||
| Karleton Lewis Armstrong | #311 | September 4, 1970 | Two years |
| Karleton Lewis Armstrong was apprehended February 16, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was returned to the United States in March 1973 where he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and arson in the Sterling Hall bombing. He was sentenced to 23 years, but had his prison sentence reduced and was freed in February 1980. ||||
| David Sylvan Fine | #312 | September 4, 1970 | Six years |
| David Sylvan Fine was arrested January 8, 1976 in San Rafael, California in connection to the Sterling Hall bombing. He was sentenced to seven years for second-degree murder and eventually released in August 1979. ||||
| Leo Frederick Burt | #313 | September 4, 1970 | Six years |
| Leo Frederick Burt was removed from the list on April 7, 1976, because he no longer met the list criteria. Burt has not been captured and is still at large with state charges still pending against him in connection to the Sterling Hall bombing. ||||
| Bernardine Rae Dohrn | #314 | October 14, 1970 | Three years |
| Bernardine Rae Dohrn was sought in connection to activities associated with the Weatherman group. The process was dismissed on December 7, 1973. ||||
| Katherine Ann Power | #315 | October 17, 1970 | Fourteen years |
| Katherine Ann Power alongside Susan Edith Saxe (#316), robbed a series of banks where one lead to the death of a police officer, where she drove the getaway car. She was removed from the list on June 15, 1984, because she no longer met the list criteria, but surrendered to authorities in 1993. She pleaded guilty and was imprisoned in Massachusetts for six years before being released on 14-years' probation. ||||
| Susan Edith Saxe | #316 | October 17, 1970 | Five years |
| Susan Edith Saxe was a part of a series of bank robberies with Katherine Ann Power (#315) to fund anti-government movements during the Vietnam war. She was arrested March 27, 1975 in Philadelphia after a Philadelphia officer recognized her from a photo distributed by the FBI the same day. ||||

### 1971

No one was added to the list in 1971.

### 1972

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Mace Brown | #317 | October 20, 1972 | Six months |
| Mace Brown, a hired killer, was on death row for shooting a witness in the head in connection to a drug case. He then escaped an Alabama prison with seven others. He was killed by police officers in a bank robbery shootout on April 18, 1973, in New York City during which the bank robbers took hostages. ||||

### 1973

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Herman Bell | #318 | May 9, 1973 | Four months |
| Herman Bell, ambushed and fatally shot in the back, officers Joseph A. Piagentini and Waverly M. Jones, outside a housing project in Harlem on May 21, 1971. He and two others cited their ongoing war with the United States as members of the Black Liberation Army as their reasoning for the murders. He was arrested September 2, 1973 in New Orleans by the FBI and local officers. ||||
| Twymon Ford Myers | #319 | September 28, 1973 | Two months |
| Twymon Ford Myers, a member of the Black Liberation Army, was wanted for the non-fatal shootings of four New York police officers and a robbery. He was killed November 14, 1973 in the Bronx, New York, during a shootout with the FBI and the New York Police Department. ||||
| Ronald Harvey | #320 | December 7, 1973 | Three months |
| Ronald Harvey was wanted in connection for the murder of Major B. Saxon and six others which included five children when he failed to show for a line up. The motive was believed to be a dispute between two Muslim sects in Washington. He was arrested March 27, 1974 in Chicago. ||||
| Samuel Richard Christian | #321 | December 7, 1973 | Five days |
| Samuel Richard Christian, founder of the Philadelphia Black Mafia, was wanted for his connection to the murder of Major B. Saxon and six others as well as the 1972 murder of Tyrone "Fat Ty" Palmer. He was arrested December 12, 1973 in Detroit. ||||

### 1974

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Rudolph Alonza Turner | #322 | January 10, 1974 | Nine months |
| Rudolph Alonza Turner was arrested October 1, 1974 in Jacksonville, Florida, by FBI agents. ||||
| Larry Gene Cole | #323 | April 2, 1974 | One day |
| Larry Gene Cole was arrested April 3, 1974. He kidnapped a real estate agent alongside his wife and demanded a $25,000 ransom from the victim's husband who he worked for. They were apprehended near Buffalo, New York. When Cole was first approached, he claimed to be part of the Special Investigation, Department of Justice. ||||
| James Ellsworth Jones | #324 | April 2, 1974 | Two months |
| James Ellsworth Jones was wanted for the kidnapping of Leland Norris Davenport from a gas station Mint Springs, just off highway I-81. Though Davenport was later found murdered, Jones was not charged with his murder, but rather his kidnapping. He was arrested June 15, 1974 in Coral Gables, Florida, after an off-duty police officer recognized Jones from an FBI Wanted Notice in the police department. ||||
| Lendell Hunter | #325 | June 27, 1974 | One month |
| Lendell Hunter was wanted for escaping prison while serving three sentences for the rape and a murder of a 78-year-old woman and an assault of her 12-year-old grandson in Augusta, Georgia. He was arrested July 31, 1974 in Des Moines, Iowa. ||||
| John Edward Copeland | #326 | August 15, 1974 | One year |
| John Edward Copeland was wanted for a series of rapes in California. He was arrested July 23, 1975 due to citizen cooperation, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, after riding his bicycle home. ||||
| Melvin Dale Walker | #327 | October 16, 1974 | Three weeks |
| Melvin Dale Walker was wanted for escaping prison in Pennsylvania while serving time for bank robbery. He was apprehended November 9, 1974 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after entering a house staked out by agents on the inside and outside of the house. He attempted to escape by car but was arrested. ||||
| Thomas Otis Knight | #328 | December 12, 1974 | Two weeks |
| Thomas Otis Knight was a convicted murderer who escaped the Miami-Dade County Jail with ten other prisoners on September 19, 1974. He was arrested December 31, 1974 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Though heavily armed and barricaded behind a door in a rooming house, he was overwhelmed by the FBI SWAT Team. He was executed for his crimes on January 7, 2014, at Florida State Prison. ||||

### 1975

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Billy Dean Anderson | #329 | January 21, 1975 | Four years |
| Billy Dean Anderson was wanted for escaping the Morgan County Jail with another inmate while serving time for shooting a deputy. He was killed July 7, 1979 in Pall Mall, Tennessee, during a shootout with police. The lead was based on information from an informant known as "Mountain Man." ||||
| Robert Gerald Davis | #330 | April 4, 1975 | Two years |
| Robert Gerald Davis was sought for murder. He was arrested August 5, 1977 in Venice, California. ||||
| Richard Dean Holtan | #331 | April 18, 1975 | Three months |
| Richard Dean Holtan was wanted for armed robbery and murder in Omaha, Nebraska after he robbed a local bar. He then forced the bartender and two patrons into a bathroom. He then shot the bartender, killing him, while wounding a patron. He was arrested July 12, 1975 by local authorities in Kauai, Hawaii. ||||
| Richard Bernard Lindhorst Jr. | #332 | August 4, 1975 | Three days |
| Richard Bernard Lindhorst Jr. was wanted for robbing Farmers Savings Bank in Wever, Iowa. He was arrested August 7, 1975 in Pensacola, Florida, by FBI agents and local police. ||||
| William Lewis Herron Jr. | #333 | August 15, 1975 | Two months |
| William Lewis Herron Jr., a professional killer, pleaded guilty to shooting Robert Bussen in the head and killing St. Charles Sherriff Lieutenant, Albert H. Musterman. He was later charged with kidnapping and escape when he escaped Kentucky State Prison and tied a guard to a tree. He was arrested October 30, 1975 in Peoria, Illinois. ||||
| James Winston Smallwood | #334 | August 29, 1975 | Four months |
| James Winston Smallwood was one of three men who held up the Maryland Bank and Trust Company in Lexington Park, Maryland, on May 19, 1975. He was arrested December 5, 1975 in Landover, Maryland, after being located in the trunk of a vehicle used in a bank robbery in Maryland. ||||
| Leonard Peltier | #335 | December 22, 1975 | Two months |
| Leonard Peltier become an infamous cause célèbre of the American Indian Movement (AIM), for alleged irregularities in his trial. He was arrested February 6, 1976 in Hinton, Alberta, Canada by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the execution-style murders of two FBI agents. ||||

### 1976

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Patrick James Huston | #336 | March 3, 1976 | One year |
| Patrick James Huston escaped a lower Manhattan prison with five others while awaiting trial for bank robbery. He was arrested December 7, 1977 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ||||
| Thomas Edward Bethea | #337 | March 5, 1976 | Two months |
| Thomas Edward Bethea was wanted with seven others for their involvement in the kidnapping of Washington truck executive, Alan Lewis Bortnick, where they demanded a $250,000 ransom. He was arrested May 5, 1976 in the Bahamas by Bahamian authorities. He was transferred into FBI custody upon his arrival in Miami. ||||
| Anthony Michael Juliano | #338 | March 15, 1976 | One week |
| Anthony Michael Juliano part of a bank robbing duo called the "Mutt and Jeff" team, they were responsible for 38 bank robberies in the 1970s. He was arrested and fled after violating his parole when he obtained a .380 handgun. He was arrested March 22, 1976 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, after a meter maid recognized him in a parked car. ||||
| Joseph Maurice McDonald | #339 | April 1, 1976 | Six years |
| Joseph Maurice McDonald, a contract killer for the Winter Hill Gang, was wanted for dozens of crimes, which included multiple murders, witness intimidation, fraud schemes, and mob ties to James "Whitey" Bulger. He was arrested September 15, 1982 at Penn Station in New York City by local police. ||||
| James Ray Renton | #340 | April 7, 1976 | One year |
| James Ray Renton was arrested May 9, 1977 in Aurora, Colorado. He was wanted for killing a police officer. ||||
| Nathaniel Doyle Jr. | #341 | April 29, 1976 | Three months |
| Nathaniel Doyle Jr. was killed in a shootout on July 15, 1976, with local police in Seattle. He was wanted for a bank robbery. ||||
| Morris Lynn Johnson | #342 | May 25, 1976 | One month |
| Morris Lynn Johnson was wanted after escaping an Selma, Alabama prison where he was serving time for bank robbery and other numerous crimes. He was taken into custody on June 26, 1976, in New Orleans after trying to run away along a canal bank. ||||
| Richard Joseph Picariello | #343 | July 29, 1976 | Three months |
| Richard Joseph Picariello was wanted for bank robbery and a series of bombings across New England as part of a self-titled radical prison reform group called the Fred Hampton Unit of the People's Forces. He was arrested October 21, 1976 in Fall River, Massachusetts. ||||
| Edward Patrick Gullion | #344 | August 13, 1976 | Two months |
| Edward Patrick Gullion was wanted for bank robbery and a series of bombings across New England as part of a self-titled radical prison reform group called the Fred Hampton Unit of the People's Forces. He was arrested October 22, 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was employed at a jewelry store. ||||
| Gerhardt Julius Schwartz | #345 | November 18, 1976 | Four days |
| Gerhardt Julius Schwartz was arrested November 22, 1976 in the Bronx section of New York City after the police received a tip from a telephone call from New Rochelle, New York. He was wanted for bank robbery and other crimes. ||||
| Francis John Martin | #346 | December 17, 1976 | Two months |
| Francis John Martin was wanted for escaping Delaware State Prison with three others while serving a sentence for armed kidnapping and rape. He was arrested February 17, 1977 in Newport Beach, California, after a tip from a telephone call. ||||

### 1977

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Benjamin George Pavan | #347 | January 12, 1977 | One month |
| Benjamin George Pavan was arrested February 17, 1977 in Seattle after a tip from a telephone call. He was sought for armed robbery. ||||
| Larry Gene Campbell | #348 | March 18, 1977 | Six months |
| Larry Gene Campbell Larry Campbell was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility on December 19, 1975, and enrolled as a student at the Buffalo State University. Under the program, he was sponsored by a professor and lived in a dorm with the professor son where he made several friends. On June 9, 1976, at an apartment one block from the college, Campbell murdered Thomas Tunney, raped and murdered Rhona Eiseman, and stabbed Michael Schostick six times while a fourth friend, Teresa Beynard escaped. Schostick survived his injuries. He was arrested September 6, 1977 in Atlanta after a neighbor recognized him from a wanted flyer in the local post office. ||||
| Roy Ellsworth Smith | #349 | March 18, 1977 | Three months |
| Roy Ellsworth Smith was wanted for the murder of two children in Kirkland, Ohio. He was found to have hanged himself on June 2, 1977, in Perry Township, Ohio, by the Lake County Sheriff's Department of Painesville, Ohio. ||||
| Raymond Luc Levasseur | #350 | May 5, 1977 | Seven years |
| Raymond Luc Levasseur is the former leader of the United Freedom Front, committed a series of bombings and bank robberies throughout the United States in protest to US intervention in Central America among other issues. He was arrested November 4, 1984 in Deerfield, Ohio, by FBI agents while traveling in his car with his common-law wife and their three children. ||||
| James Earl Ray | #351 | June 11, 1977 | Two days |
| James Earl Ray made his second appearance on the list (previously #277, in 1968, for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.) after a June 10 escape with 6 other convicts from state prison. He was apprehended not far from the prison in Brushy Mountain, Tennessee, on June 13, 1977. Using bloodhounds, the prison authorities found Ray hiding beneath some leaves in a wooded area. ||||
| Willie Foster Sellers | #352 | June 14, 1977 | Two years |
| Willie Foster Sellers, the reputed leader of the Dawson Gang, claimed to have robbed more than 100 banks for more than $8 million in the 1970s. He was arrested June 20, 1979 in Atlanta upon his arrival at the Delta Air Lines freight dock. ||||
| Larry Smith | #353 | July 15, 1977 | One month |
| Larry Smith was wanted for fleeing custody while on parole for armed robbery in Texas. He was also wanted for his connection to a contract killing with two others. He would later testify against the others as a material witness. He was arrested August 20, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force. He was pulled over for illegally driving past a street car's open door. Smith was identified by his fingerprints and delivered to American authorities. ||||
| Ralph Robert Cozzolino | #354 | October 19, 1977 | Three months |
| Ralph Robert Cozzolino was wanted for the murder of a Chattanooga police officer. He was eventually sent to Alcatraz after repeated escape attempts. He was arrested January 6, 1978 in Jonesboro, Georgia. ||||
| Millard Oscar Hubbard | #355 | October 19, 1977 | Two days |
| Millard Oscar Hubbard was sought for armed bank robbery, were he robbed a bank with a pistol and an M16 rifle. He was arrested October 21, 1977 in Lexington, Kentucky, after a tip from locals. ||||
| Carlos Alberto Torres | #356 | October 19, 1977 | Three years |
| Carlos Alberto Torres was the leader of the FALN, a Puerto Rican, clandestine, paramilitary organization that advocated independence for Puerto Rico that committed nearly 100 bombings in U.S. cities. He was arrested April 4, 1980 after a car rental agency reported a stolen van to the police. Torres was arrested in Evanston, Illinois, after locals noticed a suspicious van parked in the neighborhood and contacted the police. ||||
| Enrique Estrada | #357 | December 5, 1977 | Three days |
| Enrique Estrada was wanted for murder and robbery. He was arrested December 8, 1977 in Bakersfield, California, by the Narcotics Task Force of the Kern County Sheriff's Office. Narcotics officers had been following a suspect known as "Hank" and after seeing Wanted Flyers realized he was Estrada. ||||

### 1978

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| William David Smith | #358 | February 10, 1978 | Eight months |
| William David Smith was wanted for bank robbery and the execution style murder of his ex-wife's husband while on parole. He was arrested October 27, 1978 in Chicago following a telephone tip. ||||
| Gary Ronald Warren | #359 | February 10, 1978 | Three months |
| Gary Ronald Warren was wanted after escaping a Florida prison while serving a sentence for bank robbery. He was arrested May 12, 1978 in Cumberland, Maryland, by the FBI and local police. ||||
| Theodore Robert Bundy | #360 | February 10, 1978 | Four days |
| Theodore Robert Bundy was arrested by local police February 14, 1978 in Pensacola, Florida, after he was stopped for speeding while driving a stolen vehicle, and NCIC came back with a hit. Bundy was wanted for twice escaping from jail, in June 9, 1977, and in December 1977, while being held on a murder charge. ||||
| Andrew Evan Gipson | #361 | March 27, 1978 | Two months |
| Andrew Evan Gipson was wanted for escaping prison. He was arrested May 24, 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ||||
| Anthony Dominic Liberatore | #362 | May 24, 1978 | One year |
| Anthony Dominic Liberatore was a mobster in the Cleveland crime family and who killed Daniel Greene in a bombing, in an effort to take control of the mob scene. He was arrested April 1, 1979 in Eastlake, Ohio, by FBI agents and local police, while he was in bed alone in a house considered "safe" by organized crime in the area. ||||
| Michael George Thevis | #363 | July 10, 1978 | Four months |
| Michael George Thevis, a.k.a. "The King of Pornography", was wanted for escaping an Indiana jail after he received 14 federal indictments for racketeering that accused him of using murder, extortion and arson to get rid of competitors to his chain of 200 businesses that grossed an estimated $5 million to $10 million a year in the pornography trade. He was arrested November 9, 1978 in Bloomfield, Connecticut, by FBI agents and local police while trying to make a large withdrawal of cash from a bank. ||||
| Charles Everett Hughes | #364 | November 19, 1978 | Three years |
| Charles Everett Hughes was wanted for the shooting murders of four teenagers who accidentally came across his marijuana smuggling operation in Florida. He then weighed their bodies down with concrete blocks and dropped them into a sinkhole. He was arrested April 29, 1981 in Myrtle, Mississippi, by FBI agents and local police while working in a car repair shop. ||||
| Ronald Lee Lyons | #365 | December 17, 1978 | Nine months |
| Ronald Lee Lyons was wanted for escaping prison along with three others when out on a recreational trip at a bowling alley. Sawed off shotguns that were hidden in the ceiling were used before the four went on a two-day crime spree where they kidnapped eight people, stole six vehicles, and hijacked a private plane with its pilot. He was arrested September 10, 1979 in Hungry Valley, Nevada, by FBI agents and the Washoe County Sheriff's department. ||||

### 1979

| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | April 20, 1979 | Twelve years |
| Leo Joseph Koury was wanted for a slue of crimes including attempted kidnapping, extortion, mail fraud, and attempted kidnapping. He owned several gay bars and was a known thug in The Block community using his influence to exploit the gay community. He was found dead on June 16, 1991, in San Diego from massive cerebral vascular hypertension. ||||
| John William Sherman | #367 | August 3, 1979 | Two years |
| John William Sherman, a former member of the George Jackson Brigade, escaped prison where he was serving time for revolutionary terrorism and bank robbery. He was suspected to be involved in 14 bank robberies and 11 bombings in connection to the terrorist group. He was arrested December 17, 1981 in Golden, Colorado, while he was getting into his car outside his residence. ||||
| Melvin Bay Guyon | #368 | August 9, 1979 | One week |
| Melvin Bay Guyon was wanted for kidnapping, rape and armed robbery. On August 9, 1979, he shot and killed Special Agent Johnnie Oliver who was part of a five-member SWAT team tasked with apprehending him. After shooting Oliver, Guyon was placed on the list. He surrendered on August 16, 1979, after a short gun battle with FBI agents in Youngstown, Ohio, at Southside General Hospital where he was seeking medical attention. ||||
| George Alvin Bruton | #369 | September 28, 1979 | Three months |
| George Alvin Bruton was wanted for multiple crimes including burglary and the murders of a former prison-mate and their girlfriend, who were involved in a burglary ring. He was a known drug dealer who shot two FBI agents and had taken hostages. He was arrested December 14, 1979 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. ||||
| Earl Edwin Austin | #370 | October 12, 1979 | Five months |
| Earl Edwin Austin was wanted for a series of bank robberies. He was arrested March 1, 1980 in his apartment in Tucson, Arizona. Upon a his arrest while robbing another bank, he bragged about being a top ten fugitive. ||||
| Vincent James Russo | #371 | December 24, 1979 | Six years |
| Vincent James Russo, a Marine Sergeant at the time, robbed a liquor store, kidnapped the clerk, took him to a rural area before shooting him execution style. However, the victim survived. He was arrested January 4, 1985 at his home in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. ||||

## End of the decade

By the end of the decade, the following fugitives were remaining at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
| Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
| Charles Lee Herron | #265 | 1968 |
| Katherine Ann Power | #315 | 1970 |
| Joseph Maurice McDonald | #339 | 1976 |
| Raymond Luc Levasseur | #350 | 1977 |
| Carlos Alberto Torres | #356 | 1977 |
| Charles Everett Hughes | #364 | 1978 |
| Leo Joseph Koury | #366 | 1979 |
| John William Sherman | #367 | 1979 |
| Earl Edwin Austin | #370 | 1979 |
| Vincent James Russo | #371 | 1979 |

## FBI directors in the 1970s

* J. Edgar Hoover (1935–1972)
* Clyde Tolson (May 2–3, 1972)*
* L. Patrick Gray (1972–1973)*
* William D. Ruckelshaus (1973)*
* Clarence M. Kelley (1973–1978)
* James B. Adams (1978)*
* William H. Webster (1978–1987)
*Acting director