- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1956
In 1956, the
United States FBI , under DirectorJ. Edgar Hoover , continued for a seventh year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.At only five new additions that year, 1956 became the shortest list of new Top Tenners added by the FBI in a single year up to that time. 1956 is also notable as the first year in which a Top Tenner made a second appearance on the list. That fugitive, Nick George Montos, the first new addition in 1956 as Fugitive #94, had also appeared four years earlier as Fugitive #37 on the 1952 list. Such second appearances on the FBI list were to become, curiously, not highly unusual in the early decades of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. However, although some fugitives were adept at repeated prison escapes, and some were repeat offenders upon release, none has yet managed to become a third timer to be listed on the FBI Ten list.
1956 fugitives
The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1956 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
Nick George Montos
March 2 1956 #94
One month on the listNick George Montos - U.S. prisoner arrestedMarch 28 1956 in his motel room inMemphis, Tennessee after being recognized by a citizen; until his earlier capture in 1954 atChicago, Illinois , he had also been listed as Fugitive #37 in 1952, at large for two yearsJames Ignatius Faherty
March 19 1956 #95
Two months on the listJames Ignatius Faherty - U.S. prisoner arrestedMay 16 1956 inBoston, Massachusetts together with Thomas Francis Richardson (Fugitive #96)Thomas Francis Richardson
April 12 1956 #96
One month on the listThomas Francis Richardson - U.S. prisoner arrestedMay 16 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, together with James Ignatius Faherty (Fugitive #95)Eugene Francis Newman
May 28 1956 #97
Nine years on the listEugene Francis Newman - PROCESS DISMISSEDJune 11 1965 inBuffalo, New York Carmine DiBiase
May 28 1956 #98
Two years on the listCarmine DiBiase - U.S. prisoner surrenderedAugust 28 1958 to the FBI through a New York City attorney. Following his surrender, DiBiase reportedly made the following statement: "I am getting older and accomplishing nothing having to stay away from my wife and children, mother and father. I am glad it is over. I had to come in."Later entries
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FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s
*FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1990s
*FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s
*FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s
*FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s
*FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1950s External links
* [http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm Current FBI top ten most wanted fugitives at FBI site]
* [http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf FBI pdf source document listing all Ten Most Wanted year by year (removed by FBI)]
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