The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, 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.
Individuals are generally only removed from the list if the fugitive is captured, dies, or if the charges against them are dropped; they are then replaced by a new entry selected by the FBI. In ten cases, the FBI removed individuals from the list after deciding that they were no longer a "particularly dangerous menace to society". Machetero member Víctor Manuel Gerena, added to the list in 1984, was on the list for 32 years, which was longer than anyone else. Read More
The crime lab that is now referred to as the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory officially opens in Washington, D.C., on November 24, 1932.
The lab, which was chosen because it had the necessary sink, operated out of a single room and had only one full-time employee, Agent Charles Appel. Agent Appel began with a borrowed microscope and a pseudo-scientific device called a helixometer.
The helixometer (ballistics microscope) purportedly assisted investigators with gun barrel examinations, but it was actually more for show than function. In fact, J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, provided the lab with very few resources and used the “cutting-edge lab” primarily as a public relations tool. But by 1938, the FBI lab added polygraph machines and started conducting controversial lie detection tests as part of its investigations.
In its early days, the FBI Crime Lab worked on about 200 pieces of evidence a year. By the 1990s, that number multiplied to approximately 200,000. Currently, the FBI Crime Lab obtains 600 new pieces of criminal evidence every day.
The origins of the FBI Bureau’s lab may be traced back to the 1920s. The latest developments in the field of scientific crime detection had captivated Hoover and other Bureau officials for years.
After he became Director in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover encouraged the Bureau to keep an eye on the latest insights into Bureau work that science provided.
At first, this interest was focused on fingerprint identification matters, especially those dealing with the discovery of latent fingerprints, but the use of scientific analysis in other matters was becoming prominent in law enforcement circles, and Hoover wanted the Bureau to use these methods where applicable.
By 1930, the Bureau began using outside experts hired for such work on a case-by-case basis. That same year the Bureau began a criminology library for the use of its agents and support personnel,7 and it took over the collection and publication of uniform crime statistics from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
In its new agent training program, the Bureau included expert lecturers on subjects like the use of the comparison of handwritings, the comparison of typewritings, the taking of fingerprints, the classification of fingerprints, moulage, ballistics and similar technical criminological subjects.8
Clearly, the application of science to criminal investigations was becoming a Bureau priority and went on to catch millions of killers and inspired the ID NETWORK...LOL
One of my favorite of all the new Netflix Original series. It is the story of the beginning of the FBI Behavioral Science Division. Smart and suspenseful series with great acting... Check out superb actor Jack Erdie who plays spree killer Richard Speck. See Full Cast and Crew
Jack Erdie as Richard Speck
Netflix: Mindhunter is making its return for its second season in August 2019 on Netflix. The long-anticipated return of the Netflix crime series release date got dropped this week in an interview with Charlize Theron who serves as the executive producer for the show.
As you may know, Mindhunter was one of the biggest Netflix Original releases of 2017. The first season dropped on October 13th, 2017 and it’s been an excruciating wait ever since for a new season. Quite often we see Netflix Originals taking much longer than the traditional yearly release schedule most are accustomed to with cable TV.
In case you’re not familiar with the show, it’s an absolute must-watch on Netflix right now. The series is set in the late ’70s and is about the early days of criminal profiling with FBI agents looking into various cases of serial killers.
Today, FBI authorities in Minneapolis, together with Grand Rapids Police Chief Scott Johnson, will release information on the recovery of the stolen Ruby Slippers worn by Grand Rapids native Judy Garland in the 1939 movie classic, "The Wizard of Oz."
The case has intrigued people worldwide. The Herald-Review will broadcast the press conference live on www.grandrapidsmn.com, starting at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4.
“These shoes are the holy grail of all Hollywood memorabilia,” said Rhys Thomas, the author of “The Ruby Slippers of Oz,” who has tracked the case closely for years. “There isn’t anything else that does more to evoke the power of belief.”
Per the Associated Press, federal authorities revealed Tuesday they have recovered perhaps the most recognizable footwear in all of film history after the crimson heels went missing in 2005 when the culprit broke into a small display case holding the shoes at the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Reportedly insured for $1 million, the shoes — which Garland’s Dorothy famously taps together to return home to Kansas following her stay in the fantasy world of Oz — comprise one of four remaining pairs of ruby slippers the actress wore in the film.
These are the mismatched pair that match the other pair in the Smithsonian!
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Steven Spielberg privately acquired one of the pairs in 2012 for eventual display inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures when it opens in 2019.
Details regarding the stolen pair’s return were not disclosed, though officials with the Minneapolis FBI, the North Dakota U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Grand Rapids Police Department have scheduled a Tuesday press conference WILL BE AT 1PM to release more information, according to ABC News.
Anyone with additional information regarding the theft of the ruby slippers or the extortion plot is encouraged to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324) or submit information online at tips.fbi.gov.
In 1976 and 1977, four children were murdered in the Detroit area that were linked to the same killer or killers. This case has become known as the Oakland County Child Killer case. You may also see it labeled as the Babysitter Killer case. This case is still unsolved. My friend Carol S is certain that her father was the Oakland County Child Killer.
Recently the Golden State Killer was found due to a DNA sample submitted to a Florida geneology website GEDMATCH.COM. This is big news because police agencies may have found a new resource for closing a lot of cold case files.
It is also a potential problem due to DNA donors wanting privacy. I think the police should be able to use this info as the good it would do in providing closure to the victim's families and the police investigators is immeasurable.
Back in 2013 a woman emailed me one night to tell me that John Dahlinger had been murdered. John Dahlinger was the illegitimate son of Henry Ford and his mistress Evangeline Cote-Dahlinger. This John Dahlinger had died back in the 1970's. I didn't know he had a son and this son was murdered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The woman who emailed me, who's name I had never revealed, had dated JD Jr and knew him to be involved in all sorts of bad things...We reported on that case together and became friends ever since. Carol S is the name we will be using for this article.
Carol S. sent the following email to the GEDMATCH admins:
Hello. How can I be assured my gedmatch DNA profile is public? It has to be set to public, as I want Law Enforcement to be able to utilize my DNA if they choose too. My father was an admitted serial killer (dead now) and I want them to be able to solve as many cold case crimes as possible. His victims deserve closure.
I have been working to help victim's families find closure for over 12 years now. I did actually help in one case.
The girl my father murdered in 1963 was named Connie K Crossland in Michigan. She was 14 years old. Her family never knew who killed her, but my family knew. My father took my mother to the bridge where he dumped her body and threatened my mother should she ever tell. Law Enforcement also had my mother demonstrate how he tied cords around her neck and how he tied us children up, as the knot was quite complicated.
DB Cooper and My Father Sonny Stanislaw (look at those ears!)
My father eventually killed my grandfather (his father) in 1979. While my grandfather lay dying, my father positioned his body in a chair and took polaroid pictures of him. My dad’s name was Stephen Stanislaw (Jr.) He passed away in 2013. Gary Miller of Oakland County Sheriff Department contacted her sister, Linda Crossland Stevens to notify her that my dad was her killer.
In 1981, he was sent to the Northville Hospital for the Criminally Insane after being found Not-guilty by reason of Insanity for killing my grandfather (his father) in 1979.
He flew under the radar because DNA was not advanced during his very violent crime sprees. He was known around the Detroit area as “Sonny” and they would periodically take him to jail, but most of the time they would send him to the nearest VA hospital.
this zodiac drawing looks just like my dad when he was young
Carol S has shared a ton of information with me about the crimes she is certain her father committed. What she would like to do is share her DNA profile with Michigan Law Enforcement and the Law Enforcement Agencies still researching the Zodiac Killer. TIMELINE OF SERIAL KILLINGS 1963 - CONNIE CROSSLAND (FIRST OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLING) 1966-1971 - ZODIAC KILLINGS 1972-1975 - ? SANTA ROSA HITCHHIKER KILLINGS/OREGON/WASHINGTON (Dan Cooper Hijacking) 1976-1979 - CONTINUATION OF THE OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLINGS AUTHORITIES HAVE PROVEN FOUR WERE CONNECTED. 1979 - MURDERED- STEPHEN STANISLAW, HIS FATHER.
1981 - SENT TO A STATE MAXIMUM SECURITY HOSPITAL AFTER BEING FOUND NOT-GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY FOR MURDERING HIS FATHER.
In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters.
I streamed this series in one night...it is so good. The first episode gets off to a bit of a slow start. Episode 2 takes off and you are there right to the amazing cliff hanger last episode. Cannot wait for Season 2!
John Douglas the famous FBI Special Agent was one of the first criminal profilers and has written books on criminal psychology helped write all 11 episodes. that would explain why this series is so accurate and captivating.
Here is the book John Douglas wrote that inspiredthe Mindhunter series. Click the link below to purchase his book.
Two FBI agents, fighting the departmental stigma of backroom boys - those who try to complicate the status quo of simple MMO of crime-solving with academics - work to develop an innovative investigative field incorporating psychology as a method to reveal motive.
On this day in 1990, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovers three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. They turn out to be part of the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, a 65 million-year-old specimen dubbed Sue, after its discoverer.
Interesting and/or little-known facts about Sue, the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered. She has been on display since 2000 in Chicago's Field Museum, since 1893 the city's showcase and storehouse of mummies and other anthropological souvenirs, plus fossils and preserved plants and animals. The museum, with support from academic, business and philanthropic institutions, purchased the bones at auction in 1997.
In 1982, Stephen King wrote his novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" – which was turned into an outstanding Hollywood movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman a decade or so later.
But, in 1987, a Folsom Prison inmate named Glen Stewart Godwin slipped through an open manhole and crawled 750 feet down a storm drain to the American River, where he used a raft left by an accomplice to paddle his way to freedom. Those who've seen the movie or read the novel would understand the similarities.
Like his fictional counterpart, Godwin headed to Mexico after regaining his freedom.
In 1985, while serving his sentence at Soledad Prison, Godwin married Shelley Rose. He was then transferred to Folsom Prison, a maximum-security facility, where he escaped through a 300-yard storm drain and floated across the American River on a raft to freedom in June 1987.
Apparently gaining assistance from someone who cut the iron bars on the storm drain from the outside, Godwin was the third person to escape from Folsom in 25 years. Lorenz Karlic, who had once shared a cell with Godwin, was arrested in Hesperia, California, for aiding Godwin in his escape.
After two years without any leads on either Glen or Shelley, who was last seen renting a car at the San Jose Airport, authorities were notified of a man in a Mexican prison under the name of Stewart Carrera, whose fingerprints matched those of Godwin’s. Reportedly, Mexican authorities had arrested Glen on drugs and weapons charges six months after his escape.
While California officials were working to have Godwin extradited back to the United States, he murdered a fellow inmate in Puerto Vallarta Prison—an attempt to avoid returning to the high security prisons in California. Shortly thereafter, he escaped from the Mexican jail.
In December 1996, Godwin appeared on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Shelley Godwin, who, unbeknownst to California law enforcement officials, had divorced her husband and remarried in Texas, was apprehended in Dallas when a story on the Godwin case appeared on television’s America’s Most Wanted, but Glen Godwin remains at large.
On this day in 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation institutes the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in an effort to publicize particularly dangerous fugitives.
The creation of the program arose out of a wire service news story in 1949 about the “toughest guys” the FBI wanted to capture. The story drew so much public attention that the “Ten Most Wanted” list was given the okay by J. Edgar Hoover the following year.
As of 2011, 465 of the criminals included on the list have been apprehended or located, 153 as a result of tips from the public. The Criminal Investigative Division (CID) of the FBI asks all fifty-six field offices to submit candidates for inclusion on the list.
The CID in association with the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs then proposes finalists for approval of by the FBI’s Deputy Director. The criteria for selection is simple, the criminal must have a lengthy record and current pending charges that make him or her particularly dangerous.
And the the FBI must believe that the publicity attendant to placement on the list will assist in the apprehension of the fugitive.
