FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1960

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In 1960, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for an eleventh year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

As 1960 began, seven of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives, then still at large:

1950 #14 (ten years), Frederick J. Tenuto remained still at large
1952 #36 (eight years), James Eddie Diggs remained still at large
1954 #78 (six years), David Daniel Keegan remained still at large
1956 #97 (four years), Eugene Francis Newman remained still at large
1958 #107 (two years), Angelo Luigi Pero process dismissed December 2, 1960
1959 #112 (one year), Edwin Sanford Garrison arrested September 9, 1960
1959 #116 (eight months), Billy Owens Williams arrested March 4, 1960

However, despite this already nearly full status of the list at the beginning of the year, by the end of the year, 1960 ended up with the greatest number of new fugitives to be added in any year, since the record-holding year of 1953 (24 additions). In all, the FBI added 22 new fugitive Top Tenners to the list in 1960.

[edit] 1960 Fugitives

The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives listed by the FBI in 1960 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

[edit] Kenneth Ray Lawson

January 4, 1960 #124
Two months on the list
Kenneth Ray Lawson - U.S. prisoner arrested March 17, 1960 in Laredo, Texas

[edit] Ted Jacob Rinehart

January 25, 1960 #125
Two months on the list
Ted Jacob Rinehart - U.S. prisoner arrested March 6, 1960 in Granada Hills, California after a citizen recognized him from a wanted flyer. Rinehart told Agents he learned of his addition to the "Top Ten" list while watching a local television show.

[edit] Charles Clyatt Rogers

March 18, 1960 #126
Two months on the list
Charles Clyatt Rogers - U.S. prisoner arrested May 11, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota while standing in a soup line at a Salvation Army center. He was recognized by a police officer who collected FBI wanted posters.

[edit] Joseph Corbett, Jr.

March 30, 1960 #127
Seven months on the list
Joseph Corbett, Jr. - paroled in 1987; was sentenced to life; was a U.S. and Canadian prisoner arrested October 29, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia by Canadian police after two Canadian citizens recognized him from a November 1960 Reader's Digest article; was wanted for the kidnap and subsequent murder of wealthy heir Adolph Coors III

[edit] William Mason

April 6, 1960 #128
Three weeks on the list
William Mason (fugitive) - U.S. prisoner arrested April 27, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[edit] Edward Reiley

May 10, 1960 #129
Three weeks on the list
Edward Reiley - U.S. prisoner arrested May 24, 1960 in Rockford, Illinois by the local sheriff after an auto salesman recognized Reiley from a wanted flyer. Upon arrest he pleaded, "Don't shoot! I'm the guy you want."

[edit] Harold Eugene Fields

May 25, 1960 #130
Four months on the list
Harold Eugene Fields - U.S. prisoner arrested September 5, 1960 in Schererville, Indiana. Fields told arresting FBI Agents his place on the "Top Ten" list convinced him his days of freedom were numbered and his apprehension came as no surprise.

[edit] Richard Peter Wagner

June 23, 1960 #131
Two days on the list
Richard Peter Wagner - U.S. prisoner arrested June 25, 1960 in Ray, Minnesota after a citizen recognized him from a newspaper article. An expert woodsman, Wagner had been serving as a guide at a hunting and fishing lodge where he was captured.

[edit] James John Warjac

July 19, 1960 #132
Three days on the list
James John Warjac - U.S. prisoner arrested July 22, 1960 in Los Angeles, California

[edit] Ernest Tait

August 16, 1960 #133
One month on the list, was earlier Fugitive #23 in 1951
Ernest Tait - U.S. prisoner arrested September 10, 1960 in Denver, Colorado; 2nd appearance on the list, was also Fugitive #23 in 1951, had been arrested July 12, 1951 in Miami, Florida

[edit] Clarence Leon Raby

August 19, 1960 #134
One week on the list
Clarence Leon Raby - U.S. prisoner surrendered August 28, 1960 to local authorities at his parent's home in Heiskell, Tennessee

[edit] Nathaniel Beans

September 12, 1960 #135
Three weeks on the list
Nathaniel Beans - U.S. prisoner arrested September 30, 1960 in Buffalo, New York by a police officer who recognized Beans from a magazine photograph

[edit] Stanley William Fitzgerald

September 20, 1960 #136
Two days on the list
Stanley William Fitzgerald - U.S. prisoner arrested September 22, 1960 in Portland, Oregon by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a photograph in a newspaper

[edit] Donald Leroy Payne

October 6, 1960 #137
Five years on the list
Donald Leroy Payne - PROCESS DISMISSED November 26, 1965 in Houston, Texas by local authorities

[edit] Charles Francis Higgins

October 10, 1960 #138
One week on the list
Charles Francis Higgins - U.S. prisoner arrested October 17, 1960 in Kirkwood, Missouri by local police after an officer recognized him from a newspaper photograph

[edit] Robert William Schultz, Jr.

October 12, 1960 #139
One month on the list
Robert William Schultz, Jr. - U.S. prisoner arrested November 4, 1960 in Orlando, Florida

[edit] Merle Lyle Gall

October 17, 1960 #140
Three months on the list
Merle Lyle Gall - U.S. prisoner arrested January 18, 1961 in Scottsdale, Arizona

[edit] James George Economou

October 31, 1960 #141
Five months on the list
James George Economou - U.S. prisoner arrested March 22, 1961 in Los Angeles, California after a tip from an informant

[edit] Ray Delano Tate

November 18, 1960 #142
One week on the list
Ray Delano Tate - U.S. prisoner surrendered November 25, 1960 to the New York city editor of the New York Daily Mirror newspaper. He was taken into custody immediately by FBI Agents.

[edit] John B. Everhart

November 22, 1960 #143
three years on the list
John B. Everhart - U.S. prisoner arrested November 6, 1963 in San Francisco, California while painting a house

[edit] Herbert Hoover Huffman

December 19, 1960 #144
One week on the list
Herbert Hoover Huffman - U.S. prisoner apprehended December 29, 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio after a fellow worker recognized him from a wanted poster

[edit] Kenneth Eugene Cindle

December 23, 1960 #145
Four months on the list
Kenneth Eugene Cindle - U.S. prisoner apprehended April 1, 1961 in Cochran County, Texas after a local farmer saw his photograph on television, and recognized him as a hitchhiker he had picked up earlier that day; he had been hitchhiking across the county and working odd jobs to avoid apprehension