FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1965
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FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover
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, continued for a sixteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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As the year 1965 began, eight of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives from prior years, then still at large:
- 1956 #97 (nine years), Eugene Francis Newman process dismissed June 11, 1965
- 1960 #137 (five years), Donald Leroy Payne process dismissed November 26, 1965
- 1962 #170 (three years), Edward Howard Maps remained still at large
- 1963 #175 (two years), Harold Thomas O'Brien process dismissed January 14, 1965
- 1964 #192 (one year), George Patrick McLaughlin arrested February 24, 1965
- 1964 #193 (one year), Chester Collins remained still at large
- 1964 #197 (one year), Alson Thomas Wahrlich remained still at large
- 1964 #199 (six months), William Hutton Coble arrested March 1, 1965
By year end, three of the longest listed Fugitives had been removed. With so many new openings on the list facing them throughout 1965, the FBI again had a very productive year of new captures, and added a total of an additional twenty-one new Fugitives, at a rate of nearly two per month.
1965 is also notable for the first-time inclusion of two brothers together, Samuel Jefferson Veney and Earl Veney.
1965 fugitives
The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1965 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):John William Clouser
January 7, 1965 #203Seven years on the list
John William Clouser - PROCESS DISMISSED August 1, 1972 in Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...
Walter Lee Parman
January 15, 1965 #204Two weeks on the list
Walter Lee Parman - U.S. prisoner arrested January 31, 1965 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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after a citizen recognized him
from a newspaper article
Gene Thomas Webb
February 11, 1965 #205One day on the list
Gene Thomas Webb - U.S. prisoner arrested February 12, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois after he was recognized by FBI Agents as
he walked along a road in Colonial Village
Samuel Jefferson Veney
February 25, 1965 #206Three weeks on the list
Samuel Jefferson Veney - U.S. prisoner arrested March 11, 1965 in Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York
Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is located on Long Island, to the east of New York City, from mid-town Manhattan, and just south of the town of...
with his brother, Earl Veney (Fugitive #207) by the FBI and Federal Narcotics Agents. Both men were working as machine operators in a manufacturing plant. A citizen cooperating with Federal Narcotics recognized Veney.
Earl Veney
March 5, 1965 #207One week on the list
Earl Veney - U.S. prisoner arrested March 11, 1965 in Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York
Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is located on Long Island, to the east of New York City, from mid-town Manhattan, and just south of the town of...
with his brother, Samuel Veney (Fugitive #206). Earl had been listed by the FBI two weeks after his brother.
Donald Stewart Heien
March 11, 1965 #208One year on the list
Donald Stewart Heien - U.S. prisoner arrested February 3, 1966 in Newton Center, Massachusetts by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from media coverage
Arthur Pierce, Jr.
March 24, 1965 #209One day on the list
Arthur Pierce, Jr. - U.S. prisoner arrested March 25, 1965 in Spring Valley, New York
Spring Valley, New York
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after a citizen recognized him
from a newspaper article. He had been working as a painting contractor.
Donald Dean Rainey
March 26, 1965 #210Three months on the list
Donald Dean Rainey - U.S. prisoner arrested June 20, 1965 in Nogales, Arizona
Leslie Douglas Ashley
April 6, 1965 #211Two weeks on the list
Leslie Douglas Ashley - U.S. prisoner arrested April 23, 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia while he was working in a carnival side show
Charles Bryan Harris
May 6, 1965 #212One month on the list
Charles Bryan Harris - U.S. prisoner apprehended June 17, 1965 near Fairfield, Illinois
Fairfield, Illinois
Fairfield is the county seat of Wayne County, Illinois, United States, the site of Frontier Community College, , , and Airtex; an auto parts manufacturing facility...
, living in an old farm house
William Albert Autur Tahl
June 10, 1965 #213Five months on the list
William Albert Autur Tahl - U.S. prisoner arrested November 5, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
by local authorities
Duane Earl Pope
June 11, 1965 #214One day on the list
Duane Earl Pope
Duane Earl Pope
Duane Earl Pope, born 1943, is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for one of the bloodiest bank robberies in modern times, the 1965 robbery of the Farmers State Bank in Big Springs, Nebraska....
- U.S. prisoner surrendered June 11, 1965 to local police in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
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shortly after he was
added to the "Top Ten" list
Allen Wade Haugsted
June 24, 1965 #215Six months on the list
Allen Wade Haugsted - U.S. prisoner arrested December 23, 1965 in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
after a citizen recognized him from a
photo in the Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
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newspaper. He was working as a baker in a suburban shopping center.
Theodore Matthew Brechtel
June 30, 1965 #216Two months on the list
Theodore Matthew Brechtel - U.S. prisoner arrested August 16, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois at his place of employment where he was working as a painter. Although he had been using an alias, he admitted his true identity to arresting Agents stating, "I know what you want. I'm it."
Robert Allen Woodford
July 2, 1965 #217One month on the list
Robert Allen Woodford - U.S. prisoner arrested August 5, 1965 in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a wanted flyer
Warren Cleveland Osborne
August 12, 1965 #218One month on the list
Warren Cleveland Osborne - KILLED in a wreck from a high speed car chase September 9, 1965 near Mount Washington, Kentucky
Mount Washington, Kentucky
Mount Washington is a city in northeast Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 8,485 at the 2000 census. The estimated population as of 2006 was 11,761. It is located at what was once the crossroads of two stagecoach routes, which spurred early population growth and the...
by local police, and was positively identified
through fingerprints
Holice Paul Black
August 25, 1965 #219Four months on the list
Holice Paul Black - U.S. prisoner arrested December 15, 1965 in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
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Edward Owen Watkins
September 21, 1965 #220One year on the list
Edward Owen Watkins - U.S. prisoner arrested December 2, 1966 in Florence, Montana
Florence, Montana
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. FBI Agents displayed photos of
Watkins to stores selling western clothing and a salesman recognized him.
Joel Singer
November 19, 1965 #221Two weeks on the list
Joel Singer - Canadian prisoner apprehended December 1, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canada
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by Montreal police. He
had been the object of an intensive joint investigation by the FBI and Canadian authorities.
James Edward Kennedy
December 8, 1965 #222Two weeks on the list
James Edward Kennedy - U.S. prisoner arrested December 23, 1965 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
after a citizen recognized
him from a newspaper article
Lawrence John Higgins
December 14, 1965 #223Two weeks on the list
Lawrence John Higgins - U.S. prisoner arrested January 3, 1966 in Emigrant Gap, California
Emigrant Gap, California
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by the California Highway Patrol
California Highway Patrol
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