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This is a list of fugitives from justice, notable people who disappeared or evaded capture while being sought by law enforcement agencies in connection with a crime, and who are currently sought or were sought for the duration of their presumed natural lifetime. Listing here does not imply guilt and may include persons who are or were wanted only for questioning.

Before 1800

Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
9th century	Muhammad ibn al-Qasim (Sahib al-Talaqan)	unknown	Abbasid Caliphate	Ibn Qasim was an Alid Imam[1] who led a rebellion that took place in the city of Taloqan. Ibn Qasim was arrested by the authorities and hauled away to Baghdad, but later escaped, and was never heard from again.[2]
11th century	Afshin Bey	60–61	Seljuk Empire	Afshin Bey was a Khorasani Turkmen commander of the Seljuk Empire who, after fleeing to Anatolia in 1067 after being on the run for committing a murder, disappeared again in 1077 after going to Aleppo on a mission to crush rebellions,[3] and was never seen again.
1324	Alice Kyteler	60–61	Lordship of Ireland	Kyteler was awaiting trial for charges of heresy, witchcraft, sorcery, etc. stemming from the 1324 death of her fourth husband, John Poer, when she fled, allegedly to England. A maidservant who did not escape, Petronilla de Meath, was convicted, tortured and burned at the stake.[4]
1696	Henry Every (sometimes spelled 'Avery')	37	England	Every, an English pirate, vanished after perpetrating one of the most profitable pirate raids in history. Despite a worldwide manhunt and an enormous bounty on his head, Every was never heard from again.[5] A manhunt for Every lasted for at least a decade. There were several unconfirmed sightings of him and contradictory reports of his death during the 18th century. Most of them are considered unreliable, however, and his fate is unknown.[6]

19th century

Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
1800	Jack York	unknown	Canada	York was a Canadian slave[7] from Quebec who was charged with raping a woman named Ruth Tufflemier and was arrested in August 1800. The charge was later changed to burglary, and the trial took place on 12 September 1800. York was convicted and sentenced to death, but later escaped and was never seen again.[8]
1857	Nana Saheb Peshwa II	34	India	Leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, who was allegedly responsible for both the Satichaura Ghat massacre and the Bibighar massacre. Nana Saheb escaped after the British retook the city of Kanpur. Multiple conflicting accounts exist of his further life and death, with some stating that he died of malaria in September 1857[9] and others claiming that he fled to Nepal and may have died in 1859.[10] Still other accounts record that Nana Saheb escaped and place his date of death as late as 1906.[11]
1864	Rufus Henry Ingram	30	United States	Bushwhacker who led Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers, a gang of Confederate raiders who robbed banks and stagecoaches across California. On 15 July 1864, Ingram and his followers attempted to rob a mine, but were intercepted by police. Ingram managed to escape, fleeing into Missouri, never to be seen again.[12]
1864	Five Confederate prisoners of war	Various	United States	On 15 July 1864, a train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train near Shohola, Pennsylvania, leading to multiple deaths and numerous injuries. During the fiasco, five of the prisoners transported on the train managed to escape and were never recaptured.[13]
1873	William J. Sharkey	26–27	United States	Sharkey was a convicted murderer and minor New York City Democratic politician who earned national notoriety for escaping from The Tombs disguised as a woman in 1873. Sharkey reportedly fled to Cuba, which had no extradition treaty with the United States. His ultimate fate is unknown.[14]
1873	Bloody Benders	Various	United States	Family of serial killers who killed at least 11 people in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1873. Shortly before the discovery of their crimes, they fled south and were never captured. Over the years, several people were arrested because police thought they might be a member of the Bender family, but none were definitely confirmed.[15]
1875	Moses Ehrich	unknown	United States	Ehrich was an American businessman and underworld figure known as "'Old Unger" who served as a fence to burglars, thieves and shoplifters from his Eldridge Street store throughout the mid-to-late 19th century.[16][17][18] He was indicted four or five times on charges of receiving stolen goods during the administration of A. Oakey Hall, but always escaped conviction. Ehrich disappeared from New York City in 1875, escaped to Canada,[19][20] and was never seen again.
1876	Agustus "Gus" Heffron	unknown	United States	Heffron was an American fugitive and a sidekick of fellow American fugitive Davy Crockett (a younger relative of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett).[21] Heffron was shot and sent to jail in New Mexico, but later escaped on 31 October 1876 and fled for the Colorado mountains and was never seen again.[22]
1878	Procopio	37	United States	Mexican desperado alleged to have committed about a dozen murders in California, but was convicted only of cattle theft and banditry. He escaped prison in 1877, but differing accounts exist of his fate.[23]
1880	Hoodoo Brown	unknown	United States	Leader of the Dodge City Gang, a group of gamblers and gunfighters who ruled over the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico between 1879 and 1880, in which they committed a variety of crimes including robberies, murders and thefts. In the summer of 1880, local citizens formed a vigilante group and drove Brown out of the state, with his ultimate fate left unclear.[24]
1881	Michael O'Rourke	19–20	United States	O'Rourke, an American fugitive and gambler from Arizona who was imprisoned, later escaped from jail on 18 April 1881.[25]
1885	Mysterious Dave Mather	34	United States	"Mysterious" Dave Mather was a lawman who served in Kansas and the New Mexico Territory who was indicted for the murder of a man in Dodge City,[26] which he committed with his brother. The pair posted bail before they could be tried, and Mather never resurfaced afterwards.
1885	E. J. Dawne	41	United States	Dawne was an American preacher and judge for United States territorial court of Alaska who fled the country amidst charges of forgery and embezzlement. His last confirmed whereabouts were at a boarding house in Victoria, Canada, but he managed to flee and his definitive fate is unknown.[27]
1886	Massai	39	United States	Chiricahua Apache tribe member who fought against settlers and soldiers with Geronimo. In 1906, he disappeared from public record, with his fate subject to speculation.[28]
1887	Dan Bogan	27	United States	Gunfighter and outlaw responsible for several murders in the Texas Panhandle, who was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering a Texas Ranger in Wyoming in 1887. He escaped from jail and headed south, but authorities lost track of him, leaving his ultimate fate unclear.[29]
1889	Apache Kid	unknown	United States	Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl, better known as the Apache Kid,[30] was an army scout and later a renegade active in the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico who escaped from jail on 2 November 1889,[31] and was said to have killed many people during that time. He was eventually caught and sent to jail. He was later released and became a wanted fugitive again and was never recaptured.
1896	Francis Hermann	39–40	United States	Hermann, who was from England and later moved to the United States' Salt Lake City, Utah, was a pastor who was a known murderer and was also accused of murdering multiple people which included his own family members.[32] Hermann had fled town in 1896 and was never seen again.[33]

1900-1924

Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
1903	Sam Carey	unknown	United States	Carey was a member of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, a group of loosely-knit outlaws who operated in Johnson County, Wyoming, during the 1880s and 1890s.He was the singular member of the gang not known to have been apprehended, disappearing from history circa 1903.[34]
1908	Belle Gunness	48	United States	Gunness, who was a Norwegian-American serial killer, vanished on 28 April 1908 after a house fire (suspected arson) and withdrawing huge amounts of money from her bank accounts.[35] Although the remains of a headless woman found after the fire were suspected to be those of Belle Gunness, this remains unverified and debated.[36]
1908	Robert Leroy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy)	42	United States	After the two Hole-in-the-Wall Gang outlaws escaped from jail, "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout the country, with rewards of as much as $30,000 for information leading to their capture or deaths.[37] They were supposedly killed in a shootout with Bolivian police around 7–8 November, although authorities were unable to positively identify the bodies.
	Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (alias The Sundance Kid)	40–41
1908	Etta Place	30–31	United States	Etta Place was a companion of the American outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid. The three were members of the outlaw gang known as Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Both her origin and her fate remain unknown.
1915	Armando Normand	35–36	Bolivia	Normand was a Peruvian-Bolivian accountant, enslaver, and killer known for his role in the Putumayo genocide. Between 1904-1910 Normand was employed by the Peruvian Amazon Company at the Matanzas rubber station, commmitting some of the most infamous crimes that were reported during the genocide, including multiple instances of immolations, flagellations, rapes, and killings.[38] He was later arrested around the end of 1912, after he was dismissed from the Company.[39] He later escaped from prison and apparently escaped to Brazil without a trace.
1912	Andrés O'Donnell	26–28	Peru	Between 1903-1911, O'Donnell was an agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company who managed the Entre Rios station near the upper Cahuinari River. Multiple witness testimonies collected by Benjamin Saldaña Rocca, Roger Casement and judge Carlos A. Valcárcel implicate O'Donnell in the Putumayo genocide.[40] Roger Casement attempted to have O'Donnell arrested in Barbados when he was discovered living free at Bridgetown,[41] but he was released on a legal technicality. Shortly after he escaped and disappeared.
1910	Sylvestro "Pedro" Morales	unknown	United States	Mexican bandit who was imprisoned for the 1889 murder of a rancher. He was later released for good behavior in 1909, whereupon he murdered a gang member who had betrayed him. Despite extensive searches by authorities, he was never recaptured.[42]
1914	Peter Madden	unknown	United States	Madden was an American thief, gang leader, and labor racketeer who in June 1914 was arrested for his suspected involvement, with his partner John Ryan, in a street mugging.[43] On 25 June they were sent to The Tombs, charged with stealing the wallet of William Beard in Madison Square. On 10 September he and Ryan were handcuffed together and sent to the nearby Criminal Courts Building. Two deputy sheriffs then noticed that Madden was missing.[44] Madden was never seen again, and what became of him is unknown.
1916	Béla Kiss	39	Austria-Hungary	Kiss was a Hungarian serial killer and murderer of 24 people before he was drafted in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Upon the discovery of his crimes he was traced to a Serbian hospital, but escaped a few days before investigators arrived. Although there were several reported sightings of the killer (notably in New York City in 1932), his true fate remains a mystery.[45]
1922	Edward F. Sands	27	United States	Sands was a suspect in the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor on 1 February 1922. He disappeared shortly after that, and was never seen again.[46]

1925-1949

Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
1925	David Brown	29–30	United States	Brown, a left-handed pitcher in Negro league baseball, disappeared in 1925[47] before he could be questioned about a man's murder.[48]
1931	Raymond "Craneneck" Nugent	35–36	United States	Egan's Rats Gang member Raymond "Craneneck" Nugent who was a killer, bank robber, and associate of Fred "Killer" Burke disappeared in April 1931 and no trace of him was ever found.
1937	Theodore Cole	24	United States	Cole and Roe, both convicted bank robbers in Oklahoma, were judged to be escape risks, and were both eventually transferred to Alcatraz in 1936.[49] They escaped from Alcatraz, on 16 December 1937,[49] and although officials were quick to conclude they perished in the attempt, their remains were never found and their fate remains unclear.[50]
	Ralph Roe	31
1940	Eleanor Jarman	39	United States	In 1933, Jarman and two men murdered the owner of a Chicago clothing store during a robbery.[51] Jarman was jailed and served seven years of her 199-year sentence, but escaped in 1940. She eluded police while making intermittent contact with her family and son. She is deceased and believed to be buried under the name of an alias.
1944	Mieczysław Kosmowski	30–31	Poland	Kosmowski, a Polish Nazi collaborator, Gestapo agent and war criminal[52][53] was last seen in 1944 in Bydgoszcz, when he evacuated with the German Army.[54] In 1955, he was accused of denouncing several Poles to the Germans and a wanted poster was issued for him in 1957, and at the request of the court a warrant was issued, which was valid from 1957 until 2009.
1945	Szilveszter Matuska	52–53	Hungary	Matuska was a convicted Hungarian mass murderer. He had made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in three European countries. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment under an extradition agreement.[55] Matuska escaped from jail in Vác in 1945 and his ultimate fate is unknown.
1945	Petar Brzica	28	Independent State of Croatia	An Ustaše guard at the Jasenovac Concentration Camp, Petar Brzica was involved in a "contest" to kill the most Serbian prisoners in one night. Brzica won the "contest", bragging of murdering up to 1,360 people. Brzica's post-war fate remains unknown, though reports of him living as an elderly man in Croatia surfaced in 2009.[56]
1945	Heinrich Müller	45	Germany	Müller, a prominent Nazi and Commanding Officer of the entire Gestapo apparatus, was last seen in the Führerbunker on the evening of 1 May 1945.[57] While there he had stated that his intention was to avoid being taken into custody by the Soviet forces advancing on Berlin. Müller is the most senior Nazi official whose fate is unknown.[58]
1945	Ivan the Terrible	unknown	Germany	A notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp, known as "Ivan the Terrible" was accused of extreme cruelty to prisoners at the camp[59] His true identity and fate remains unknown.
1945	Karl Künstler	44	Germany	SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, under whose leadership executions of Polish and Soviet citizens skyrocketed. He was later demoted due to his constant alcohol abuse, and was presumably killed during the Battle of Nuremberg in April 1945.
1945	Richard Kunze	73	Germany	Politician of the German Social Party, a precursor to the Nazi Party, known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric and policies who served in the Reichstag until its dissolution in 1945. Kunze was himself arrested following the Battle of Berlin, but later went missing in May 1945, never to be seen again.[60]
1945	Lorenz Hackenholt	31	Germany	Schutzstaffel member who built and operated the gas chambers at the Belzec extermination camp in Poland, personally carrying out the executions of numerous people. Hackenholt disappeared in late 1945, initially thought to have been killed by partisans in Italy, but this hasn't been conclusively proven, and he hasn't been seen since.[61]
1945	Stepan Fedak	44	Ukraine	Fedak was a Ukrainian independence activist who had previously attempted to assassinate Poland's Chief of State, Marshal Józef Piłsudski. Fedak later served as a lieutenant in the Nazi SS Galicia division between 1943 and 1945. He disappeared without a trace in Berlin toward the end of World War II.[62]
1947	Frederick J. Tenuto	unknown	United States	Tenuto, also known as "Angel of Death" was a New York City mobster and criminal[63] who escaped from the Philadelphia County Prison in a jailbreak on 10 February 1947. He was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list as number 14 for over a decade, the longest on record at the time.[64] His ultimate fate is unknown.

1960s

Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
1960	James Squillante	41	United States	Squillante, a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, disappeared after being indicted on extortion charges. He is believed to have been murdered in a car crusher and his body disposed of in a crushed automobile that was subsequently melted down in an open hearth furnace.[65][66] No physical evidence has ever been found to substantiate this claim and no one was ever charged in connection with the disappearance.
1962	Frank Morris	35	United States	Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison and disappeared. After extensive investigation, authorities presumed that they drowned in attempting to escape from the island prison, but no bodies were ever recovered. The U.S. Marshal Service has stated that the investigation will remain open on each individual man until proof of death has been established or the date of the fugitive's 100th birthday, whichever comes first.[67]
	Clarence Anglin	31
	John Anglin	32
1965	Charles Rogers	43	United States	Rogers, a reclusive unemployed seismologist in Houston, Texas, has remained at large since the "Icebox Murders" of his parents on 23 June leading to a warrant for his detention as a material witness. He was declared legally dead in 1975.[68][69]
1968	Siegfried Rautenberg	26	West Germany	Rautenberg was indicted for the October 1968 murder of prostitute Monika Schwiegerhausen in Hamburg, and was also sought as a suspect in the murders of two other prostitutes dating back to May of that year. He fled Germany and joined the Spanish Legion, which refused to extradite him until his supposed death in 1975 during a failed attempt to escape from the Spanish Sahara. His body was never recovered, and he officially remains a fugitive.[70]
1969	Sharon Kinne	30	Mexico	Kinne (known as 'La Pistolera') was an American woman convicted of homicide in Mexico and was awaiting trial for the murder of her husband James Kinne when she escaped from Ixtapalapa prison on 7 December 1969. Despite extensive manhunts in Mexico and the United States, her whereabouts are unknown.[71]

1970s

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Date of disappearance	Person(s)	Age at disappearance	Country	Circumstances
1970	Leo Burt	22	United States	Burt allegedly participated in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on 24 August 1970, and on 2 September was indicted federally in Madison, Wisconsin. He disappeared in 1970 and has not been seen since.[72][73]
1970	Thomas Brooks III	22	United States	Brooks, who was serving a 20-year sentence for his role in a 1968 murder, walked away from a prison work crew in Isle of Wight County, Virginia and was never recaptured.[74]
1971	Anthony Cox	35–36	United States	Cox, an American film producer and second husband of Yoko Ono, kidnapped their daughter Kyoko after losing a custody battle, hiding out with the help of The Living Word Fellowship. He later left the cult and has allowed their daughter to be in close contact with her mother, but their exact whereabouts remain unknown.[75]
1971	Elmer Crawford	40–41	Australia	The Crawford family murder was the 1970 killing of pregnant mother Therese and her three children: Kathryn, James and Karen. The family car was located at the bottom of a cliff at Loch Ard Gorge in Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia on 2 July 1970. The bodies of Therese and her children were still inside.[76] A July 1971 coroner's inquest found that Elmer Crawford murdered his wife and three children in their Cardinal Road, Glenroy home. Crawford had constructed an electrocution device, using a 15-metre (49 ft) length of electrical lead and alligator clips. He attached the alligator clips to his wife's ears while she slept and electrocuted her. He then beat his children to death, presumably using a hammer, then loaded their bodies into the family's FE Holden vehicle. He then drove them 200 kilometres (120 mi) to Port Campbell where he connected a hose from the exhaust to the driver's side window,[77] before pushing the car containing the bodies over the cliff edge in an effort to make the crime look like murder-suicide.[78] Crawford disappeared after and has not been seen since.[79]
1971	D. B. Cooper	Unknown	United States	D.B. Cooper is the media's name for an unknown man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airline Flight 305 on Thanksgiving Eve 1971. Cooper hijacked the plane while it was en route to Seattle and made demands of $200,000 and parachutes. After landing in Seattle and releasing the passengers the plane took off again for Mexico City, and somewhere between Seattle and Reno Cooper jumped out of the plane with the money and parachutes. He has never been found.[80] In 2016, the FBI redirected the resources allocated to the Cooper case towards other investigative priorities and requested anyone with a substantial lead to contact their local FBI Field Office.[81]
1972	Henri Young	60–61	United States	Young was a convicted bank robber and murderer,[82] who while serving one of a series of prison terms, attempted a 1939 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary with four other inmates. During the escape attempt two inmates were shot, and one died of his wounds. All surviving were quickly recaptured. Two, Young and Rufus McCain, received sentences of solitary confinement and served them at Alcatraz for a period of three years (until autumn of 1942). He was released from Washington State Penitentiary in 1972, and then jumped parole and, according to Washington State authorities, his whereabouts are unknown.[83]
1973	Lester Eubanks	30	United States	Eubanks was convicted of rape and murder. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He escaped while on a temporary furlough at a shopping mall.[84]
1973	Frank Matthews	29	United States	Matthews was a major heroin and cocaine trafficker who operated throughout the eastern seaboard during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Matthews in Las Vegas, but he paid bail then disappeared. Matthews allegedly took $15-20 million with him and fled the country, leaving behind his common-law wife, their three sons, and their Staten Island mansion.[85] He was never known to be seen again.
1974	Lord Lucan	39	United Kingdom	Lucan went missing after the murder in London of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, for which he was the prime suspect.[86] It was speculated that the murder in the family home in Belgravia was a case of mistaken identity, and that Lucan had intended to kill his wife. He was declared legally deceased in October 2019, and a death certificate was issued in 2016, thereby making his son George the 8th Earl of Lucan.
1976	Frank Blackhorse	28–29	United States	Blackhorse (believed to be born Francis or Frank DeLuca, and also known under several aliases besides Blackhorse) was a member of the American Indian Movement and was charged with shooting an FBI officer during the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, although no conclusive evidence was presented. Blackhorse is believed to have disappeared in 1976.[87]