12 Fugitives Who Did The Crime But Not The Time

The crime.: At least 24 murders.

Béla Kiss, a Hungarian businessman, took 24 lives between 1900 and 1914. Kiss first killed his young wife and the man she was seeing. Kiss lured lonely women to his home. He strangled them and stored their bodies in steel drums in his garden. He drained blood from their necks.

World War I started in 1914. Kiss joined the Austro-Hungarian army. His home and gruesome collection went to his housekeeper. Two years later, Kiss's landlord found the remains of 23 women and one man on the property. Authorities searched hard for the killer. War chaos and the common name "Béla Kiss" made finding the killer very hard.

Kiss used a dead body in a Serbian army hospital to cover his tracks and escape. Sightings happened, including in New York City.New York City.He was never caught in 1932.

The crime.: Bank robbery.

Víctor Manuel Gerena spent 32 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list. In 1983, Gerena joined a group of Puerto Rican nationalists. They stole over $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot in Connecticut.the largest heist in history at that point.Everyone else in the scheme was caught eventually. Gerena escaped capture.Everyone else.Gerena was never caught.

He was smuggled to Mexico and then to Cuba. He is suspected to live there now. The FBI removed him from its list in 2016.

The crime.: First-degree homicide.

Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, was convicted in 1973 for killing a New Jersey state trooper. Tupac Shakur, a friend of Afeni Shakur and godmother to Afeni's child, received a life sentence for her role in the New Jersey shoot-out that killed the trooper.

Shakur started in solitary confinement on Rikers Island, NY. She moved to a New Jersey facility where she was the only female inmate. Black Liberation Army members freed her from prison in November 1979. The FBI searched hard but never found her.

By 1984, Shakur went toCuba., where she has lived since. The FBI still wants her. They have a $2 million bounty for her capture.$2 million bounty for her capture.for her capture.

The crime.: At least five - and as many as 37 - slayings.

The Zodiac KillerThe Zodiac Killer used the name for at least five killings in Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer sent cryptic messages to the local press. Five victims are confirmed, but the killer is suspected in other cold cases.

Despite the long investigation and possible names, the Zodiac Killer was never caught. He is likely dead now. His case file remains open at the California Department of Justice.

The crime.: Committing a slaying.

"Terrible Tommy" O'Connor, an Irish gangster, arrived in the US as a child. During a robbery, he shot a police officer while escaping. Authorities captured O'Connor and sentenced him to hang in 1921. Four days before execution, he escaped prison and vanished.

He is believed to have passed around 1951, though he remains technically...scheduled to hang.for his offenses if he ever surfaces.

The crime.: Executing his family.

In 1976, William Bradford (Brad) Bishop Jr.. worked as a 39-year-old career diplomat for the US Department of State in Washington, DC. He quit after learning he would miss an expected promotion and never returned.

Blood showed up in the family home. The bodies of his wife, mother-in-law, and three children were missing. They eventually appeared in a shallow grave in North Carolina. Bishop's car was found 400 miles away at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.

No physical evidence of Bishop has appeared since. Sightings have been reported in Europe, but the FBI never captured him. People think he is still alive; he would be in his 80s, but the FBI still seeks him out.

The crime.: Committing a slaying.

Donald Eugene Webb, a career criminal, shot a police chief during a routine traffic stop in Pennsylvania in December 1980. A nationwide hunt started in 1981, but Webb evaded capture. He held the record for the longest FBI Most Wanted list stay, from 1981 to 2007, until Víctor Manuel Gerena surpassed him.

Webb died of a stroke in 1999, but his body surfaced in 2017. His wife buried him after sheltering the fugitive for years in a hidden room in their house.

The crime.: Hijacking a plane.

D.B. Cooper is the name of a man who boarded a flight to Seattle on November 24, 1971. He gave an attendant a note claiming he had an incendiary device and showed the contents of his case to create a credible threat. Cooper asked for $200,000 cash and four parachutes, which he got after the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. He let the 36 passengers leave and told the pilot and crew to fly to Mexico City.

Over Washington at low altitude, Cooper took his ransom and jumped from the plane just after 8 pm. He landed somewhere in the forests of southwestern Washington. Investigators think he did not survive the jump., and no remains ever surfaced.

A part of the ransom money surfaced nine years later, found by a local boy., but neither Cooper's body nor most of the cash was found despite a thorough search. Many suspects were named, and a few individuals. claimed to be Cooper, but no solid proof ever appeared. The case file closed in 2016 after 45 years.

The crime.Henry Every hijacked a treasure fleet in India.

Piracy offered money but brought danger. Most pirate captains were captured or died in fights. Only a few made it to old age with their stolen goods. Henry Every was one of those pirates.

Born in 1659, Every started his criminal maritime life by starting a mutiny aboard a ship where he was first mate. His biggest achievement involved plundering the cargo of aThe Mughal treasure fleet vanished.The fleet was worth over $90 million today. The British East India Company placed a bounty on Every's head in 1695. British authorities never recovered the loot.

Some of Every's crew were caught, but Every escaped capture. He vanished without a trace.No trace remains.Every possibly returned to Britain in 1696, maybe using a fake name or hiding in the Caribbean forever. His unofficial title, "king of the pirates," was earned.

the crimeBelle Gunness suffered at least 14 slayings; possibly forty.

Belle Gunness came to the US from Norway inThe year was 1881., settling first in New York. After her first husband died soon after buying life insurance, she used the money to buy a pig farm inThe action took place in Indiana.. Her second husband, Peter Gunness, also died from a fatal injury, which gave his wife a second large life insurance payment.

For years, she brought men to the pig farm, pretending to seek marriage. Each single man met the same end: they drugged, hit with a hammer to the back of the skull, dismembered, and buried somewhere on the farm. In 1908, a disgruntled farmhand started a fire that burned the farmhouse. Gunness (minus her head), her children, and many victims were found on the property.

Doubts arose about the headless body. It was about five inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter than it should have been.. It should have been. We will never know if it was Gunness's body or another victim.

the crimeBoston Corbett killed John Wilkes Booth.

Boston Corbett earned the nickname "mad as a hatter." As a hat apprentice before the Civil War, his strange behavior might stem from toxic fumes used in making felt. After his wife died giving birth, he drank alcohol, then became very religious—so much so that heCorbett self-castrated. after meeting a call girl in 1858. He was removed from the Union Army in 1863 but rejoined a month later.

Corbett joined the unit sent to capture Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. He ignored orders to keep Booth alive and shot him in the head. Corbett shot him in the same spot Lincoln was shot twelve days prior. Booth took several hours to die from the wound.

Although he was held for the act, Corbett left on the orders of Secretary of WarEdwin Stanton

The rebel died. The patriot lived. He saved the country costs, excitement, and trouble. Release the patriot.

Corbett struggled to live outside the military. His erratic actions and religious zeal stopped him from getting a steady job. An asylum in Kansas sent him. He escaped and settled in a Minnesota cabin.

The crime.: At least eight killings.

Frederick Mors, born Carl Menarik, immigrated to the US in 1914. He took a job at a nursing home in New York City. Over four months, 17 residents died. This led to a police investigation. Mors confessed topoisoningMors poisoned eight elderly residents using arsenic and chloroform.

Authorities found Mors criminally insane in 1915 and sent him to a psychiatric facility. He escaped the next year. In 1917, he appeared in Connecticut, used a fake identity, and vanished again in April 1918. Five years later, a skeleton and a poison bottle appeared. The remains matched Mors; he had been there for at least four years. As a strange coincidence (or planned?) -Morsis a Latin term for "death."