Origin Of The FBI Most Wanted List
And The First Fugitives On The List
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3 min readJan 23, 2022
In 1950, J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, began keeping a list of the ten most wanted fugitives in a logbook.
To make this list, the fugitive must have many pending charges that would make him a dangerous person. To get off the list, a person must die or be apprehended.
