FBI Top Ten Fugitives Getting Harder To Catch

The FBI has much reason to be successful regarding it's Top Ten List program, the near majority of the 497 fugitives added to the list have been apprehended or found deceased since 1950. Despite this, it appears that the bulk of the fugitive apprehensions went on in the first two decades of the program (By the end of 1969, the FBI was already at Fugitive #304). Not only that, but as I will show everyone below, the fugitives are remaining on the list longer, and that's not a good sign. I won't mention the fugitive names until the 1990s as we aren't that familiar with the fugitives until America's Most Wanted premired in 1988.

FBI List End Of 1969 (Fugitives By Time On The List)

Less Than A Year: (5)
One To Four Years: (4)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_1960s

FBI List End Of 1979

Less Than A Year: (4)
One To Four Years: (4)
Five To Nine Years: (1)
10 To 14 Years: (1)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_1970s

FBI List End Of 1989

Less Than A Year: (4)
One To Four Years: (2)
Five To Nine Years: (2)
10 To 14 Years: (1)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_1980s
NOTE: The End Of The Decade mention forgets about Victor Manuel Gerena.

FBI List End Of 1999

Less Than A Year (3): James "Whitey" Bulger, Osama Bin Laden, James Charles Kopp
One To Four Years (4): Eric Rudolph, Ramon Arellano-Felix, Glen Godwin, Agustin Vasquez Mendoza
10 To 14 Years (1): Arthur Lee Washington
15 To 19 Years (2): Donald Eugene Webb, Victor Gerena
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_1990s


FBI List End Of 2009

Less Than A Year (3): Semion Mogilveich, Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo, Jose Luis "Smiley" Saenz
One To Four Years (2): Jason Derek Brown, Alexis Flores
Five To Nine Years (1): Robert Fisher
10 To 14 Years (3): James "Whitey" Bulger, Osama Bin Laden, Glen Godwin
20 To 29 Years (1): Victor Gerena
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_2000s

So as you can see, the list is becoming slightly less successful. At the end of the 1970s and 1980s there was only one fugitive on the list that was on there for at least 10 years. The end of the 1990s had three fugitives on there for at least 10 years and that increased to four fugitives at the end of the 2000s.

The good news is that Bulger was captured and Bin Laden was killed in 2011, so hopefully Fisher, Brown, Flores, Mogilveich and Tablas don't remain at large at the end of 2019. Assuming Godwin and Gerena don't get removed from the list without their apprehension, then no more than two of the aformentioned five fugitives can stay on the list until 2019 to halt this trend.