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| To replace Bin Laden on Most Wanted |
| To replace Bin Laden on Most Wanted List, a teacher in a pornography case
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-April-2012
5:45:49 AM |
| Shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed last May, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out a request to field offices across the country: Nominate fugitives who could fill bin Laden's place on the bureau's 10 Most Wanted list.
The choice is more complicated than simply finding a violent criminal who has committed a high-profile crime. In recent years, bureau officials have also tried to select other dangerous fugitives who may have been hiding in plain sight but could be recognized by the public because they have distinctive physical features.
On Tuesday, the F.B.I. finally filled bin Laden's place on the list, adding Eric J. Toth, a schoolteacher from the Washington area accused of possessing child pornography. It was the first time since 2009 that the F.B.I. had added a fugitive to the list.
"We have had a couple of vacancies on the list that we've been trying to fill," said Kevin L. Perkins, the F.B.I.'s acting executive director for criminal and cyber operations, referring to the spots left by bin Laden and the Boston crime boss James (Whitey) Bulger, who was arrested last June.
In fact, just last month, officials were preparing to ask the bureau's director for approval to choose a fugitive accused of killing three police officers in Puerto Rico. But then that person was caught.
Using most-wanted posters to enlist the public's help in catching criminals dates to the early part of J. Edgar Hoover's tenure as the head of the F.B.I. in the early 1930s, when the face of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger was on a "public enemies list."
In 1950, the bureau began using the list of 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. The first, Thomas Holden, was accused of killing his wife and two brothers-in-law. A little more than a year later, he was caught and ultimately sent to prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.
Since then, the F.B.I. has caught 464 of 494 fugitives on the list. Some have been captured quickly: Billie Austin Bryant,
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