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Shauntay
L. Henderson 
is the last woman to have appeared on the list. She grew up in the
Charlie Parker Square housing project in Kansas City, Mo.--a place
she referred to as 'Killa City' on her MySpace page. She attended
five different schools in the span of three years, according to local
news reports, shunning the classroom for a harder education on the
streets. By the time she caught the FBI's attention, Shauntay
Henderson had become a feared leader of Kansas City's 12th Street
Gang, authorities say--wanted for one murder, and suspected in as
many as five more, not to mention a series of shootings in which
police believe she may have played a role.
The G-men got their girl on Saturday, March 31, when Henderson, 24, was apprehended less than 24 hours after being placed on the bureau's vaunted Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. (A judge entered a not-guilty plea on her behalf, and assigned her to a public defender.) A reputed gang member, Henderson was charged with one count of second-degree murder in the September 2006 shooting of a man who was killed as he sat in his car outside a local convenience store.
Ruth
Eisemann-Schier
was the first woman to appear on the FBI's Most Wanted list. She
was charged with her partner Gary Steven Krist in the 1968 kidnapping
of Miami heiress Barbara Jane Mackle for a $500,000 ransom. The
victim was found alive in an underground coffin and Krist was
arrested two days later. Eisemann-Schier escaped, and was on the run
for almost three months until she was arrested in March 1969 after
applying for a nursing job. She pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was
sentenced to seven years in prison. After serving four years of her
sentence, she was paroled and deported to her native Honduras.
Marie
Dean Arrington
spent two years on the list after escaping from prison in 1969 while
she was awaiting execution. She had originally been sentenced to
death for the murder of a Florida legal secretary who worked for a
public defender who unsuccessfully represented her two children on
felony charges. Arrington escaped by cutting through a window screen,
and fled in her pajamas. After she was caught, she was sentenced in
1972 to 10 additional years for escaping, but her death sentence was
commuted to life in prison when the U.S Supreme Court struck down
capital punishment as unconstitutional. She remains in prison in
Florida today.
Angela
Yvonne Davis
is probably the most famous woman ever to make the FBI's list. A
prominent African-American communist organizer and philosophy
professor, Davis was active in legal-defense efforts on behalf of
George Jackson, one of three black inmates at California's Soledad
prison charged with killing a white guard in retaliation for the
deaths of several other black inmates, who were shot to death in the
prison exercise yard. There was an attempt to free Jackson during an
appearance in a California courtroom in 1970; four people, including
a judge,were shot and killed, and police said the gun used in the
incident was registered to Davis. Wanted as an accomplice, she was
arrested in New York City in October 1970 and returned to California
to face charges of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy. She was
subsequently acquitted of all charges, and still teaches at
California universities today.
Bernadine
Dohrn
made the list in 1970. A former cheerleader and graduate of the
University of Chicago Law School, Dohrn became active in the group
Students for a Democratic Society in the late 1960s. The SDS
splintered into factions; Dohrn's group, known as The Weathermen,
advocated violent action against the U.S. government. After an
explosion in a Greenwich Village apartment killed several of its
members, the group went underground (and became known as the Weather
Underground), but carried on a bombing campaign. Dohrn was charged
with 'mob action, riot and conspiracy' in an alleged bombing plot in
Michigan and a series of violent demonstrations in Chicago. She lived
on the lam until 1980, when she and her husband, Weather Underground
leader Bill Ayres, turned themselves in. While the government would
later drop some charges against her, she pleaded guilty to aggravated
battery and bail jumping. After a short time in prison, she was
released and joined a law firm in Chicago.
Brandeis University student
Susan Edith Saxe
was another young radical who helped swell the ranks of the FBI's
Most Wanted list in 1970. Along with Katherine Ann Power, she escaped
from a bank heist in Brighton, Mass., in which one of her
accomplices, an ex-convict, shot and killed Boston police officer
William Schroeder. Saxe was on the run until 1975 when she was
arrested in Philadelphia after a police officer recognized her from a
photo distributed by the FBI the same day.
Katherine
Ann Power
landed on the list with Susan Edith Saxe. Students at Brandeis
University, the two robbed a Massachusetts National Guard Armory and
a bank in Brighton, Mass; during the robbery, Boston police officer
William Schroeder was shot and killed by one of their accomplices.
Power escaped and spent the next 23 years in hiding. Using the alias
Alice Metzinger, she moved to Oregon where she married and had a
child. She was removed from the list in 1985 because the FBI could
not find her. But she turned herself in to authorities in 1993. She
was sentenced to a total of 17 to 18 years in prison for both crimes
but was released in 1999.
Donna
Jean Willmott
disappeared, along with her alleged accomplice, Claude Daniel Marks,
in 1985. The two went on the lam after trying to buy explosives from
an undercover FBI agent in hopes of breaking Oscar Lopez, a leader of
the 1960s radical group Armed Forces of National Liberation, out of a
maximum-security federal prison. The FBI put them on the Most Wanted
list in 1987. They surrendered in 1994. In exchange for pleading
guilty to the charges against them in Chicago, the U.S. attorney's
office agreed to drop indictments against Willmott filed in
California and Louisiana. The plea agreement indicated that neither
Marks nor Willmott had necessarily known of the plans for the prison
escape, but both admitted to knowing that the group would use
explosives to damage property. Claude Marks was sentenced to six
years in prison and fined $1,000. Donna Jean Willmott, who was
valedictorian at her Roman Catholic high school, was sentenced to
three years in prison and fined $500.
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17966368/site/newsweek/?GT1=9304
I Want To Be Wanted: How to get on the FBI's
list of top fugitives.
The FBI says it doesn't apportion slots for particular crimes, but observers point out that the list regularly includes those accused of certain types of unlawful activities. In recent years, for example, the Most Wanted comprised the usual mix of a cop killer, a drug dealer, a sex offender, a serial killer, an escaped convict, someone who murdered his family, and an old-school mafia boss. In the 1960s and 1970s, political agitators like Angela Davis were sometimes listed. Robbers, who showed up often in the early years of the list, continue to make the list.
Dutiful citizens sometimes need a little monetary incentive, of
course. The FBI started offering rewards of up to $50,000 in 1997,
then bumped up the figure to $100,000 in 2004. (A few fugitives
warrant higher price tags. Bin Laden is worth $27 million, while
Victor Manuel Gerena, who stole $7 million from a security company,
has a $1 million bounty.) But it's not clear whether the rewards have
made a big difference. The FBI hasn't captured more fugitives since
they start using bounties. In fact, the Bureau's most successful
years were during the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: By Michelle Tsai, www.slate.com/id/2163407/?nav=fix>1=9330
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