FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was created in 1950.

FBI's Ten Most Wanted was created in 2003.

There was no "Most Wanted" list in the 1920s. The first FBI list of "10 most Wanted Fugitives" was issued in March 1950.

The federal-bureau-of-investigationfield offices send names of candidates to the Bureau's Criminal Investigative Division (CID). Special Agents of the CID and the Office of Public Affairs then review the list and send their suggestion to the CID's Assistant Director and then to the FBI's Deputy Director, who has final approval. The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list appeared for the first time sixty years ago today. It grew out of a newspaper article that had been written for the international-news-service, about the "toughest guys" the FBI was trying to apprehend. Positive feedback from the article prompted then Director j-edgar-hooverto establish the fbi-ten-most-wanted-fugitiveslist. The goal was to get the names and faces of particularly dangerous fugitives before the public, which was then asked to provide any information that would lead to the arrest of these felons. Over the years, some 150 of the over 490 fugitives listed have been captured thanks to public assistance.

n 1950, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, began to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

The concept of the list began in late 1949, when the FBI helped publish an article about the "toughest guys" the Bureau was after, who remained fugitives from justice. The Washington Daily News article was titled, "FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives Named," and appeared on February 7, 1949. The positive publicity from the story resulted in the birth of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list on March 14, 1950.

Starting in 1950, the top Ten fugitives were entered into a handwritten log book. The Fugitive Publicity employees of the FBI used the log book to record and track the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" by this method until 1991.

:answer Thomas James Holden - U.S. prisoner, was arrested June 23, 1951 in Beaverton, Oregon, following a tip from a citizen who read the INS story in the Portland, Oregon, newspaper The Oregonian and contacted the FBI.[2] Crime: Escaped police after he was spotted fleeing Illinois November 4, 1949; had shot to death his wife and her two brothers while drinking June 5, 1949 in Chicago.

Past record: was convicted of robbing a mail train in the late 1920s; escaped from Leavenworth in 1930. Was alleged to be one of the "outside" crew in a sensational armed break of other prisoners from Leavenworth in December, 1931; after escape, was caught by Special Agents and local police officers on a golf course at Kansas City, Missouri, July 7, 1932; was released from Leavenworth Prison November 28, 1947.