Alright, rookie! Do you really think you’re cut
out for being a part of the FBI? Well, we’ll sure see about that! We’re not chasing pickpockets
and purse-snatchers here; we’re dealing with mass murder, terrorism, larceny, arson, and
plenty that’s worse than even those! We’re up to our elbows in threats to national security,
and you still think you’ve got what it takes? Then let’s put that to the test, shall we? Why
don’t we head on down to the archive and pull the files for thirteen of our Most Wanted, just
to give you a flavor of some of the most dangerous criminals who have ever been put away
in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – and even some of the ones
who are still at large! Get to it, rookie! Let’s start at the very beginning: Thomas James
Holden, the first man to make it onto the FBI’s most wanted list back in 1950! That’s when the
most wanted list became one of the tools used by the Bureau to seek help from the public
with tracking down wanted fugitives. In the last seventy years, more than five hundred names
have been added or removed when necessary. But Holden was the one who started it all. His
life of crime started long before he made the most wanted fugitives list though.
From 1926 onwards, he formed one half of the Holden-Keating gang alongside his
literal partner in crime, Francis Keating, as the pair conducted a mass robbery spree across
the American Midwest in the twenties and thirties. And they certainly weren’t simply pinching the
loose change out of people’s pockets; their preferred targets were trucks delivering payroll
to businesses, as well as banks and even trains! Holden and Keating made off like the bandits
they were with hundreds of thousands of dollars before the pair were caught and arrested in 1928,
each sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. However, things were far from over for Thomas
James Holden. Within two years of their sentences, both he and Keating were able to escape from
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas after smuggling guns and ammunition inside, aiding the
escape of seven other inmates. And he still wasn’t done! He formed another gang, was arrested once
more, and served the remainder of his original sentence alongside notorious gangster
Al Capone in Alcatraz. While on parole, Holden shot and killed his wife Lillian in 1949
after beating her, as well as opening fire on two men who came to her aid. Eventually, and
in proof that their most wanted list worked, the FBI was able to get Holden sent to prison for
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Thanks to Aura, and now, back to the video. Oh, you think an infamous thief and murderer from
decades back would’ve been an easy collar if you were there, rookie? You sure think highly of your
skills, don’t you? How about one of the FBI’s most wanted from this side of the turn of the
millennium, then? Meet Robert William Fisher, a Navy veteran and later a firefighter, surgical
catheter technician, and respiratory therapist. He had a wife, Mary, and two children, a son
of ten and a daughter of twelve years old. And despite his attempts to maintain an image of
being a devoted family man, Fisher was described as a distant control freak of a father.
On the morning of the tenth of April 2001, the Fishers’ house in Scottsdale, Arizona, was
ripped apart by an explosion – one that Robert Fisher himself had caused. Police discovered that
Mary and the two children had been killed before the explosion. Fisher had shot his wife in the
back of her head and horrifically slashed the throats of both his own son and daughter from
ear to ear. Then, he attempted to conceal the evidence of this triple homicide by pulling out
a gas line behind the furnace in the Fisher home. When the pilot light on the house’s water heater
had come in, the accumulated gas had ignited, with the resultant explosion being strong
enough to rattle the frames of the houses in all directions within half a mile from the
Fishers’ residence. The fire that followed burned the house down to a pile of charred rubble,
and firefighters discovered the burned bodies of Mary and her two young children lying in a bed
in what little was left of the house. At the time of the murders, Robert Fisher disappeared.
In the weeks before her death, Mary Fisher had expressed her intention to divorce Robert to her
friends, owing to the marital difficulties between the two. Robert was psychologically impacted by
his parent’s own divorce when he was a child. He felt threatened by this, and it resulted in
him ending the lives of his family before they could leave him. Oh, what’s that, rookie? Do you
want to know how the Bureau apprehended him? Well, guess what – since June of 2002, Fisher
was added to the FBI’s most wanted list, and as of 2024, he remains at large. Oh, did you
think we found everyone on our list? Think again! Some of the worst of the worst criminals, guilty
of the most heinous crimes, are still out there… You might have a roommate you don’t always see
eye to eye with. Maybe they play their music a little too loud or snore while you’re trying
to sleep. But this next entry will make you glad for your roommate’s shortcomings. Meet Gary
Ray Bowles, otherwise known as the I-95 Killer, a man who would be hell to live with. Don’t
believe us? Well, ask John Roberts, the man who offered Bowles a temporary place to live, only
to be beaten and strangled to death in April 1994 after the two of them had an argument. Bowles
then stole John’s credit card and over the next six months, enacting a spate of further killings.
His preferred method of operation was undoubtedly sickening, as Bowles would frequent numerous gay
bars where he pretended to take an interest in other patrons to get them alone, then murdering
them in cold blood in much the same way he’d done to his now former roommate. By stealing their
credit cards and allowing men to solicit ‘favors’ from him, Bowles stayed on the move and evaded
authorities for months, staying with various other roommates temporarily. He became known as
the I-95 Killer, given that most of his victims lived near the Interstate 95 highway, which
runs along the east coast of the United States. Eventually, on the twenty-second of October 1994,
Bowles's name ended up landing on the FBI’s most wanted list, given that he was considered
a person of interest in multiple murders at this point. The added publicity led to several
calls to the authorities by former housemates, some of whom were lucky enough to
be spared the same treatment as John Roberts had received from Bowles. A week after
being added to the most wanted list, Gary Bowles, the I-95 Killer, was arrested after killing yet
another roommate. During questioning, he broke down and confessed to six murders in total. He
would be found guilty on three of the six counts of his homophobic killings and was ultimately
sentenced to death in the state of Florida in September of 1999, with his eventual execution
being carried out twenty-three years later. We’ve heard about some downright evil men
whose actions have wound up on the FBI’s most-wanted list, but what about the ladies?
Well, throughout the list’s history, and out of the hundreds of names included there, only ten of
them have ever been women. The very first woman to appear on the list added back in 1968, was Ruth
Eisemann-Schier, thanks to a particularly cruel crime she carried out alongside her accomplice and
boyfriend, Gary Steven Krist. Together with Krist, who had recently escaped from prison, disguised
themselves as police officers and arrived at the door of a room at the Rodeway Inn in Decatur,
Georgia, where Barbara Mackle and her mother were staying. Barbara was the daughter of Robert
Mackle, a wealthy land developer in Florida, and both Eisemann-Schier and Krist knew it.
The duo got inside the room thanks to their disguises and claimed that one of Barbara’s
friends had been in a traffic accident. Once inside, they chloroformed Barbara’s mother, then
forced the twenty-year-old girl into the back of their car they had waiting outside. You would
think that kidnapping an innocent girl would be as bad as it got, but Ruth Eisemann-Schier and
her partner didn’t stop there. They forcibly buried Barbara alive in a shallow trench, keeping
her inside a fiberglass reinforced box, which was fitted with a lamp, an air pump, food, water
(that was laced with sedatives), and two plastic pipes leading inside to supply Barbara with air.
You see, Ruth Eisemann-Schier had no interest in killing Barbara Mackle – the plan
was to ransom her. They demanded a five hundred thousand dollar payout from
Barbara’s father, the equivalent of just over four million dollars as of 2023. The ransom was paid,
and true to their word, they called the FBI with instructions on where to find Barbara. The pair
were ultimately caught after the FBI located their victim after she spent over three days buried
underground. After being placed on the FBI’s most wanted list, Ruth Eisemann-Schier was arrested
in 1969 when she submitted her fingerprints while applying for a job at an Oklahoma hospital.
After the ransom money had been dropped off, she and Krist parted ways, seemingly not on
good terms. She was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison, then given parole
after serving four, at which point she was deported back to her home country of Honduras.
From people who ended up on the most wanted list after one big crime to someone who had his hands
in several throughout a storied criminal career, next up is one of the most notorious mob bosses
to ever live… and not the one you’re probably thinking of. Decades after the reign of Al Capone,
another mobster rose to prominence as the boss of the Irish mob in Boston from the seventies
through to the nineties: James Joseph Bulger, otherwise known as Whitey. And his long tenure
and success in organized crime was helped, in large part, thanks to the protection
provided to Whitey by the FBI themselves! Bulger’s life of crime started early, joining
street gangs at a young age, then finding himself in and out of jail for various assault
and theft charges. Then, in 1956, after being convicted of a hijacking, he landed in federal
prisons, serving time in multiple penitentiaries, including the infamous Alcatraz prison. While
in federal custody, Whitey even volunteered for experiments conducted by the CIA, wherein they
dosed prison inmates with LSD and other drugs in exchange for lessened sentences. Yeah, this guy
had something of a fascinatingly eventful life. Leaving prison in 1965, Bulger joined up with the
Irish American Killeen gang in Boston during a time when rival factions were at war. As part of
this war, Whitey would commit his first homicide, killing the twin brother of a rival gangster,
mistaking him for his actual target. Throughout his criminal career, he’d become known
for his readiness to use violence to achieve his goals, particularly murder.
When the boss and deputy of the Winter Hill Gang were arrested in 1979, Bulger quickly
assumed control. But despite having his hands in all manner of criminal endeavors, including
racketeering, money laundering, fixing horse races, extortion, and even more murders, Whitey
had been working as an informant for the FBI as early as 1974, without the knowledge of his fellow
gang members. He worked closely with an FBI agent he’d grown up alongside and had been to school
with, as well as another informant within the gang. The information supplied by Whitey pertained
to their obsessive pursuit of Italian American crime families that were on and off allies and
occasional rivals to the Irish American mob. Eventually, made aware that his arrest was coming,
Whitey gave up his double life in 1994 and went on the run from the Bureau, avoiding being arrested
on suspicion of nineteen murders and nearly thirty other federal charges. He remained on the most
wanted list until he was eventually tracked down in 2011, then two years later found himself
slapped with two life sentences when he was found guilty of thirty-one of the charges he was
up against. In 2018, Whitey Bulger was murdered in prison, with the FBI resolving to investigate
just how another inmate gained access to his cell. Of all the people whose names have ever graced
the FBI’s most wanted list, not many can boast the achievement of making it on their list twice.
The first man to do so was none other than James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr. Beforehand; Ray had been little more than a small-time crook
known for robbing gas stations and liquor stores. He’d done some prison time, once in Illinois
and twice in Missouri, and on the twenty-third of April 1967, he’d actually managed to
escape from Missouri State Penitentiary. Just short of a year later, on the fourth of
April, 1968, Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of a motel room
in Memphis, Tennessee. In fact, immediately after the assassination, James Earl Ray was identified
as the prime suspect. Wow, they certainly figured that out conveniently quickly. How or why did a
small-time criminal be able to break out of prison and, within a year, assassinate one of the most
prominent African American civil rights leaders in the United States? Draw your own conclusions.
It’s not entirely impossible that he had backing from a particular federal agency… but we don’t
like that kind of rampant speculation here at the FBI. Keep it to yourself, rookie!
Fleeing to Toronto, Ray managed to secure himself a Canadian passport and headed to London,
then Lisbon, and then back to London. However, his strange travel plans were cut short when a
customs officer at Heathrow Airport recognized the alias he was using from a Canadian wanted
list. Taken back to Memphis, Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of MLK, forgoing a trial
and being sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. Months later, he recanted his confession,
but it did little to change his circumstances. Then, in June of 1977, James Earl Ray would find
himself back on the FBI’s most wanted list when he managed to escape from Brushy Mountain Prison in
Tennessee. For fifty-four hours, a massive manhunt was conducted to track the alleged assassin down,
resulting in Ray being recaptured. However, in the years that followed, he would renounce his guilt,
raising questions about a potential conspiracy surrounding Martin Luther King Jr’s death.
While Ray was never able to present evidence proving his claims, his pleas to actually to have
a trial were even supported by MLK’s own family, who have long contested that the FBI themselves
had a direct hand in King’s assassination. From a man whose guilt is still uncertain, to one
who was undeniably guilty and whose heinous crimes rightfully earned him a spot on the FBI’s most
wanted list. Ted Bundy’s name lives in so much infamy that this sadistic serial killer needs
little to no introduction. One of the most, if not arguably the most, notorious
serial killers in American history, Ted Bundy might’ve seemed outwardly charming
and personable, but beneath that demeanor, he was a depraved and violent monster.
With a history of spying on unsuspecting women that earned him a juvenile record, Bundy
graduated college in 1972, seemingly heading towards a career in law or politics. But his
extracurricular activities were where his true passion was, assaulting his earliest known
victim in 1974. His preferred targets were young college-age women, often keeping his arm
in a sling, wearing a fake cast or walking on crutches to elicit sympathy, and using his
charms to convince his victims to assist him with tasks that drew them near to his car.
Using a pipe, Bundy would then knock them unconscious, handcuff them, and then take them
away to do truly unspeakable things to them – a lot of which we can’t go into detail on. He would
typically strangle or bludgeon these women, then mutilate their bodies after killing them. Bundy
was also fond of bringing his victim’s deceased bodies into his home, at times displaying their
severed heads around the apartment like disturbing trophies. He also shared a bed with some of
the decaying corpses of his victims until the decomposition of the bodies made it unbearable.
While for a time he was able to evade suspicion, Bundy was eventually arrested but managed to
escape from custody multiple times, the second of which landed him on the FBI’s most wanted list.
In December of 1977, during his second escape, Bundy embarked on a continuation of his killing
spree, assaulting and killing at least six more people before he was caught for a traffic
violation. Overall, Ted Bundy confessed to taking the lives of thirty people, although the
exact number remains unknown to this day. He was sentenced to death and executed via the electric
chair on the twenty-fourth of January, 1989. Of course, Bundy is far from the only infamous
name to end up on the FBI’s most wanted list; there’s another who used to be at the very
top and whose actions have led to even more deaths than the notorious serial killer. Osama
Bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda and the man behind the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade
Centre. Except, while it was his devastating acts of terror that made him infamous the world over,
Bin Laden had been a target of the FBI for well over a decade before 2001 and was even present
on their most wanted list as early as 1993. You see, Bin Laden wasn’t just responsible
for one major act of terror but had his hand in several ever since he formed al-Qaeda in
1988, just before the end of the Soviet war in Afghanistan against CIA-backed mujahadeen
fighters -who would later go on to form the foundational members of the Taliban, another
terrorist organization-. Bin Laden raked up quite a resume of terror attacks in his war against
the West, particularly America. In particular, the 1993 Mogadishu bombing, in which Somali rebels
trained by Bin Laden and his compatriots killed eighteen American servicemen. The same year, Bin
Laden was also tied to the first attack on the World Trade Center, which killed six people
and injured over a thousand. These were what landed him on the FBI’s most wanted list, but
Bin Laden was far from being done. In 1995, he attempted to have Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarak assassinated and killed. In 1996 he bombed a US Air Force complex in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia. Then, in 1998, over two hundred died as a result of twin bombings at US Embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania, which al-Qaeda took credit for. Then, of course, in 2001, the 9/11 attacks on
the World Trade Center made Osama bin Laden the most wanted man in the world, earning him the
title of Public Enemy Number One. The FBI even put a staggering twenty-five million dollar
bounty on his head. Even so, Bin Laden was able to evade being captured or killed, spending
the remainder of his life in hiding. That was, until the first of May 2011, when US SEAL Team
Six stormed his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and shot him. Osama bin Laden had spent almost
two decades as one of the most feared men in the world and was likely responsible for more deaths
than anyone else on the FBI’s most wanted list. How do you like those bad apples, rookie? Still,
think you’re cut out for life in the Bureau? Oh, I get it! You think you'll have nothing to worry
about because most of these infamous faces either ended up behind bars or six feet beneath the
ground. Hold on, you said you think that, by comparison, things will be a cakewalk?
Oh, you’ve done it now. We’ll see how much of a cakewalk you think this is! Grab that
file right there and hand it over. It's time for you to meet some of the people still on the
FBI’s most-wanted list and still at large now! Alexis Flores, born in Honduras in 1975, sustained
a neck injury during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, leaving him with a noticeable surgical scar.
Several years later, in late July 2000, a five-year-old girl named Iriana DeJesus
went missing in Philadelphia. Around the time of her disappearance, a homeless drifter
from Honduras, known locally only as Carlos, arrived in the area. Jorge Contreras,
a Hunting Park, Philadelphia resident, provided shelter and clothing to Carlos in
exchange for his services as a general handyman. On August the third, 2000, only five days
after being reported missing, the body of five-year-old Irana DeJesus was found in the
basement of an empty apartment building. She had been violently assaulted, strangled, and then
left wrapped up in a trash bag. Also left behind on the scene was a t-shirt covered in Irana's
blood, which Jorge Contreras recognized thanks to the distinct political logo on it –the shirt
was one of the articles of clothing he’d given to Carlos. And the building where Irana’s body was
found was a place where the man was thought to have often stayed. All of the evidence seemed to
implicate Carlos in this heinous crime involving a minor… but, in reality, there was no ‘Carlos’.
Police investigators would soon suspect that Carlos was Alexis Flores. In 2007, this would be
confirmed when DNA taken from the Philadelphia crime scene thought to belong to ‘Carlos’
was matched with that of Flores. However, Alexis Flores had already been
arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, back in 2004 on a charge of forgery, leading to
his deportation back to Honduras. Since 2007, he’s remained at large and named in the FBI’s top
ten most wanted fugitives, with the reward for any information leading to his capture increasing
from one hundred thousand dollars to a quarter of a million in 2023. As of 2024, though, Alexis
Flores has yet to face justice for his crime. A quarter of a million dollars seems like
quite the sweet reward for anyone who spots Alexis Flores. But you know what’s nicer
than a quarter mil, rookie? How about five million dollars? That’s the amount the FBI is
currently offering for anyone with information on Wilver Villegas-Palomino, a man thought to have
been involved in a twenty-year-long conspiracy to distribute illegal substances from Colombia
to the United States. According to the FBI, Villegas-Palomino is a high-ranking member of the
National Liberation Army, a Colombian insurgency group involved in the ongoing conflict that
has swept the country since 1964. The group is classified as a terrorist organization by
the governments of the United States, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand, and the European Union.
Villegas-Palomino is charged with the crime of narcoterrorism due to his role in helping
traffic cocaine into the US, and given that this criminal activity and the selling of the
illegal drug has helped to fund a terrorist organization. According to federal officials, the
most obtained by the ELN through drug trafficking is used to help fund terrorist attacks, as well
as to help them buy political influence and other actions that they conduct in an attempt
to destabilize the Colombian government. Given that Villegas-Palomino is accused
of trafficking drugs through Houston, he’s become another new fixture on the FBI’s most
wanted fugitives list since April fourteenth 2023. However, he was first indicted in February 2020
by the Southern District of Texas on charges of not only narcoterrorism but also conspiracy to
import cocaine and the international distribution of it. Following the ruling, a federal arrest
warrant was issued for Villegas-Palomino, but his whereabouts remain unknown.
He reportedly often operates under aliases including Wilver Villegas or
Wilver Palomino, or our personal favorite, Carlos El Puerco, which translates to Carlos the
Hog. With still no further clues as to where he might be hiding, the FBI has attempted
to encourage anyone with information on Wilver Villegas-Palomino’s whereabouts to
come forward, and as of September 2020, are offering a staggering five million US dollars
for any information that leads to his capture. Five million is certainly a hefty payday,
probably more than you’ll see as a rookie FBI special agent. But it also pales in comparison to
the literal billions stolen in a Ponzi scheme by the Missing Crypto Queen herself. I hope you’ve
been paying attention, rookie; remember when I mentioned there had only ever been ten women
on the FBI’s most wanted list? Well, here’s one still out there: Ruja Ignatova. In 2014,
Ignatova introduced the world to OneCoin, her proposed rival to the original, longest lasting
and most well-known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Back in 2016, interest in cryptocurrency was at
an all-time high, with investors in an excited frenzy throwing heaps of money at what they saw
as a new opportunity to be even more greedy—uh, I mean to make more money. Garnering attention
with OneCoin, Ignatova pitched it as a Bitcoin Killer that would become big enough to
overshadow the rival cryptocurrency completely. Built in reality, OneCoin was a highly fraudulent
Ponzi scheme. Early investors were being paid with the money being funneled into OneCoin by newer
investors. It was also considered a pyramid scheme since more and more investors were being roped
in with no proof of the product’s existence. And all the while, Ruja Ignatova was pocketing
plenty of that sweet, sweet investor capital. OneCoin stole approximately the equivalent of four
billion US dollars since its launch in 2014 from investors all across the globe. Naturally, this
landed Ignatova and the rest of the leaders of OneCoin in scalding hot water, with most of them
being apprehended by authorities. Her brother, Konstantin Ignatova, pled guilty to committing
fraud and money laundering charges relating to the OneCoin scheme, but Ruja Ignatova has still
managed to avoid facing any justice. Thanks to someone tipping her off that the police were
taking an interest in looking into OneCoin back in 2017, she was able to disappear. Since
then, she has been charged in her absence with all kinds of fraud imaginable and found her name
on the FBI’s most wanted list as of June 2022. For a brief time, there were rumors that Ignatova
had been murdered aboard a yacht in the Ionian Sea at the behest of a Bulgarian drug lord back
in November of 2018. This was, allegedly, to conceal the drug lord’s involvement in the
OneCoin scam and resulted in Ignatova’s body being dismembered and thrown overboard. However,
as of 2022, the FBI believes she is still alive. More recently, it seemed like Ignatova had
resurfaced in 2023 when a luxury London penthouse she bought – yes, with funds from her fake
cryptocurrency – went up for sale. Some suggested Ruja Ignatova could have been orchestrating the
sale of the twelve-and-a-half million pound, four-bedroom penthouse she had filled with
expensive artwork and designer clothes before she was forced to go into hiding. However, her name
only continued to be associated with the property thanks to UK transparency laws, which meant she
had to be named as the previous owner. Sadly, for anyone who lost their money in Ignatova’s
crypto scam, the reward for any information on her whereabouts is only two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, chump change compared to the amount she made by duping
investors. Eat your heart out, RazzleKhan. From a crypto scammer to a North Carolina killer,
another name on the FBI’s most wanted list with a hefty quarter of a million dollar price on
his head is Alejandro Rosales Castillo. This twenty-five-year-old fugitive might be the best
argument for never dating your coworkers after he took the life of a former girlfriend…
when he was only seventeen! Back in 2016, Castillo worked in a Showmars restaurant in
Charlotte, North Carolina, alongside Truc Quan Ly Le, known to her friends as Sandy. The pair of
them dated for a short while, during which time Castillo borrowed some money from Sandy, which
he never paid back after the two of them split. Now, with a new girlfriend, Ahmia Feaster,
Castillo texts Sandy in August of 2016, telling her he wants to repay the money she had
loaned him. The two met up, with Feaster bringing Castillo to the place they’d agreed. But instead
of repaying Sandy, it is believed that Castillo forced her, possibly at gunpoint, to withdraw
all the money from her bank account at an ATM, which totaled to the last thousand dollars she
had left. Afterward, Castillo is thought to have then driven Sandy to a wooded area and shot
her in the head, leaving her body in a ravine before stealing her car alongside Ahima Feaster.
Castillo and Feaster drove to Phoenix, Arizona, and eventually crossed the border into Mexico.
However, in October of the same year, Feaster reached out to her mother and was extradited back
to the US and then arrested. According to her, Castillo had just vanished one day, even though
she had no idea where he went. Investigators believe Castillo could still be in Mexico
somewhere and could even be in continued contact with friends or family back in the US.
As I said, dating your coworkers rarely works out. Are you married, rookie? I only ask because
if I’ve learned anything in this line of work, it’s that marriage can be more trouble than it's
worth. Sure, you might end up moderately happy for the rest of your life, maybe even with someone
you like. But that’s just the best-case scenario we’re talking about here. Worst case? Well, you
might not even get to enjoy the honeymoon period. On the eleventh of May, 2012, Estrella Carrera
married Arnoldo Jimenez at Chicago City Hall. After sharing a celebratory dinner with family
and friends, the couple set off to dance the night away at a club, eventually leaving at around
four o’clock. Then, on the way back, things got heated. And not in the way they usually do on a
wedding night. The newlyweds got themselves into an argument, which resulted in Jimenez fatally
stabbing his new wife multiple times in his car. He then dragged her body into her apartment
and left her dumped in the bathtub to bleed out, still wearing the silver dress she had worn
when the two of them had been married mere hours earlier – less than a full day after the wedding.
Estrella had been the mother of two children, a nine-year-old daughter from a previous
relationship and a two-year-old son she’d had with Jimenez. When she didn’t arrive to pick
the children up from her family the next day, something was clearly wrong. She was reported
missing to the police, and her body was discovered the following day, May Thirteenth
2012. There had been no sign of forced entry, and Jimenez was nowhere to be found. Three days
later, he was charged with first-degree murder, and both a state and a federal warrant
for his arrest followed not long after. But despite his car being found on his
brother’s property in September of 2012, with Estrella Carrera’s blood inside, nobody
has seen or heard from Arnoldo Jimenez since the murder took place. The FBI believes he might be
hiding out in Mexico, suspecting that his brother drove him there in his car and left him there.
Just like many others who are still at large, the FBI increased their initial reward for
any information leading to Jimemez’s arrest from one hundred thousand to two hundred and
fifty thousand. Yet still, his whereabouts, and the whereabouts of the numerous other names
on the most wanted list, currently remain unknown. Now check out “50 Insane Declassified FBI Secrets
You Didn’t Know.” Or watch this video instead!
