FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1953

In 1953, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fourth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

1953 was a very productive year for the FBI, as the Bureau listed and then also soon caught many fugitives. At the rate of two fugitives per month, 1953 long held the early record (surpassed in 1968) for the most top ten fugitives listed in a single year, numbering 24 in total.

The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1953 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):

January 15, 1953 #41
One month on the list
Charles Patrick Shue - U.S. prisoner arrested February 13, 1953, in Los Angeles, California, as a result of the FBI being notified after an individual recognized Shue's picture in a newspaper

January 22, 1953 #42
Three months on the list
Lawson David Shirk Butler - U.S. prisoner arrested April 21, 1953, in Los Angeles, California

February 8, 1953 #43
Two days on the list
Joseph James Brletic - U.S. prisoner arrested February 10, 1953, in Lancaster, California, by the Los Angeles Sheriff's office after being recognized from a photograph in the Los Angeles Herald-Express newspaper

March 3, 1953 #44
Three months on the list
David Dallas Taylor - U.S. prisoner arrested May 26, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois

March 4, 1953 #45
One day on the list
Perlie Miller - U.S. prisoner arrested March 5, 1953, while working at a local diner, when a customer recognized him from a published "Top Ten" photograph, in Somersworth, New Hampshire

March 5, 1953 #46
Two months on the list
Fred William Bowerman - deceased, was mortally wounded April 24, 1953, by police officers while attempting to flee the scene of a bank robbery in St. Louis, Missouri

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