Jack Lawrence
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Although never found, there have been many reports that she in fact was killed in 2018.
The infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, who was added to the FBI's top 10 fugitives list on February 10th of 1978 and was arrested just five days later.
He would be given three death sentences in two trials and executed in 1989 in a Florida state prison.
James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.
and had escaped from prison the previous year.
He would run north to Canada and lay low for a while.
After a few months on the run, Ray was arrested in London and sent back to the United States to stand trial for his crime.
There he would plead guilty to King's murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
As you'll notice, almost all the people mentioned eventually found themselves caught.
And in fact, out of the 530 fugitives that have made it on the list since the 1950s, 494 have been captured, representing a 93% success rate.
William Defoe, or Wild Bill, was also captured.
Except his capture was more by accident than anything else.
And I saw my own face looking back at me.
My name's Jack Lawrence.
As we know, Wild Bill is serving over 40 years inside a prison in Panama, convicted of the murders of five American expats.
Some of these killings were, he says, sanctioned by a local cartel that he worked with.
Some were opportunities to further his lifestyle.
All were for financial gain.
Such as the murder of a former drug trafficker who had escaped prison in the United States.