FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1954

In 1954, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fifth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

January 11, 1954 #66 Four months on the list Alex Whitmore - U.S. prisoner arrested May 10, 1954 in Seattle, Washington after a citizen recognized him from a television broadcast January 25, 1954 #67 Three weeks on the list Everett Lowell Krueger - U.S. prisoner arrested February 15, 1954 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and told FBI Agents: "I'm glad it's over.

February 3, 1954 #68 One week on the list Apee Hamp Chapman - U.S. prisoner arrested February 10, 1954 in Silver Spring, Maryland after a citizen saw his photo in the February 9, 1954 issue of the Washington Afro-American magazine February 8, 1954 #69 Two weeks on the list Nelson Robert Duncan - U.S. prisoner arrested February 21, 1954 in Atlanta, Georgia by Atlanta patrolmen who were investigating an open skylight in a local grocery store and discovered Duncan and an accomplice attempting to burglarize the store safe February 24, 1954 #70 Two years on the list Charles Falzone - U.S. prisoner arrested August 17, 1955 in New Bedford, Pennsylvania by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph from an Identification Order in a post office March 1, 1954 #71 Two days on the list Basil Kingsley Beck - U.S. prisoner arrested March 3, 1954 in San Pablo, California by FBI Agents March 8, 1954 #72 Two years on the list Clarence Dye - U.S. prisoner arrested August 3, 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by local police in a routine check, during which Dye's former girlfriend told police Dye was wanted March 16, 1954 #73 One day on the list James William Lofton - U.S. prisoner arrested March 17, 1954 in Morgan City, Louisiana by local police and the FBI April 2, 1954 #74 Three weeks on the list Sterling Groom - U.S. prisoner arrested April 21, 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland by FBI after a citizen recognized him from an Identification Order in a post office May 3, 1954 #75 Two days on the list Raymond Louis Owen Menard - U.S. prisoner arrested May 5, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana by local police after a citizen recognized a photograph in a local newspaper May 18, 1954 #76 Three weeks on the list John Alfred Hopkins - U.S. prisoner arrested June 7, 1954 near Beowawe, Nevada by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from a photo in a California newspaper May 21, 1954 #77 Eight months on the list Otto Austin Loel - U.S. prisoner arrested January 17, 1955 in Sanford, Florida by local police.

Loel had been hiding in the Sanford city dump and living in a crude lean-to shack made of palmetto leaves June 21, 1954 #78 Nine years on the list David Daniel Keegan - PROCESS DISMISSED December 13, 1963 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa August 17, 1954 #79 Five months on the list Walter James Wilkinson - U.S. prisoner arrested January 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California by the FBI after a citizen recognized him from an Identification Order in a post office.

September 7, 1954 #80 Three months on the list John Harry Allen - U.S. prisoner arrested December 21, 1954 in Fort Smith, Arkansas after being recognized by two police officers from a wanted flyer