FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1956

In 1956, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a seventh year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

1956 is also notable as the first year in which a Top Tenner made a second appearance on the list.

Such second appearances on the FBI list were to become, curiously, not highly unusual in the early decades of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1956 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order): March 2, 1956 #94 One month on the list Nick George Montos - U.S. prisoner arrested March 28, 1956, in his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, after being recognized by a citizen; until his earlier capture in 1954 at Chicago, Illinois, he had also been listed as Fugitive #37 in 1952, at large for two years March 19, 1956 #95 Two months on the list James Ignatius Faherty - U.S. prisoner arrested May 16, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, together with Thomas Francis Richardson (Fugitive #96) April 12, 1956 #96 One month on the list Thomas Francis Richardson - U.S. prisoner arrested May 16, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, together with James Ignatius Faherty (Fugitive #95) May 28, 1956 #97 Nine years on the list Eugene Francis Newman - PROCESS DISMISSED June 11, 1965, in Buffalo, New York May 28, 1956 #98 Two years on the list Carmine DiBiase - U.S. prisoner surrendered August 28, 1958, to the FBI through a New York City attorney.

Following his surrender, DiBiase reportedly made the following statement: "I am getting older and accomplishing nothing having to stay away from my wife and children, mother and father.