Who is Angela Davis? Political activist on FBI's most wanted fugitives along with 10 other women
In the FBI’s most wanted fugitives list, there has been a total of 514 names over the last 73 years since its inception in 1950, out of which 11 are women. Angela Davis, the 79-year-old political activist, philosopher, academic, and author, is one of them; while Ruja Ignatova, popularly known as the 'Cryptoqueen', is the only woman featured in the top 10.
According to DailyMail, Davis was placed on the FBI's most wanted list on August 18, 1970, with a poster that read, "Angela Davis is wanted on kidnapping and murder charges growing out of an abduction and shooting in Marin County, California, on August 7, 1970. She allegedly has purchased several guns in the past. Consider possibly armed and dangerous."
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Angela Davis
Davis was charged with these crimes as a result of her involvement in the events of August 7, 1970, which resulted in the death of Judge Harold Haley. Three black men, known as the Soledad Brothers, were being tried in Marin County courthouse when 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson entered the courtroom, armed the three inmates, and kidnapped Judge Haley, states Heritage Auctions. It was discovered that the guns used by Jackson were registered in Davis’ name.
That same year, Davis was apprehended in a motel in New York City. When the case went to trial in 1972, she faced charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping. However, an all-white jury found her not guilty and she was acquitted.
As per UCLA Newsroom, she went on to teach feminist studies and research the American prison complex at UC Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2008. In a 2012 interview at the University of California, Davis talked about lessons that she learned while incarcerated. She said, “After I had been in jail a few days, it occurred to me that we were missing so much by focusing only or primarily on political prisoners, and then primarily on male political prisoners. Beyond the question of forgetting those who don’t correspond to the male gender, a feminist approach offers a deeper and more productive understanding of the system as a whole.”
Ruja Ignatova
She is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency scams. The 42-year-old features in the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives for duping as many as a million investors worldwide. As per the FBI, she allegedly instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts in order to purchase OneCoin packages, causing victims to send wire transfers representing these investments. Throughout the scheme, OneCoin is thought to have defrauded victims out of more than $4 billion over the course of the scam. A superseding indictment was issued on February 6, 2018, charging Ignatova with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Commit Securities Fraud, and Securities Fraud.
As per Fox News, Ignatova has brown eyes and dark brown to black hair at the time of her disappearance and speaks English, German and Bulgarian. Anyone with any information is urged to contact the nearest FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate. You can also report tips anonymously online at tips.fbi.gov.
Shanika S Minor
Minor was added to the FBI's most wanted in June 2016 after allegedly killing a pregnant woman in Milwaukee who "disrespected" her family, as per Rolling Stone. The FBI announced on July 1, 2016, just three days after she was placed on the most wanted list that she was apprehended in a North Carolina motel.
Brenda Delgado
On April 6, 2016, Delgado was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list; she was captured two days later. According to DailyMail, she was sought after for her involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme that led to the death of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, a pediatric surgeon.
Shauntay L Henderson
She was placed on the FBI's most wanted list on March 3, 2007, and arrested that same day, Authorities caught her when she opened the door at an associate's house, as police were searching for someone else.
Donna Jean Willmott
She was placed on the FBI's most wanted list in May 1987 but didn't surrender until On December 6, 1994. According to The New York Times, Willmott and her accomplice, Claude Daniel Marks, were wanted by the FBI for their alleged involvement in attempting to blow up a security prison in Kansas — including landing a helicopter amid the chaos — in order to free a leader of a Puerto Rican nationalist group known as the FALN. After Willmott's capture alongside her partner, in 1994, the outlet reported that they had been hiding out in Chicago under the alias Greg Peters and Jo Elliot.
Katherine Ann Power
Power was added to the most wanted list in October 1970, but was later removed in June 1984. According to The New Yorker, in 1970, Power, who was a senior at Brandeis University, robbed a National Guard armory and a bank in Massachusetts with her roommate Susan Edith Saxe and three ex-convicted criminals. The robbery's goal was to raise funds for the Black Panthers. However, one of the ex-cons fatally shot a police officer on the scene while robbing the bank. Power was not apprehended until 1993.
Susan Edith Saxe
Saxe was listed for the same robbery that also landed her roommate Power on the list, but in contrast to Power, Saxe was apprehended in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1975.
Bernardine Rae Dohrn
Dohrn, a University of Chicago Law School graduate, was placed on the FBI's most wanted list in October of 1970 before the charges against her were dismissed on December 7, 1973. In 1970, Dohrn was a leader of Weather Underground, a radical group, when an accidental explosion at the home of a member resulted in three deaths, BuzzFeed reported. Dohrn, alongside other leaders, went into hiding. All charges against the group had been dropped by the time Dohrn had come forward in 1980 because the FBI's counterintelligence operations had been found to be unlawful.
Marie Dean Arrington
She was added to the list in 1969 after she escaped from a Florida prison where she was on death row for murder. Arrington, known as the "mad-dog killer," was apprehended and sentenced in 1972 to an additional 10 years in prison for escaping, but when the Florida Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be unconstitutional, her death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
Ruth Eisemann-Schier
She was the first woman to ever be placed on the FBI's most wanted list in December of 1968. According to the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, Eisenmann-Shier confessed to the FBI in March 1969 that she helped kidnap a Miami heiress, Barbara Jane Mackle because she was in love with the kidnapper, Gary Steven Krist. Jane Mackle was the daughter of Robert Mackle, a millionaire Florida land developer. The father paid a ransom of $500K and the kidnappers then informed the location of where the developer's daughter was buried alive to FBI. Mackle was rescued after spending 3 days buried underground. Eisemann-Schier fled with her partner but was soon captured on March 5, 1969. She became the first woman to be named one of the FBI's ten most wanted and served three of the seven-year prison she received. Eisemann-Schier was eventually deported to her home country of Honduras.
