In 1969, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a twentieth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
The FBI began the year 1969 with few multi-year long-timers on the list, and many Fugitives from the prior year who were soon captured in the early half of the year:
- 1965 #203 (four years), John William Clouser remained still at large
- 1967 #246 (two years), Gordon Dale Ervin arrested June 7, 1969
- 1968 #265 (one year), Charles Lee Herron remained still at large
- 1968 #273 (one year), George Edward Wells arrested May 27, 1969
- 1968 #279 (one year), Taylor Morris Teaford remained still at large
- 1968 #282 (one year), Byron James Rice remained still at large
- 1968 #287 (four months), Harold James Evans arrested January 2, 1969
- 1968 #290 (five months), Richard Lee Tingler arrested May 19, 1969
- 1968 #293 (three months), Ruth Eisemann Schier arrested March 5, 1969
But there were few new fugitives added in 1969 to replace those names, as the string of many years of good luck had run out for the FBI in quickly capturing its most wanted. In all total for 1969, the FBI only added eleven new fugitives that year, the least number since 1959.
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