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From Depression-era gangsters to modern terrorists, these notorious criminals met their end at the hands of U.S. intelligence agencies. Join us as we explore the fatal encounters between America's most wanted fugitives and the FBI or CIA! From drone strikes to dramatic shootouts, these manhunts ended with deadly precision.
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00:00If you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the most notorious criminals to be taken,
00:10not alive, by the U.S.'s two most famous intelligence services, foreign and domestic.
00:15Zawahiri is credited with shifting al-Qaeda's focus from fighting Arab regimes to attacking
00:20the United States.
00:23Roy McGrath.
00:24This political operative served as director of the Maryland Environmental Service and
00:29briefly worked as chief of staff to the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan.
00:33Well, a federal judge issued a warrant for McGrath's arrest on Monday after he failed to appear
00:37here in court for the first day of his federal criminal trial.
00:41However, he was forced to resign after getting caught in a financial scandal and was later
00:45charged with falsification of records and wire fraud.
00:48However, he failed to appear in court and became a federal fugitive.
00:53The FBI tracked him down through cell phone signals and credit card records, and on April
00:573rd, 2023, agents moved to arrest McGrath outside of Tennessee Costco.
01:02He fled, resulting in a police chase that ended when he became boxed in.
01:07FBI agents shot McGrath at the exact same time he turned his gun on himself.
01:12It's unclear which was the fatal blow.
01:14The FBI tells us that they have found him earlier this evening along a major highway in Knoxville,
01:20and around 6.30 this evening, a responding agent shot him.
01:23Craig Robertson.
01:24In September of 2022, 74-year-old Craig Robertson made his first of many threats against President
01:30Joe Biden, writing, quote,
01:32The time is right for a presidential assassination or two.
01:35First Joe, then Kamala.
01:37Robertson made threats against President Biden and other officials on social media before his death.
01:44Biden was a repeated target of Robertson's online threats,
01:46but so too were California Governor Gavin Newsom, District Attorney Alvin Bragg,
01:52and Attorneys General Letitia James and Merrick Garland.
01:55His violent posts eventually caught the attention of the FBI National Threats Operations Center.
02:00They began monitoring Robertson, and on the morning of August 9, 2023,
02:04they arrived at his Utah home to serve an arrest warrant.
02:07However, Robertson was prepared, and allegedly began firing at the agents with a revolver.
02:12He was killed by returning fire.
02:14I just can't believe this happened in my neighborhood.
02:15I just can't believe that, you know, that it came to this.
02:19It just seems unreal.
02:21Tobby Wiggins.
02:22Back in 2020, Alabama native Tobby Wiggins attracted the attention of the FBI.
02:27FBI agents had information.
02:29Wiggins was here in the area at this mobile home park.
02:32Negotiators attempted to talk Wiggins out of the home, but had no luck, we're told.
02:37He had become the prime suspect in the death of 39-year-old Kishona Tate, and he was charged
02:42with first-degree murder.
02:43With federal warrants out for his arrest, FBI agents stormed Wiggins' trailer park home
02:48in Atmore, Alabama.
02:49They provided a telephone to Wiggins, and a tense standoff occurred, with Wiggins periodically
02:54breaking from the conversation to wave at the growing crowd and blow them kisses.
02:58With negotiations having failed, Wiggins later emerged from the trailer with a shirt over
03:04his right arm.
03:04It's believed that this shirt concealed the weapon, as agents soon fired multiple shots
03:09into Wiggins, killing him at the scene.
03:11This all happened in the neighborhood behind Snappy's car wash just off 21 on Liberty Street.
03:16Greg Allen Carlson.
03:17In September of 2018, Greg Allen Carlson was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list after
03:23committing a series of armed sexual assaults in the greater Los Angeles area.
03:28FBI says Carlson, one of the most wanted people in the country.
03:31Carlson was arrested for the crimes in 2017, but fled after posting bond.
03:36He was later spotted in Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina, and the FBI became involved
03:42when he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
03:45Fast forward to February 2019, when a North Carolina police officer spotted Carlson's car
03:51in the parking lot of a local hotel.
03:54The FBI was called and stormed his hotel room, resulting in a brief altercation that ended
03:59in Carlson's death.
04:00The FBI says agents went to Carlson's room to arrest him.
04:03They say Carlson was armed, and that one shot was fired by an FBI agent that killed Carlson.
04:09Jamal al-Badawi.
04:10The multiple downfalls of this Yemeni al-Qaeda operative were as harrowing as his crimes were
04:16horrific.
04:16Jamal al-Badawi gained notoriety by organizing the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, which killed
04:2317 American sailors.
04:24Members of al-Qaeda attacked the Norfolk-based Navy destroyer while it was refueling in Yemen.
04:29He would have attacked the USS The Sullivan if the boat wasn't stifled by the excess of
04:34explosives on board.
04:36Al-Badawi was captured by the FBI and Yemeni authorities on 50 charges, only to escape during
04:42a prisoner transfer.
04:43He was captured again, sentenced to death, and escaped from jail.
04:46In 2007, al-Badawi surrendered to the authorities and seemingly went free as part of a deal.
04:52But that death sentence ultimately came 11 years later.
04:55Al-Badawi was killed in a CIA drone strike on New Year's Day 2019.
05:00The U.S. military says the drone strike was launched New Year's Day, targeting the man
05:05who helped bomb the USS Cole nearly two decades ago.
05:09Richard McCoy Jr.
05:11The skyjacker, known only as D.B. Cooper, was never formally identified.
05:15It consistently is on the list of the top five crime mysteries.
05:23One suspect was Richard McCoy Jr., a former U.S. Army pilot and skydiver, who hijacked
05:28a United Airlines jet for a $50,000 ransom in 1972.
05:33This was shortly after Cooper hijacked a similar plane and also escaped through the air stairs.
05:38Two days later, McCoy was arrested with nearly $500,000 in a duffel bag in his home.
05:44He escaped from prison by crashing a stolen garbage truck through the gate, but was killed
05:48in a gunfight with FBI agents three months after an armed bank robbery.
05:53Whether McCoy was the fabled D.B.
05:55Cooper, his criminal career and demise were certainly historic.
05:58Despite their theory that McCoy is D.B.
06:01Cooper, today's FBI doesn't agree.
06:03Rashid Raouf.
06:05Contradictions surround Rashid Raouf's death as much as his life.
06:08The British Muslim was radicalized in the wake of 9-11, though some believe he fled to
06:13Pakistan to avoid questioning in his uncle's murder.
06:16Raouf gained Pakistani citizenship and joined an Al-Qaeda-linked Kashmiri militant group, before
06:21being arrested on suspicion of planning the 7-7 attacks in London.
06:26He escaped custody and was reportedly killed in an airstrike in 2008.
06:30However, some associates and outlets claim that this didn't happen, and that Raouf may
06:35have died in prison.
06:36Evidence of the strike remains strong enough for his family to file a lawsuit against the
06:41UK government for assisting the CIA in killing Raouf without due process.
06:46Robert J. Matthews.
06:47The manhunt of Robert J. Matthews was bound to be dramatized in movies.
06:52This is the man who inspired that belief.
06:55The man who brought the order together.
06:58Bob Matthews.
06:59Matthews was a known neo-Nazi, and in 1984, he shot and wounded an FBI agent in Oregon.
07:05The Bureau then tracked Matthews to a house on Whidbey Island in Washington, and laid him
07:10under siege for two days.
07:12Matthews proved confrontational, and after tear gas failed to flush him out, agents began
07:17firing into the structure with machine guns and other large weapons.
07:21Meanwhile, gunfire continued to erupt from the house, suggesting that Matthews was still
07:26alive.
07:27Eventually, an FBI helicopter fired illumination flares into the house, resulting in a huge explosion
07:33that destroyed the homestead and killed Matthews.
07:37The leader of the order never emerges from his safe house.
07:41I will never submit, nor surrender.
07:45Goodbye, kinsman.
07:46Bob Matthews' war with the government has finally come to an end.
07:50Ma Barker.
07:51Real name, Arizona Clark.
07:53Ma Barker was purported to be the genius matriarch of the Depression-era Barker-Karpus gang.
07:58They were an active part of the community.
08:01They seemed to just melt right in.
08:03Little did the community know, the Blackburns were Fred Barker and his mother Kate Ma Barker,
08:08a notorious family responsible for several crimes.
08:11But this was mostly just FBI propaganda.
08:13No, Barker wasn't entirely innocent.
08:16She was most definitely an accessory, as she knew of her children's criminal empire and
08:20even helped them hide from police.
08:22But she was no leader.
08:24As told by bank robber Harvey Bailey, she, quote, couldn't even plan breakfast.
08:28She was reaping the benefits, and they needed her because they could move easily where it
08:37looks like Ma and her sons.
08:39The law isn't apt to catch them.
08:42Regardless, Barker was grouped with her sons, and on January 16, 1935, the FBI stormed their
08:48Florida hideout, killing Barker and her son Fred.
08:52It's now widely believed that director J. Edgar Hoover made up the claims about Barker
08:57to justify their shooting of her.
08:59Qayyad Salim Sinan al-Harithi.
09:01Linked to Osama bin Laden all the way back to the Soviet-Afghan war, Qayyad Salim Sinan al-Harithi
09:07led the Al Qaeda chapter in his native Yemen.
09:10He was one of the key planners behind the USS Cole in 2000.
09:14He was in hiding when he ordered the attack on the French-owned MV Limburg two years later.
09:19Within a month, al-Harithi was killed in Marib by a predator drone controlled by the
09:24CIA.
09:25The first such drone strike outside of Afghanistan also claimed the lives of five associates,
09:30including Kamal Derwish of New York's Lackawanna cell.
09:33This controversial death of an American without a trial was reportedly a mistake.
09:38The pivotal assassination of al-Harithi was met with much less backlash.
09:42Al Brady.
09:43Bangor, Maine is known for two things, being the home of Stephen King and the location of
09:48Al Brady's explosive final moments.
09:50The Brady gang consisted of Al Brady, the leader, and then also Clarence Schaefer and James
09:55Dolliver.
09:56They did a little bit of everything.
09:57It was a lot of banks, stores, jewelry stores, kind of criminal mischief throughout the Midwest.
10:04Brady was a Depression-era gangster and murderer who became an FBI public enemy after stealing
10:09roughly $5,000.
10:11He eventually made his way to Banger and attempted to purchase 500 rounds of ammo from a local gun
10:16dealer. Suspicious with the request and the large bills that Brady had used, the owner
10:21contacted the police, and when Brady returned to pick up his order, he found FBI agents waiting for him.
10:27A furious shootout then erupted, with Brady and his partner Clarence Schaefer being gunned down by
10:33FBI agent Walter Walsh.
10:35We think a lot about Maine, and a lot of things being very, very quiet. And then this country-shaking
10:41event of a public enemy number one meeting their end in little old Bangor, Maine.
10:45The story soon became a famous piece of Bangor lore.
10:48Mohammed Attef. An Egyptian veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War, Mohammed Attef became one of the chief
10:55architects and intellectuals of Al-Qaeda. He helped issue the fatwa which justified the killing of
11:00American civilians, and planned the 1998 attack on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The subsequent
11:07arrest warrant didn't deter him from rising in the organization to develop many of its most heinous
11:12early crimes. After 9-11 finally sparked the war on terror, Attef became one of its first major
11:19casualties in an airstrike on his home in Kabul. His death marked a major blow by the CIA and other
11:25agencies against Al-Qaeda, especially with the treasure trove of crucial intelligence found in
11:30the rubble. Billy Dean Anderson. The myth of the American outlaw was revived with Billy Dean
11:35Anderson throughout the 1960s and 70s. He was a respected preacher and talented artisan in Fentress
11:41County, Tennessee, before he committed a string of armed robberies and assaults as far as Indiana.
11:47He repeatedly got out of prison through good behavior and even escaped, and relied on community
11:52members to help him hide out in the mountains. Eventually added to the FBI's most wanted fugitives
11:57list, Anderson was discovered by agents at his mother's house and fatally shot in the ensuing
12:02chase on July 7th, 1979. He is still regarded as a folk legend around his home, having never taken a
12:09life in his abhorrent history of violence. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Even the likes of Osama bin Laden
12:16considered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi uniquely twisted. The Jordanian petty criminal turned Jamaat founder
12:31led a number of terror attacks and personally executed hostages on camera. His leadership of
12:36Al-Qaeda's chapter in Iraq gave him the power to declare war on the entire Shi'ite population,
12:42despite the caution of fellow jihadis. It's believed that al-Zarqawi also plotted to provoke a US
12:48invasion of Iran to draw them out of Iraq. Instead, in 2006, he died from injuries sustained
12:54in a CIA-assisted bombing of his safehouse. The propagandist's death was itself turned into
12:59propaganda that further undermined his organization's authority.
13:03Al-Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again.
13:09It's still hard to verify the extent of al-Zarqawi's influence, let alone his cruelty.
13:14Anwar al-Awlaki, an American imam from a distinguished Yemeni family. Anwar al-Awlaki
13:21rose to prominence as a politically connected spokesman for moderate Muslims in the wake of 9-11.
13:26The US had been zeroing in on al-Awlaki's location for months. In their sights, a compound deep in
13:33the back country of Yemen, where US military and intelligence operatives were certain the
13:39American-born terrorist was hiding out. But his association with extremists
13:44eventually prompted him to relocate to Yemen, where he was arrested on suspicion of terror-related
13:48activities. Al-Awlaki was certainly radicalized after this. His background and education
13:54made him a key recruiter for Al-Qaeda. Then, a leader links to such attacks as the 2009 shooting
14:00in Fort Hood, Texas. In 2011, al-Awlaki became the first US citizen officially assassinated by a CIA
14:09directed drone strike. His death was met with controversy in both his homelands, while his words
14:14continue to inspire the most warped Islamists. The death of Al-Awlaki marks another significant
14:20milestone in the broader effort to defeat Al-Qaeda. Babyface Nelson
14:25One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Babyface Nelson was a known bank robber,
14:30and on November 27, 1934, he was public enemy number one. It was on that date that Nelson would
14:36go down in what is now known as the Battle of Barrington. Nelson and a car full of FBI agents
14:43passed each other on Highway 12 in Illinois, resulting in a violent chase. It ended in Barrington's Northside
14:49Park, where a massive shootout occurred. Two agents were killed in the exchange, and Nelson was fatally
14:55wounded after receiving nine shots, eight shotgun pellets to the leg, and one slug to the gut. He
15:01made it to a safe house in Wilmette, but succumbs to his injuries later that evening.
15:06Pretty Boy Floyd
15:07These old-timey gangsters loved them a good nickname. Another famous bank robber of the 1930s, Pretty Boy
15:14Floyd attracted attention not just because of his exploits, but because he freed many people from debt.
15:19By burning mortgage documents. In this regard, he was considered something of a folk hero by the
15:24American public. But folk hero or not, his crimes still attracted the attention of the FBI, and they
15:30got him on October 22, 1934. The story has about a million different versions, as accounts differ wildly
15:37depending on who's telling it, but the result is the same. Floyd was shot and killed in a cornfield
15:43outside the city of East Liverpool, Ohio. His funeral was attended by up to 40,000 people.
15:49Imad Magniyah. Despite his prominence position in Lebanon's Hezbollah party, Imad Magniyah managed to
15:55skillfully elude authorities as the leader of the Islamic Jihad organization. He was, for decades,
16:01one of the most wanted men in the world. His operations, including attacks on a US embassy
16:06in 1983 and the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 92, resulted in hundreds of deaths. He was wanted in
16:13many countries for decades before the CIA and Mossad collaborated on a long shot. In 2008, Magniyah was
16:20in Damascus to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, when one of his car tires was
16:26replaced with an explosive one. This dramatic assassination was condemned by some as terroristic,
16:32despite the lack of collateral damage. Magniyah was killed in a car bombing in Damascus late on
16:37Tuesday. Authorities say he was traveling in a car in a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital
16:42when the bomb was detonated. The end result remains the downfall of one of the most wanted
16:48and powerful terrorists in the world. John Dillinger. Accused of robbing 24 banks and four police
16:54stations, John Dillinger is one of the most famous of the Depression-era gangsters, and his death is
17:10Chicago legend. On July 22, 1934, Dillinger was leaving the Biograph Theater when he spotted federal
17:17agents waiting for him. The FBI had planned for the ensuing foot chase and had already closed it off.
17:23Three agents pursued Dillinger and shot him, hitting him a total of four times. The fatal shot
17:28entered his neck and severed his spinal cord, effectively killing him instantly.
17:32When the movie let out, shortly after 10.30 pm, the agents were waiting.
17:43Legend has it that bystanders were so enamored with the scene,
17:47and the legend of Dillinger that they dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood as a macabre souvenir.
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18:08Ayman al-Zwahiri. Following the death of Osama bin Laden, attention turned to the new
18:13general emir of Al-Qaeda. Both men were close, appearing in propaganda videos.
18:18Al-Zwahiri was even bin Laden's personal physician. The US wanted him dead or alive for 25 million dollars.
18:25Ayman al-Zwahiri was a surgeon for the Red Crescent before heading up the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
18:31He was imprisoned in connection with the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat. After the EIG merged
18:37with Al-Qaeda, al-Zwahiri helped orchestrate some of the organization's worst atrocities,
18:42including 9-11. He spent his tenure as emir attempting to organize global jihad,
18:47under the watchful eye of the US government. Al-Qaeda as a major force effectively died with
18:52al-Zwahiri in a drone strike on July 31, 2022. People around the world no longer need to fear the
19:00vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity
19:06to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm. The CIA may have driven the
19:11organization into obscurity, but al-Zwahiri and too many other criminals' deeds will outlive them.
19:17Who are some other fugitives whose run ended the hard way? Drop your tip in the comments.
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