TOUGH FBI TOP 10 QUESTION

Hi, thanks for continuing to following the rules of placing all your threads in off-topic. Moved this thread to general FBI discussion for you since I feel it fits best here.

It took them 11 months to replace Osama and Whitey in 2011/2012, it took them 8 months to replace Robert Van Wisse who one could argue was a high profile fugitive whose capture they wanted to publicize, but also around that time James Comey got the ax and it was basically chaos that summer.


As it is currently Yaser Said has been listed as captured on the Top Ten list for as long as a pregnancy. If he’s not replaced this month, June would probably be the month they replace him, but if he remains on the list after his capture anniversary..... I’ll be like what in the @$)&.

It could be anyone, I feel like they are trying to figure out what to do with the list moving forward like if they are debating on removing someone currently at large to make room for 2 newer faces given the stagnation in captures from mid 2019 to mid 2020, 1 reason why I think they could be taking long.


The comments section of a YouTube video about the Top Ten List, talked about Yaser Said and his capture, that was literally the majority of them..... Bobby Fisher and Jason Derek Brown got a few comments Alex Castillo had 1, so obviously keeping Yaser this long is for publicity reasons and celebrating his capture because that mother@$&%er was a hard one, and that’s the second reason why I think they could be taking long.


As it is right now, I feel Devontay Anderson is a strong contender since the murder of the 7 year old girl in Chicago at a McDonald’s parking lot last month was national news, he is likely to replace Yaser Said (or maybe someone else currently on the list).

Also the reason I say Devontay Anderson could remove someone currently on the list, is that usually recent fugitives accused of multiple murders, or shootings in public places are the ones that are so terrible they make the FBI remove a current fugitive to underscore the danger to the public, Devontay Anderson murdered a 7 year old girl in broad daylight in a public area (as in past cases like Antwan Mims, Philip Policarpio, Terry Strickland, Myloh Mason, who have all replaced longtime fugitives in recent years).

Finally, the way the FBI top ten list usually works is all their field offices submit a candidate and a publicity panel chooses who should make the list.

There are some rare exceptions it seems such as breaking news cases but for the most part that's how it works.

I'd urge us all to be patient, although admittedly if Yaser still hasn't been replaced on the 1-year anniversary of his capture even I will finally wonder what's up.

^ Regarding how the FBI Ten Most Wanted isn't always the "worst of the worst," I keep thinking back to some of the cases added in the late-2000s, like Edward Harper. Was he dangerous? Yes, but he had also been a fugitive on the run for over a decade and there really wasn't any evidence that he had struck again. There were plenty of other child predators who I'm sure took precedence over him, but clearly the FBI thought adding him to the Top 10 would increase his odds of capture. And what do you know - they were right.

I was just recently thinking to myself... What state do we think the next Top 10er is going to be from? I mean has anyone ever thought as to which U.S. State has had the MOST TOP 10ers been added to the infamous 10?

I think that Tyler Terry should be added to the Top 10!!!!!!!!!! I think that anyone who starts 'targeting' law enforcement officers is all the cause to be added to the list... When cops become bulls eyes/targets no one is safe.