Meet Orba Elmer Jackson, the first Kansas City guy ever placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, which turns 60 this weekend. He landed there on March 21, 1950, after he escaped from federal custody. (Doesn't he have a nice smile?)
Jackson lasted two days before someone saw his picture hanging in an Oregon post office and realized that Jackson was working as a farm hand nearby. Which was fitting because he was at a prison "honor farm" when he escaped.
We have a nifty photo gallery with all of our less-than-luminous luminaries here.
The most recent KC native on the list? Shauntay Henderson, who was only the eighth woman to make the list. She was only on there for a day. Amazingly, she doesn't even hold the record for shortest stay -- that goes to Billie Austin Bryant, who was captured within two hours of attaining "Most Wanted" status in 1969.
Kansas has placed 13 people on the list. Western Missouri can lay claim to seven.
"Western Missouri" can claim 7? How about the whole state? Between KC and St. L, I am sure there have been a whole lot more.
Posted by: jeano | Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 02:51 PM
Nope, there have only been 20 total from the FBI's KC Division. There are only 494 people overall who have made the list since it began.
Posted by: mr.burns | Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 03:21 PM