Frederick J. Tenuto
Frederick "The Angel" Tenuto was a New York mobster and criminal who would be on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for over a decade, the longest on record at the time. As Top Ten fugitive number 14 he replaced Stephen William Davenport, #12, as the first replacement of a fugitive who was not among the original Ten.
A low level New York criminal, Tenuto escaped from the Philadelphia County Prison in a jailbreak with four other inmates including bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton on February 10, 1947. Eluding authorities for several years, Sutton was eventually identified in early 1952 while riding in a New York subway train by Brooklyn resident Arnold Schuster and when Schuster was murdered following a television interview, authorities suspected Tenuto (supposedly on the orders of New York mobster Albert Anastasia [1]), who had been officially placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on May 24, 1950.
Tenuto's name would remain on the FBI's Most Wanted list for over 14 years before it was removed on March 9, 1964, amid reports Tenuto had been killed and secretly buried.
References
- Dolan, Francis X. Eastern State Penitentiary. Arcadia. ISBN 9780738550398.
Further reading
- Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
- Turner, William W. Hoover's FBI. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.