Frederick J. Tenuto

Frederick "Angel of Death" Tenuto[1] was a New York City 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[2] he replaced Stephen William Davenport, #12, as the first replacement of a fugitive who was not among the original ten.[1]

Frederick Tenuto
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive
ChargesPrison escape
AliasAngel of Death
Description
BornFrederick J. Tenuto
New York
NationalityAmerican
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Status
AddedMay 24, 1950
Number14
Removed from Top Ten Fugitive List

Background

A low level 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 City 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),[3] who had been officially placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on May 24, 1950,[4] and was never captured.[5]

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.

See also

References
  1. Dolan, Francis X. (2007). Eastern State Penitentiary. Arcadia Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 0738550396. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives 1 to 100". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
  3. Tuohy, John William (January 2002). "New York Stories Part III". American Mafia. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. Clark, Jerry; Palattella, Ed (2019-09-17). On the Lam: A History of Hunting Fugitives in America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-6259-1.
  5. Clark, Jerry; Palattella, Ed (2019-09-17). On the Lam: A History of Hunting Fugitives in America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-6259-1.

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.
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