http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives_by_year,_1950
See entry Frederick j. Tenuto
See entry Frederick j. Tenuto
US - Frederick J. Tenuto, 1950, "Ten Most Wanted"
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From the first link posted; FBI's ten most wanted:
.... Also notable in 1964 was the removal from the list of the Fugitive with the longest time ever spent on the list up to that time, Fugitive #14, Frederick J. Tenuto, who had been listed in the very first year of the first top Ten, although he was not an original Top Tenner. Tenuto's record of fourteen years on the list would not be surpassed until several decades later.
.... Also notable in 1964 was the removal from the list of the Fugitive with the longest time ever spent on the list up to that time, Fugitive #14, Frederick J. Tenuto, who had been listed in the very first year of the first top Ten, although he was not an original Top Tenner. Tenuto's record of fourteen years on the list would not be surpassed until several decades later.
Portrait of Frederick J. Tenuto (see photo at below link)
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Convicted murderer Frederick J. Tenuto (above), who broke out of Eastern State penitentiary, Philadelphia, with Willie Sutton, on February 10, 1947 is the object of a stepped-up search, March 9, as a suspect in the slaying of Arnold Schuster, 24, who tipped police to the whereabouts of Sutton. Amid outraged cries from civic officials and citizens, citizens at large, police pressed what is reported to be the biggest manhunt in New York history, for short, stocky Tenuto, known to the underworld as "Angel". Tenuto was allegedly seen in Brooklyn a short time before the brutal, gangster-style shooting of young Schuster.
LINK:
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U993102ACME/portrait-of-frederick-j-tenuto
Original caption:
Convicted murderer Frederick J. Tenuto (above), who broke out of Eastern State penitentiary, Philadelphia, with Willie Sutton, on February 10, 1947 is the object of a stepped-up search, March 9, as a suspect in the slaying of Arnold Schuster, 24, who tipped police to the whereabouts of Sutton. Amid outraged cries from civic officials and citizens, citizens at large, police pressed what is reported to be the biggest manhunt in New York history, for short, stocky Tenuto, known to the underworld as "Angel". Tenuto was allegedly seen in Brooklyn a short time before the brutal, gangster-style shooting of young Schuster.
LINK:
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U993102ACME/portrait-of-frederick-j-tenuto
Twins in time?
Does anyone think that Frederick J. Tenuto looks like Val Kilmer? Compare the photos at the below link with the one in my previous post.
Val Kilmer LINK:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/
Does anyone think that Frederick J. Tenuto looks like Val Kilmer? Compare the photos at the below link with the one in my previous post.
Val Kilmer LINK:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/
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Arnold Schuster, was a 24 year old clothing salesman whose tip to the police led to the arrest of Willie Sutton in 1952 (he had escaped Jail with four inmates in 1947). Sutton at the time was a talented bank robber said to be the nations best, and was spotted on a subway train in New York by Schuster.
On March 8, 1952, Schuster was shot twice in the groin and once in each eye after attending a television interview, on a street just outside his home. The hitman would later be identified and arrested, his name, Frederick Tenuto. Tenuto was one of the four inmates that escaped jail in 1947, and he also spent 14 years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list from 1950 to 1964.
In the 1963 McClellan hearings, Joe Valachi claimed Albert Anastasia had ordered Schuster’s death after witnessing one of his television interviews.
Link:
Who was Arnold Schuster and How Did He Die? - Death Photos | The NCS
The above story is obviously inaccurate. Although Tenuto was SUSPECTED of murdering Schuster, he was never arrested for it. The proof being that he remained on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for another 12 years.
Here is a more accurate summary of Schuster's murder:
Arnold Schuster
Arnold L. Schuster (1927 – March 8, 1952) was a Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective known for his involvement in the capture of bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton and for Schuster's subsequent murder by either the Gambino crime family, friends of Willie Sutton, or any one of the many suspects police questioned about his death. He was a distant paternal cousin of literary agent and book publisher M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster of Simon & Schuster.
A longtime Brooklyn resident, 24-year-old Schuster recognized wanted bank robber Willie Sutton while riding on a New York City bus in February 1952. Following Sutton to a garage, Schuster quickly notified police of Sutton's whereabouts, resulting in the robber's later arrest as Sutton was changing a dead battery from his car, which had stalled in the street.
After receiving a modest amount of publicity from New York City press, Schuster was murdered outside his home on March 8, 1952, having been shot twice in the groin and once in each eye. Although a manhunt was quickly organized by police, their search failed to apprehend any suspects. Eventually, Frederick J. Tenuto was suspected of Schuster's murder. Tenuto, an associate of Sutton's, was also on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and positively identified by witnesses as having left the scene of the crime. According to Detective Jack LaTorre, over 300 suspects were questioned, one being a local fence for stolen goods.According to testimony in 1963 by Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi, Gambino crime family boss Albert Anastasia allegedly ordered the murder of Schuster. When Anastasia saw Schuster being interviewed on television, he allegedly said: "I can't stand squealers! Hit that guy!" However, many people in law enforcement were skeptical.Schuster was buried in Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens.Schuster's estate sued New York City for failure to protect him. In accordance with the law at that time, their complaint was dismissed and the dismissal was affirmed by the intermediate appellate court (1955). In general, governments were held not to owe protection obligations to citizens for fear of straining public treasuries (among other reasons). However, in a landmark case, New York's highest court reversed the decisions and ruled that in a case where a member of the public has furnished the sort of cooperation that the police have asked the public for, an obligation of protection of a person who comes forward to help the police is created. Schuster v. City of New York, 5 N.Y.2d 75 (1958). This important precedent meant the case could go to trial. The City of New York eventually settled for $41,000, a reasonably large sum at the time, especially considering that even the presumably exaggerated sum the complaint sought was $1,000,000.
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