William Nesbit
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William Raymond Nesbit was a 1930s jewel thief. On December 31, 1936, he killed fellow thief Harold Baker in a gunpowder explosion in Minnehaha County, near Sioux City, Iowa. He was arrested 26 February 1937 and convicted to life imprisonment, which on 18 February 1946 was commuted to 20 years incarceration. On 4 September 1946 he failed to return to his prison in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and on 26 December 1946 he was charged in absentia with unlawful flight to avoid confinement. On 16 March 1950 he became the third member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's first-ever FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and was arrested in a cave in Saint Paul, Minnesota, two days later.
