In law enforcement, a manhunt is an extensive and thorough search for a wanted and dangerous fugitive involving the use of police units, technology, and help from the public. A manhunt is conducted when the suspect believed to be responsible for a serious crime is at large and is believed to be within a certain area. Any police units within reach of the area will then participate in the search, each covering parts of the area. The officers will, if possible, form a perimeter around the area, guarding any and all possible escape routes from the containment. A manhunt may have one of the following outcomes: *The successful capture of the suspect within the area of the manhunt *The death of the suspect within the area of the manhunt. *Escape from the area by the suspect, followed by plans by other law enforcement agencies to search for the suspect elsewhere *The search being called off, if police determine the chances of catching the suspect are minimal Also, if the fugitive resists using deadly force with the law enforcement officers, they are typically authorized to respond in kind.

Fugitive manhunt agencies and organizations

* AFOSI * Bounty hunter * British Security Service (MI5) ** Greater London Metropolitan Police *

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** FBI Hostage Rescue Team * INTERPOL * Royal Canadian Mounted Police * Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Teams * Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety * US Marshals Service * Central Reserve Police Force ** CoBRA

Public involvement

Sometimes, police departments conducting manhunts will solicit help from the public in locating the suspect. They will do this by broadcasting a description and other information on television, radio, and other public media, by going door to door and asking individuals if they have seen the suspect, and by placing wanted posters in public places. When this happens, citizens are advised not to personally confront the suspect, but rather to call police and report their sightings. One type of manhunt for which public participation is normally sought is an AMBER Alert. In an Amber Alert, the main purpose of the mission is to rescue the victim, ahead of the capture of the suspect. The public is usually given notice of an Amber Alert through additional forms of media, including highway overhead signs and text messaging. If anyone is found

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the suspect in any way, such as helping the suspect in hiding, or providing false information to the police about the suspect, may face legal consequences themselves, even being charged for the same crime as the suspect.

Notable manhunts

1982 Chicago Tylenol murders The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. ...

1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters On January 25, 1993, outside the George Bush Center for Intelligence, the CIA headquarters campus in Langley, Virginia, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi killed two CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight and wounded three ...

2001 anthrax attacks The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 ...

2010 Northumbria Police manhunt The 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt was a major police operation conducted across Tyne and Wear and Northumberland with the objective of apprehending fugitive Raoul Moat. After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting s ...

* 2015 death of Joe Gliniewicz *

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* Adam Yahiye Gadahn *

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Albert Johnson * Aribert Heim * Beltway sniper attacks and search for John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo * Bojinka plot ( Abdul Hakim Murad, Wali Khan Amin Shah) *

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* Christopher Jordan Dorner *

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* Jack Unterweger * John Dillinger * John Wilkes Booth * Josef Mengele * Joseph Palczynski *

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* Malcolm Naden * Maurice Clemmons, see also Lakewood shootings * Robert Vesco * The Green River Killer * Veerappan * Zodiac Killer

Bombing suspects

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( Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Rahman Yasin) *

Abu Ali al-Harithi Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi a.k.a. Abu Ali al-Harithi ( ar, أبو علي الحارثي ) (died November 3, 2002) was an al-Qaeda operative and a citizen of Yemen who is suspected of having been involved in the October 2000 USS Cole bombing, an ...

* Boston Marathon bombing ( Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev) *

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( Eric Rudolph) * Khalid Sheikh Mohammed * Oklahoma City bombing ( Terry Nichols) *

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(Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini) *

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* Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber) * TWA Flight 847

Prison escapees

2010 Arizona prison escape On July 30, 2010, three inmates escaped from the Kingman Arizona State Prison, operated as a for-profit medium-security prison in Golden Valley by Utah's Management and Training Corporation. It was owned by the Mohave County Industrial Developmen ...

2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape was a jailbreak that took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:17 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctiona ...

Aafia Siddiqui Aafia Siddiqui ( ur, ; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States for attempted murder and other felonies. Siddiqui was born in Paki ...

* Ante Gotovina *

Charles Victor Thompson Charles Victor Thompson (born 13 June 1970) is an inmate sentenced to death in April 1999 and currently resides on Texas Death Row. He was sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip, and her other boyfriend, Darren Cain, ...

* Clark Rockefeller * Clovis, New Mexico jail break * Frank Morris, John Anglin, and

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, escapees of Alcatraz during 1962. Their fates remain unknown. * El Chapo * Goran Hadžić *

Mas Selamat bin Kastari Mas Selamat Kastari (born 23 January 1961), an Indonesian-born Singaporean, was for more than a year Singapore's most-wanted fugitive after escaping from detention on 27 February 2008. The search for him has been described as the largest manhunt ...

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escapees from Death Row * Operation Crevice *

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* Project Coronado - a four-year manhunt which targeted members of the

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drug cartel. * Radovan Karadžić * Ratko Mladić *

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Famous fictional manhunts

*The federal manhunt for George Foyet in the FBI crime drama '' Criminal Minds''. *The manhunt for an assassin known as The Jackal in Frederick Forsyth's novel '' The Day of the Jackal''. *The cross-country manhunt for the Fox River 8 in the second season of ''

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''. *The statewide manhunt for Dr. Richard Kimble in '' The Fugitive''. *The manhunt for Robert "Butch" Haynes (Kevin Costner) in Clint Eastwood's " A Perfect World" (1993). *The cross-country manhunt for Mark Schereden in '' U.S. Marshals''. *The manhunt throughout California for Adrian Monk in the '' Monk'' episode " Mr. Monk Is On The Run." *The citywide manhunt for Henry Darius in the '' CSI: NY'' episode "Manhattan Manhunt." *The nationwide manhunt for Francis Dolarhyde in '' Manhunter'' (1986) and '' Red Dragon'' (2002). *The international manhunt for

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in both '' The Silence of the Lambs'' and ''

Hannibal Hannibal (; xpu, 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, ''Ḥannibaʿl''; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Puni ...

''. *The manhunt for escaped prisoner/wizard Sirius Black in the ''

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'' book '' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''. *The cross-country manhunt for notorious methamphetamine producer '' Heisenberg'' in the penultimate episodes of ''

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''. *The citywide manhunt for undercover DEA agent turned vigilante Max Payne in the video game

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. *The worldwide manhunt by several different agencies for fugitive Jason Bourne in the Bourne series of movies. *Mac and Dennis hunt Rickety Cricket in a season 4 episode of '' It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia''. *The FBI Fugitive Unit manhunt two couples on a killing spree in several states in the CBS drama '' FBI: Most Wanted.'' *The citywide manhunt for

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in the fourth season of ''

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