MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CRIMINALS 2023 (SERIES 1)

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Arnoldo Jimenez, May 12, 2012. Burbank, Illinois. There's love in the air at Chicago's City Hall. After just a few hours of marriage, Estrella Carrera was stabbed and dumped in a bathtub still wearing her silver sequined cocktail dress. Murdering one's spouse is not new, it's been going on for centuries, but this murder after just a few hours of marriage is incredibly rare. What kind of maniac would do such a thing? There were early signs that Arnoldo Jimenez could be capable of murder. He was said to be possessive of Estrella Carrera and at six feet tall and over 200 pounds, he towered over her. The two had a two-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter from another relationship - a straight-A student at her school in Chicago's Southwest Side. According to one of Estrella's friends, the reason for the rushed and lowkey wedding was that Jimenez had been threatening to take both kids from her. “She was really scared,” the friend told the press. “And that was the last time I talked to her."
The couple was last seen around 4 am. At some point, Jimenez called his sister and told her he’d had a “bad fight” with his new wife. That fight led to him becoming the 522nd fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted list since 1950. Carrera’s body was found sometime later, lying the bathtub of her apartment, her pretty dress bloodied and her body showing stab wounds. Soon police were saying the suspect, Jimenez, was last seen driving a 2006 Maserati with the Illinois license plate L641441. The background check showed he’d once been arrested for domestic violence, but in another state with another woman. Investigators aren’t sure where he went after that, but it’s possible he fled to Durango in Mexico, possibly to the area of Santiago Papasquiaro. Jimenez may also have gone to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in Mexico. We know that his phone was tracked to Chicago and then to Tennessee, and later to Arkansas. It was last used in Hidalgo, Texas near the Mexican border, but that was back in 2012.
Cook County charges Jimenez with first-degree murder as well as federal accusations of unauthorized flight to evade prosecution. As with all of the individuals you'll learn about today, if you can assist, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or, if you're not in the US, get in touch with the American consulate in your area.

The following crime is particularly terrible. July 29, 2000, Alexis Flores. Iriana DeJesus, 5, was outside having fun in her residence in the Hunting Park section of North Philadelphia with her sister.
Iriana was last seen strolling down the street with a male when it's difficult to say what happened after that. Asking where her daughter had gone and who this man was, her mother hurriedly went out of the house. The third day after a thorough search by the police and the neighborhood, the mother's worst fear came true. Iriana was discovered dead with her body stuffed inside a garbage bag with some carpet rolls. She had been choked. Notably, a bleeding t-shirt with a distinctive political insignia was laying close and could not be missed. One of the locals came forward and claimed to be aware of such a t-shirt. He had leased it to Carlos, a destitute man. Since he had sympathy for him, he had provided him with some clothing and odd jobs to complete. In truth, Carlos was a man by the name of Alexis. But the cops were in the dark about what monster had done this heinous crime for seven long years.
I should clarify something before I tell you more about this man. Why do some fugitives appear on the FBI's Most Wanted list and others do not, despite the fact that terrible crimes occur frequently in the US?
There are requirements, but they are extremely ambiguous. The individual must first pose a threat to society.
However, that is rather evident. The police believe that by placing someone on the list, notoriety will make it easier for them to apprehend them. Until they are detained, the charges are withdrawn, or they no longer fit the requirements, they remain on the list. Starting in January 2023, a whopping 93% of the 529 fugitives who were added to the list have been apprehended, with 31% being apprehended specifically as a result of public assistance.
The FBI is hoping that by releasing pictures of Alexis Flores, someone would contact them. He may even be someone you've met. Although he has frequently lied about his age in the past, it is most likely that he was born in Honduras in 1975. Mario Flores, Mario Roberto Flores, Mario F. Roberto, Alex Contreras, and Alesis Contreras are just a few of the aliases he has gone by. He stands at around five feet four inches, is slim, around 140 pounds.
He has black hair and brown eyes and speaks Spanish as well as English.
That could be a lot of people, but if you met this guy, you’d see something very unique. He has the word “Alexis” tattooed on his left hand and the letters “LA” inked on his right hand.
He also has quite a large scar on his neck and cheek, the result of surgery after an injury that happened to him during 1998’s Hurricane Mitch. What’s such a pity about this case is the cops had him not once but twice, but at the time, they didn’t know he’d committed that murder.
He speaks both Spanish and English, and he has black hair and brown eyes.
Many people could fit that description, but if you met this man, you would observe something really special. On his right hand and left hand, respectively, he has the initials "LA" and the word "Alexis" tattooed.
Additionally, he has quite a significant scars on his neck and cheek from surgery following an injury that occurred to him during Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The police handling of this situation is really unfortunate.
They had him twice, but at the time they were unaware he had killed that person.
In 2000, He was detained in Arizona for shoplifting not long after killing the girl. In 2002, He was detained once again. Cops were called to his flat because of the disturbance, and when they checked Flores' ID, they quickly realized it was a fake. According to police accounts, the man seemed amiable and composed, but they also mentioned that when they searched his home, they found pornographic material laying around. They added that the individual claimed to have resided in Illinois before moving to Arizona. After serving 60 days in prison for forging a document, Flores was immediately deported back to Honduras.
Only afterwards did detectives establish a link between his DNA and the killing of that young girl. He is now facing charges of both criminal escape from justice and murder. There's a chance Flores has returned to the US and is now residing there while using a different identity. You might be watching this in Honduras and believe you've seen this man. Our subsequent offender is a mastermind who destroyed the lives of many people. Ignatova, Ruja
There are now just 11 women on the FBI's Wanted List, which includes numerous names. Without a doubt, Ruja deserves to be there. She was a princess of darkness in the realm of finance. The Cryptoqueen is another name for her that is occasionally used. That's because she defrauded individuals of $4 billion using her bogus cryptocurrency.
OneCoin was developed by a German citizen of Bulgarian descent that gave investors the impression that it was a promising cryptocurrency. In actuality, this was a Ponzi scheme and a hybrid of a pyramid scheme. OneCoin's own servers were used to host the currency, therefore it wasn't even a true decentralized cryptocurrency. In terms of how the pyramid scam operated, participants recruited further investors to participate.
Older investors received payments from OneCoin to keep them pleased.
Using the funds of new investors, this is what is known as a Ponzi scheme or "robbing Peter to pay Paul."
Starry-eyed investors and young people who believed they might get money for nothing invested their money in the hoax, and Ignatova and the other perpetrators deposited the money in offshore accounts.
Regular people and larger investors lost over $120 million in the UK alone. For a few.
We're talking about people's entire life savings, people. Investors in the US donated her close to $50 million.
We are aware that Ignatova was born in Bulgaria in 1980 to a middle-class Romani family. After moving to Germany, she worked in legit businesses and earned herself a legit Ph.D. She also studied European law at Oxford University, although it seems there’s some doubt about this.
What’s certain, though, is she did have a reputation as a business professional.
We imagine all the people endorsing her on her LinkedIn page are now feeling pretty stupid because in 2017, when she was tipped off that OneCoin was being investigated, she disappeared into thin air. That’s some feat when your name is tied to numerous businesses, and your face
has been seen all over the world
The ones who want to see her the most haven't seen her since she boarded an aircraft in Sofia, Bulgaria, landed in Greece, and hasn't been seen since.
According to the FBI, she "conned unsuspecting victims out of billions of dollars" after stating that her OneCoin would be the "Bitcoin killer." In actuality, OneCoin's value was comparable to that of used toilet paper. Investigations revealed that when Ignatova and her associates launched the coin, she referred to the early investors as "idiots" and "crazy," telling them to "take the money and run and blame somebody else" if they were caught doing what they were doing.
This woman is highly intelligent and was taken seriously when she predicted to her schoolmates that she would become wealthy one day. She was a talented chess player when she was young, and later in life she learned to speak Russian, German, and English with ease. When several of her investors began requesting their money back, she had the foresight to vanish. Karl Sebastian Greenwood, her business partner, who was at the time residing in a lavish home on the Thai island of Koh Samui, was left to pick up the pieces.
His Koh Samui beach tan is now a distant memory as he serves a 20-year prison sentence. Where did she go, though? It was found that it was.
She had long since attempted to sell a luxurious apartment in London for $15 million. She attempted to do this in an incognito manner by using agents, but transparency laws caused her name to surface.
She still owns a ton of homes, apartments, and money, there is no mistake about it. Her investors are fervently hoping that she will be apprehended since the billions she stole are out there. She might appear different if she underwent cosmetic surgery that altered her face. She probably spends a lot of money on a personal security squad to keep her safe.
It’s believed that after going missing,
she spent some time in Athens, Greece, and may have moved to the United Arab Emirates
or even gone back to Germany. But the FBI says she might also be hiding out in Russia,
some other part of Eastern Europe, or might even be back in her former home of Bulgaria. The agency will give you $100,000 for information that leads to her arrest, but we imagine some investors out
there would give you more than that
She may never be discovered, or at least not in one piece, according to a rumor. According to the report, she was killed in 2018 while on a yacht at the behest of Hristoforos Amanatidis, a drug lord from Bulgaria.
It is said that one of his goons, who is currently detained in The Netherlands on drug trafficking charges, killed her, dismembered her, and dumped the pieces of her body into the Ionian Sea off the coast of mainland Greece. Amanatidis was somehow associated with her con, and she had just had to go. Amanatidis is still on the loose and may be in Dubai. Who knows, he could be living with them.
Ignatova, and they are giggling uncontrollably as they read this from their opulent palace. TO BE CONTINUED…