How 8 Other Massive Manhunts Ended

Not well for the one being hunted. WARNING: Graphic images.

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1. Timothy McVeigh

WANTED FOR: the Oklahoma City bombing, where he detonated a massive bomb outside a federal building, killing 168 people and injuring over 800.

FOUND: 90 minutes after the bombing by an Oklahoma state trooper.

FATE: executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.

2. Ted Kaczynski (aka The Unabomber)

WANTED FOR: engaging in a domestic bombing campaign between 1978 and 1995, killing 3 and injuring 23.

FOUND: living in a secluded cabin in Lincoln, Montana, after his mother and brother identified his published handwriting and alerted the FBI.

FATE: life in prison without chance of parole.

3. The Beltway Snipers

WANTED FOR: killing 10 and injuring 3 people with a sniper rifle in the metropolitan D.C. area.

FOUND: sleeping in their dark blue 1990 Chevy Caprice at a Maryland rest stop.

FATE: John Allen Muhammad was found guilty and executed by lethal injection on Nov. 10, 2009.

FATE: Lee Boyd Malvo received six life sentences without possibility of parole.

4. Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein

WANTED FOR: crimes against humanity

FOUND: living is a small underground crawlspace under a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near the city of Tikrit.

FATE: sentenced to death by an Iraqi court and executed on Dec. 30, 2006.

5. 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

WANTED FOR: acts of terrorism, including mass murder of civilians.

Mohammed has allegedly also confessed playing a role in two notorious bombings.

FOUND: hiding in a safe house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

FATE: has remained in U.S. custody since 2006. Awaiting trial.

6. Lybian President Moammar Gadhafi

WANTED FOR: multiple human rights abuses and support of international terrorism.

FOUND: hiding inside drainage pipes in a construction site near Sirte, Libya.

FATE: executed by mob without trial.

7. Al-Qaeda Leader Osama bin Laden

WANTED FOR: international acts of terrorism, mass murder.

FOUND: hiding in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with members of his family and inner circle.

FATE: was killed in a joint operation by American Special Forces on the night of May 2, 2011.

8. Chris Dorner

WANTED FOR: the shooting deaths of four people, including two police officers.

FOUND: after a four-hour chase, hiding in a cabin in Angelus Oaks, California.

FATE: The cabin was set on fire by local law enforcement, and Dorner perished in the fire.

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