Want to join the hunt for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted fugitives? Turns out, there really is an app for that.
This year marks 60 years of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list and the agency is demonstrating it's moved beyond posters pinned up in post offices.
Twitter, Facebook, podcasts, and iPhone apps are all part of the 21st century fight against crime.
"The FBI would be negligent if it weren't utilising every technology available to try and help locate these folks," David Johnson from the FBI's Violent Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division, explained recently during a briefing in New York.
"It's difficult for us to gauge the success right now because it's so relatively new. We haven't captured any fugitives as a result of those particular methods but we also realise that in today's society that's typically how a lot of people communicate."
The FBI's Most Wanted list was launched in 1949; legend has it the idea came from a reporter looking for a new way to splash a story.
In the 60 years since there have been 494 names on the Most Wanted list – 463 of those have been captured.
"Of those, 152 or about a third, were captured as a result of citizens' cooperation, as a result of publicity that was generated by the media," said Johnson.
The crimes have reflected the times. The initial ten names on the list included two murderers, four jail breakers, one bank robber, one burglar, and two car thieves.
The '60s saw people wanted for destruction of government property, saboteurs, and kidnappers. During the 1970s organised crime came into focus. In the '80s it was drugs.
The 2010 list includes an international terrorist (no prize for guessing – Osama Bin Laden) and one US domestic terrorist.
There's also Ukraine national Semion Mogilevich, described as an international organised crime boss.
There's Joe Louis Saenz, believed to work for a Mexican drug cartel, and Jason Derek Brown, aka "Hairline Johnson", wanted for first-degree murder.
Brown, an avid golfer, speaks fluent French and has a Masters degree in International Business.
The personality quirks continue.
James "Whitey" Bulger is described as an "avid reader with an interest in history. He is known to frequent libraries and historic sites."
"It's not a popularity contest," said Sean Joyce, Assistant Director, of the FBI's International Operations Division.
Added Johnson: "We don't rank anybody on the Top 10 list. It's a measure of 'success' to make it [but] we all consider them equal."
