Manhunt

After a fisherman and his son haul a corpse up in their nets, it sets off a six-year-long international manhunt for a famous murdering con-artist.

After the notorious Boyd gang robs the Bank of Montreal in 1952, the mayor declares a "reign of terror" and the hunt for Edwin Alonzo Boyd begins.

After the British High Commissioner of Canada is kidnapped in 1970, the resulting manhunt threatens to tear the country apart.

When a trapper shoots a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable in 1931, the authorities launch a massive manhunt led by dogsled, foot and plane across the northern tundra.

A $75 shoplifting spree cascades into the discovery of a string of murders, putting police on the hunt for sex killer Charles Ng.

A gruesome discovery by a Scotland Yard Inspector leads to an international manhunt for Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and Miss Ethel Le Neve.

In 1998, obstetrician Dr. Bernard Slepian is killed by a bullet from a high-powered assault rifle in his own home, setting police on the trail of a serial killer targeting abortionists.

A bounty hunter's target shoots him dead in a hotel bar, turning the chase for murdering Donald Morrison into an all-out manhunt.

60s political folk hero Abbie Hoffman skips bail after his arrest in 1973, leading authorities on a seven-year manhunt.

Well-known in theater as the owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, Ambrose Small disappears in December 1919, launching a massive manhunt with handsome rewards for anyone who might have information on the wealthy man's whereabouts.

In 1945, Allied forces occupied Germany after five years of war, and German war criminals including Adolf Eichmann went into hiding. Eichmann visited his family in Austria and gave poison to his wife in case the Russians captured them. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide. Germany surrendered, launching a massive global manhunt for the criminals of war – especially Karl Adolf Otto Eichmann.

The water off Venice Beach, California was a cool 52°F on May 18, 1926 when the most famous woman in the world went for a swim. The disappearance and suspected drowning of Evangelist star Aimee Semple McPherson stole the front pages of newspapers around the world and launched a manhunt that fired an international media frenzy.

Bandits robbed millions of uninsured securities from the Canadian Pacific Railway's Transcontinental Express in 1904, leading to a grueling cross-border manhunt through the mountain mist.