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The FOX True Crime Podcast

The $1M Tip: How This Top 10 Fugitive Was Finally Found

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

After nearly six years on the run, one of the FBI's most elusive fugitives, Kashawn Nicola Roper, is finally behind bars. Within hours of being added to the Top 10 Most Wanted list and with a $1 million reward on the table, tips from the public led officials straight to her in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. A woman who was on the run for nearly six years after

0:04.9

allegedly shooting two people was arrested in Florida, just hours after the FBI added her to its

0:09.8

10 most wanted fugitives lists offering a $1 million reward. 50-year-old Kashan Nicola Roper was arrested for

0:16.2

allegedly firing multiple shots at a car in Missouri in August of 2020, hitting two women, killing one of them.

0:22.3

FBI director Cash Patel told Fox News Digital, after she was added to the most wanted list,

0:26.7

tips started pouring in, pointing to her location being in Florida.

0:30.2

Officials responded, and using the description of the vehicle in question,

0:33.4

conducted a traffic stop and took her into custody.

0:35.8

Roper was booked into jail and is being charged

0:37.6

with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon in Missouri, along

0:42.5

with federal charge for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Patel added eight of the FBI's

0:47.7

most wanted fugitives have been captured in just over a year, more than double the previous four years

0:52.7

combined. There's more on this story at

0:54.2

foxnews.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime podcast. I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.

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