13 Years

13 years. That's how long it took for Radovan Karadzic to be brought to justice.

Karadzic was one of the world's most wanted men in connection with the genocide of more than 8,000 men and boys near Srebrenica in 1995 during the series of wars fought in the former Yugoslavia.

So, where was he captured?

Mr. Karadzic’s exact place of arrest was not disclosed, but Serbian government officials said he was apprehended by Serbian secret police not far from Belgrade, the capital.

Officials from President Boris Tadic’s office said Mr. Karadzic had appeared before an investigative judge at Serbia’s war crimes court, a prerequisite for his extradition to The Hague.

Mr. Karadzic, a nationalist hero among Serbian radicals and one of the tribunal’s most wanted criminals for more than a decade reportedly hid out in caves in the mountains of eastern Bosnia and in monasteries earlier in his years as a fugitive. Before his political career, he was a medical doctor who worked as a psychiatrist in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital.

Prosecutors in The Hague and officials of the European Union have long suspected that he was, in fact, hiding in Serbia, and in recent years have pressed officials in Belgrade to hand him over. The failure to arrest Mr. Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the still fugitive Bosnian Serb general also indicted on war crimes who remains at large, has stood as a block to greater Serbian ties to the European Union after the wars in Bosnia and later Kosovo.

UPDATE:
So how did he manage to avoid being arrested all this time? He hid in plain sight. He grew out his beard, and even managed to resume practicing alternative medicine. Wonderful.