Every Move You Make (58 page)

In 1998, shortly before his escape, Evans led Jim Horton to this field in Brunswick, New York, where he buried his dismembered final victim.
(Photo courtesy of the author)

Evans buried his first victim, Michael Falco, in this shallow grave in Lake Worth, Florida.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

Handcuffed to Jim Horton, Evans searches this wooded area in Troy, New York, where he buried his second victim, Damien Cuomo.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

On August 14, 1998, Gary Evans escaped from federal marshals by jumping off the Troy-Menands Bridge, which spans sixty-two feet above the Hudson River, near downtown Troy, New York.
(Photo courtesy of the author)

The area near the Troy-Menands Bridge where Gary Evans landed after escaping from the federal marshals who were transporting him.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

Federal marshals were driving this Astro minivan when Evans retrieved a handcuff key from his sinus, unshackled one of his wrists, kicked out the side window, and escaped.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

This fully intact razorblade
(left)
was found secured to Evans’s ankle; this smaller blade
(right)
was found tucked up and underneath his upper gum, behind a molar.
(Photo courtesy of the author)

Evans lodged this handcuff key deep up into his right sinus.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

An X-ray taken later shows the handcuff key lodged in Evans’s sinus cavity.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

This was the last photo taken of Evans before his escape on August 14, 1998.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

Defiant until the end, Evans was found with his middle finger sticking up.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

A portend of things to come, Gary Evans drew this picture of a man flying through the air, shards of glass around him, and sent it to Horton on August 9, 1998.
(Letter from which photo is taken courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)