Every Move You Make (54 page)

After murdering his final victim, Gary Evans fled to the west coast and used several different identities to avoid capture by Jim Horton.
(Photos courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)

In early 1998, Evans eluded capture by taking work on an Alaskan fishing boat and also posing as a tourist.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

While fleeing Horton, Evans spent time in Washington state and Oregon.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

Evans in 1998, on the run, stopped to photograph himself at Bruce Lee’s gravesite in Seattle, Washington.
(Courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

Evans in 1987, shoulder-to-shoulder with one of his heroes, David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz.

The game of cat-and-mouse that had gone on for 12 years between Gary Evans and Jim Horton came to an end on May 27, 1998, when Horton captured him in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Horton)

Investigator Jim Horton began his career with the New York State Police on February 20, 1978.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police Academy)

Born on October 7, 1954, Gary Evans grew up in this apartment on First Street in Troy, New York.
(Photo courtesy of the author)

Even when he was two, Gary Evans’s family and friends were already talking about his striking blue eyes.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

Evans’s father, Leroy Evans (shown here with Evans’s sister, Robbie), would, among many other abusive punishments, strap his only son to a chair and force-feed him.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

Although Evans later said he loved his mother, Flora Mae (shown here with Evans at Pine Lake, New York), he often blamed her for not protecting him from Leroy.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)

Little Gary Evans standing next to his sister, Robbie, before heading off to church.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)