Every Move You Make (60 page)
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”)
A straight-A student during his grammar school days, Evans hated having to wear thick, horned-rim glasses, because he was often picked on by the other kids.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)
Obsessed with the outdoors, by the mid-1970s Evans was already burglarizing homes and living in the woods to elude police.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)
As Evans started to bulk up by the late 1970s, he grew a beard that draped down below his chest.
(Photo courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)
Awaiting sentencing on a burglary charge, Evans escaped from Rensselaer County Jail in downtown Troy
(shown here)
on June 12, 1980, with the help of four Hell’s Angels.
(Photo courtesy of the author)
The downtown Troy apartment where Gary Evans lived with Michael Falco and Tim Rysedorph.
(Photo courtesy of the author)
Michael Falco (shown here) and Gary Evans were partners until Evans murdered Falco in 1985.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)
Twenty-eight-year-old Damien Cuomo became what Evans would later call “a liability” who “had to be killed.”
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)
Evans and Cuomo broke into the Square Lion Jewelry Store in Watertown, New York, and Evans then murdered store owner Douglas Berry.
(Photo courtesy of the New York State Police, Troop G, Identification Bureau)
Evans took this photo of Damien Cuomo while they were doing burglary jobs together in the mid-eighties.
(Courtesy of Robbie Evans, “Little Big Sister”)
