successfully sold. After the murder of Jouben, Evans decided to quit his criminal career and get a job. Over the next several years, he worked as a day laborer, only occasionally committing petty thefts. In January 1994, he was arrested for looting and vandalism for stealing and selling the marble tombstone, for which he was ordered to serve a month at the Albany County Jail. After his release, he moved to Vermont, where he lived a survivalist lifestyle in a tent. In early 1993, he stole cuff links worth $1,500 from a group shop in Quechee, and later broke into the Norman Williams Library in Woodstock, Vermont and stole a valuable book titled The Birds of America. Over the next few months, he attempted to find a buyer, but with the help of informants, police tracked him down in June 1994 and arrested him. Evans was threatened with life imprisonment, but since he revealed where he had kept the book and returned it intact, he was given only 24 months, which he served at an undisclosed prison in Vermont. He was paroled on June 6, 1996, and returned to New York, where he renewed his partnership with Tim Rysedorph. The criminals then rented a storage room in Colonie, where they would keep their tools and stolen goods. However, knowing that Rysedorph had been an accomplice in Falco's killing way back in 1985, Evans became paranoid that his friend would tell on him, and so, on October 3, 1997, he shot and killed Rysedorph. In order to get rid of the corpse, he dismembered it and buried the remains in a wooded area, additionally disposing of the murder weapon. Shortly afterwards, he fled New York, again violating his parole, for which he was listed as a wanted fugitive. Arrest and confessions On May 27, 1998, Evans surrendered himself at the police station in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, confessing that he had committed several murders. At his subsequent interrogation, he claimed that he was prompted to do so out of feelings of guilt, as he had watched Rysedorph's 9-year-old son become aggressive and withdrawn since his father's disappearance. On June 24, he described in detail each of the killings, and revealed the burial sites for both Falco and Rysedorph, whose bodies were later found at the indicated locations in July. Death On August 12, 1998, Evans was arraigned at the Rensselaer County District