Court and charged with three of the murders. He was then transferred to the Rensselaer County Jail, where he was charged with parole violations before the local court. Two days later, while en route to Troy and passing through the Menands Bridge, Evans, despite being in manacles and chained, used a secret key hidden in his nose to free himself. He then broke the window of the transport van and jumped out. He was quickly cornered by police, but managed to run to the fence and leaped into the Hudson River, hitting the shallows below which caused him fatal head injuries. Due to the circumstances, his death was ruled a suicide. A number of acquaintances, including Evans' lawyer and investigator Jim Horton, who had known him since the 1970s when he investigated the robberies, later stated that Evans had planned to kill himself long before the incident, having sent them suicide notes in which he expressed remorse and his inability to deal with isolation. According to his close friends, despite his criminal activities, they considered Evans to have a complex worldview and philosophy, a vegetarian who never drank nor smoked. Some also said that in the last months of his life, Gary was paranoid of possibly getting the death penalty and was going to be executed via lethal injection, which contradicted his beliefs that one should never take drugs via injections. Media Evans' life is dramatized in the season 1, episode 8 of I Killed My BFF titled "My Best Friend the Serial Killer". Several authors have also written books on the case. See also List of prison escapes List of serial killers in the United States References External links Radford University article on Evans My Best Friend the Serial Killer on IMDB Bibliography 1954 births 1985 murders in the United States 1998 deaths 1998 suicides 20th-century American criminals American escapees American people convicted of burglary American people convicted of theft American serial killers Criminals from New York (state) Escapees from New York (state) detention Fugitives Homeless people Male serial killers People convicted of book theft People from Troy, New York Suicides by jumping in the United States Suicides in New York (state)