a formal investigation into his confession could commence, on May 17, 2002, after a visit from his wife and his son, and a phone call from his former war bride and the mother of his three children, Edwin Alonzo Boyd died at age 88. Legacy Two books have been written on the Boyd Gang, and one was made into a successful movie. Girls in the Gang, a musical written by Raymond Storey and Jon Roby, was based on the story of the Boyd gang. It debuted in 1987 at Toronto's Factory Theatre, produced by Dian English, and won a Dora Mavor Moore award for best musical. In 1998 Boyd was profiled in a documentary on CBC Television's Life and Times, wherein he admitted that he had committed many more robberies than he had been charged with. A fictionalized film on Boyd's life, Citizen Gangster, was released in 2011; Scott Speedman plays the part of Boyd. The episode "Scheherazade" of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit may have partially been based on Boyd's last days. In it, a former bank robber (Brian Dennehy) confesses to a murder shortly before dying. References External links CBC Digital Archives - Toronto's Infamous 'Boyd Gang' 1914 births 2002 deaths Canadian people of British descent Canadian gangsters People from East York, Toronto Canadian bank robbers Canadian Army soldiers Canadian escapees Canadian military personnel of World War II Canadian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Escapees from Canadian detention Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Canada People convicted of robbery