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the image I had of the man who cold- bloodedly blew away Bob Persowich in the Brinks murder last year at Park Royal was that of your typical criminal killer; hard eyes; a sneering, defiant expression; an ambience of the

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1 couldn’t have been more wrong. Curious about what Evan Clifford Evans was like, 1 dropped in severat times on his trial, and the guy who lolled in the dock in Courtroom 54 of the Van- couver Courthouse might have been a Yuppie stockbroker, To produce “Jookalikes” in the police lineups they had to parade a bunch of cleancut young cops and firemen.

No shrink need waste time trying to find out how Evans

by Doug

got to be a killer. He wanted easy inoney, and crime was a profitable way of spending his time.

He worked as a welder at Burrard Shipyards for a while, but that was too bor- ing. So he became known to the police as the Motorcycle Bandit. And on Friday, June 29, 1984, he waited near the Park Royal liquor store to kill a married man who had a family.”

At the checkout, clerk

‘Jean Borbdvich wished the

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doomed Brinks guard a nice weekend. ‘I'll certainly try,”’ he smiled. But he had only a few seconds more to live, As he turned to go with the day’s take, the nice-look-

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ing 29-year-old who was waiting for him fired three shots at point-blank range.

Persowich never had a chance. He wasn’t asked to hand over the money ‘‘or else’, Evans was taking aim with successive shots even as the guard was falling. As the prosecution put it, ‘it was an execution’.

The Brinks people offered a reward of $100,000, and an infoy. :ant fingered Evans who, like a lot of crooks, couldn’t keep his mouth shut

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about his great expioits. He talked to a girl friend, too, and when the police knocked on her door she spilled a lot of beans. But then she ref- used to give evidence and claimed the police had forc- ed the statement out of her. They hadn’t. But it was decided not to put her on the stand.

Evans brains don’t match his looks. Detective Stuart Leishman of the West Van police told me: ‘“‘Every move he made led us back to him.”

In an attempt to switch suspicion to the Squamish Five, Evans sent a letter to the Province newspaper. But he left the original letter in a drugstore photo-copier, and the drugstore gave it to the police. Then the police

found the machine on which

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the letter had been typed. (It was over in Ladysmith in the possession of an Evans in- law who gave evidence for the Crown.)

He was also dumb enough to keep about $4,200 of the stolen money in his car. It included ‘“‘bait’’ bills that had been marked by the li- quor store manager. The police found it.

He had an “alibi” in Calgary. That too went wrong. ‘“‘Mr. and Mrs.

Evans"’ hadn’t spent the day of the murder in Calgary. Mrs. Evans had, but the guy she was with wasn’t Mr. Evans.

The punch he used to erase the serial number on his stolen getaway motorbike was found in his toolbox. He admitted it was his toolbox before he realized how im-

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Tracking a murderer

portant it was.

The case wasn’t an easy one to crack, It’s one thing to get information. It’s another to obtain proof. With some help from their friends, West Van detectives Leishman and Colin McKay got it, talking to about 200 people in the process. .

So a bouquet to them; and another to Denise Steele of Purdy’s Chocolate in Park Royal. She identified Evans as the man who had been hanging around in a motor- cycle helmet before the murder was committed.

Evans was arrested July 13 of last year, and the police asked him whether he was superstitious. He said he wasn’t, that they had nothing on him, and that he'd be free in 30 days.

It'll be more like 30 years.

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