Donald Leroy Evans

Donald Leroy Evans (July 5, 1957 – January 5, 1999) was an American serial killer and Neo-Nazi who murdered at least three people from 1985 to 1991. He was known for confessing to killing victims at parks and rest areas across more than twenty U.S. states. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but served only five. After his parole in 1991, he returned to Galveston and took work as a desk clerk in a motel, but was discharged after parole officials "objected to a convicted sex offender working in a motel setting."

Evans seized the homeless girl from a Gulfport park and sexually assaulted her, before strangling her to death and dumping her corpse in a rural area. At trial, the medical examiner testified that the girl "was conscious, and could feel pain" throughout her day-long ordeal.

Evans successfully escaped the Harrison County Jail in June 1993 but was recaptured a short time later, hiding in a shed. He was stabbed to death in 1999 by fellow death row inmate Jimmie Mack at the Mississippi State Penitentiary while in the shower. Mack was originally sent to death row for the 1990 murder of Henry Fulton in Bolivar County. According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mack was convicted of manslaughter for the attack and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. However, his original death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2006 after a judge ruled that he was intellectually disabled.

Known victims Ira Jean Smith (female, 38, March 7, 1985) Janet Marie Movich (female, 38, April 14, 1985) Beatrice Louise Routh (female, 10, August 1, 1991)