Evans was being transported from Rensselaer County to an Albany court. Evans had a handcuff key shoved deep into his sinus cavity and managed to free his hands while in the police van. When they reached the Troy-Menands BridgeEvans suddenly kicked out the side window of the vehicle, jumped out and started running. When police cornered him Evans leaped off the bridge and plunged to his death into the shallows of the Hudson River over 60 feet below. (14 August 1998)
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Friday 5th of September 1969 (x) — American hero and mass murderer William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 109 South Vietnamese civilians on 16 March 1968 near the village of My Lai in Vietnam.