Less than a year after Donald Leroy Evans set authorities buzzing with claims that he killed more than 70 people, the FBI has quietly dropped its nationwide investigation.
After leading police to a girl's body in August, Evans offered tantalizing details of his professed crimes - stalking women at campsites and strangling and shooting them, sometimes after sexually abusing them.The drifter from Galveston, Texas, is serving a federal life prison term for kidnapping the 10-year-old homeless girl. He faces state murder and sexual battery charges in her death and could receive a death sentence. Florida officials have charged him with a murder there.
But other claims have led authorities to dead ends, said M.C. Overton, an FBI spokesman in Jackson.
"From a federal standpoint, he has been convicted and is doing time in a federal slammer," Overton said. "If there was a basis for prosecution in other parts of the country, we would jump on it. But, as evidenced by the quiet and calm, that ought to be a hint right there."