Gilbert James Everett

Who is Gilbert James Everett?

Gilbert James Everett was a Kansas bank robber whose crime spree in the southeastern United States during the early 1980s resulted in his being listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for over four years.

Working on and off as a car salesman, a mapmaker and topographer, Everett was arrested in September 1980 following a bank robbery in Knoxville, Tennessee and convicted of armed robbery. However, escaping from federal custody less than a month later, he fled to Alabama in a stolen car in violation of the Dyer Act. After another bank robbery in Orlando, Florida, additional warrants against Everett in November was eventually added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on May 13, 1981.

Evading authorities for a year and a half, Everett robbed another bank in Sacramento, California in January 1983. Everett then went into hiding in the Alaskan wilderness. After three years Ranger Kevin Faler from the National Park Service at Hot Springs National Park, along with other officers, arrested him on August 12, 1985 and he was subsequently imprisoned. According to Ranger Tony Bishop of the National Park Service Mr. Everett was violent man with a violent past.

After serving 18 years in prison, Everett was released in 2003 and died in 2005.