Damien James Cuomo, 27, was last known to be alive on December 29, 1989, after a period of criminal partnership with career burglar Gary Charles Evans. The two traveled through upstate New York committing burglaries and robberies; in March 1989 they were arrested with items reportedly tied to planned robberies but released for lack of evidence. On September 8, 1989, Evans shot and killed 63-year-old Douglas J. Berry during a burglary in Watertown, a murder Cuomo knew about and that later made him a threat to Evans.

Investigative accounts state Evans shot Cuomo because he feared Cuomo would reveal their crimes, then concealed Cuomo’s body near an apartment building where they had lived and told Joanne Donovan, the mother of Cuomo’s child, that Cuomo had deserted the family. In June 1998 investigators recovered Cuomo’s remains after Evans, who had surrendered on May 27, 1998, confessed to multiple murders and provided the burial location. Evans died by jumping from the Troy-Menands Bridge while escaping custody on August 14, 1998, closing the opportunity for a trial.

Does anyone have memories of Cuomo from the Capital District or information about the period when he and Evans were active?