 McNair traveled to Canada twice in order to evade capture, traveling across the country for over a year before being apprehended in a random police check.Much of what the public knows about McNair's escape and his time as a fugitive is through McNair's prison correspondence with a Canadian journalist, Byron Christopher.In November 1987, while attempting a burglary in Minot, North Dakota, McNair was surprised by two men and murdered one of them.