Posted on 06/20/2022 12:25:00 PM PDT by Morgana
Sixty years after three men infamously dug their way out of the maximum security prison at Alcatraz Island off the coast of the San Francisco-Bay Area, United States Marshals on Monday released age-progressed images of the escaped convicts.
Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris remain wanted fugitives for their June 11, 1962 escape from Alcatraz, where they were serving time for armed bank robberies.
The three men spent more than a year preparing for the escape, digging around a metal air vent in their prison cells, until eventually they had cleared enough of a hole to pass through, shimmy up poles to traverse the rooftop and sneak past guards before maneuvering down 50-feet of piping to the ground of the prison's shower area where they planned to take a raft back to the mainland.
Federal investigations into the escape - which was immortalized in the 1979 film Escape From Alcatraz - concluded that the Anglin brothers and Morris must have drowned in the San Pablo Bay.
But for years, speculation has grown that the men may have survived and continued to live under cover, with theorists pointing to the fact that their bodies had never been recovered, and evidence that a raft was recovered on nearby Angel Island as well as evidence that a car was stolen on the mainland that night by three unidentified men.
Then in 2013, authorities received a handwritten letter suggesting that John may have still been alive, forcing U.S. Marshals to reopen the case in 2018.
It is unclear if there are any new developments in the investigation, but U.S. Marshals have now posted age-progressed photos of the wanted convicts.
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A. Made it off the island alive and B. are still out there today?
They washed out to sea.
These guys have nothing better to do?
“A. Made it off the island alive and B. are still out there today? “
Check the San Francisco voter records.
I’m sure they’ve voted Dem in every election.
90 years old and they are just now chasing them down? How about dealing instead with domestic terrorists attacking pro-life centers and churches around the US?
Or settled to the bottom of the bay, as shark poop.
I hope they made it, found their hidden stash, and died of old age in the Caribbean.
Prosecutors in Calif. today would no prosecute them.
Just like Bill Errs, “guilty as hell, free as a bird”
I’ve done the swim from Alcatraz.
Three guys kicking & paddling while hanging onto a raft? They’d have to be in shape, but I think it is do-able.
If they’re caught the US Marshalls Service ought to give them an award - “All Time North American Champions in Team Hide-N-Seek”!
The most threatening crime issue of the day for the Marshals are three men in their 90s.
They are voting Democrat wherever they are......................
I think the one on the right is Joe Biden.
not....
They’re white, they would prosecute.
Leave them alone you bastards they earned the right to live free if they escaped safely from traz. 60 years ago.
Just another news distraction... FBI has a lot of real important stuff to investigate but they look the other way and try to get us to also.
Unsolved Mysteries had the Alcatraz special about the guys who escaped.
They had some pro swimmer out there. He made it I think.
“Others said the Anglins’ mother kept receiving flowers on special occasions for years with no card attached, and when she died in 1978, two men dressed as women were said to have attended her funeral in Florida, despite FBI agents being camped out nearby.
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It’s OK, they were on a FIB Watch List....
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