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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Criminals don’t change their spots. If they had actually escaped and made it to chore at least one of them would have been picked up for another crime later.
Don’t they do something along the lines of setting priorities, in their investigations of cases?
If this is just a cold case, with no new information in decades, it makes you wonder why they are spending time on it.
Why bother?
Those dudes were fish food.
Somewhere a long time ago, I saw a TV account of how they might have done it. After floating around the island, escaping the watchtowers, they were picked up by a boat arranged ahead of time and taken to South America. One of their relatives claimed to have correspondence from him, back in the 90’s.
Oh, yeah, for the true athlete, trained swimmer, this is no problem.
I know some beasts that swim from the Bay to the Breakers every year when the running race takes place.
They generate so much internal heat when they swim that distance that they can't wear swimming wetsuits, normally needed for distance cold-water swims - the suits would keep their bodies from radiating enough, and their muscles would get cooked (so to speak).
There's a story about it here.
They weren’t numbers they were free men!
Actually pretty brilliant to cast McGoohan in that role.
I remember watching a documentary about this a few years ago and found the below article.
Some amazing people who can do that kind of swimming.
I couldn’t imagine being in that cold stuff.
“If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to us...”
They may be voting Republican, they must be stopped.
OMG there are no words for the utter stupidity and waste of time!!!
I did the Alcatraz to SF swim a few years ago. 680 swimmers. Did it in 44 minutes. Water was 55 degrees. No a single shark in sight. Wasn’t even a felon.
What a ridiculous waste of money trying to find three 90 year old guys. Doesn’t the Marshall’s Service have something better to do?
I’ve seen them. Campfire with Elvis. Wont disclose location because Sasquatch made me promise.
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