US Marshals release age-progressed images of three men who escape from notorious Alcatraz Island prison in 1962 and who would now be in their 90s

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 20, 2022 | Melissa Koenig

[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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two men dressed as women were said to have attended her funeral in Florida

Was one of the "swimmers" named Lia?

[lowbridge]

Irlf thats them, it makes sense that they would escape to south America because staying in the united states after their escape, it would have been just a matter of time before they got picked up by the fbi.

What i dont understand is that they were career criminals. After their escape, you’d think they (or at least one of them) would have returned to a life of crime. It sounds as if they all became law abiding citizens after their escape.

If so, I can imagine why. Perhaps the thought of spending time in a south american prison scared them straight. As i understand it, compared to the hellhole prisons of south America, alcatraz was a country club paradise.

[lowbridge]

lf thats them, it makes sense that they would escape to south America because staying in the united states after their escape, it would have been just a matter of time before they got picked up by the fbi.

What i dont understand is that they were career criminals. After their escape, you’d think they (or at least one of them) would have returned to a life of crime. It sounds as if they all became law abiding citizens after their escape.

If so, I can imagine why. Perhaps the thought of spending time in a south american prison scared them straight. As i understand it, compared to the hellhole prisons of south America, alcatraz was a country club paradise.

[Cats1]

The name of the documentary is: ‘Alcatraz: Search for the Truth’ and it was on the history channel. — I remember thinking it was interesting and kind of cool if true. :)

-I can’t remember the crimes they were sentenced for, but I had it in my head their sentencing was harsh. Although the mug shot of the blonde looks thuggish.

[jocon307]

Exactly. Move on dot org.

[Albion Wilde]

[nfldgirl]

Scarecrow! 😏😏😏

[mad_as_he$$]

Dug their way out? Should do some studying on the story your assigned. The Morris brothers died in South America, I think Frank made it off the water but later died from pneumonia or some other complication.