He thinks that may have been the body of Frank Morris, believing the Anglin brothers would have looked after each other. But the uncertainty over their fate created a legend. Books and documentaries continued to question whether they drowned, or in fact made it to shore. One TV show re-enacted the escape in similar conditions and concluded they could have survived.
He has personally been investigating for almost 10 years. Most leads aren't really that good or credible. Generally 99 percent aren't true. But along with a few relatives of the missing men, he went to the island for the day prepared to make an arrest if necessary on the 50th anniversary. There's always a legend, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Papier-mache heads. Alcatraz was closed in , a year after the escape. We've received your submission. The three men — brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris — grabbed makeshift paddles and plunged an escape raft they made of stolen raincoats into the dark waters of San Francisco Bay. But now, more than 50 years later, new leads are being presented by the Anglin family, who are cooperating with authorities for the first time.
They claim that not only did the brothers survive the escape, they were alive and well up through at least the mids — and may still be alive today. The Anglin family sat on those leads for years because, they say, they were spied on and harassed by the FBI for years. They arrived without postage. In the History Channel special, the nephews take the cards and other evidence to Roderick, who retired in but is still working on the case.
Though the handwriting matched, the investigators were unable to pinpoint the exact date of the cards. But the nephews also came forward with a photo — which will be revealed on the show — that proves the Anglins may have been alive in the s. The next big piece of evidence was buried — about six feet in the ground. No bodies surfaced, but neither did any sightings that led to arrests.
To this day, the U. Marshal Service keeps an open file on the escapees. It will be closed only when they each turn Mug shots of three prisoners that made a rare escape from Alcatraz Island. A woman who sells warranties in a car dealership in Burlingame has done it 1, times. A 9-year-old swam to the island and back again in In fact, after our three escapees definitely did it in , another inmate, John Paul Scott, successfully made the swim in December that year, naked, without a raft, in much colder temperatures, only to be found on the beach in San Francisco before being returned to the island.
Even without the adrenaline boost of guard rifles aimed at your back, thousands of people have swum from Alcatraz safely to land.
As kids, John and Clarence Anglin became strong swimmers in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan, where they spent every summer picking cherries. Frank Morris was smart enough to physically ready himself for the one-mile swim over the six months or more he spent preparing for his bid for freedom. They may not have even needed to swim anyway — they had a fully inflated three-man raft to sail away on.
Built over months with 50 raincoats meticulously glued together in their secret workshop. If they let the water take them, they would have ended up at the Marin Headlands as it did when the Mythbusters guys successfully re-created the attempt in , or under the bridge, where they could have jumped out for a short paddle to Horseshoe Bay.
Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were probably cracking beers under the moonlight as they drifted toward freedom that night, thinking — this would make a great movie one day. So why do some people ahem, in this newsroom insist that they drowned, when there is zero proof of death? Two in three bodies from suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge are recovered. From the prison cleaners to the guards to Warden Olin G. If word spread that three men had successfully gotten away, it would almost certainly lead to closure of the expensive, controversial penitentiary.
As soon as the jail break was revealed in the media, stories circulated that this could spell the end for the prison island, and the FBI needed to quell that narrative. Gilbert in Brazil. Not only would the prison be closed shortly after the incident, two of the escapees would make it to Brazil more on that later.
Coincidentally, a police report revealed that a blue Chevy with three men in it ran another car off the road in Stockton later that night. In , a photo emerged of the brothers standing next to a termite mound outside Rio de Janeiro, taken by a family friend in This photo allegedly depicts Clarence and John Anglin in Brazil, , with their actual mug shots inset. A History Channel documentary revealed how the U.
Marshals service hired an expert to compare physical features and measurements shown in the photo to what they knew about the Anglins in They concluded that the photo was taken in , and that there was a high likelihood that the men photographed were, in fact, Clarence and John Anglin. The FBI had long suspected Brazil as a destination for the escapees. As far back as , they investigated a rumor that Clarence Anglin was living there.
It was considered so significant that bureau agents went to South America to find him.
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