'' (Petra in 'The Momen.t')Īt its very best literature will not merely entertain but will cause you to reflect on your own life. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. The US Marshals went down to Brazil and got a confirmation from a local bartender that one of the brothers was there.'' We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Ahearn, the US Marshals received a tip that one of the Anglin brothers was in Brazil. In the early 2000s, according to The New York Times best selling author Frank M. Here's some more of what Wikipedia cites, but you should really read the article. This discovery prompted speculation that officials knew of the evidence suggesting the trio survived, and that a cover-up of the evidence had taken place, along with them declaring the men drowned, not only to save Alcatraz's reputation as an 'escape-proof' prison, but to hope the escapees would relax and then become easier targets to find. It was also reported that at 11:30 a.m., on June 12, a motorist in Stockton, California (80 miles East of San Francisco) reported to the California Highway Patrol, that he had been forced off the road by three men in a blue Chevrolet.

Furthermore, the reports also claimed, that contrary to the official FBI report of no car thefts being reported, a car, a 1955 blue Chevrolet, had been reported stolen in the vicinity on the night of the escape. Marshal, discovered in the newly uncovered official records, it was reported that, contrary to the official FBI report of the escapee's raft never being recovered, a raft was discovered on Angel Island on June 12, 1962, the day after the escape, along with footprints leading away from the raft. When the case was transferred from the FBI to the US Marshals, all the files were examined in detail on a 2011 documentary on the National Geographic Channel entitled Vanished from Alcatraz. In a documentary from around 2011/2012, it was said that the official FBI record was a lie: The Wikipedia article has references saying yes, they likely did escape from Alcatraz alive. Note that the reference was actually given in the question, which is where I took the statement from.

While it is possible that these men survived, escaped, and hid out for decades, it's unlikely.ĮDIT: Since I've been asked for references for the above quote, here they are. So the summary you have is probably the truth. Did none of these people ever make contact with their loved ones, even in secret? Did none of them appear in a safe country decades after and offer to write a book about their experiences? Did nobody in the area report seeing three wet guys getting into a car? The FBI spent years investigating the case and finally concluded the men had failed.Īs well as assessing the chance that they could have successfully made the crossing, they also looked for evidence of the men being alive. Frank Lee Morris, Clarence and John Anglin were the only people to have attempted escape from Alcatraz and not be be accounted for. You've really answered your own question. How legitimate is it to 'pressume' that one of those missing prisoners didn't drown? Are there clues that suggest an escapee survived? The MythBusters looked into it: Įven though they have their doubts that Morris and the Anglin brothers made it, they deemed it ' Plausible'. The film 'Escape from Alactraz' (1979) was based on this attempt, starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris. There have been attempts, and maybe the most famous one happened in 1962:

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