It’s America’s most notorious prison break, and somehow authorities are still hopeful that the three missing convicts—if they are even alive—can be brought to justice.
The only prisoners to have possibly escaped from Alcatraz may have gotten away with it for the last six decades, but their time on the run could be about to run out—assuming, that is, that they’re still alive.
Their plan involved making a secret workshop above the cell block where they could fashion their raft and life vests. They also went to the trouble of making dummies with plaster heads featuring real human hair from the prison barber shop so that passing night guards would be fooled into thinking the convicts were still sleeping in their cells duringOn the night of the escape, the group clambered up a series of pipes to reach the prison house roof through a ventilator.
In 2013, San Francisco police received a letter purporting to be from John Anglin. It claimed that he had survived the 1962 escape but he was now living with cancer. It also included an offer to serve another year in prison in exchange for medical treatment—the U.S. Marshals Service said in 2018 that results of an analysis of the handwriting in the letter proved “inconclusive” when compared to that of the convict.
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