We Did Escape From Alcatraz: New Twist in 55-Year-Old Mystery As Letter to Cops Emerges From Men ...

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We Did Escape From Alcatraz: New Twist in 55-Year-Old Mystery As Letter to Cops Emerges From Men 'Who Broke Free'
By Christopher Bucktin/ News/ World News/ Crime/ Mirror/ mirror.co.uk

"It has gone down in history as the FBI’s most frustrating case – how did three bank robbers escape from the most secure prison in the US before disappearing without a trace?

Now agents have once again reopened the 55-year-old investigation after receiving a letter from a man claiming to be one of the Alcatraz escapees.

In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, with Frank Morris, tunnelled out of their cell before taking to the deadly waters of San Francisco Bay on a makeshift raft.

They have not been officially seen since and many believe all three drowned.

But a handwritten letter, sent in 2013 and only made public this week, claims at least one of them could still be alive...."

(Image: De Agostini Editorial)


Richard

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

any update on Jimmy Hoffa ?

 

[mjm1]

One of them came back to life as Clint Eastwood and he made a movie to document their escape.

Mike

 

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Escape From Alcatraz: Letter Claiming Inmates Survived 'Inconclusive'
By John Bacon/ News/ Nation/ USA Today/ usatoday.com

"The U.S. Marshal's Service says handwriting samples were "inconclusive" from a letter sent to San Francisco police by a man claiming to be one of three Alcatraz inmates whose daring breakout from The Rock was the subject of lore and the film Escape from Alcatraz.

Legend has it that no one ever successfully escaped the grim, federal island prison in San Francisco Bay, shuttered in the early 1960s after three decades of service.

But there is one asterisk: The matter of John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, who disappeared on a June night in 1962 and were never found. The working theory was that the men, who apparently fled on an improvised raft, drowned in the bay's unforgiving waters.

The letter, sent to police in 2013 and recently obtained by local CBS affiliate KPIX, was from a man claiming to be John Anglin.

"I escape from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris," the letter says. "I'm 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer. Yes we all made it that night but barely!" ..."

Alcatraz in San Francisco(Photo: VeryFirstTo.com)

Richard