Now the family of John and Clarence Anglin say a photograph taken in 1975 shows the brothers alive and well and living in Brazil. Some investigators believe the escapees drowned in the Bay that night and never made it to freedom but there isn't any definitive evidence to prove it. The Marshals service took over the Alcatraz escape case from the FBI in 1979. "They were able to do what nobody else has done and get completely off the island and never be found - if they lived," Dyke said.ĭyke says he is still following several leads in the case, but he does not spend a lot of time or money on it. That's months of work without getting caught."ĭyke said what they did was wrong but he understands why the public is enthralled with the mystery of what really happened that night 54 years ago to Morris and the Anglin brothers. Marshals Service.ĭyke said, "I give them a lot of credit. It is only one of the cases Dyke handles along with running the Oakland office of the U.S. The lone federal lawman still on the case, still investigating the escape and hunting for the convicts, is supervisory Deputy U.S. Investigators believe they went into the water just before midnight and they were never seen or heard from again. And then the three shimmied down to the ground where they inflated life vests and a raft made of prison raincoats. They managed to make it up outside to the roof of the cell block. They climbed up to the top of the cell block on protruding pipes. They emerged in a utility corridor that ran behind the cells.
The men posed dummy heads made of plaster and paper in their beds and squeezed out of holes they had cut in the walls of their cells with sharpened spoons and homemade chisels. It was known as the toughest prison in the nation and the toughest criminals in the country, including Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, Machine Gun Kelly and Whitey Bulger were incarcerated there.īut on June 11, 1962, convicted bank robbers Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence Anglin waited patiently until shortly after the last bed check at 9 p.m. The ABC7 News I-Team's Dan Noyes tracked down an eyewitness who may help connect some key clues in the case.Įscape from the federal prison on Alcatraz was supposed to be impossible. There's a new lead in the search for three men who escaped from Alcatraz 54 years ago - the longest manhunt in United States history. Could a deathbed confession solve the mystery of three bank robbers' escape from Alcatraz in 1962?ĪLCATRAZ, Calif.
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