1962 Alcatraz escape

I like to think they made it. But these were professional criminals. Its far fetched to assume they never committed another crime thus exposing them.
 
anomynous said:
No way they made it. No one without extensive raft-making experience is going to be able to put together an inflatable raft from raincoats and barge cement that's going hold 3 people and stay afloat long enough to make it to land. No sane person would trust such a craft: for this to actually work, at least several trial-runs would have to be made to work out the kinks. These guys took a dip in the bay when the raft gave out and their bodies washed long ago out into the Pacific and became crab food.
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As has been said. Mythbusters made a raft of the same materials, and tried it on a night with the same wind and tides. They made it rather easily on the first try by moving with the tide.
 
I want to think they made it, but it seems criminals always get caught doing crime again.
 
They made it. They never found the bodies, but they found the raft. If they drowned, the tides would push the bodies to the same shore as the raft, so they'd be pretty close to each other. I mean, if all 3 of them drowned you would have at least found one of the bodies, but for all 3 to disappear like that?

Plus mythbusters proving that it's very possible was like the final nail in the coffin. These dudes totally made it. The bad guys won. They were just smart enough to leave the country and never be heard from again.
 
I am going to Alcatraz next Friday. My wife and I are head to SF on a weekend getaway ( from the kids). Anyway has anyone done the tour? Or have any good suggestions of things to do?

oh yeah they made it. I hope.

I have always let two crimes go as long as they don't hurt anyone in the process, and that is: Escaping from prison and robbing a bank. If you can get away with both of these extremely difficult things to do, then more power to you.
 
abc7news.com/news/i-team-exclusive-new-leads-in-alcatraz-escapees-manhunt/1349024/



The age and condition of the photo and the fact that the men are wearing sunglasses hinder experts' abilities to make a definitive determination.

Dyke says Brizzi was a conman, and an expert working for the U.S. Marshal's Service does not believe the photograph is legitimate. Dyke says measurements of the physical characteristics of the Anglin brothers indicate it is not them in the Brazil photo, but even he acknowledges the difficulty in making a definitive determination and ruling it out as a valid lead completely. He continues to investigate the Brazil photo as a lead in the case, despite his doubts about Brizzi and the picture.

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But Dyke has another lead in the case he's trying to figure out. A deathbed confession has surfaced and the ABC7 I-Team tracked down an eyewitness who could help connect the clues.


According to people who have seen and read the entire document, the deathbed confession was dictated to a nurse by a dying man who wanted to come clean about his role in the escape from Alcatraz.

The dying man told his nurse he and an accomplice helped Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers escape from Alcatraz.

The confession indicates the two men were waiting in a boat on the Bay near Alcatraz the night of the escape and they plucked the three convicts from the water and whisked them away. The confession is very detailed and it says the men painted the boat white just days before they set out to assist in the prison break.

Robert Checchi was an off-duty San Francisco Policeman sitting in his car just before midnight at Marina Green that evening.

He was gazing out at the Bay when he noticed what he calls a "pristine white boat." Checchi says he immediately felt like something was wrong because the boat had no lights on. He didn't see anybody on the boat and he couldn't hear any noise coming from the boat.

But after watching the boat intently for several minutes, Checchi said a light went on. He says somebody on the boat was shining a spotlight or a flashlight into the dark waters of the Bay. He told ABC7's I-Team it just didn't look right.

"I said this is really unusual," Checchi said.

He said, "It started moving out and the port and starboard lights came on. I couldn't tell whether it went north or south, it just disappeared into the dark."

The next day, when Checchi found out there had been an escape from Alcatraz, he went in to work and filed a report about what he had seen. The FBI questioned Checchi for days and days and sometimes the interrogations got somewhat nasty.

Esslinger says another interesting part of the deathbed confession is what happened after the men on the boat supposedly helped the three convicts out of the water and escape to freedom.

The confession suggests the men on the boat took the escapees all the way to a place near Seattle in the boat. And it wasn't long after the escape that the accomplices betrayed the Anglins and Frank Morris.

The dying man told his nurse, according to the confession, he helped murder the convicts and bury their bodies near a highway.

Esslinger has been out to the area on a search for the bodies with a former federal investigator. They did not find the bodies but they have not given up completely on the deathbed confession.
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callofdutyNBA said:
The brothers may have made it. It is believe that their mother passed away a few years later and police officers attended just incase there was a chance the brothers went and turns out the police officers spotted to manly built looking ladies, covered in makeup and wearing big hats and the back of the ceremony and when the police had a chance to go over and investigate they both had completely disappeared. It is believed that the two 'ladies' were in fact the brothers ?
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Not to mention their mom always got a card on mothers day, even after their escape.... supposedly they wen't to brazil, and an uncle kept in touch with them
 
Nah, they died. Think a manhunt would've found them by now. Never know, though.
 
MusterX said:
I wouldn't call it impossible, Nick Diaz has made the swim about 5 times.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's because he thinks the USADA will send him to Alcatraz if he pops for weed again.
 
BisexualMMA said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it's because he thinks the USADA will send him to Alcatraz if he pops for weed again.
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Well the swim won't stop him from escaping lol. People have said for years that the convicts couldn't make the swim alive. Maybe they didn't, but they might have.
 
420SherCat said:
I like to think they made it. But these were professional criminals. Its far fetched to assume they never committed another crime thus exposing them.
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It would have been pretty easy to disappear in 1962 .
 
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I know I said on the first page they died

But that was before I saw this picture

FBI did analysis on the picture and said its a good chance its the anglin brothers
 
I like how they are standing next to a big rock, as a symbol of were free of THE ROCK
 
The same show that showed the above pic, also speculated that they did not swim to shore, but rather swam around to the other side of the island to where the prison boat comes and goes, and were towed out behind the boat.

The show said magazines were found later in their cell, documenting they were studying boat slips, ropes, knots, etc..
 
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