In a statement to CBS, the Marshals Service wrote: “There is absolutely no reason to believe that any of them would have changed their lifestyle and became completely law abiding citizens after this escape.” The letter writer said he lives in Southern California after spending many years after his escape living in Seattle and North Dakota. “So that means yes, and it means no, so this leaves everything in limbo,” Harp said. The US Marshals Service, the sole agency probing the case, said the FBI lab examined the letter for prints and DNA, KPIX reported.
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The writer offers a deal: “If you announce on TV that I will be promised to first go to jail for no more than a year and get medical attention, I will write back to let you know exactly where I am. The next morning, shocked guards found dummy heads made of plaster, papier-mâché, paint and real human hair in their cells.Īccording to the letter, Morris died in 2008 and Clarence Anglin died three years later. They also created life vests and wooden paddles. They eventually made it out through the ventilation system that led them to the prison roof and slid down the smokestack to the ground, where they launched their makeshift raft fashioned out of more than 50 raincoats.
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ReutersĪccording to the feds, the men used a homemade drill devised from a broken vacuum cleaner motor to widen vents and crawl through before clambering up a series of pipes. The prison mug shots (above, from left) of convicts Frank Lee Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin, and (below) images of what the men might look like in their later years. The warden, played by Patrick McGoohan, informed him that no inmate had ever made it out alive. In 1979’s “Escape from Alcatraz,” Clint Eastwood portrayed Morris in a dramatization of the trio’s escape. The three bank robbers gained widespread notoriety and folklore after escaping from the high-security lockup on Jthe only convicts to successfully break out of the island prison, nicknamed “The Rock.” “It’s interesting, I mean it’s obviously a very famous case here in San Francisco,” said Jeff Harp, a security analyst for CBS San Francisco who worked for 21 years with the FBI, though not on the escape. The feds have reopened the ancient cold case as a result of the shocking piece of evidence, which was sent to San Francisco police. He then tries to strike an astonishing deal with the FBI - offering to be locked up again for a year in exchange for medical care. Yes we all made it that night but barely!” said the letter, obtained by local CBS affiliate KPIX. I escape from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris.
The three inmates who famously broke out of Alcatraz prison in 1962 may not have gone down to their watery graves in shark-infested San Francisco Bay after all, according to a report.Īccording to a letter allegedly written by one of the three convicts in 2013, they all survived their daring escape. Prison letter reveals Al Capone's soft side Kaepernick celebrates 'Unthanksgiving Day' on Alcatraz Why family believes Alcatraz escapees survived their journey FBI recreates decoy heads inmates used in Alcatraz escape
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