Posted on 01/28/2018 9:16:04 AM PST by beaversmom
The questions have stymied law enforcement agencies, haunted family members and intrigued the public for more than half a century.
Did the three men who escaped in 1962 from Alcatraz — then known as the world’s most impenetrable island prison, a place for only the most hardened of criminals — survive their brazen attempt?
And if so, are they still alive, nearly 56 years later?
To this day, Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin remain the only people who have escaped Alcatraz and never been found — a disappearance that is one of the country’s most notorious unsolved mysteries.
The prevailing theory is that Morris and the Anglin brothers drowned after leaving Alcatraz Island and attempting to cross the frigid San Francisco Bay.
But in a newly surfaced letter sent to San Francisco police in 2013 and obtained by CBS affiliate KPIX, a man claiming to be one of the escapees said all three of the prisoners survived the attempt — but he was the only one still living.
“My name is John Anglin,” the handwritten letter began. “I escape [sic] from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris. I’m 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer. Yes we all made it that night but barely!”
The letter claimed Morris died in 2008 and that Clarence Anglin died in 2011.
The note continued: “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. This is no joke.”
That was nearly five years ago.
According to KPIX, the FBI examined the letter but said its results were inconclusive. A U.S. Marshals Service representative told The Washington...
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I don’t know about that but ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ was a great movie though...
Fake news.
Well before my time, but I know in the 1930s and 1940s there were old men who claimed to be famous outlaws of the west, people who are DB Cooper, people who know where Elvis and Andy Kaufmann are located, and up to the 80s dozens of people who know they saw Hitler in Argentina. Shows that even in old age people want attention.
There is no doubt in my mind that he, and the Anglins, pulled it off.
He must have been on the waiting list at a VA hospital.
I’ve been watching that “Hunting Hitler” show on the history channel and have become convinced Hitler survived the war and lived out his life in Argentina. He may or may not have lived very long, but he survived the war.
Since there is no proof, and very little evidence that they survived, and a dead body wearing clothing matching what the prisoners wore was seen floating outside the Bay by a crewman aboard a passing ship the next day, how can you have no doubt?
What the officials from DOJ/BOP would do is whatever would spare their agency’s reputation.
Meaning it’s unlikely they would let the public know if the guy was in fact John Anglin.
What’s your response in the event the letter is verified?
Argentina...
That’s just Great.
Right. And I’m the Empress Anastasia.
But the fascinating part is Americans now realize not to look to bureaucrats when they want reliable information.
I would be very surprised. It would be a very rare case where an extraordinary claim turns out to be true. It should be simple to pull a finger print off the letter and compare it to prison records. I just find it hard to believe that the three escapees have managed to go undetected for nearly 60 years. In most mass escapes the majority are rounded up in a couple of days.
I could be convinced that one—maybe two—survived, but it will take more than a letter with not much more proof.
To all government bureaucrats, and those who work for them, I say just sit for a minute and reflect on this.
The reason government has no credibility is because you squandered it.
When you took that first left turn down the road of lies and corruption, that was when you kissed your reputation goodbye.
I think you missed the extremely simple point in my comment: that the officials processing the letter are not interested in revealing the truth.
Soviet propaganda to distract from Katyn, and have the Allies chasing a phantom, rather than commie spies in their midsts.
If they are not interested then they must feel it is not worth investigating. Think of how every couple of years some backyard or field is dug up because some old codger claims Jimmy Hoffa is buried there. A waste of money and time.
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