The Dark Secret of the Alcatraz Prison: The Escape Mystery

The Dark Secret of the Alcatraz Prison: The Escape Mystery On June 11, 1962, three inmates vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the most elaborate prison escape in American history. Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin spent months crafting dummy heads, an improvised raft from stolen raincoats, and homemade tools to break out of the supposedly inescapable island prison in San Francisco Bay. Decades of FBI investigations, forensic analysis, anonymous photographs from Brazil, and a mysterious 2013 letter claiming all three men survived have kept the Alcatraz escape mystery alive. The United States Marshals Service still lists Morris and the Anglin brothers as fugitives, and the truth of whether they drowned or escaped remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American criminal history. 00:00 - The Discovery 00:53 - Alcatraz Background 01:38 - The Three Escapees 02:27 - The Six-Month Plan 05:10 - Night of the Escape 06:13 - FBI Investigation 07:13 - Survival Debate 09:01 - The Brazil Photos 13:34 - The 2013 Letter 16:35 - Case Status Today #Alcatraz #TrueCrime #EscapeFromAlcatraz #UnsolvedMysteries