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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 353 - Movie vs Reality: Escape From Alcatraz Part 3

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the conclusion to our three part series we discuss the escape and the enduring mystery of this case.


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Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. Hi, this is Desi Jatikin.

0:54.8

And this is our conclusion of movie versus reality, Escape from Alcatraz.

1:02.8

Yay, the escape.

1:05.6

We're getting to the escape.

1:08.8

My main source for this series has been the book Escape from Alcatraz by

1:16.3

J. Campbell Bruce. And I did use some other newspaper sources for this episode. Let's just

1:27.2

get into it. Where we last left off, frankly Morris has just

1:33.6

soldered the metal file of his toenail clippers to the handle of a spoon so he could make a more

1:41.3

effective instrument to chip away at the concrete around the air vent in his cell.

1:47.2

Now, remember, he did that with shavings from a dime.

1:51.1

Right.

1:52.3

Very advanced.

1:56.0

In the movie, they show his chart and it says extremely high IQ.

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