The Trail Went Cold - Episode 265 - The Alcatraz Escape (Part 2)

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

June 11, 1962. San Francisco, California. 35-year old Frank Morris, 32-year old John Anglin and his 31-year old brother, Clarence Anglin, attempt an elaborate escape from the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island. After sneaking out of their cells during the night, the three convicts enter the water in order to cross San Francisco Bay on a homemade inflatable raft, but an extensive manhunt fails to find them. While the authorities are inclined to believe the escapees drowned, certain pieces of evidence, including a photograph that was allegedly taken of the Anglin brothers in Brazil in 1975, suggest they might have survived. In Part One of our special six-anniversary episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we shared the basic facts of the Alcatraz escape. This week, in Part Two, we shall explore all the different theories surrounding the escape attempt and determine the likelihood of whether or not any of the three missing convicts could have gotten away with it. If you have any information about this case, please contact the U.S. Marshals Service’s San Francisco office at (415) 436-7677. Join us on Saturday, February 26 at 8:00pm EST for an online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape https://vault.fbi.gov/Alcatraz%20Escape http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc1.htm https://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc2.htm https://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc3.htm https://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc4.htm https://unsolved.com/gallery/alcatraz-escape/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/460678737/ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/us/anniversary-of-a-mystery-at-alcatraz.html https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47782343 https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/06/19/alcatraz-escapees-sister-returns-to-robbery-scene/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/02/08/investigator-says-1962-alcatraz-escapees-likely-survived/ https://archive.today/20140320041409/http://www.11alive.com/news/article/219701/1/Rome-man-claims-he-had-role-in-escape-from-Alcatraz https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30349106 https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Does-this-photo-prove-the-most-famous-Alcatraz-6568415.php http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.3278098/notorious-alcatraz-escapees-may-still-be-on-the-lam-1.3278107 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alcatraz-inmates-survived-infamous-1962-escape-letter-suggests/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/24/a-man-claims-three-alcatraz-prisoners-barely-survived-a-1962-escape-and-that-hes-one-of-them/ https://musebycl.io/digital-data/can-ai-solve-58-year-old-alcatraz-escape-mystery “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2022: Vegas” at Paris & Bally’s in Las Vegas from April 29-May 1, 2022. To get a 10 % discount off a standard badge, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, And the Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
0:40.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be presenting the second of our two-part
0:44.4	series about the 1962 Alcatraz Escape.
0:48.2	As you probably know, the Freel went cold has just reached our six-year anniversary as a
0:52.2	podcast so to commemorate the occasion,
0:54.6	I decided to cover one of my passion cases which will be reaching its 60-year anniversary
0:59.4	this coming June. But since it's such an extensive story, I decided to make it a two-parter.
1:05.1	We released Part 1 last week, which outlined the most important facts of the case, and if you
1:09.3	haven't heard our first episode yet, I suggest you go back and listen to it since I'm going to be discussing
1:14.5	a lot of the information I previously shared, as well as provide my own theories and analysis.
1:20.4	As a brief recap, this story involves three convicted criminals, 35-year-old Frank Morris, 32-year-old
1:26.7	John Angland, and his 31-year-old brother, Clarence Angland, who were serving time at the Alcatraz
1:32.0	Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco
1:35.8	and decided to orchestrate an escape from what was considered to be the world's most inescapable prison.
1:41.2	On the evening of June 11, 1962, after several months of meticulous planning,
1:47.0	they managed to sneak out of their cells and make it outside the prison walls to the island shoreline.
1:52.0	Their plan was to travel across the very cold waters of San Francisco Bay on a makeshift inflatable raft, but they wound up vanishing without a trace.
2:00.0	After the escapees were discovered to be missing the following morning, a massive search effort was launched, but even though some of their personal items were found in the bay, it could never be officially confirmed if the three convicts made it to the mainland or drown before their bodies were carried out into the Pacific Ocean.
2:16.7	The authorities have always held the latter position, but over the past six decades
2:21.0	evidence has surfaced to suggest that one or more of the escapees
2:25.4	managed to survive and get away with it.
2:28.0	There have been a number of different leads and theories, some of which contradict each
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