In June 1962, three inmates shimmied through a hole they’d chiseled into the walls of Alcatraz prison and climbed up to the roof.
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The brothers and inmate Frank Morris created a makeshift raft from stolen raincoats in an attempt to float to the mainland, reported the New York Post, but authorities believed the men drowned while crossing San Francisco Bay.
Alcatraz prison’s reputation as never having a successful escape is being questioned amid new claims from family of two escapees that the men made it away alive.
But now, members of the Anglin family are working with authorities to find out if indeed, the men survived the harrowing trip and survived years afterwards… and may even still be alive today.
“That gave me the motive to prove them wrong”.
The nephews have also produced a photograph which they claim proves the Anglins may have been alive in the 1970s. They recently shared their information with retired US marshal Art Roderick, who originally worked on the case.
According to Alcatraz History, there was 14 escape attempts during the 29 years of operation.
“When you work these types of cases there’s a feeling you get when stuff starts to fall into place”.
And DNA from the dug-up remains of Anglin brother Alfred does not genetically match a set of bones found on the shore near San Francisco in 1963. By 1960, Morris had earned his sentence at Alcatraz prison based upon an impressive history of jail escapes, which Federal officials had nicknamed “shotgun freedom”.
A handwriting expert says they are legitimate but it is not known when they were written.
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If they did, the brothers would now be aged in their 80s.
