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For the FBI, one of the most conclusive evidence that the brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped alive and perished in the frigid waters surrounding Alcatraz prison was the fact that the mother of these received each year until a bouquet death-without-card for his birthday. The other is one that speculates that the brothers attended the funeral of his mother in 1973 disguised as women despite the strong presence of FBI agents waiting.
On the night of June 11, 1962, four prisoners had scheduled his flight from 'The Rock', as it was known since its opening in 1933 the impregnable federal prison located on a bluff overlooking the bay of San Francisco (Northern California) and they began closing in 1963. Alcatraz was considered a high security prison because of their geographical location and the home was forced those considered "unrecoverable individuals to society" and famous gangsters like Al Capone.
Poster for 'Wanted' FBI with the appearance of John Anglin.
After months of planning and digging tunnels with spoons to allow them to get to the weakness of the criminal-one of the fans who were on the roof, only three of those four men managed to flee: the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris, who is believed to be the mastermind of the plan virtuoso, all convicts confessed to robbing banks. The fourth prisoner, Allen West, remained in his cell without any good reasons never known: panic or logistical problems prevented him from reaching the roof of the prison. The information provided in the following years the FBI was central West to know the plan of the escapees.
Throughout the history of the prison were 14 escape attempts involving 36 people, only three mentioned above are still missing. Twenty inmates were rearrested, six died from gunshot wound during the flight and four drowned. When the morning of June 12, 1962 was made on routine count of inmates, on the beds of the three men lay trails heads made of paper and hair salon that gave the impression that the escaped prisoners were still asleep.
To be alive, John Anglin would today 82 years, his brother Clarence 81, and Frank Morris 85
