Burgett's body was found floating in the Bay two weeks later. June 11, -- Made famous by Clint Eastwood in the movie Escape from Alcatraz, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin vanished from their cells and were never seen again.
A fourth man, Allen West, believed by some people to have been the mastermind, was also involved; however, he was still in his cell the next morning when the escape was discovered.
An investigation revealed an intricate escape plot that involved homemade drills to enlarge vent holes, false wall segments, and realistic dummy heads complete with human hair placed in the beds so the inmates would not be missed during nighttime counts. Behind the rear wall of the cells is a utility corridor that had locked steel doors at either end.
The three men climbed the utility pipes to the top of the cellblock, and gained access to the roof through an air vent the men had previously bent the iron bars that blocked the air vent. They then climbed down a drainpipe on the northern end of the cellhouse and made their way to the water. They used prison-issued raincoats to make crude life vests and a pontoon-type raft to assist in their swim.
A cellhouse search turned up the drills, heads, wall segments, and other tools, while the water search found two life vests one in the bay, the other outside the Golden Gate , oars, and letters and photographs belonging to the Anglins that had been carefully wrapped to be watertight. But no sign of the men was found.
Several weeks later, a man's body dressed in blue clothing similar to the prison uniform was found a short distance up the coast from San Francisco, but the body was too badly deteriorated to be identified.
Morris and the Anglins are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned. December 16, -- John Paul Scott and Darl Parker bent the bars of a kitchen window in the cellhouse basement, climbed out, and made their way down to the water. Parker was discovered on a small outcropping of rock a short distance from the island. Scott attempted to swim towards San Francisco, but the currents began pulling him out to sea. He was found by several teenagers on the rocks near Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and was taken to the military hospital at the Presidio Army base suffering from shock and hypothermia, before being returned to Alcatraz.
Over the 29 years that the Federal prison operated, 36 men including two who tried to escape twice were involved in 14 separate escape attempts. Of these, 23 were caught, 6 were shot and killed during their escape, and 2 drowned. Two of the men who were caught were later executed in the gas chamber at the California State Prison at San Quentin for their role in the death of a correctional officer during the famous May , , "Battle of Alcatraz" escape attempt.
Whether or not anyone succeeded in escaping from Alcatraz depends on the definition of "successful escape. Officially, no one ever succeeded in escaping from Alcatraz, although to this day there are five prisoners listed as "missing and presumed drowned. One of the many myths about Alcatraz is that it was impossible to survive a swim from the island to the mainland because of sharks.
In fact, there are no "man-eating" sharks in San Francisco Bay, only small bottom-feeding sharks. Prior to the Federal institution opening in , a teenage girl swam to the island to prove it was possible. Fitness guru Jack LaLanne once swam to the island pulling a rowboat, and several years ago, two year-old children also made the swim. If a person is well-trained and -conditioned, it is possible to survive the cold waters and fast currents. However, for prisoners - who had no control over their diet, no weightlifting or physical training other than situps and pushups , and no knowledge of high and low tides - the odds for success were slim.
It did not close because of the disappearance of Morris and the Anglins the decision to close the prison was made long before the three disappeared , but because the institution was too expensive to continue operating. The major expense was caused by the physical isolation of the island - the exact reason islands have been used as prisons throughout history.
This isolation meant that everything food, supplies, water, fuel For example, the island had no source of fresh water, so nearly one million gallons of water had to be barged to the island each week.
The Federal Government found that it was more cost-effective to build a new institution than to keep Alcatraz open. After the prison closed, Alcatraz was basically abandoned. Frank Lee Morris had spent a lifetime navigating the prison system before his arrival on Alcatraz. From his infant years until his teens Morris was shuffled from one foster home to another, and he was convicted of his first crime at the youthful age of only thirteen. By the time he reached his later teens, Morris's criminal record would include a multitude of crimes ranging from narcotics possession to armed robbery, and he had become a professional inhabitant of the correctional system.
He spent his formative years in a boys' training school, and then graduated to a series of ever larger penitentiaries. Morris was credited by prison officials as possessing superior intelligence, and he earned his ticket to Alcatraz by building an impressive resume of escapes. In , Federal officials decided that his pattern of escape attempts, termed as "shotgun freedom" although his escapes had never involved the use of a shotgun , would end at The Rock.
On January 18, , Morris disembarked from the prison launch and became inmate AZ Frank's accomplices in the "Great Escape" were equally well acquainted with the dark world of organized crime. If Morris did survive the escape and is still alive today, he would be 86 years old. In this video on YouTube , his cousin Bud Morris says he helped finance the escape and he saw Frank after the escape.
According to this article , the case was reopened in The following day, a search party found the remains of the raincoat raft on Angel Island, two miles north of Alcatraz. Along with the raft was discovered a small plastic bag containing the personal effects of the Anglins. And this totally reliable account from mafiatoday. Frank Morris the most famous convict ever to escape from Alcatraz prison and who was presumed to have drowned by authorities has been found to be living under the assumed name of Padraic Welsh in a remote part of Connemara on the western coast of Ireland.
Frank now 83 years of age decided the time was right to break the silence and put the record straight after 47 years living a tranquil life in a remote part of the west of Ireland.
Recounting the night of June 11, , Frank said the escape went ahead as planned and along with fellow escapees brothers John and Clarence Anglin they placed the dummies in their beds, escaped through the vents at the back of their cells and into the utility corridor. They then proceeded onto the roof and down to the bay.
There they boarded the raft they had constructed and disappeared into the night to rendezvous with a boat which they had arranged to pick them up, they then destroyed the raft and scattered personal belonging into the bay to throw the authoritys off their trail.
Frank having relatives from the west of Ireland and an aunt living in Connemara had already organised passage to the Emerald Isle prior to escaping as for John and Clarence Anglin he never heard from them since and often wonders what became of them. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris Clint Eastwood masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape.
In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates who were never heard of again. The true story of Frank Morris Clint Eastwood , a cunning bank robber who was sent to Alcatraz Island, the most feared prison in the world. Although nobody had ever escaped from Alcatraz, Frank masterminded this elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape.
In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates, who were never heard of again.
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