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American criminal and prison escapee
No source in the provided set documents a definitive, law‑enforced confirmation that any Alcatraz escapee survived to freedom; major reference works and the FBI say the fate remains unresolved . Over ...
The FBI conducted a 17-year probe into the June 1962 Alcatraz breakout and officially closed its file on December 31, 1979, concluding the three men likely drowned . Responsibility for the matter then...
The term "Alligator Alley" refers to a new South Florida immigration detention facility officially opened on July 3, 2025, locally nicknamed because of its remote Everglades location and harsh reporte...
The single most famous escape from Alcatraz is the June 1962 breakout by Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, a case that remains an enduring mystery because the three vanished from the...
Reporting on Alcatraz’s breakouts varies slightly by source but the dominant, repeated figure is that 36 inmates were involved in 14 separate escape attempts during the prison’s federal operation (193...
The most notable Alcatraz escape attempts center on the June 1962 breakout by Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, and several earlier, often violent or fatal efforts including the 1937...
The clearest official accounting comes from the Bureau of Prisons: of the 36 men involved in 14 separate escape attempts from Alcatraz between 1934 and 1963, 23 were recaptured (that is, caught and re...
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed on March 21, 1963, after 29 years as a federal prison; the decision was driven primarily by high operating costs and severe salt‑water damage to the bui...
Three inmates—Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin—escaped Alcatraz in June 1962 and , with no bodies recovered and their fate unresolved; the FBI closed its probe in 1979 and the U.S. M...