The Great Escape from Alcatraz - Part Two

05/30/19 • 26 min

In 1975, a former friend of John and Clarence Anglin reports seeing the brothers alive and well in Brazil. He even took a picture. In 2013, police in San Francisco receive a letter supposedly from an 83-year-old John. In Part Two, Lauren dives into the latest developments in this unsolved case as well as the history of failed escape attempts on Alcatraz.

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The Great Escape from Alcatraz - Part One

June 12, 1962. On this quiet morning at the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island, a guard notices something strange in the cells of inmates John and Clarence Anglin. When officials try to wake the sleeping inmates, they realize something major has gone down: the Anglin brothers, along with inmate Frank Morris, have escaped, and left behind paper mache heads as a decoy. In the decades since, the world has debated their fate as this escape remains unsolved.

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The Mad Trapper of Rat River

February 17, 1932. After a 53 day manhunt across the freezing, remote land of Canada’s Northwest Territories, a trapper by the name of “Albert Johnson” is taken down by Mounties after being shot nine times. For two months, he led police officers on a chase across sprawling mountain ranges in freezing temperatures, always managing to stay a few steps ahead. Today, the Mad Trapper’s true identity remains a mystery.