U.S. marshals still hunt Alcatraz escape artists, 50 years later

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Jun 12, 2012 - 02:19 U.S. marshals still hunt Alcatraz escape artists, 50 years later

By Ronnie Cohen

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fifty years after three inmates used spoons to burrow out of Alcatraz Island's federal prison and escape on a raft made of raincoats, their relatives visited the scene of America's most famous jail break and said they were sure the convicts survived.

Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin, all serving time for bank robbery, vanished from the prison in San Francisco Bay on the night of June 11, 1962.

Although many historians believe they perished in the frigid, treacherous currents surrounding the maximum-security island prison, their bodies were never found and some believe they made it to freedom.

"I always believed they made it, and I haven't changed my mind yet," Clarence and John Anglin's sister, Marie Anglin Widner, said on Monday during a press conference at the prison.

[Luciferous]

1. Huh, I think I watched something about that escape on Unsolved Mysteries years ago.

[Nye Bevan]

2. These guys weren't Nazi war criminals.

Yes, they robbed a bank, but nobody was hurt. I would just let it go, after all this time.

[Logical]

3. not me. Give prisoners the wrong idea.

[dimbear]

4. Sharks got to eat, too. Circle of life. n/t

[spanone]

5. what a waste of time