Alcatraz escape nears 50th anniversary

Subject: Alcatraz escape nears 50th anniversary Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:31 pm

Fifty years after three prisoners broke out of Alcatraz through a spoon-dug tunnel and launched a raft made of raincoats into the San Francisco Bay in a bid for freedom, a lone U.S. marshal is still looking for them.

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Whether inmates Frank Morris, 35, John Anglin, 32, and his brother Clarence Anglin, 31, made it to safety on June 11, 1962, or sank to a watery grave is not known.

U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke, the only official investigator still assigned to the case, has an educated guess.

Two lived, but Dyke won't share all the reasons he believes that.

He's read the thousands of pages in each of the 14 volumes accumulated by the FBI before they closed the case in 1979 as well as all the leads chased since by U.S. marshals.

And he knows what he won't share.

Since he took the case in 2003, Dyke has built up four big boxes and 12 gigabytes of "stuff" in his own investigation.

"I think there's still a decent chance they made it," Dyke said. "I can't prove it. Well, nothing I can tell you anyway."

Dyke cites a Norwegian ship report of a body floating in the water outside the Golden Gate about a month after the escape. It was face down and appeared to be wearing prison clothes. The crew was unable to immediately report it or collect the body.

Statistically speaking, he said, 2 out of 3 bodies in the bay are recovered. If all three fugitives died, two bodies should have been recovered.

But without bodies, Dyke can't prove what actually happened.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/09/MNQ61OV4QK.DTL
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Alcatraz escape nears 50th anniversary

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