I heard about this from the Red Web podcast. The two leading theories are either that A: they died in the water, or B: a couple of the guys moved down to South America.
During the 60’s, native Americans took control of abandoned Alcatraz and attempted to establish a native multi-cultural hub for ceremonies and preservation of native traditions. No surprise, they weren’t supported by the government.
It's probably more of an inactive open investigation than anything. I doubt they are dedicating much resources to this but at the same time since they technically never were caught or confirmed dead it's still technically an "open" case.
This. The FBI has been releasing AI renders of old cases. Computer is just churning through old cases, this one was bound to come up. We'll probably see this same braindead headline in another ten years, when the same things happens again.
I suspect they have like 2 guys on this. Probably aren’t pouring tons of money into it. And because no bodies were found and no one was caught it remains a open case. Cold cases are occasionally gone through again as technology improves to provide more information.
Honestly needed to be a rule for Alcatraz and other such prisons, if you escape and aren’t caught, you’re free. But if you get arrested for anything else, your sentence is reinstated.
There’s two realistic options. One, they died during the escape attempt. Two, if they survived, odds are they’re dead now, given they’d be anywhere from 91 to 96 years old.
They also made it through having a segment of “Unsolved Mysteries” done on them, which didn’t lead to anything on any of them. Back when everyone watched the same few network shows this caught a lot of fugitives.
These guys grew up as kids in a era that survival skills and self reliance were more common, they may have even been more weathered physically and mentally to the elements. communications weren't the greatest yet. It wouldn't surprise me that they made it.
Yeah these guys are dead, and in the absolutely miniscule chance they aren't, they'll be dead (and buried under assumed identities) by the end of this decade. Pursuing [three escaped prisoners who drowned and were eaten by bottom-feeders sixty years ago] makes about as much sense as pursuing Jack the Ripper does.
Plot twist: They never left the island. They pushed their boat out into the water to make it look like they escaped, and have been living in a cave under the island. They come out at night to feed on shellfish, and whatever seagulls they can catch with their bare hands.
They can find money/labor for this, but try to overthrow the government and kill the vice president? Well who’s got time to punish people for that, just let three quarters of them slink away so they can do it again, amirite?
They have to keep the investigation open. If you close the investigation, this gives a precedent and a lawyer for a potential future escapee should have their case closed and the search stopped.
At this point these people have not been a threat for over 40 years, instead Can we focus on the crimes that go on right in front of our faces?? Imagine looking for a long gone bank robber of 40 years but ignoring all the insider trading by senators and congress members. Ignoring hedgefunds losing teacher funds in bad bets. SMH government is a waste of money anywhere I look.
Did a bunch of military people steal chemical filled rockets and take a bunch of people hostage at Alcatraz and are threatening to launch the missiles at San Francisco?
I believe they died. These weren't innocent people, they were all bank robbers and burglars. They were not going to hold down a steady job for 30yrs and retire with a pension. All they knew was crime and they would have gone right back to it. To think that all three suddenly got religion and went straight is naive. They never made it to land and their bodies went out with the current. All the reports and purported secret messages are just stories concocted by other convicts to screw with the prison system. Every resource they could divert into looking for dead men helped other cons on the run. Nope, I believe they have been fish food for years. And no the Feds aren’t looking, no resources are being wasted to find them, all that is done is that their fingerprints are still in the automated fingerprint matching system so that if by an off chance they are found at a crime scene or in a dead body, it would generate a match
I read somewhere, or saw on a few youtube videos when I went down that rabbit hole, that they'll be given immunity when they turn 99. Honestly, I hope if they did make it, then one of them would make it to that day and just show up.
Seriously with whose tax money? When men in uniform can’t admit they fucked up so we all have to pay until they’re able to come to terms with their bruised egos? Let it go…..
Did you even read the article that details what "still looking for" actually entails? Do you think they have a task force that is out knocking on doors and looking under stairwell actively looking for?
Usually successful felons are by nature confident and strike again. If they were able to say under the radar for 40 years, are either dead or too smart to be caught.
My dad knew Frank Morris, who was a close friend of my uncle's. Dad always said that he thought the men had drowned, but that if anyone could do it, it would be Frank. Personally, I hop they made it.
The've been on the run for 60 years if they are even still alive. I would say that looking over your shoulder 24/7 is and has been a worse sentence than sitting in prison. I also don't think they are much of a threat if they are still alive.
I ALWAYS suspected that at least two of them made it to shore alive and the idea that they all drowned was only pushed as hard as it was because the government was embarrased as shit they let someone escape from their big bad super prison.
I heard about this from the Red Web podcast. The two leading theories are either that A: they died in the water, or B: a couple of the guys moved down to South America.
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Well we know one made it, he's a famous movie star and film director now that goes by the name of Eastwood.
Alcatraz means pelican.
Thanks 2Real
Thanks Henry.
Hail yourself
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Dozens of us.
I was looking for it!
During the 60’s, native Americans took control of abandoned Alcatraz and attempted to establish a native multi-cultural hub for ceremonies and preservation of native traditions. No surprise, they weren’t supported by the government.
Loved that episode. Broke out laughing when they were acting out the two prisoners who tried to escape by dressing as girls.
or any diving seabird such as a cormorant
They'll never find Morris. I can guarantee that.
Why would that be, Mr Sean Morris?
Hmmm, something seems off here...
It's probably more of an inactive open investigation than anything. I doubt they are dedicating much resources to this but at the same time since they technically never were caught or confirmed dead it's still technically an "open" case.
This. The FBI has been releasing AI renders of old cases. Computer is just churning through old cases, this one was bound to come up. We'll probably see this same braindead headline in another ten years, when the same things happens again.
All federal money that went to women’s reproductive rights has been redirected to this investigation.
Seems like a great use of resources and money
Well they claim it's an open investigation that doesn't necessarily mean they're actively dedicating resources to it.
I dunno.
I suspect they have like 2 guys on this. Probably aren’t pouring tons of money into it. And because no bodies were found and no one was caught it remains a open case. Cold cases are occasionally gone through again as technology improves to provide more information.
Stop. They escaped. They win. There are bigger cases to solve.
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I can't find that home at all. Closest I'm seeing is a Lone Pine Nursing Home
They should look for the most law abiding citizens since the time of escape.
I'm disappointed they're still wasting resources on these guys when they should be focusing on D.B Cooper! 🙂
What if DB copper is one of these guys? 🤔
Did they try looking on
They gave up on him after he directed The Room.
I highly recommend the hbo documentary. (My money’s on the lady in Florida whose husband died and claimed he was DB Cooper)
Honestly needed to be a rule for Alcatraz and other such prisons, if you escape and aren’t caught, you’re free. But if you get arrested for anything else, your sentence is reinstated.
There’s two realistic options. One, they died during the escape attempt. Two, if they survived, odds are they’re dead now, given they’d be anywhere from 91 to 96 years old.
I hoped they died via whore house heart attack as spry, elderly men.
They also made it through having a segment of “Unsolved Mysteries” done on them, which didn’t lead to anything on any of them. Back when everyone watched the same few network shows this caught a lot of fugitives.
At this point, they should offer them amnesty just so we can hear the story and close the book on it.
This right here. I'm way more interested in hearing the rest of their story at this point.
Hell yes
The FBI themselves closed this case in 79. They don't think they're alive.
just take the fucking L, feds. they got away.
Let them be . Fuck y'all gon do, dump a bunch of geriatrics back into prison only for a judge to reverse it due to a medical challenge
This seems like the best use of time and resources.
First off…
Check out the movie Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood. Pretty good movie. You'll see them with the fake heads
So basically there's a database cell in some FBI database with an ACTIVE in it.
They should have looked in Brazil.
Cint Eastwood is also looking for them with his filming crew.
These guys grew up as kids in a era that survival skills and self reliance were more common, they may have even been more weathered physically and mentally to the elements. communications weren't the greatest yet. It wouldn't surprise me that they made it.
Damn dude. At some point you gotta just say yeah, You got over on us.
They died in the bay a long time ago.
Yeah these guys are dead, and in the absolutely miniscule chance they aren't, they'll be dead (and buried under assumed identities) by the end of this decade. Pursuing [three escaped prisoners who drowned and were eaten by bottom-feeders sixty years ago] makes about as much sense as pursuing Jack the Ripper does.
Nah they’re in Brazil
you know it's a pretty easy swim that people regularly make for fun? and besides it's never cold here.
Geez, just let them have it...fuckers
I remember this story on Unsolved Mysteries
"The rock has become a tourist attraction??"
Plot twist: They never left the island. They pushed their boat out into the water to make it look like they escaped, and have been living in a cave under the island. They come out at night to feed on shellfish, and whatever seagulls they can catch with their bare hands.
"Welcome to the Rock!"
In their 90s... can probably stop looking for them
Great use of time and energy
If they made it this long, just let them stay free.
I mean, at this point they might as well just say, “You know what? They got away with it. Next case.”
They can find money/labor for this, but try to overthrow the government and kill the vice president? Well who’s got time to punish people for that, just let three quarters of them slink away so they can do it again, amirite?
And a lot of states are about to shove a chunk of budget into tracking women's periods.
I’m inclined to let them get away with it at this point. You escaped Alcatraz and lived to your 90’s? Congratulations, you beat the system.
They have to keep the investigation open. If you close the investigation, this gives a precedent and a lawyer for a potential future escapee should have their case closed and the search stopped.
At this point these people have not been a threat for over 40 years, instead Can we focus on the crimes that go on right in front of our faces?? Imagine looking for a long gone bank robber of 40 years but ignoring all the insider trading by senators and congress members. Ignoring hedgefunds losing teacher funds in bad bets. SMH government is a waste of money anywhere I look.
How about going after the seditionists, bigly?
The entire ethos of the FBI can be found right here
Okay that's actually fitting
Did a bunch of military people steal chemical filled rockets and take a bunch of people hostage at Alcatraz and are threatening to launch the missiles at San Francisco?
Instead of focusing on the insurrectionists they wasting time on this old fuddy duddy case
This reminds me of the guys that go to Paraguay to try to find 115 year old Nazi officers.
I believe they died. These weren't innocent people, they were all bank robbers and burglars. They were not going to hold down a steady job for 30yrs and retire with a pension. All they knew was crime and they would have gone right back to it. To think that all three suddenly got religion and went straight is naive. They never made it to land and their bodies went out with the current. All the reports and purported secret messages are just stories concocted by other convicts to screw with the prison system. Every resource they could divert into looking for dead men helped other cons on the run. Nope, I believe they have been fish food for years. And no the Feds aren’t looking, no resources are being wasted to find them, all that is done is that their fingerprints are still in the automated fingerprint matching system so that if by an off chance they are found at a crime scene or in a dead body, it would generate a match
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I read somewhere, or saw on a few youtube videos when I went down that rabbit hole, that they'll be given immunity when they turn 99. Honestly, I hope if they did make it, then one of them would make it to that day and just show up.
You will never get them.
Imagine some a hole thought this was a good use of government resources.
Three nonagenarians, who are likely dead, are taking more FBI resources than were spent on surveilling the Uvalde shooter.
I thought great whites ate them
Seriously with whose tax money? When men in uniform can’t admit they fucked up so we all have to pay until they’re able to come to terms with their bruised egos? Let it go…..
Did you even read the article that details what "still looking for" actually entails? Do you think they have a task force that is out knocking on doors and looking under stairwell actively looking for?
That’s a good use for funds, looking for people who are very likely dead of old age.
Who’s really gonna turn in the old guys?
Those guys are dead. Let the dead Rest In Peace
They're not having much luck finding Kaitlin Armstrong so I wouldn't worry too much if I was one of these guys.
feds, you guys, get a life, move on
Sounds like a good use of resources, there are more pressing issues.
Say they do find one of them. Then what
What an egregious waste of resources. This country’s priorities have me shaking my head.
Usually successful felons are by nature confident and strike again. If they were able to say under the radar for 40 years, are either dead or too smart to be caught.
Fuck that. Let Netflix find them and cancel a series about it
I loved that movie. “Right turn, Clyde…”
FBI said case closed on this and FB Cooper.
I stand by my belief that Loki was DB Cooper!
Guys why,just leave them be
I doubt they’re looking too hard…
My dad knew Frank Morris, who was a close friend of my uncle's. Dad always said that he thought the men had drowned, but that if anyone could do it, it would be Frank. Personally, I hop they made it.
Just to ask them how the hell the pulled it off, right? Haha
Oh give me a fuckin break. Who cares? This is such a pathetic attempt at legacy gloating
Don’t play hide and seek against these guys
Imagine still being this butthurt about someone escaping your “unescapable” prison.
Supposedly they might still be alive in Brazil as per a show I saw recently.
Wouldn't thems be hella old?
The headline literally says “in their 90s”….
Are they still looking for bigfoot in the loch Ness monster as well? What a waste of resources
The've been on the run for 60 years if they are even still alive. I would say that looking over your shoulder 24/7 is and has been a worse sentence than sitting in prison. I also don't think they are much of a threat if they are still alive.
I ALWAYS suspected that at least two of them made it to shore alive and the idea that they all drowned was only pushed as hard as it was because the government was embarrased as shit they let someone escape from their big bad super prison.
Dude in the middle photo is absolutely Joe Biden
Yes!, young image looks a little like young W while the old image looks like Biden age progressed several weeks or a year.
Hm. Must be a slow news day.