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Sixty years ago, three men pulled off the escape of a lifetime by digging their way out of Alcatraz. Now, the US Marshals Service has released images of how the criminals may look now.
Alcatraz Escape In its heyday, it was the ultimate maximum security prison. FBI Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz—aka “The Rock”—had held captives since the Civil War. But it was in 1934, the highpoint of a major war on crime, that Alcatraz was re-fortified into the world’s most secure prison. Its eventual inmates included dangerous public enemies like Al Capone, criminals who had a history of escapes, and the occasional odd character like the infamous “Birdman of Alcatraz.” In the 1930s, Alcatraz was already a forbidding place, surrounded ...