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- NEWSREEL NARRATOR: Three
bank robbers disappeared

from Alcatraz prison.

- NARRATOR: The greatest
prison break in history

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became America's most
notorious cold case.

- We've had zero, no leads,
zero leads, for 50 plus years.

- NARRATOR: The escape from
Alcatraz in 1962

forced the government into
a merciless manhunt...

- The escape was a huge
embarrassment.

The FBI was relentless.

- NARRATOR:... And it put an
unknown Florida family

into the national spotlight.

- We couldn't do anything
without the FBI showing up

asking questions.

- They bugged every one
of our phones.

- It was a terrible thing
for our family.

- NARRATOR: Until they
ultimately went into

self-imposed exile.

But now, the Anglin family
is finally ready

to share their secrets.

- We have some items that will
prove that those boys

were alive at least until 1975.

- It's almost kind of like
getting the blessing -

go solve this mystery.

- Never seen anything like that
before in my life.

- NARRATOR: And possibly solve
this infamous case.

- I never would have believed
that this would happen.

- People are going to be
shocked at what they see.

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- NARRATOR: Washington, D.C.

Former United States Marshal
Art Roderick receives

a breathtaking phone call...

[phone ringing]

- Art Roderick, can I help you?

- [on phone]: This is
Ken Widner,

the nephew of John
and Clarence Anglin.

- NARRATOR: The family of two of
the three escaped prisoners in

the 1962 Alcatraz escape is
reaching out to the former

Marshal, and for the very first time, offering their assistance

with this legendary cold case.

For the one-time lead
investigator of the Alcatraz

scape, the surprise development is a shocking potential break

in a half-century old mystery.

- Law enforcement had been in
touch with the family since

the escape occurred in 1962 and
has tried over the decades

to get cooperation from them
and it has never happened

up to this point.

- [on phone]: We're finally
ready to share what we know

about the Alcatraz escape
with the Marshals Service.

We're ready to put
this case to bed.

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- NARRATOR: When it opened in
1934, Alcatraz housed the

most infamous, high risk
criminals of its day...

- NEWSREEL NARRATOR: The doors
open to Al Capone

and Machine Gun Kelly serves
a lifetime with no pals

to aid him!

- NARRATOR: ...And was the most feared penitentiary in America.

♪

Touted as inescapable
by officials,

Alcatraz captured the
public's imagination.

And as the years passed,
the Rock's mythology grew.

♪

But in 1962, the unthinkable
happens.

Brothers John and
Clarence Anglin,

along with Frank Morris,

pulled off an ingenious escape, disappearing into the night.

- NEWSREEL NARRATOR: The escape
triggered the greatest manhunt

in San Francisco's history.

- NARRATOR: With each passing day, the national scrutiny grew,

shaming J. Edgar Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation.

- It was a big embarrassment
for the FBI.

That was Hoover's baby and they
did not want people to believe

that they made it out of there.

- NARRATOR: Ken and David Widner
are the nephews of

Alcatraz escapees John and
Clarence Anglin.

- DAVID: When I was a
kid growing up,

we couldn't do anything
without the FBI showing up

asking questions.

- NARRATOR: As the feds insisted
that the fugitive trio

more than likely drowned in
San Francisco's bay,

they were simultaneously
pursuing their manhunt

with reckless abandon.

- KEN: The FBI, they followed
them, they bugged every one of

our phones, they come into my
grandmother's living room,

demand that everybody stay where
they're at until they answer

all their questions.

- The FBI harassed the family so
bad because they thought that,

you know, somebody
knew something.

- We don't trust the FBI
and we do not trust the

Marshal Services for
that very reason.

- NARRATOR: Now, five decades
removed from the escape,

and after poring over their
family's prodigious archives,

the brothers believe they have
unearthed evidence that may

answer the question of what
happened to their uncles.

To this day, it is widely believed that the three escapees

made it out of the prison alive,

but never made it out
of the treacherous water.

- Well, we have some items
that I think will prove

to everyone that those
boys were alive

at least until 1975.

- We're not doing this
for the fame.

We're not doing this
for the money.

We're doing this to prove
that they actually did

get off that island.

They actually did survive
that crossing.

It's very possible
they're still alive today.

- NARRATOR: To help pursue their
evidence, the brothers have

reached out to retired
Marshal Art Roderick,

well known to the Anglin family as a fair and balanced

investigator.

- Art Roderick worked on
this case for a long time.

It consumed his life
for 25 years,

just like it consumed ours.

- DAVID: We have information
that I know he's gonna find

very interesting, and I think
between the two of us,

we can probably solve this case.

- NARRATOR: The Widner brothers
have asked Roderick to

meet them in Ruskin, Florida,
just south of Tampa,

hometown of the Anglin brothers.

- ART: This is the first
actionable lead we've had in

this entire case in 53 years
so we have to move on it.

♪

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- DAVID: It's hard to believe
we're going to meet

a retired Marshal.

You know, he's gonna probably
be freaking out a little bit

to be out in the middle of
nowhere.

He's gonna wonder
what's really up.

- But you know, I believe
we've got an answer for that.

Because I want him to see,
you know, hey, this is the

Anglin family cemetery.

I mean, this is where
all of 'em are buried at.

It's a good place to
start this journey at.

It's right there in front of
grandma and granddaddy's grave.

It's almost kind of like
getting the blessing.

Go solve this mystery.

- Yes.

- NARRATOR: The mystery
surrounds the whereabouts of

their two fugitive uncles,
John and Clarence, who along

with their older brother Alfred, robbed an Alabama bank in 1958

using a toy gun.

After multiple escape attempts in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary

and at Leavenworth, John
and Clarence were sent to

"the Rock" and requested to
be housed near one another.

But a strongly worded cautionary note from the associate warden

at Leavenworth, advised
against such a situation.

Yet the warden of Alcatraz,
Paul Madigan,

dismissed the warning, believing that Alcatraz was inescapable,

and placed the brothers
in neighboring cells.

♪

♪

The primitive Baptist church
and cemetery:

an interesting setting for
the first meeting between

the Anglin family and the
United States government.

- KEN: This is it right here.

This is where we're
going to be meeting him.

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- KEN: Hard to believe this
is where all the Anglins

are buried.

- DAVID: All but two.

- KEN: I know it would
definitely be good

for our Mom and Aunt Merle.

It would be, it would
be closure for them.

Why we didn't start this
25 years ago, it wasn't time.

It's definitely time now.

- For my Aunt Merle and my mom,
they will know before

they pass away what really
happened to their brothers.

♪

- DAVID: Yup, this is it,
Grandma and Granddaddy.

- KEN: Wow.

I wish that what we're going
to show the Marshal,

that we could show her.

You sure we can trust this man?

- No, I'm not sure.

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- DAVID: Art?

- ART: Gentlemen.

- David Widner.

- ART: Good to finally see you.
- DAVID: How are you doing?

- Art, Ken Widner,
nice to meet you.

- ART: Good to meet you guys.

- Well, you know, we asked
you to come out here because,

you look around, this is where
all of the Anglin family

are buried.

Our grandmother,
our grandfather.

We've got uncles buried here,
we have aunts buried here.

All of the Anglin families
are buried here except

for two people.

We want to be able to bring
them back to the cemetery

and bury them here,
with their family.

- Well, I mean, a lot of people
have different theories.

My theory is they never
got out of the water.

I don't think they made it.

- We don't believe that.

- KEN: Yeah, we don't
believe that for a minute.

What do they have today
to show me that my uncles

did not make it across?

What do they have?
They have nothing.

- Take it from, from our
perspective that we have never

seen anything to say that they
made it out of the water.

We're working from that
premise right there.

- Well, I'll tell
you what.

What we're fixing to show
you might help us get

our uncles back here where
they're supposed to be.

- We're about to give
you a new lead.

- OK.

- We'd like to show
it to you.

- Lead the way.

- KEN: Let's go.

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- DAVID: We've got a couple
of things that you might

be interested in.

What we have here is some
Christmas cards from the boys,

and as you can tell, every one
of these cards has been

marked and read as they
left the prisons.

That one.

- ART: Okay, and that's their
number there, right?

- DAVID: That is their
prison number.

- ART: 25034.
- KEN: Exactly.

- DAVID: Our family received
Christmas cards

starting in 1962.

- ART: Mhm.

- DAVID: That just showed
up in the mailbox,

had not been through
the post office.

They're also signed by
John and Clarence.

Guess what?

There's no markings.

- ART: And you're saying
these two came after,

after the escape.

Post-escape.

- DAVID: Exactly.

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- NARRATOR: Ruskin, Florida.

For the first time in 53 years, the family of Alcatraz escapees

John and Clarence Anglin is
sharing evidence with the

United States Government to
try and find out what happened

to the brothers after they escaped from "the Rock" in 1962.

- DAVID: We've got a couple
of things that you

might be interested in.

What we have here is some
Christmas cards from the boys

that just showed up in
the mailbox, had not been

through the post office.

- ART: And these two came after,
after the escape.

Post-escape.

- DAVID: Exactly.

- Every year, no matter
where they were,

John and Clarence always
sent Christmas cards.

For three years after they
escaped, my grandmother

and grandfather continued
to get cards signed,

"John and Clarence."

- Well, yeah, the problem
is it's hard to verify these

came after the escape in '62.

I mean, I know you're telling
me this, but, you know,

you gotta show me something
better than you just

telling me that they showed
up in the mailbox in,

in '62, '63, and '64.

- Well we actually do
have something else.

- Okay. Alright.

- So I want to start off and I
want to show you something.

1992, a friend of the family
gave us this photograph.

- DAVID: That's for
comparison there.

- KEN: Those two men
look familiar to you?

- ART: Hmm.

- I think that Art thought that
he's probably wasting his time

coming down to talk to us but
once I handed him that picture,

I think a light bulb went
off in his head.

- I got a photograph that
might help jog your memory.

- So he's saying that those
are your uncles right there?

- KEN: Look at that
photograph there.

- ART: Yeah.

- KEN: And look at photograph
there and you tell me.

- Are you surprised?

- Yeah. Uh, uh, yes.

I'm surprised.

My mind's already flowing.

I basically didn't even hear
what they were saying to me

after I saw that stuff.

And I'm thinking, immediately,
"What are we going to do here?"

- NARRATOR: For the lawman, the picture could prove revelatory.

If it withstands forensic
analysis, everything we've

known about the 1962 escape
would be turned on its head.

- They're always wanting to say
these boys didn't make it.

They drowned, they
got washed out to sea.

Well, this picture
proves differently.

This is what they've been
looking for, for a long time.

- I would like to take this
stuff out to Northern California

and meet with Mike Dyke who
is the active case agent.

- Oh, we know Mike Dyke,
and we don't trust him.

- KEN: This material is not
leaving our possession.

- OK.

- So we're going with you.

- OK.

- NARRATOR: Michael Dyke has
been the lead investigator on

the Alcatraz escape for
the last 12 years,

a case that remains open for
the U.S. Marshals Service.

- Every case is open until
we close it by either arrest

or someone reaches the age of 99
or the court decides

to dismiss the warrant.

If we did find them they would
be still arrested because

they still, believe it or not,
owe time to the government.

- NARRATOR: Dyke's single
greatest lead in the Alcatraz

case are bones that washed up in San Francisco Bay nine months

after the escape.

Statistical records show that
two out of every three people

who go missing in
San Francisco Bay

will eventually be found,
which leads Dyke to a

possible conclusion in his case.

- These bones were believed
to possibly be one

of the escapees but never
could be proven because of

DNA evidence at the time.

- NARRATOR: In 2010, Dyke
tested family DNA from the

third escapee, Frank Morris,
against the washed up bones.

But his efforts proved
inconclusive.

- About the same time I started
working on DNA reference

samples for the Morris family,
I also contacted, uh,

members of the Anglin family.

I did have a face to face
meeting with them in 2012

and they flat out refused to
provide a reference sample.

- No.

You know, no and hell no.

We told Marshal Dyke that we
would be willing to do it,

only if we could do it on our
terms and he didn't like that.

- The Anglin family has
had this long,

drawn out period of mistrust,
uh, mostly because of the way

they feel that they
were treated by the FBI

at the time of the escape.

The FBI was very aggressive in
their investigation at the time

because, you know, it
was a very big deal.

I've been very generous as
far as not bothering them

very much at all.

- I know he's trying to close
this case,

but he wants to close
it on his terms.

He wants to be the hero.

Well, guess what?

He's not gonna be the guy
that saved the day.

He's not gonna get anything
unless we give it to him.

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- NARRATOR: Art, Ken and David
arrive in the Bay Area,

minutes away from a meeting
with Marshal Dyke.

For the brothers, who've
have had years of run-ins

with the marshal,
entering Dyke's office

is like walking into
enemy territory,

and they have no idea
how he will react

to their new evidence.

- ART: What do you think?

What do you think is
going to happen today?

- I'm a little apprehensive
about this,

I'm going to be honest with
you, because if he tries

to grab what we have,
and cut us out of this,

I'm not going to be
very happy about it.

- He could legally do that,
but I think the difference is

you're cooperating with us now.

I think that's gonna, he's
gonna have a different tune

when we sit down at
this meeting.

- DAVID: You know, my biggest
fear is that he wants to

close the case and him be the
cowboy to save the day.

- DYKE: Art, how ya doing?

- ART: Good to see you man.

- DYKE: Ken, how you doing?

- KEN: Good to see you again.

- DYKE: David, good to
see you again.

- DAVID: Good to see you.

- Come on in the office
over here.

- Uh, Mike, as you're
very familiar with this case,

it's 53 years old.

The difference is now is that
we have the cooperation of the

family, which wasn't there
before...

- I appreciate that, that's
what I've been looking for.

I recovered those bones about
five years ago and I've been

just looking for any sample I
can get to compare it to either

Morris or the Anglin brothers
so I really appreciate

any help you can give me on it.

- Well, we know you
want the DNA.

You've been trying to get
it for two or three years now.

We got something we want.

We would like to have
Alfred exhumed,

to find out how he died.

Alfred is another key
to what really happened to

John and Clarence.

- NARRATOR: Brothers David and
Ken Widner are the nephews

of Alcatraz escapees John
and Clarence Anglin.

They are meeting with United
States Marshal Michael Dyke,

lead investigator of
the Alcatraz case,

and have just asked the
marshal to exhume the body

of another uncle, Alfred,
a brother to the

legendary escapees.

- I've been wanting this
answer since I was a kid.

- DYKE: Alfred Anglin is John
and Clarence Anglin's brother.

All three of them, uh, robbed
a bank in Columbia, Alabama

in 1958.

John and Clarence
ended up in Alcatraz.

Alfred ended up serving
concurrent state time in

Alabama Penitentiary.

A little bit more than a year
after the Alcatraz escape,

Alfred tried an
escape of his own.

He and another inmate gathered
some tools, hacksaw blades,

and were able to saw at some
bars and climbed out the window.

And there was a high
voltage power line there.

He accidentally hit the
high voltage line

and electrocuted himself
to death.

That is the official
cause of death.

A coroner did do an inquiry,
and they couldn't find any

other evidence of death other
than electrocution.

- It didn't happen the way
they said it happened.

We don't believe that.

- Uncle Robert went down
and he ID'd the body

and the funeral director told
him, this man had not been

electrocuted, he had been
beaten to death.

- My mom and dad was the last
ones to see Alfred alive.

When they visited him in Kilby
Prison in 1963 at Christmas,

he told them, "I know
where they're at.

"I'm coming up for parole.

When I get out I'm
going to meet 'em."

11 days later he was dead.

- NARRATOR: The shocking
revelation from Alfred that

he knew his brothers not only
survived the water crossing

at Alcatraz, but were living
somewhere as free men,

is the reason the Anglin family believes a vast government

conspiracy has been
forever at play.

- In the family's mind,
they had that table bugged

and they knew that he
knew where they were.

And the family really believes
that they beat him to death

trying to get him to tell
them where them boys were.

- NARRATOR: For David and Ken,
there's only one way

to resolve their family's
long-standing questions.

- DAVID: I'm proposing to them
if they dig Alfred up

and find out how he really died,
then they can have

the DNA from Alfred.

We want the truth.

- Um, we can make
arrangements, to, uh,

have Alfred exhumed and
an autopsy done on him

and, uh, they can look and see
if there's a cause of death

other than electrocution.

- Sounds like a plan.

- The exhumation of
Alfred Anglin, I think,

solves two things.

I mean, number one, we're going
to get great DNA samples.

The most actionable lead that
the Marshals Service has

right now is the bones that
washed up on the beach

back in '63.

And up to this point, the family
has not made available any DNA

to be compared to the sample
that they have from the bones

that they discovered.

Number two, if we do find some
trauma to the body that looks

like he was beaten to death,
then obviously that's going

to be big news.

I mean, it's a homicide case.

Might be 52 years old, but
it's still a homicide case.

Any connection to the Anglin
family at all and any

connection back to Alcatraz
is gonna' be big news.

- NARRATOR: With a deal in
place, it's time for David

and Ken to present their new evidence to the active marshal.

- Well, I'm sure that you've
heard all the stories

and you know that the family
received some Christmas cards

after the escape.

- I have heard that and,
uh, I'd love to see those

if you have them.

- DAVID: Well, I would like
to show you.

- DYKE: OK.

- DAVID: They did not come in
an envelope.

They were placed in the mailbox.

Do you think the handwriting
looks similar?

- Uh, John's name is
really close...

and so is Clarence's name, but,
you know, handwriting is

a lot more than just looking
at letters or spacing.

There's pen pressure.

There's a lot of different
things involved with handwriting

samples, but is there a way
to prove that these came

after the escape?

That's what I would be really
interested in finding out, so...

- Yeah, the only thing I
figured was possibly looking

at when the cards were made.

- DYKE: Yeah.

- We also have some other items.

- These items were given
to the family in 1992

by a family friend that actually
grew up with the brothers.

- DYKE: OK.

- John and Clarence.

And in 1975, he took
this photograph.

Thought maybe you might be
interested in that one.

- Yes, I am.

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- NARRATOR: Inside the secure
walls of San Francisco's

Federal Building, the lead
investigator on the Alcatraz

escape case, U.S. Marshal
Michael Dyke, has just

seen something that may
prove incredible.

- KEN: Thought maybe you might
be interested in that one.

- Yes, I am.

- NARRATOR: Brothers David and
Ken Widner are the nephews of

two of the three Alcatraz
escapees, and are showing the

marshal family evidence that
they say is their uncles,

John and Clarence Anglin, alive years after the 1962 escape.

- DAVID: You think you
recognize them?

- Uh, they look like they could
possibly be John and Clarence.

- DAVID: In 1975.

- KEN: We put together another
series of photographs that does

some comparisons with their
Alcatraz, and some of the

family photographs.

- DYKE: Mmm hmm.

- And you can see in Clarence,
you look at the hairline,

the hairline is exactly
the same to all

of his photographs including
his mug shot in Alcatraz.

You look at his jaw line,
exactly the same.

- There's a lot of
similarities here.

- And that was 1975.

- And then who gave
you the photo?

A family friend you said
gave you the photo, right?

- Yes.

- Now when they sent you
the photo, did they claim

it was John and Clarence?

- Yes.

- They did claim that.
Okay.

And they say where the
photo was taken?

- Brazil.

- DYKE: Brazil?

- On their farm
that they owned.

- Okay.

- Which is very interesting
because, um, in the early 90s

I took a phone call from
a male, relayed basically

that story to me.

- That he saw them
in Brazil?

- He saw them in Brazil
on a farm.

- Okay.

- But, at that point in
time it really wasn't

actionable enough.

- Okay.

- But that phone call
always stuck in my head

all these years.

- Okay.

I have had a lot of photos
sent to me from various people

everywhere.

And I've never seen this
photo just so you know.

- Well, we actually have
some other photographs.

- Do you?

I would love to see them.

[laughs]

Anything you have is
always helpful.

- Okay, how about a picture
of their farm?

- Same color soil...

and this does not look
like American.

Electricity pole and everything
doesn't look like American.

A family friend you
said gave you the photo.

Obviously you have his name.

- That is Fred Brizzi.

Fred Brizzi.

He was a family friend
of the boys growing up.

- KEN: Fred Brizzi grew
up with the brothers.

They actually lived on a river
called the Alafia River.

So, as children, Fred and John
and Clarence and Alfred,

they all played together out in
the water, swimming,

cutting up, so he
grew up with 'em.

- NARRATOR: As Brizzi and the
Anglin boys grew into men,

the family claims they
all remained friends,

even as the Anglins took
to a life of crime,

spending time in the federal
penitentiary system.

In 1992, 30 years after the Alcatraz escape, their childhood

friend unexpectedly reached
out to the Anglin family,

asking for a meeting.

And when he arrived at
the family compound,

Brizzi shared a wild,
sensational story

with the entire Anglin clan.

- In 1975, he went down to
Brazil, and he went to a bar

right outside of Rio.

He said he had just sat down
and all of a sudden he said

an American came into
the bar and he went,

"My God, I know that man."

- And he said the guy got
up, walked to the bathroom

and he stopped him.

- KEN: He said, "John."

- DAVID: "You remember me?"

- KEN: John turned around and
looked at him and said,

- DAVID: "Yeah, you look
familiar."

- KEN: And he said,
"I'm Fred, Fred Brizzi."

And he said John went,
"Oh my God."

- NARRATOR: Brizzi told the
family that after their

escape from Alcatraz, the Anglin brothers had become farmers

in the Brazilian countryside,
and allowed their long-time

friend to shoot a few pictures
of their adopted home.

- KEN: We have a picture
of the house.

We have a picture of the
mountain ranges where this

house is located at, of a river
that runs through their property

and then he took a
picture of them.

- I think that the boys
wanted him to bring that

picture back to the family.

- He was telling my mom
and them, he said,

"I just want you all to know.

They wanted me to tell you,
do not worry about them."

I have no doubt Fred Brizzi
was telling the truth

and I have photographs to
prove what he said.

- NARRATOR: Brizzi's tale is a bit much to take on face value,

but testing the photos
could verify its truth.

- What I like is obviously
he grew up with them,

so he played with them as a kid.

There's a long connective
history there.

- These photographs are
promising and I'd like to really

look into this one some more.

And is there a possibility
I could get photocopies

or photograph copies
of each of these things

and, and that way I can do also
do my own research into it?

- We would like to
do everything with an

independent group.

Just so we can come back
and as this trust is being

built between us.

- I understand.

I'm not doing anything on my
investigation to violate

that at all.

Everything I'm really doing is
up and up and up in the front.

- Well what if I was to tell you
that we got something

to back those photographs up?

- OK, anything you have
would be wonderful.

[playing tape recording]

[playing tape recording]

[playing tape recording]

- DAVID: Now, we...

- That's Mr. Brizzi?

- DAVID: ...need to have this
cleaned up a little bit...

- DYKE: Yeah.

- ...but that's Fred Brizzi.

- Okay.

- And it was recorded off
of that tape recorder.

That's my mom sitting
right beside Brizzi.

- NARRATOR: Both Dyke and
Roderick realize the

magnitude of the recording.

Not only does it provide more
context for the incredible

photographs, but Brizzi's story on tape seems to state that

the Alcatraz escapees neither swam nor paddled off the island,

but were, in fact,
somehow towed to freedom.

[tape recording playing]

[tape recording playing]

- This here is something
that I know I want to look

into a lot more.

- NARRATOR: The new evidence the
brothers have introduced

are the first new leads
since the escape.

- The Brizzi story is
pretty incredible about

how he just, all of a sudden,
bumped into them

down in Rio de Janeiro.

But what lends some credence
to the, to the story is the

evidence that we're provided in
the form of the photographs.

From this point on we're
going to have to really

dive into Brizzi's background
and his connection

to the family members.

- NARRATOR: Walking out of the
office, David and Ken are

certain of only one thing:
their Uncle Alfred will soon

be lifted from the ground,
a development that will

not only help move the Alcatraz case forward, but will

also solve a conspiracy
the family insists was

behind his death in 1964.

- KEN: 51 years my grandfather
wanted this done.

He didn't have the ability to do
it and now the Marshal Services

are offering to do it for us
and we're going to close that

part of our case, which is
really the family's case.

- NARRATOR: The wheels in motion
thanks to their evidence,

the brothers figure there's only one place they need to visit

in San Francisco, the former, temporary home of their uncles:

[music]

- NARRATOR: John and
Clarence Anglin were

Alcatraz inmates 1476
and 1485 respectively,

but who were these men and how
did they get off the Rock?

Much of the ingenuity of
their feat is credited

to the third escapee,
Frank Morris, whose IQ was

apparently measured at 133,
a figure that placed him

in the top 3% of the population.

And while the escape and its planning was a collective effort

that included Morris, the Anglin
boys played a central role

in helping craft the plan.

- That's one of the things that
always makes me so mad.

I hear all the stories about,
oh, Frank Morris, you know,

had a high IQ.

He's the one who came up
with this plan,

and the Anglin brothers,
they were dumb farm hicks

with a third grade education.

They didn't know
what they were doing.

And I don't believe
that for a moment.

- Growing up, Mom said they
could make anything

out of nothing.

- KEN: They were the MacGyvers
of the 1950s.

- NARRATOR: Over the course of
15 months, the Anglins tapped

into their resourcefulness, creatively assembling the assets

they would need to escape
Alcatraz undetected.

- We've read in the files that
52 raincoats were missing.

We know that Clarence
knew how to stitch.

- They made not only a
boat out of it but they

also made life preservers.

- They took up painting.

They actually painted portraits
of their girlfriends.

Well, the only reason
that they did that,

they needed flesh-colored paint
to put on those dummy heads.

Clarence took a job
in the barber shop.

He knew he needed hair.

So he took hair and dropped it,
as he was cutting it,

and it would fall down in
his cuffs of his pants,

and he walked it back
to his cell.

- To do all that under the
noses of the guards?

I mean, what else can
you say about them?

They were highly
intelligent men.

- NARRATOR: By June 11th, 1962,
with the holes in their cells

cut and covered, and a plan
in place, it was only a

matter of hours before the
men made their break.

What happened to them when
they hit the water has been

debated and theorized
for half a century...

...with speculation on the
escape continuing to this day.

Michael Esslinger is currently
working on a book about

the escaped Anglins.

He's joining their nephews,
Ken and David,

and former lead Alcatraz
investigator Art Roderick,

for a trip to the Rock.

♪

♪

- KEN: Was it Clarence that said
the boat drive was shorter

and they were goin' in
the wrong direction.

- Yeah, [laughs].

Is that what you just
thought about?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, he knew in
his mind, he wasn't,

they wasn't stayin' there.

- Yeah, I believe that.

They, they had already
started planning, I think,

before they even got there.

♪

- NARRATOR: As the ferry inches
closer to Alcatraz Island,

the weight of their current
odyssey descends upon the

brothers, and what their
infamous uncles must have

been thinking in 1960, as they
prepared to be locked away

in the harshest prison
known to man.

- I want the world to know that
when they go out to

Alcatraz, and they walk around
and they see the mugshots,

they hear about the robbery,
and they hear the stories

about how they got out.

I want them to know that these
were more than criminals.

- They wasn't murderers.

You know, they robbed a bank
with a toy gun.

But what got them sent
to Alcatraz is,

"Hey, we can't keep these
boys anywhere.

Let's put 'em in Alcatraz,
we can keep them there."

- These were not totally
bad people.

They were human beings.

They had a family.

They had a mom and dad
who loved them.

They had brothers and sisters
who cared about them.

These were my uncles.

[seagulls squawk]

[suspenseful music]

♪

- KEN: This, this is where they
first made their first entry.

- ESSLINGER: This is it.

- DAVID: Wow.

- ESSLINGER: This was their
first stop inside.

- KEN: Wow.

♪

- ESSLINGER: And here we are.

- KEN: Wow.

- ART: Alcatraz blows me away.

- KEN: Always blows me away.

♪

♪

♪

- DAVID: Well, this is where
our whole lives started,

with all the harassment,
everything.

- KEN: Yeah, this is where
all of our lives got turned

upside down.

I mean they left, and, you know,
it affected all of us.

- KEN: Here it is.

- DAVID: This is Clarence's
cell.

Wow.

- KEN: They left, right through
that hole.

- Unbelievable.

Just couldn't nothing hold 'em!

[soft music, seagulls]

[heavy sigh]

- KEN: I just cannot believe
they were actually in there.

- DAVID: You know, their beds
were side by side,

just a concrete wall
separating them.

- KEN: I bet it was good to be
close to family.

- DAVID: Yeah, that was probably
the only way they

kept their sanity.

- But you know,
it didn't end here.

- No.
- No.

I do not believe it ended here.

It might have began here,
but it didn't end here.

♪

- NARRATOR: At approximately
9:30 PM on June 11th, 1962,

just after the guards called
for lights out...

♪

...15 months of meticulous
preparation was finally

put to the test.

The three cons inched out of the backs of their cells through

tiny holes that they had spent months cutting and concealing...

...made their way up the
ventilator shaft, and out onto

the roof of the cellblock.

What they did next turned
them into legends.

[music]

- NARRATOR: David and Ken Widner
are the nephews of two men who

used to call these cells home:

Alcatraz escapees
John and Clarence Anglin.

The brothers are shadowing the
footsteps of their uncles

as part of a fresh investigation into the escape,

and the trip is rekindling
a host of emotional

childhood memories.

- I remember my mom telling
me the story.

I was just a small kid,
a baby actually.

And she said she heard it
on the news,

that there had been an escape
at the Alcatraz prison.

She said she knew
right then who it was.

- RADIO ANNOUNCER: It appears to
be the first successful escape

in the history of the
maximum security prison.

- KEN: And from that moment on,
everything changed.

I mean, it was in our blood
from the very beginning.

- DAVID: As kids we would hear
our parents, you know,

when they'd get together,
you know, they would talk.

And a lot of times when the kids
would come around

they'd stop talking, and we
know that they knew more than,

than they were telling.

- KEN: Coming from
that background,

it did make me want
to go dig.

It made you want to look past
what some of the stories were

and say, "Well what caused
that story to occur?"

- NARRATOR: The brothers mined
the family archive

and found these photos:
two men in Brazil in 1975,

whom they believe is
John and Clarence Anglin.

To try and find out what
happened to their uncles,

they've teamed up with former
U.S. Marshal Art Roderick

and historian Michael Esslinger.

- You know, once they get out
from the ventilator

on top of the roof, they slowly
started making their way

across the top of the
hospital to this side.

One by one, they come down
what is a large smokestack,

it's no longer here,
and they make their way down.

So there's soot all over
it, it's real dirty.

You can actually see, in a lot
of the FBI photographs,

sneaker prints leading away
from the smoke stack.

They make their way out onto
the officer's catwalk

for the rec yard,

go down into the
vegetation here,

and then walk right in
front of the water tower.

And made their way down
this location here.

It's amazing that right over
here, this is what some of the

FBI photos show.

- ART: So the Bureau found
footprints, evidence,

that they came exactly
this route?

- ESSLINGER: They did.

- KEN: Oh my gosh.

- ART: Your adrenaline would
be pumping at this point

because you're so close.

- ESSLINGER: I mean, when you
think about it, all the planning

that went into getting to this
point in the escape, you know,

here they were, they were
carrying their raft,

their life preserver, they had
their paddles, their packs,

the concertina to, you know,
inflate everything,

I mean it's,
it's really amazing.

- DAVID: Wow.

- KEN: You could taste
freedom from here.

- ESSLINGER: You could.

♪

- Everybody knows how
they got to the water.

I want to know the details
around how they got from

that water all the way to land.

- ART: The main thing about
Alcatraz, why everybody thought

it was inescapable,
was the water barrier.

I mean, you were on an island,
tides, cold water,

swift currents, so that
even if you got to the

edge of the island, you would
never make it to the mainland.

- Them boys did not spend
over a year planning this

to get to the water and say,
"What do we do now?"

They knew all along
what they were gonna do.

They had it planned out to a T.

- NARRATOR: With no definitive
proof that the brothers

lived or died, the truth remains elusive, and the possibilities

have been hotly debated
since 1962.

The widely held assumption is
that the men put a raft

into the water and paddled
into the abyss.

But a re-examination of past
interviews and documents,

combined with the evidence
the family has unearthed,

has generated a shocking
new theory.

- ESSLINGER: Basically what the
theory is is that rather than

just get to the water's edge
in the raft and go out towards

the Golden Gate, they
actually went around the

perimeter of the island.

There's an FBI document that
indicates that when they were

searching the island, they had
actually brought bloodhounds

on the island.

And what they stated was, was
that the bloodhounds actually

made it to the cave and that's
where they lost the scent.

The only true caves on Alcatraz
were actually on the west side

of the island near
the incinerator.

- NARRATOR: Working their way
around the island allowed the

escapees to avoid the only active guard tower on Alcatraz,

on the east side of the island
.

But even if the men made
this full circle and landed

at the prison's boat dock,
the question still begs:

how did they cross the bay?

The answer may lie hidden
within the maze of information

collected by the authorities in the days following the escape.

FBI records state that 120 feet of electrical cord that was

stored near the boat dock
was reported missing.

A ferry would shuttle prison
guards to and from the island.

The last departure that
night was at 12:10 AM.

When the feds studied the contents of each escapee's cell

the morning after the escape,
they found some

telling evidence.

On Frank Morris' desk were
three magazines.

One, a copy of Popular Mechanics showing how to

build a homemade raft.

Another, a Sports Illustrated
article detailing how a boat

enters and exits a slip,
and how to tie and untie

the boat from a dock.

And the final magazine,
left open by the inmate,

a Miller High-Life
advertisement,

showing a couple on a beach,
kicking back with a few beers.

When deciphered from the maze
of evidence, these facts -

the electrical cord, the ferry
schedule and the magazines -

reveal an intricate road map
for the escapees

once they make it
to the boat dock.

- ESSLINGER: The theory is, is
that they came up right up under

the dock here, where the actual
prison launch was sitting.

And then they went underwater,
tied the electrical cord to the

cowling, up by the rudder, and
then fed this cord all the way

around the dock.

So, that way, when the prison
launch was coming out of the

slip, they would actually be
able to position the raft to

where it would actually be towed
right out as the boat took off

towards the mainland.

- NARRATOR: The escapees could
have known exactly

when to be at the boat
dock for their departure,

used the instructions in the
magazines, and tied the

stolen electrical cord to the
guard boat for their tow.

- So they didn't swim,
they didn't paddle.

There was three boats leaving
that island that night

and they caught a ride
from one of 'em.

- NARRATOR: The theory continues
that as the guard boat

left the Alcatraz shoreline,
the fugitives somehow

untied the cord and paddled
to a nearby getaway boat.

Remarkably, there is a
witness to this theory.

A young San Francisco beat cop
named Robert Checchi told the

FBI and the Oakland Tribune that he was smoking a cigarette at

St. Francis Yacht Club after
his shift when he looked out

towards Alcatraz and saw
something suspicious

a couple hundred yards
away in the water.

Between him and Alcatraz Island, Checchi noticed a pristine,

white boat in the bay,
with no fishing poles,

sitting idle for 20
to 30 minutes,

before it made its way towards
the Golden Gate Bridge.

In the frantic manhunt that
followed the escape,

the FBI dismissed his
account out of hand.

But if what he saw was tied
to the prison break,

it would mean that the
escapees had received help

from the outside.

- ESSLINGER: I really believe
that this is a game-changer.

It actually would bring them
right to the very location that

Officer Checchi was in.

You know, before, it seemed so
random and there was no possible

way that they could have got to
that area, but now when you put

all of this together and connect
the dots, it actually would

put them right in the same area
that he witnessed that boat

out on the bay that night.

- This makes more
sense than anything

I've ever heard before.

- If you take portions of
what we got from Brizzi,

the alternative theory,
the missing extension cord,

that all kind of fits.

And I think the clincher is
Officer Checchi seeing the

boat out there, and I've always
looked at that newspaper article

and read that interview
and thought,

"Wow, this is very compelling."

- I actually think it changes
all of the theories

and makes it plausible.

It makes it actually one of
the most reasonable ways

to get off the island,
in my opinion.

- NARRATOR: But who would agree
to provide such help?

And who could the escapees
truly trust to keep their

plan close to the vest,
not only during the

15 months of planning,
but for years after,

as fugitives from the law?

Roderick believes Anglin
family friend Fred Brizzi

may have the answer.

[tape recording playing]

[tape recording playing]

[tape recording playing]

[tape recording playing]

[ominous music]

[music]

- NARRATOR: The search for the
truth in the 1962 Alcatraz

escape case is unfolding.

A plausible new theory on how
the escapees made their way to

freedom has just been explored, and is supported by evidence

that was presented by the
family of the escaped Anglins.

Now, the nephews of John and
Clarence are on their way

back to central Florida
to follow an important,

if painful, lead:

exhuming another of their
uncles, Alfred Anglin,

whose corpse holds
details that could solve

the mysteries of the Rock.

- The only way we're gonna get
to the bottom of this

is to dig him up and find out
what really happened to him.

- It's going to be tough,
you know, but um,

I'm going to do it because yes,
we do have something to prove.

- NARRATOR: As the brothers make
their way to the family plot

in rural Ruskin, Art Roderick
touches ground in Washington.

The former lead investigator
on the Alcatraz case

is back in D.C., walking into a meeting with longtime cop

Michael Streed, now one of
the country's preeminent

facial imaging experts.

- I've got some photographs
I'd like to show you.

I'm hoping you can
help me out on this.

This picture of, uh, two
individuals taken probably

sometime in the mid 1970s.

This picture is supposedly
of John and Clarence Anglin.

John being on your right,
Clarence being on your left.

Here is a mugshot of John
from 1960 and then Clarence.

I also have some, some family
photos in digital format that I

can provide you.

- All right.

- This is probably
the absolute best lead

in this case since 1962.

If you can come up with
something or you see some

similarity in there.

And you with your investigative
background would say,

"I would continue to investigate
this particular lead."

That's what I'm looking for.

they weren't wearing the glasses
and stuff and people are

at a distance and, you know,
measure chin to mouth

and do all the morphological
measurements and such.

This case you don't have that,
so it's more relying

on a surface feature.

What I'm going to have to do is
scan them into the computer,

take a look and start
doing some detail analysis.

- Okay, very good.

- NARRATOR: Back in Florida,
a convoy is on the move,

thanks to a deal the Widner
brothers have struck with

the U.S. Marshals Service.

If the government helps to
exhume their Uncle Alfred

and conducts an autopsy to
once and for all

determine his cause of death,
the family will offer up

a sample of Alfred's bone
for forensic analysis.

- DAVID: We are fixing to go
do something that's

going to be incredible.

- MARIE: It is amazing.

- NARRATOR: David and Ken's
mother Marie, along with their

Aunt Merle, are the younger
sisters of John, Clarence,

and Alfred.

- DAVID: Long time coming.

- KEN: Wow.

- MERLE: It really has.

- You know I asked my
mom is she prepared for

Alfred coming out
of the ground.

And she is.

Her and Merle, my Aunt Merle,
they've both been waiting

a long time for somebody to
prove what they already know.

- NARRATOR: In 1958,
Alfred Anglin, along with his

soon to be infamous brothers
John and Clarence,

robbed a bank in
Columbia, Alabama.

The bank heist put each of
the brothers behind bars.

John and Clarence would eventually be sent to Alcatraz,

while Alfred ultimately
stayed in Alabama.

- He ends up at Kilby Prison
in September of 1963.

When he arrives, he's actually
already eligible for parole.

So all he's gotta do is just,
you know, a couple more years

and he's gonna
get out of prison.

- NARRATOR: But in January
of 64, after John and Clarence

had already pulled off their mysterious escape from the Rock,

Kilby Prison notified the Anglin family that Alfred had attempted

a brazen escape of his own,
and died in the process.

- MARIE: Alfred, we are fixing
to find the truth

about you honey.

- We've always thought that
they killed you.

- MARIE: That's right.

- In Alabama.

- MARIE: And now we're
about to find out...

- MERLE: Yes.

- MARIE: Amen.

- MERLE: Amen.

- There's no way
Uncle Alfred only had

a few days left to come up
for a parole hearing.

There's no way he
tried to escape.

You'll never make
me believe that.

Sorry.

- NARRATOR: For the past
51 years, the Anglin clan

has maintained that Alfred
was beaten to death by prison

authorities, after getting
wind that his brothers made it

safely off Alcatraz Island.

The alleged beating, they
believe, was due to refusing

to share what he knew
with Kilby officials.

- I know that they made it
and I know that he knew

they made it and that's the
reason why he was killed.

- If the results come back that
Alfred has broken bones,

then Alabama is going to
have to answer to what

really happened to Alfred.

How did he get broken bones
when y'all claimed

he was electrocuted?

- NARRATOR: The official autopsy
gives the marshals something

they've long sought: a DNA
sample from the Anglin family

to match up against the bones
that washed ashore in

San Francisco Bay nine months
after the escape.

- Well, I want you all to know
it's been a long time coming.

[sobbing]

- MERLE: It has, David.

It has.

- MARIE: 51 years to solve
this puzzle.

And we are about to find out.

[dramatic music builds]

♪

♪

- NARRATOR: As Alfred's
coffin is raised...

Roderick makes his way to official marshals headquarters,

where he is learning more about the Anglin family friend

who claims to have taken
pictures of Alcatraz inmates

John and Clarence Anglin
in Brazil in 1975,

13 years after their escape.

[knocking]

- HENRY: Hey, how are you doing?

- Henry, how are you, buddy?

- Good to see you.

- NARRATOR: Chief Inspector
Henry Geberth is well aware

of one of the agency's most
notorious cold cases.

- It seems like a pivotal person
in this particular escape case

is an individual by the name
of Fred Brizzi.

- Brizzi.

- I don't know how it's spelled.

- OK.

- The greatest thing I've got
is just a picture of the

individual and that was
probably taken around 1992.

Now he grew up with the
Anglin brothers, all of them,

and apparently he actually
ran into them in the mid-70s

down in Brazil.

- Oh really?

- Yes, and I was hoping,
possibly, you could query the

system and do a run on him
and see what we've got

in the database on him.

[chain rattling]

- I see it moving.

- It's moving!

- MERLE: It sure is!

- DAVID: Here he comes... whoa!!

- MERLE: Ooohh!

[chain rattling]

- Started right here.

Started right here.

Been wanting to do this
since you was 11 years old.

- DAVID: Yeah.

- MARIE: He said, "Mom I want
to do this, but I don't know

where to start."

- KEN: Well here we are.

- MARIE: Here we are.

♪

- I believe this is what
Alfred wanted.

He doesn't have a voice today.

We're his voice.

- Well you just know that
you and Mama would not leave

this Earth not knowing.

[music]

- NARRATOR: The brother of
Alcatraz escapees

John and Clarence Anglin
is exhumed from the earth

after 51 years underground.

His dramatic resurrection and
transport to the autopsy room

is the result of an agreement
the Anglin family has made

with the U.S. Marshal Service:

help solve a family conspiracy theory related to Alfred's death

by conducting an official
autopsy on his corpse...

and in exchange, the Anglins
will provide a DNA sample from

his remains to test against
bones that washed up in

San Francisco Bay nine months
after the 1962 escape.

- I'm ready for some justice
and some closure

to this situation and we are
ready to learn the truth

about what happened to
my brother, Alfred.

- KEN: I just can tell in my
Aunt Merle as we got her out

of the car she just seemed to,
I don't know, the emotions

were starting to come out in
her like I have never seen

before in my life.

You sure you're okay?

She started to shake and
I kept asking her I said,

"Aunt Merle, are you OK?

Are you OK?"

"Yes, I'm ready for this,"
and she took her glasses off.

I was like oh please do not
faint here on me!

Hey, this is the only way
we're going to find out.

- I know.

- Okay?

- I know.

- KEN: We won't ever know
if don't look.

- MERLE: I know. I know.

- It was tough.

It was, it was very tough.

- I cannot do this.

- DAVID: You don't need to.

She almost changed her
mind right there at the end.

You know, she was like, I don't
know if we should be doing this

and I had to tell her,
"Aunt Merle, this is the

only way to get the answers
that we need."

- DAVID: I know it's hard.

- MERLE: It is.

It is.

It's very hard, David!

[crying]

- DAVID: We got to find out,
though.

- MERLE: I know we do, but
looking at that casket...

- DAVID: I know.

It just brings back a lot.

- MERLE: It really does.

- KEN: They're opening the head.

- DAVID: Okay. Okay.

- DAVID: You know, it was really
tense for me because there was

some doubt that he might not
even be in the casket, you know,

or was he going to be in
good enough shape to do

anything with?

- You gotta get down here
a little bit too.

- Oooof.

- I was totally shocked and
I believe everybody else there

was totally shocked
at what they saw.

- What I saw is imprinted
in my head.

I seen who I know was my
Uncle Alfred.

♪

- NARRATOR: Alfred Ray Anglin,
brother to the Alcatraz

escapees, well preserved after
half a century underground.

- Because he's in that good
of shape we should be able to

get the answer whether or not he
was murdered and we can also

use the DNA to prove those bones
are not any of the Anglins.

- Yeah.

We're actually going to solve
two different things here,

one way or the other.

- He's going to be the
answer to two questions.

- HENRY: I did some digging,
you know.

Fred Brizzi.

And I came up with a
potential lead for you.

His criminal history
dates back to 1946...

- ART: Wow.

- ...and involves a wide
gamut of things but primarily

narcotics and weapons offenses.

- NARRATOR: In the mid-1970s,
Fred Brizzi was part of a

smuggling ring, moving marijuana, cocaine, and hashish

from South America and the Caribbean into central Florida.

In October of 76, with a
plane laden full of drugs,

Brizzi and his companion were
forced to crash-land their

prop plane in waters just
outside of Ruskin...

where they engaged in a
shootout with local fishermen

and were arrested for possession of $750,000 worth of drugs.

Brizzi was sentenced to
15 years behind bars.

But it was many years before his criminal exploits began that

ties Fred Brizzi to the Alcatraz case when he grew up in Ruskin

just down the street from the 14 siblings of the Anglin clan.

- Yeah, he's got really
quite an extensive record here.

This is great stuff.

Thank you, I appreciate it,
buddy.

- NARRATOR: The preliminary
information the active marshal

provided is enough to pique
the interest of Roderick.

Fred Brizzi was indeed a
childhood friend of the

Anglin brothers, had an
extensive rap sheet,

and, incredibly, was running
drugs into central Florida

from somewhere in the Americas, even possibly from Brazil.

- The Brizzi story,
I find very interesting.

What I find interesting about
that, he was a pilot,

and I think he was probably
concerned about what would

happen if he openly said he
was involved in this escape.

My thought is, he more
than likely assisted them

in the escape.

If those two individuals are
in Brazil, then more than

likely he helped them get there.

- NARRATOR: With the new
information on Brizzi,

Roderick heads to Reagan
National for the flight

to south Florida and the very
likely possibility

that tomorrow's autopsy of an Anglin brother may finally solve

the mystery in the 1962
Alcatraz escape.

[music]

- NARRATOR: Laying on a
gurney at a funeral home in

Hillsborough County, Florida, is the corpse of Alfred Anglin.

He's the brother to
Alcatraz escapees

John and Clarence Anglin, and
he and the secrets he carries

have just been unearthed
after more than

half a century underground.

Official Alabama prison records state Alfred was electrocuted to

death upon attempting an escape from Kilby prison in 1964.

But the Anglin family has long suspected a government cover-up,

believing Alfred was murdered by
prison guards for refusing to

share inside information he had about his brother's escape

from Alcatraz.

- ART: Having Alfred exhumed
takes care of the issue

that the family has that
Alfred was beat to death

for having information that
related to the brothers' escape,

but also it gives us a
clean DNA sample for us.

- NARRATOR: Art Roderick is a
retired United States Marshal

and has just arrived at the
autopsy room from Washington.

He's acting as a liaison between the marshals and the family

of the escaped Anglin brothers, who have struck a once

unthinkable agreement.

The marshals will perform an
autopsy on the corpse of

Alfred Anglin to definitively determine his cause of death...

...and in return, the Anglins are providing a DNA sample from

Alfred's bone to be tested
against the DNA of bones

that washed ashore in
San Francisco Bay nine months

after the escape.

- Exhuming Alfred,
I mean, that is so big.

I mean, that's everything.

You know, if we're able to test
the DNA and figure out that,

you know, those bones belong
to one of the brothers,

we solve one of the greatest
mysteries from the 20th century.

- NARRATOR: For the Anglin
family, who believe the men

made it across the water, learning the truth about Alfred,

and being able to share that
story with the world, is one

of the main reasons to finally
work with the authorities.

- KEN: I guarantee you,
you could ask anyone today

and no one would know anything
about Alfred Anglin.

And so to me, when we
reached out to Art,

it was not only a way to say
we know where they're at

and we're going to help you
find them, but it was also

a way to give a voice
to another brother

that everybody simply forgot.

- NARRATOR: Despite his time
underground, Alfred's coffin

was almost perfectly sealed,
preserving the body

better than anyone had expected.

- Now, what we're all
gonna need to do,

everyone in the room,
while she's shooting these,

you have to be out.

- NARRATOR: Dan Schultz
is a noted pathologist

and medical examiner and
has been in practice

for over 30 years.

His first step, before doing
anything else to the corpse,

is to order a full body x-ray which will be used to determine

if the family's suspicions
of foul play are justified.

- SPECIALIST: X-ray! OK.

- SPECIALIST: Look at that!

- DAN: Wow!

Nice.

Wow.

51 years.

- SPECIALIST: Amazing, isn't it?

- DAN: Isn't that amazing?

- ART: The family gets hung up
on the inconsistencies as to

whether there was an autopsy or
not, but the real evidence

is going to be what does
the body look like?

Does the body look like it
went through electrocution

or did it go through a beating?

That's the bottom line.

- DAN: So we're gonna just
cut up the middle

and just take a look at
what it looks like there.

- NARRATOR: With the x-rays
complete, pathologist

Dan Schultz can begin his
autopsy and the extraction

of bone for DNA sampling.

- DAN: So, you are gonna hold,
uh, the bone down fixed

and I'm gonna cut a segment.

This is mid-shaft of the femur.

- DAN: In order to collect DNA,
we took two samples.

We took one sample about
seven centimeters long

from each femur, which
is the best medium

for good identification.

And that's packaged up and
will be sent to a laboratory.

- NARRATOR: The lab results will have far reaching consequences.

If the DNA samples are a match,
it would mean that one of the

Anglin brothers died in
the frigid waters

after escaping from the rock...

...and the photo that the
family believes is

John and Clarence Anglin
in Brazil in 1975

is a complete fraud.

But if the DNA doesn't match,
the only remaining lead

in this 53-year old case
is that photo.

- At the end of the day,
we can come up with every theory

in the world, but right now,
there's nothing other

than this photograph to show
that they made it out.

- NARRATOR: Roderick makes his
way back to Washington D.C.

and heads straight for
Michael Streed.

The facial imaging expert is
in the middle of a detailed

analysis of the photo allegedly from Brazil to determine whether

the two men in the picture from 1975 could be Alcatraz escapees

John and Clarence Anglin.

- I think everybody who does
some sort of forensic analysis

doesn't wanna be wrong,
and I don't think in a case

like this, that you, you can
be wrong, because it's not a

positive ID science, but I think
the enormity of it for me was

not wasting people's time, not
getting the family's hopes up

or getting law enforcement
hopes up that they would

still be there, because they
would have to provide

a tremendous amount of resources
to reopening the case.

So, I took the photos that
you provided and I went in

and scanned them
in the computer.

So, what we'd like to do is
kind of compare them together.

And the first thing on both
pictures, but especially

on this one, is the forehead.

- ART: Mmhmm, yes.

- STREED: The height and
the shape of the forehead,

as well as the
frontal bone there.

If you look near the arrow
there, that depression in both,

that's bone structure.

- The forehead just
blows me away.

How similar the forehead is.

- STREED: Well, you can see the
brow, that sharp downward turn

in the brow is what
does it for me.

If you look at the ear outline
as well, and we'll go ahead

and, uh, show you the
ear overlay.

Let's see how it matches up
to the tracing and the ear.

- ART: Wow.

- STREED: Look, look at that.

It fits.

Let's just go ahead and...

- ART: It does.

- STREED: And if you just
toggle on and toggle off,

the whole things matches.

- It's evident, you can't
discount it.

I mean, it really is like
he's wearing the mask.

To me, that matches up.

- The nose, the hairline,
the jawline.

- I'm listening to every
word you say but my mind

is going 100 miles an hour
here trying to figure out,

uh, what we do next.

I just never expected this.

- As a former detective
and, you know,

as a forensic artist, but mostly
as a detective, my gut instinct,

as a police officer would be
to round up the posse.

- I can't believe this.

[music]

- NARRATOR: For over 50 years,
the mysteries surrounding

the Alcatraz escape have both
confounded authorities

and mesmerized the public.

Three fugitives, brothers
John and Clarence Anglin,

along with Frank Morris,
escaped from the Rock,

stepped into frigid waters and, having never been found,

secured a mythical place
in American history.

- ART: The main reason why
Alcatraz Island still

captivates everyone is because
these three individuals

did the unimaginable.

It was really the great escape.

- NARRATOR: Art Roderick is a
retired United States Marshal

and for the past few months has been working with the family

of the escaped Anglin brothers
to pursue fresh leads

in the case thanks to shocking
new evidence introduced

by the family members
themselves.

[tape recording playing]

- NARRATOR: In his possession
Roderick now holds the

final results of all aspects of their current investigation,

and he's in Leesburg, Georgia
to deliver the news in person.

- ART: What I'm getting ready to
tell the family about what we

found and the evidence that they
gave me is going to move the

needle on this case.

- NARRATOR: For the Anglin
family, the potentially

historic news the lawman
is about to share

is less about American history
and more about their

own personal history...

...finding out what happened to three beloved family members.

- You know, it's more
than a TV show for us.

This is personal.

This is real life for us.

I mean, we lived this
every single day.

- KEN: Art!

- ART: How you doing?

- KEN: Good, good.

- MARIE: Good to see you.

- ART: Good to see you.

- DAVID: How you doing buddy?

- MARIE: Good to see you.

- ART: Well, we got a
lot of stuff to go over.

Um, I think we should
probably get to it.

- KEN: I'm ready for it.

- MARIE: I'm ready.

- DAVID: Absolutely ready.

- KEN: Let's go.

- DAVID: We've been waiting
a long time.

- ART: Oh, I know.

- DAVID: My nerves were
goin' crazy.

I knew that we were gonna
prove something, I wasn't sure

exactly what it was, but I knew
that it was gonna be big.

- : Well, first of all,
Marie, um, Ken and David,

I want to thank you all
for inviting me along

on this journey.

Having said that, you provided
quite a bit of information.

Let's start with the first
thing you gave me which

was the Christmas cards.

It was very difficult to confirm
what year those cards were made,

and as far as being able to
confirm that it's actual

evidence that they made it out,
the Christmas cards really,

really don't provide
that type of information.

OK?

- That was strike one for me.

I was like, OK.

You know, uh, now he's bringing
out the results for Alfred.

- The, uh, second item is
near and dear to your family.

And it's, concerns
Alfred's death.

- KEN: Right.

- ART: OK.

Allowing us to exhume Alfred's
body, obviously that served

a dual purpose, number one,
you as the family

wanted to find out if there
was any evidence as to

how he passed away.

From the Marshal Service
perspective, you know,

we wanted to get a DNA sample to
compare it to the remains that

were found in San Francisco Bay.

We were, we were actually able
to, uh, do both those things.

The medical examiner
provided us a report.

Basically what he did is he did
a regular autopsy there, okay?

But they also did a
head to foot, um, x-ray.

And I've got copies
of this here.

So this is exactly what they did
to determine, you know,

if there could be any possible
trauma to the bones.

- DAVID: Wow.

- ART: And the bottom line is
when he did the complete medical

examination, they could find
no trauma to any of the bones.

- That was strike two for me.

I was like, "Man."

You know, it was just a downer,
another downer.

- When you look at all the
evidence around Alfred's death,

it makes no sense whatsoever.

- Yes, it was definitely
one of the, one of the things

we needed to know.

- KEN: Right.

- Yeah, we really appreciate
you, you doing this.

- MARIE: Absolutely.

- No, it, um, you know,
we're doing this together.

Obviously we wouldn't be at
this point without your help.

And that's the key thing
to this case right now.

I think we all want a
resolution one way or the other.

- The Christmas cards
come back as a strike.

The autopsy come back on Alfred,
you know, that there was

no blunt force trauma.

Uh, strike two.

This DNA we really
needed to be right.

This could not be
strike three for us.

- We were able to take two
seven millimeter samples from

Alfred's femur bone, which the
marshal service requested

to be able to compare Alfred's
DNA profile, with the profile

that was of the remains that
were found in San Francisco Bay.

We then sent it off to a
forensic anthropologist

and they were able to actually
come up with a comparison

between Alfred's DNA and
the DNA that was located

in San Francisco Bay.

- Unrelated.

- KEN: I knew it.

- DAVID: Wasn't his bones.

- KEN: I knew it.

- MARIE: I knew that was not...

- DAVID: Awesome, I knew it
wasn't theirs.

- ART: I mean you're never
gonna get--

- KEN: I had no doubt.

That was not them.

- ART: It's not even close.

I think it's like 9,200 to 1.

So it's way out there.

- I knew it.

- KEN: That's exactly
what I wanted to hear.

- MARIE: I knew it.

- That was, that was big for me.

- This proved it is not them.

100% proof.

- Well, I'm not done yet.

As you recall, when you shared
this information with me

initially I was pretty excited
about this last piece of

information.

This is the picture of who
you believe are

John and Clarence Anglin.

I told you, I think,
at that point exactly

what I was going to do.

We went to a very
well-known forensic artist.

And he gave me his, his initial
impression and then did

a full-blown, actually walked
me through the whole process

of how he was able to do the
comparison and his conclusion

was actually pretty simple.

He said that it's highly likely
that the two individuals

in that 1975 photograph are
John and Clarence Anglin.

- KEN: Told you.

- DAVID: I knew it!

- KEN: I told you.

- MARIE: [laughs] I knew it!

- DAVID: Boy, you just
gave me chills.

I knew it was them.

- KEN: I knew!

I told you!

- ART: Now, again they're
never gonna give you 100%...

- DAVID: Right.

- ART: But...

- DAVID: Hey, that's close
enough for me, buddy.

That's close enough for me.

- ART: ...I asked him, I asked
him the question,

"If this was you and you were
in my place as an investigator,

what would you do?"

And he basically said,
"I would round up the posse."

- KEN: Oh my god!

- MARIE: Oh man!

- KEN: Whew!

I knew in my heart
that it was them.

I wanted science to
kinda back it up.

This is a new chapter
that's about to be written.

And we're gonna be
part of that chapter.

- I can't wait 'til
the world hears this!

- So now that you have that
from the guy who looked

at these photographs,
what do you believe?

- Well, I'm, I'm changing
my mind based on the,

the photograph, which I think I
told you that the photograph

to me was the most
convincing thing.

Obviously this is a complete
game-changer in this case.

- DAVID: Yes.

- MARIE: It is.

- Um, obviously the DNA,
coupled with the...

- KEN: Sorry, I...

- ART: No, that's fine.

- KEN: I am still, I'm still
just floored.

- Listen, I was bowled over
myself so, um, have at it.

- DAVID: The family does feel
vindicated, uh, about everything

that we found, mainly because we
now can prove to the world

that those boys did not
drown in that water.

And that photo is actually the
only piece of evidence that

proves that they made it.

♪

♪

- ART: I'm very lucky to be
sitting here now and in this

very short period of time,
have brought this case

to this point where I truly
believe we're going to close it.

♪

♪

- Director Harlow.

- Art, good to see you.

Good to see you sir.

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