The prison should be reopened and all of the corrupt politicians should be sent there.

Of course they say they didnt make it out of alcatraz, they dont wanna be embarrassed

Man I binge these episodes more than I’d like I mean they are so old there’s so much stuff to watch nowadays but no nothing entertains like this 😅

25 years for stealing 16 dollars.... that's just sad.

Still of the best crime shows ever made I loved Robert Stack RIP a great voice.

music is extremely beautiful and haunting at the end . LOVE THIS SHOW.

These men were geniuses to plan and execute such an elaborate escape. To think what they could have done in life had they not turned to crime.

I am Chilean and I love this show. There is something similar in my country but it is just a copy of what Robert stack did. Good memories from the 80´s and 90´s.

I have seen this episode of unsolved mysteries about Alcatraz a lot of times before there’s definitely a lot of extra footage I’ve never seen before this is amazing.

Even though i knew most of the Alcatraz stuff already it's so great to see 80's hair and fashions on TV again 😂. Takes me back to my childhood

They will never admit they they made it off Alcatraz alive and well...I think just before they made landfall they threw some things in the water to make it look like they didnt make it.

Despite public belief that Morris and the Anglins drowned in San Francisco bay, all three men still have open arrest warrants on them. The U.S. Marshals Office has continued the search going for each man individually until the date of each man's 100th birthday. In recent years, there have been several clues to suggest that at least some of the men survived the escape. In 2011, Bud Morris, an elderly man who claimed to be Frank Morris's cousin, came forward and said that he had previously delivered bribes to Alcatraz guards. He also claimed to have met Frank in a San Diego park shortly after the escape. His daughter claimed to have remembered being there as well, meeting with her "father's friend Frank". However, it is not known if Bud's story has been authenticated or not. In 2012, two of the Anglins' sisters, along with two of their nephews, announced publicly that they believed the brothers had survived the escape attempt. They claimed to have received phone calls and Christmas cards from the brothers in December of 1962. Then, in the 2015 History Channel documentary, it was revealed that handwriting on some of the Christmas cards was found to match one of the brothers. However, it could not be said with certainty if the letters were delivered before or after the escape. Anglin brother photo , A friend of the brothers also claimed that he had encountered them in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 1975. He had even taken a photograph of them. Forensic experts concluded that the photograph was "most likely" of the Anglins. Also, shortly before his death, Robert, another Anglin brother, told his family members that he had been in contact with the brothers until around 1987. In 2018, the FBI revealed that the San Francisco Police Department had received a letter in 2013, allegedly from one of the escapees. It read, in part: My name is John Anglin. I escaped from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris. I'm 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer. Yes we all made it that night but barely! The letter also stated that Clarence and Frank had since passed away. Fingerprint, DNA, and handwriting analysis on the letter was inconclusive.

the fact that they planned all this was bad ass - whether they lived or died

The Alcatraz episode is one of best investigative episodes ever made.

Robert Stack is, to me, immortal. Icon of my childhood.

When you're fighting for your life, it is perfectly believable that these convicts were able to swim 1 mile and get to shore. It's very possible they made it.

I'd though it take 100 years to break out of shawshank. Old Andy did it in less than 20

LOL it went from unsolved mysteries to the wide world of sports!

*I remember this episode when I was like 8....take me back to when tv programs had morals and were educational and you actually learned something...it’s frightening to see how far we’ve strayed from educational programming....*

RIP ROBERT STACK!!!! HE HAD THAT “SPECIAL CREEPY VOICE!!!!!!

Wow that triathele swimmer was super impressive!! Great Job!!

This music always scared me

Clint Eastwood played Frank Morris in the 1979 film Escape From Alcatraz. Great movie.

Even if they drowned they still technically escaped

That Alcatraz special was a great idea, truly the best way to bring attention to that fascinating story. One of the best, and another one I've watched a billion time on the Legends dvd. 😊✌

Dave Hornung swam to Aquatic Park because that is where the Dolphin Club is, of which he is a member. Members of the Dolphin Club, my dad among them, swim the bay on a daily basis. The Escape from Alcatraz Swim is now an annual event.

It's cool when Robert Stack talks about Al Capone since he played Elliot Ness in the Untouchables TV show.

Diana's hair was crazzzyyyy lol. Damn I miss this show...RIP Robert "Bob" Stack.🌹 Fun fact: Robert is a Harvard University grad 🎓

Ahh yes the classic Alcatraz episode. Terrific. One of the very best. I remember watching this when it premiered. Also...watch Clint Eastwood's 1979 Escape From Alcatraz. Excellent movie reenactment. I have also visited Alcatraz. Definitely worth a visit.

No way the genius mind of Frank Morris, IQ=133 who thought up and executed the greatest prison break of all time is going to be stopped by a little cold water.

I believe those men From Alcatraz survived, They never found the bodies.

I think it's possible that they made it. The criminals had no safety boat so they knew they had to keep going. People can do amazing things when desperate. The fact is we know one guy made it to land alive and if the kids hadn't found him, maybe he would have gotten up after resting/warming up and been free. Great episode. Also, great job swimmer!

At 30:12 Stack is wrong when he states that a body was spotted by a Norwegian ship in the bay the day of the escape. It wasn’t observed until a week after the escape.

I remember watching this Episode the first time,back in 89 when Unsolved Mysteries was debuted here in Australia 🇦🇺.

Love Stack's on location stuff. Did anyone notice the co-hosts always called him Bob, lol.

There is a HUGE difference between guys out there doing it for a film and convicts out there doing it for there lives. The chances of them making it was more or less 50/50 but I still believe they made it.

You know what is crazy to realize?..Robert Stack is about 10 years older than all of the Alcatraz escapees. Even though he has passed away.

Went to Alcatraz 15 years ago. It was amazing. They still have the makeshift dummy head in the cell where the hole was carved

Go risk your life without anybody around to save you see how much harder you try and then do it while somebody's around to save you and see how quick you give up

My entire life, every time I saw or read something about Alcatraz (including this very show) they never fail to mention that there weren't actually sharks in the surrounding waters, and that it was just something the guards told the inmates to scare them into not trying to escape. But it turns out there actually _are_ Great White sharks there. There's video footage you can find on KZfaq of a Great White predating a seal mere yards from Alcatraz's shore. Literally every show I've ever seen on the subject has 'experts' smugly dismissing the possibility that there are sharks in those waters, but now we know that's simply untrue.

im going to take a wild stab at it... They paid a guard to send messages to have a pickup date and time. Then they left the raft and items to throw authorities off.

Robert Stack said this is a special 90 minute episode but it says 57 minutes

Your life on the line will make you do anything so these people that are doing it as a hobby ain't putting 1/10 the effort in that they did

These guys totally made it

The part about the guy who stole $16 from a store that had a post office in it getting longer than rapist’s, some murderer’s like wayyyyy worse and he got sent to that hell hole 🙄. Like I know theft isn’t right but there’s people that steal more than that from Walmart on a daily basis. Crazy to me.

Funny that the guy who played the prisoner who worked in the prison library looked like Stephen King (Andy worked in the prison library at Shawshank, written by King)

I believe they did get away the 2 guy's mother received flowers every Mother's Day

Mythbusters proved that, it was possible to escape from Alcatraz.

One of my favorite memories, riding back to downtown by boat from the Alcatraz night tour.

R.I.P. ROBERT STACK #2020

I miss this show as a kid everything about this show gave me the creeps, the music, Robert Stack's voice, the actors, like you knew it was going to scare the sh*t out of you but couldn't stop yourself from watching it.

This show gave me the creeps and haunts me to this day and the music at the beginning of the show is extremely eerie!!!

I believe they made it alive frank morris was an expert escape artist

The theme and Robert Stack made the show. The reboot is good too wish there was a narrator like Stack.

One of my all time favorite episodes.. also the music starting at about 23:12 just chilling... Allan....Allan...(yah?).........Time to go......

They gotta keep in mind the fact that they had their adrenaline going fuelled by the will you live and escape plus the fact that they could’ve floated for a while then swam for the rest or even add on the boat at the end I think they made it they were very smart about everything else I highly doubt they didn’t have an articulate Strategic plan to get to shore these aren’t your ordinary men besides why would they “commit another crime” and get caught when they knew better had just escaped from Alcatraz amazing

That agent said "its impossible to beat that water". That bay is swum regularly every year in an annual event. Jack Lalane did it wearing handcuffs (he was a fitness buff and it was a stunt for his show. He made it).

So interesting Diana Nyad's name. It's akin to a carpenter who's name is Carpenter. (Naiad, water nymph).

I visited that area in June and was blown away by how cold it was there with the winds. I can’t imagine anybody surviving that but who knows.

At night that bay water is a lot calmer. It’s colder but if there isn’t much wind it can be calm as glass out there at night

This is so cool Robert stack was in my hometown San Francisco

It's kinda hard to believe that this coming June 11th marks the 60th anniversary of Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin's escape from Alcatraz.

I thought Robert Stack said CLARENCE CARTER at first. HAHAHA!!! I BE STROKIN’

When I was a teenager I once swam for well over an hour (for fun) in frigid Lake Superior where they say you’ll only last 30 minutes. After I got out I went about my day as normal. In the summer, when I lived on Lake Superior I used to suds up in the morning on the dock head to toe and jump into the lake to rinse off. It’s mind over matter in my mind. A determined individual full of adrenaline could certainly traverse San Francisco Bay in my opinion.

It's like 4 days before Christmas and I'm wondering if adding sleigh bells to the theme song would work, or if it would just make it even creepier.

Sounds like to me these guards are just to embarrassed to admit these guys got away from them

Clint Eastwood was great in that movie about Alcatraz! Super cool!

No body of at least one of the escapees? They made it.

Diana Nyad: "I'm so very happy it's not me going in the water today!" Oh what ever! Woman you swam across the Florida Strait at the age of 64! You're amazing! Don't act coy for the camera!

I think this was one of the best episodes

“Diana : But our swimmer and rafters today are having a great deal of traffic. We’ve got barges, tugboats, tourist boats etc and not to mention a number of seals” 🌊🐕🕵️‍♂️ Even the seals came out to watch the escape attempt by Unsolved Mysteries..😅🍿

Robert stack actually admitted he loved these stories apart from the UFO and psychics.thr last two he didn't believe in

They made it. We only know of "plan A", Morrse had a very high intellect, and had escaped from multiple jails and prisons. Also, *Mythbusters* proved that it was very likely they made it. I also believe, just in case, the one guy who was not able to join them only knew one version of the plan. Morrse most likely had alternates in his head. No con with a brain has only "one plan".

for a guy with an unimpressive body dave has the fucking stamina of an olympian

Wow, what an episode!

Two warning shots my ass they were misses

Supposedly two of them died in 2005 and 2008 and one of them was still alive and dying of cancer in 2013.

25 years for $16.16??? Our justice system is shite. Poor guy died over nothing.

I think we need to take what the authorities say about the escape with "a grain of salt." They wanted to keep and protect the reputation of Alcatraz. Sometimes when you have a reputation you'll do anything to protect it. I think these men made it to shore, just because there was so much intensive searching conducted and no one was ever found drowned out there.

I'd highly recommend the 1979 film 'Escape from Alcatraz' starring Clint Eastwood, great flick!

When people can't find a way to even support their selves let alone their family they will Resort to anything

Damn he made grain alcohol from 🐦 seeds

I really like that they posted most of the unsolved mysteries episodes but cmon please add all the segments!

If you all don't know a pic of the Anglin brothers exist of them in Brazil. If you all don't know watch Escape from Alcatraz 2015. Also in there cell was a time table of the guard boats.... Fred Brezzie also probably helped them where a beat cop off duty noticed a boat out in the Bay. And as what's come to light on this show said they didn't consider the water... but in fact they did and they were towed off the island on the boat leaving that night. Probably the last boat at midnight.

I once caught a leopard shark in my crab net while crabbing on the Aquatic Park pier. Back then you were allowed to fish for crab with a net.

I LOVE this episode. And I LOVE Robert Stack in a Bubble Jacket 💙

Dave is absolutely right. “Coffee and motivation.” That’ll definitely get you somewhere. Prisoners had access to both. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Its well known Bumpy helped them with a boat. There have been many specials on these guys they made it. They later went to South America and lived their lives and later secretly attended their mothers funeral. Good for them. The brothers were not hard core criminals but robbers and they didn't deserve to be locked up the rest of their lives at the rock.

Robert Stack's voice sends chills up my back... And the intro is eerie but it's all good...

I hope the three lads made it,cause if they did they didn't hurt anybody. Nobody had reports on them robbing or killing. They just laid low. But in my heart of hearts,they swim with the fishes.

Not a goal just desperation it will make you satisfied any goal

You mean you guys are trying to make sure he don't make it asking him questions trying to ask him to talk when he's trying to conserve his breath and swim and stroke and breathe at the right time you guys don't want him to make it you mean

What a great presentation.

Great episode.

Dave Horning was the best triathlete ever!

2:36 I thought it was Rod Stewart for a second 😂

The guy had an IQ of 130 he probably studied the currents.

I always laugh when the guard touches one of the Beds of the inmates and realize it’s a Dummie Head…Lol

This was brilliant.

8:30: "Fourteen escapes were attempted. Ten men died, and all the rest were captured except three." So one was captured?