Crime at Bedtime

The Great Escape from Alcatraz: America’s Most Daring Prison Break


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On the night of 11 June 1962, three inmates carried out the most daring prison break in American history — and vanished without a trace. Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin spent months chiselling through cell walls, fashioning a raft from raincoats and creating lifelike dummy heads to fool the guards. Their target: the inescapable Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the infamous island prison built to keep the most dangerous criminals behind bars.


In this gripping episode of Crime at Bedtime, we step inside the cold, concrete cells of Alcatraz to uncover how the plan was set in motion, the extraordinary ingenuity of the escape itself, and the decades-long investigation that followed. From homemade tools to secret alliances and mysterious letters years later, the case remains one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries.


Did they drown in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay… or did they pull off the impossible?

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