The Baffling Mystery of 3 Men Who Escaped From Alcatraz Prison and Disappeared

There’s Gonna Be a Jailbreak

The tools used to escape from Alcatraz in 1962, including sharpened spoon handles, electrical cords, a vacuum cleaner motor fashioned into a drill, and other implements. (FBI)

With his three teammates behind him, Morris concocted an elaborate plan that required tremendous coordination and patience.

For six months, the four men worked to widen the ventilation ducts in their cells using spoons and other makeshift tools they obtained from throughout the compound…

Next: Morris the genius.

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