Episode 32: A Genius and a Spoon

Authors: Sarah Lyons and Savanna McIlvain 

Description: This episode talks about the June 1962 escape from Alactraz by Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin. We discuss the facts of what happened the night of the escape, as well as the prep leading up, and the possibility of the men surviving the escape. Find out what single man gave investigators all of their information, and listen to a letter delivered to the FBI that was supposedly written by John Anglin many years after. Do you think they survived?

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