Escape from Alcatraz: Three Men Who Were Never Found

In June 1962, three inmates vanished from Alcatraz — the prison nobody escapes from. They were never found, dead or alive. The U.S. Marshals still list the case as open. An investigation built on open archives: the FBI case file, prison logs, and newsreel footage from 1946–1963. Chapters 0:00 Cold open: the portraits they've been looking for over 60 years 2:21 Part 1. The Rock 7:29 Part 2. The Four 9:38 Part 3. Seven Walls 16:05 Part 4. Those Who Tried Before Them 19:45 Part 5. A Spoon Against Alcatraz 24:21 Part 6. Night 27:27 Part 7. Morning 30:55 Part 8. Alive? 35:24 Finale Subscribe so you don't miss the next investigation. Sources: FBI Vault; NARA (Bureau of Prisons); Universal Newsreel; NPS; Library of Congress (HABS); USCG; Ford Collection; Wikimedia Commons. Stock: Pexels, Pixabay, Coverr, Mixkit. Map base — U.S. Coast Survey, 1859. CC BY: Michele Pierangeli — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=59423186 YouTube user Editor — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24403947 B0Jangles — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=21090389 Nonie from Melbourne, Australia — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=3464112 Danny Bradbury — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=21089869 Jdreed — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=107666509 claire rowland from london, uk — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=3464109 Wendy Schotsmans — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=21089854 YouTube user Editor — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24403851 Frederick Tschernutter — CC BY 4.0 — archive.org/details/Golden_Gate_01_2k_ProRes422HQ Loco Steve — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=54617904 Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=25326099 William Warby — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=30207648 Rob Young from United Kingdom — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=32243697 William Warby — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=31162055 Samantha Marx — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=10008476 YouTube user Editor — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24184090 YouTube user Editor — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24404109 YouTube user Editor — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24404320 Kate Nevens — CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=112430149 Eugenia Loli-Queru — CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=37795264 Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Crypto, Sad Trio, Night on the Docks - Piano, Penumbra, Echoes of Time v2, The Escalation, Inexorable, Lightless Dawn, Rising Tide, Comfortable Mystery, The Parting. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... The narrator's voice is synthesized (ElevenLabs). The 2022 age-progressed portraits are from the FBI / U.S. Marshals Service. #Alcatraz #EscapeFromAlcatraz #TrueCrime